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Achievement can make ambition go sour, unless you have a string of hopes you cannot exhaust. Necessarily such a long string of hopes involves other people. Do a good or great deed; sit down and shut up for a year or decade; then do another...
...Seagram, the beverage giant, which boosted its holdings to 14.9% of Time Warner's shares. But more came from traders reacting to a sudden storm of rumors that Seagram's president, Edgar Bronfman Jr., had finally decided to go for an outright takeover. Rumors endowed Bronfman with a long string of potential allies (several phone companies, the cable-TV firm Tele-Communications Inc. and such Hollywood powers as superagent Michael Ovitz and QVC chief Barry Diller) and even set a potential price: $55 for each of the 322 million Time Warner shares that Seagram does not already own. One story...
Knowles established the advisory committee lastfall, setting off a string of complaints bylinguistics concentrators at Harvard and linguistsnationwide...
...addition, junior Steve Hermsdorf, who was a star on the junior varsity squad in addition to being the third-string varsity netminder, will move up and be Tracy's back...
...Democratic colleague who opposed him on last year's budget bill, Boren could be replaced by an even more consistent foe: a Republican. Coming just eight weeks after Senate majority leader George Mitchell announced that he will not seek another term, Boren's decision is the latest in a string of congressional retirements that are likely to spell trouble for Clinton in the midterm congressional elections in November. Boren is the sixth Democratic Senator to retire voluntarily this year...