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...landed in Harvard outfielders' gloves and thenfell out as the players stumbled to the turf. Moreimportantly, with a very strong wind blowing infrom right field, two hits--off the bats ofMcKendry and Abeles--caromed off the fence inright, just inches short of being home runs, and abase runner was thrown out on each...
...right can put new restrictions on the Internet. Trench coats and so-called "Goth" wear (which have actually been popular without incident for years) can be banned from school dress codes. The government can issue even more vouchers for kids to be yanked out of public high school and thrown into debatably better private schools...
...home, Pepsi's restructuring--and the cash thrown off by the IPO--allows it to take dead aim at Coke's near monopoly in fountain soda sales. It's a hugely important part of the business. Pepsi holds its own in grocery and discount stores, but the fountain business gushes profits for Coke. Now, free of the restaurant business ("Why buy from one of your competitors?" Coke sales reps used to be able to say to fast-food operators), Pepsi can become more effective. Even if the campaign doesn't win many big accounts--it did win Bojangles and Pizza...
...THAT RADCLIFFE HAS THROWN IN the towel and ceded its land to Harvard, the admissions brochure, our diplomas and the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association will no longer be sporting its moniker. But those are the least of the changes in store; the biggie will hit when Radcliffe stops manufacturing all that other cool stuff with its name on it. True, Harvard regalia rules the Square, but girls and boys looking for some Radcliffe gear are not yet in trouble. The Harvard Shop on Mass. Ave stocks a Radcliffe kiddie T-shirt option, albeit somewhat hidden under piles of "Make...
Olivetti, a failed Italian typewriter maker reincarnated as a communications firm, stuns Europe's stock markets with a dramatic, $65 billion offer to take over Telecom Italia, a telephone behemoth seven times its size. A cozy merger between Societe Generale and Paribas, two of France's leading banks, is thrown into disarray when a rival Paris financial house proposes to swallow them both. A battle for control of Italian fashion giant Gucci turns venomous when a French billionaire proclaims that he has snatched the company from the clutches of a rival French raider...