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...Soviet woman has been admitted as a transfer student to the Class of 1991, marking the first time in more than 40 years that a citizen of the USSR has entered Harvard as a degree candidate, the woman said yesterday...
...legal struggle, meanwhile, spread to hundreds of cities in which Time's cable-television subsidiary owns franchises. One of Time's anti-takeover strategies has been to say that the transfer of the local cable licenses required by a Paramount takeover would create crippling delays. Time won some support on that front when the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the attorneys general of 13 states expressed concern to the Federal Communications Commission that a hostile takeover of Time's cable-TV operations might violate laws that give state and local governments the right to approve changes in ownership...
...boasted her father was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. Both these claims should be taken with a grain of salt. First, Mr. Bhutto refused to recognize the outcome of the Pakistan General Elections held in 1970. He persuaded the then General of Pakistan not to transfer power to the Awami League Party of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) which had clearly won the elections. This led to a genocide in which three million innocent East Pakistanis were massacred and the nation of Bangladesh was born. (In fact, some of Ms. Bhutto's close friends, for example, the Galbraiths...
...Straw Dogs as a quiet man driven beyond endurance into mayhem. The show never stints on the virulent anti-Semitism of Shakespeare's world, although Hall employs subtle staging and lighting cues to mollify modern spectators' disquiet at the injustice of the ending. The production is under discussion for transfer to the U.S. As with London's other pair of current triumphs, it cannot come too soon...
...Paramount's biggest potential obstacles is the task of persuading the Federal Communications Commission and some 750 local governments around the country to transfer to Paramount the licenses and franchise rights for cable- TV units operated by Time's 82%-owned American Television and Communications. Getting approval for such transfers "would be difficult even without a hostile bid," says Ross, "but now we'll be challenging them every inch of the way." As the three-way takeover battle wears on, it is likely to be fought in just that contentious manner -- in the courts, the stock market and the corporate...