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...there has been no whiff of a reversal. Small stocks are up twice as much as large stocks since Jan. 1, and some who hope to see the big boys regain market dominance are worried that it may take years to play out. There is precedent: large stocks did next to nothing for the 14 years ending...
...value of its publishing division alone. "The mood was tense and increasingly dark," says Rose. "We were fearful of losing control of the company. It could have been snapped up on the cheap." A 2000 merger attempt with Warner Music was rejected by the E.U. as anticompetitive. But twice during the later lean years, the companies discussed a tie-up. (And now that their balance sheets are improving, merger speculation is rife again, though Levy says the two companies aren't in talks.) Levy and Rose still believed that the ultimate solution had to come through a digital strategy...
...sense, that climate observers announced a huge surprise yesterday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science?s annual conference, in St. Louis: the glaciers of Greenland, which carry ice from the interior out to the sea, have gone on a tear. They?re flowing, on average, about twice as fast as they were a decade ago - and even back then, says glacier expert Julian Dowdeswell, of the University of Cambridge, "I was telling my students that they were among the fastest-flowing glaciers on Earth...
...five, a dramatic turnaround from the first time these two teams met, with Harvard winning the battle of the boards by 14 in that one. “We talked about having some pride tonight,” Brown coach Glen Miller said. “Harvard beat us twice last year, and they thumped us the first game [this year]. We wanted to compete for 40 minutes, and that means there’s no excuse for us not being able to win the hustle areas.” Brown also tacked on 11 second-chance points...
...presidential favoritism” of certain academic disciplines.In a phone interview, Ellison recalled that Summers had asked him and his colleagues to prepare a proposal for ways in which the University could concentrate more on biological anthropology and less on social anthropology.“Twice, Summers said to me, words to the effect of, ‘I like what you guys do. I don’t particularly like what [the social anthropologists] do,’” said Ellison.Ellison said the incident illustrated Summers’ “intellectual arrogance” in judging...