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...many? Call it a bunch of drunken sailors nursing a hangover. When AOL and Time Warner first decided to merge, the dot-com love affair was raging and the stock of the combined companies was worth $290 billion, mostly thanks to the price of AOL. By the time the stock-swap deal closed a year later, the bubble had burst, AOL was back on earth, and even though AOL had technically been the acquirer (thanks to that high stock price), the new AOL Time Warner suddenly had a relative lemon on its hands...
After nearly two months of hype, turmoil and conflict, Suzy Wetlaufer ’81 suddenly resigned her position with the Harvard Business Review (HBR) yesterday, more than a month after she admitted having an affair with an interview subject she was profiling...
...should be a tasteful affair when PAMELA ANDERSON marries KID ROCK. True, the remarkably cantilevered star of V.I.P. wore a bikini to her first wedding, and the lank-haired rocker rarely appears on stage without strippers. But, they repeatedly insist, they are just homey folks who, on those evenings when they're not out making a spectacle with their explicit displays of affection, like to sit at home and hang out with the kids. (She has two sons with first husband Tommy Lee; Rock has a son from a previous relationship.) The two met backstage at a VH-1 concert...
...first 1000 meters were a back-and-forth affair, as the Crimson was down a half a length at the start, ahead by two seats at 800 meters, and even at the halfway mark at the Mass. Ave. Bridge. But Dartmouth pulled ahead early in the second 1000 meters and outsprinted the Crimson down the stretch to win by a length...
...Back in Washington, Democrats are calling for an investigation of the Administration?s handling of the whole affair. Says Julia Sweig, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., "This has hurt the U.S., which is now perceived as supporting democracy only when we like the person in power." Ch?vez may not be the only one who needs to rethink his positions...