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...opening period ended with the teams still deadlocked at one. Harvard got an unlucky break midway through the second period, when sophomore Henry Higdon drove down the ice on a shorthanded bid, but was viciously taken down by a St. Lawrence defender. A no-call by the referee spurred a Saints' attack, which eventually penned Higdon and the rest of his tired shorthanded unit deep in the Harvard zone...
...reaction is probably not unique. I would suspect that the female who loses her bid for tenure for the first time, in spite of high student approval and a deep body of work, or the woman vice president who is passed up for corporate president, despite her years of company experience and loyalty, both share my sense of desolation. In the end, there is no easy answer to ridding our country of these glass ceilings, wherever they exist...
...both Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend, these two schools are now the only teams still alive for the '95-'96 championship. These perennial basketball powerhouses--who have accounted for the Ivy League's last eight titles--are on a collision course to meet on ESPN2 with an NCAA tournament bid on the line next Tuesday night in Philadelphia...
Diller almost owned Paramount, but in 1994 it slipped away. He nearly won control of CBS, but he lost that too in an abortive bid later that same year. This is what he does own, bought in quick succession last summer and fall: 1) Silver King Communications, whose main assets are 12 TV stations that comparatively few people want to watch; 2) Savoy Pictures, an independent film studio known for producing movies (Last of the Dogmen, for example) that comparatively few people went to see but a studio that owns considerable cash and a quartet of television stations...
Diller's managerial and entrepreneurial arts may turn these into far more valuable assets. Wall Street apparently thinks so; it bid up Silver King's stock from $25 to $39 the day Diller's purchase was announced (the stock closed last week at $301/2). Still and all, this is not the kingdom people expected Diller would survey when he walked out on his job as chairman of Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox in 1992 and told the world he yearned to own a network of his own. His assumed ambition was to be a Murdoch, or even a Laurence...