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...Northwest 70 years ago and has spent his entire career in planes and trains. He helped form one of the largest railroads in the U.S., saved Western Airlines by merging it with Atlanta-based Delta in 1987, and last year steered Delta past a hostile $9.8 billion takeover bid by U.S. Airways Group. A Delta director since 1987, Grinstein introduced more narrow-bodied aircraft for the airline's short-haul markets, doubled its international business to 36% of revenue and strengthened New York's John F. Kennedy Airport as a hub for Delta's business travelers...
...bid by media titan Rupert Murdoch to buy Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, is big news on numerous fronts. There's the money, of course. He is offering $5 billion for a company whose shares fetched just $3 billion before word of his bid leaked out on May 1. Also important is the signal that he's very serious about his Fox Business Channel, which is due to launch later this year and would get a big boost from the Journal--and Dow Jones--brand...
Rupert Murdoch's unsolicited bid of $60 per share for the parent company of the Wall Street Journal was greeted as good news for the battered newspaper industry today. Companies across the sector saw their stocks rise...
...Since taking power in 2002, the AKP has tried to distance itself from some of the Islamist rhetoric of its precursor party, and in government, it has done more for Turkey's European Union membership bid than any party before it. But its record is patchy. It also tried to pass a law that would criminalize adultery, and to appoint an Islamic banker as head of the central bank. Every day the papers carry a report of an AKP official in some town doing something outlandish - men and women being segregated at a municipal event, a swimming pool banning women...
After receiving an at-large bid last Monday, the Harvard women’s water polo team traveled to Princeton, N.J., this weekend for the Eastern Division Championship. The eighth-seeded Crimson (11-15) dropped all three of its contests en route to a last-place finish. Although the results were not in Harvard’s favor, the weekend was a successful one for a Crimson squad that is in the unusual position of returning its entire roster next year. “You can’t grow fast—you have to go through experience...