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...meeting dipped below what was needed to conduct a valid vote. Initially considered on Sunday, the first piece of legislation considered yesterday will provide for 10 allocations of up to $50 each to student groups willing to host study breaks that would distribute information about the UC in a bid to draw more candidates for elections. The sessions will be required to meet various standards including acquainting students with the procedure for standing for election. Yesterday’s legislation will allow participating student groups to bypass the Financial Committee’s typical grant application process in applying...
Even for a firm that's in the business of creating headlines, this one is special: British-based Reuters today announced that its board had agreed, after weeks of negotiations, to a $17.2 billion takeover bid from Canadian information provider Thomson. Assuming anti-trust regulators in the E.U., U.S. and U.K. sign off, the deal will forge the world's largest business news and information provider. Thomson-Reuters, as that merged business is to be known, will be led by current Reuters CEO Tom Glocer...
...weeks, or whether its year ended yesterday. After failing to make the NCAAs for the first time in a decade last season, after yesterday’s performance, the team has made its case to go dancing again. “The first step is getting that NCAA bid, which is out of our hands,” Golden said. “[But] we felt like the varsity eight had an accomplishment in beating Dartmouth and the 2V did well in beating out teams they had fallen to earlier in the season.” For the heavyweights...
...Iraq War? Hagel has toyed with the idea of running for the G.O.P. nomination. But he's an outsider now within the Republican family; having attacked Bush, he'd be doomed in a G.O.P. primary. Hagel's only avenue, like Bloomberg's, would be a third-party bid. It doesn't hurt that Hagel happened to make millions of his own as a cellular phone entrepreneur before he won his Senate seat. There had already been some speculation that Bloomberg and Hagel might team up. Their dinner at the Palm Restaurant, a place to be seen by media power players...
...Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has offered to buy them out at a staggeringly high price--$60 a share, or 75% higher than the market was valuing Dow Jones before the offer. The Bancrofts' initial answer was no, but there is disagreement within the family. If Murdoch ups his bid, anything could happen--and the current betting on Wall Street is that something will...