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These competing icons--call them Horatio Alger and Lizzie Borden--have caught national attention because they question the assumptions of success that underly both our juvenile justice system and the Ivy League admission process...
Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. agreed to acquire financially troubled Borden Inc. K.K.R. will swap $2 billion of its holdings in R.J.R. Nabisco in exchange for all of Borden's outstanding stock. In a second part of the transaction, R.J.R. will issue additional new shares worth $500 million to Borden in exchange for a 20% stake in the company. The arrangement, which is still pending final agreement, would dilute K.K.R.'s holdings of R.J.R. Nabisco, the % company it bought for $25 billion in 1989 in the most expensive takeover in history, from...
...Borden mulls dropping its dairy unit -- say hello to Elmer's Glue...
...effect of "fetus-abuse" legislation would be to place an undue burden on the pregnant women. Justice David M. Borden, who wrote the decision in the Hartford case, said he rejected the fetus-abuse argument because it would have made judges look back throughout the whole period of pregnancy for possible "abuses" any time a child was born damaged, throwing a suspicion on the mother which would often be impossible either to prove or remove...
...shot by Long's bodyguards. Based on discrepancies between the bodyguards' testimony and bullet marks found on Weiss's bones, among other clues, Starrs concluded that it is more likely that the bodyguards themselves murdered their boss. Now Starrs wants to dig up the father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden, or at least their skulls, to find out whether Borden really did them in with a hatchet...