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...says he has people highlight passages in books for him so that he doesn't have to read any, gave $1 million to the Library of Congress last Wednesday. Financier George Soros spent some $2 million last year toward making marijuana legal for medical use. Now comes leveraged-buyout mogul Ted Forstmann, who together with Wal-Mart heir John Walton is spending $100 million to give 40,000 scholarships to disadvantaged children who want an alternative to public school. This week the Children's Scholarship Fund will announce that it has been besieged with applications...
...turn promised to cut the staff by 12,000 and to spin off noncore operations if its $58 billion plan, among the largest hostile takeovers in history, is accepted. It's easy to forget that the most famous takeover battle of all time, R.J. Reynolds' 1988 bloody leveraged buyout of Nabisco, was valued at a paltry $25 billion. (The biggest merger of all time, to put things in perspective, is still in the process of creation: the announced marriage between Mobil and Exxon, which is estimated to be worth at least $80 billion...
...work, Skochlas mostly talked about his future--or lack thereof. "Johnny was waiting for a buyout," his friend said...
...That buyout-a retirement package for veteran guards still hasn't come from Harvard. And, in the eyes of many guards, Skochla's death is partly a symptom of decaying morale within their force...
WEAKNESSES It can't go it alone; a buyout is imperative--and inevitable...