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...turmoil has already stalled the planned sale of the Chicago Cubs, and owner Sam Zell, CEO of the Tribune Company, should expect a less appealing bid. "This downturn makes deals harder to get done," says Sal Galatioto, president of Galatioto Sports Partners, a consulting firm. "It's more difficult to get debt to purchase a team, and that debt is more expensive...
...What makes you choose a script? Marie Yuen, Chicago I'm always looking for things that surprise me, things that are on a small and personal scale. Not things that hit you over the head, but things that are more indirect...
...increase the size of its faculty—already large compared to the faculty of 60 full-time professors at Yale and 47 full-time professors at Stanford—it has shaken up the market for legal academics. Brian R. Leiter, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who publishes the blog Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, called Harvard “the sleeping giant of legal education,” whose recent faculty expansion has forced its competitors to reconsider their hiring strategies. With a $1.85 billion endowment bolstered by a recent capital...
...ripples created by Harvard have contributed in part to the “enormous increase” in movements between law schools, according to Chicago Law School Dean Saul Levmore. He noted that the movement at Yale, which is reported to see the departure of five to eight professors this year, “would have been unheard of five years ago.” Of the six professors who left Yale last year, three came to Harvard—an unusually high number, according to Leiter. Only three professors have left Harvard in the past five years to take...
...from Virginia, which has zero professional sports franchises. But I have family around in Chicago, the South, and California, so I saw Jordan play, my dad took me to see the 49ers win the NFC Championship game in 1995, and the Braves always blasted...