Word: columbia
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Sony never needed new leadership more than it did in April 1995, when Nobuyuki Idei leapfrogged a dozen more senior executives to become the company's president. As the world's trailblazer in entertainment electronics, Sony invaded Hollywood in 1989 by buying Columbia and TriStar Pictures; in November 1994 the corporation took a $3.2 billion write-off for five years of studio mismanagement. Soon afterward, Sony co-founder Akio Morita, who had continued to help guide the company despite suffering a stroke in 1993, resigned as chairman. Then Sony found itself losing ground to rivals in the race to develop...
DIED. CHIEN SHIUNG WU, 84, Columbia University professor emeritus and one of the world's foremost physicists; in New York City. A native of Shanghai, Wu came to the U.S. in 1936 and earned a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1956 she conducted an experiment that disproved the theory that movement in nature is always symmetrical...
...Princeton 3 7 .300 3-3 0-4 4 18 .182 3-5 1-10 0-3 Penn 2 8 .200 2-4 0-4 6 16 .273 4-7 2-9 0-0 Columbia...
Kate Veronneau, Brown (Freshman forward, 6'1) Chatham, NJ She did it last week, and she continued her dominace once again with her second straight Rookie of the Week honor. Veronneau knotched a weekend total of 18 points, 19 rebounds, one block and two steals against Cornell and Columbia. Her most dramatic moment, however, came with only 0.6 seconds left on the clock versus Cornell...
Individually, Harvard's swimmers had to compete with the likes of Cristina Teuscher--a Columbia freshman who was an Olympian last summer and has been named the Eastern Swimmer of the Year and Brown's Kari Klassen and Katie Cowan, both of whom captured two events...