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Investors in Gillette, headquartered in Boston, can't complain. Their shares were already up sharply over the past year, even before the 18% premium that P&G's bid provides. CEO James Kilts, for one, stands to make an estimated $123 million from selling his firm to P&G, based on last week's stock prices and options that will vest when the ink on the deal dries. Famed investor Warren Buffett has also scored big, reaping a paper profit of $567 million for Berkshire Hathaway, which owns 96 million Gillette shares. "It's a dream deal," he said...
...Kids complain that there's nothing to do in the Midwestern town scientists are calling "Jefferson City." For fun, teenagers drive to the outskirts of this largely white, working-class community and get wasted. Another favorite activity? Sex. A little more than half the 1,000 students in the only high school are sexually active; the average age of initiation...
...Japanese banknote, as does that of Meiji-era novelist Soseki Natsume, a Murakami influence. Others he admires, Murakami has admitted, include Fitzgerald, Carver, David Foster Wallace and Tim O'Brien, all of them Americans. Indeed, Murakami's fondness for U.S. pop-cultural references has moved local critics to complain that he worships the West at the expense of things Japanese...
...people once more to serve. Having lunch at an aide?s house recently, the ex-mayor recalled that every time he visited the Safeway grocery near his house in recent years, he wound up staying there two or three hours, with residents constantly coming to him to complain about the city?s leadership and beg for help...
...disagree with you, I should tell you why I disagree with you and what the evidence for my point is. It shouldn’t be that I leave the room and call up a reporter and complain there,” Freeman said...