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...Tigers (7-8-3, 4-6-3) found themselves on the short end of an overtime home loss to the Crimson for the second straight year: Matt Mallgrave `93 edged Princeton late last time around, and Farrell delivered the coup de main this year...
...President of the U.S. traveled through the snows of Moscow to the dacha & where an empire had been unmade. The sumptuous three-story house is called Novo Ugaryevo, and it was there in April 1991 that Mikhail Gorbachev negotiated the far-ranging reforms that four months later triggered the coup against him: the coup that brought on the Russian revolution that wiped away the Soviet Union and brought to power Bill Clinton's host, Boris Yeltsin. Last week, as trees and fencing glowed with lights marking the Russian new year, saxophone music floated out of Novo Ugaryevo...
...battle for control of Paramount. Reinforced by Blockbuster's huge cash hoard and rock-solid balance sheets, he immediately upped his offer for Paramount by $1.2 billion. "It may not be the knockout blow," said an obviously pleased Redstone, "but from our standpoint it is an extremely dramatic coup." Both Redstone and Huizenga insisted that the merger had been in the works for months and would go forward whether or not the company gained control of Paramount...
Dramatic it was, beyond doubt. But a coup? Even as Redstone and Huizenga ( were basking in the glow of their new partnership, Wall Street was scratching its head in amazement at both the merger and the apparent meagerness of the new offer. After two weeks of furious negotiations and consultations with a team of investment bankers from Morgan Stanley, Redstone had produced a bid that was considered by many analysts to be not only anticlimactic but also inferior to Diller's current offer. Though the offer is a complex blend of stock and cash, the estimated value of the Viacom...
BRAZIL. The continent's largest economy is consumed by hyperinflation and a huge congressional corruption scandal that has paralyzed the government and renewed rumors of a possible military coup...