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...talk of a $35 billion purchase of Canada's Seagram by France's Vivendi represents the latest human attempt to make some of these pieces click into a seamless, revenue-generating new-economy Tinkertoy. The toy boys in this deal, Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier, 43, and Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., 45, can't resist the urge to merge Vivendi's telephone company, Internet provider and cable system with Seagram's Universal Studios and Universal Music Group...
...there was hopelessness: Would a court in segregationist Alabama really do justice? And then there were the cops. During the '60s, the Klan had ears and eyes and tongues within the local police force. Nonetheless, after two years, FBI agents felt they had a strong case but said J. Edgar Hoover and his senior administrators blocked them from sharing their findings with prosecutors...
...stock legitimate? To find out. check the SEC's EDGAR database and with your state securities regulator www.nasaa.org...
...Edgar Ace Hope Jr. isn't someone you would want living next door. He has been found guilty in a string of crimes starting at age 14, when he stole a bag of groceries, and culminating in his conviction in two separate murders in 1983. Hope, now 40, has admitted one of those killings, for which he is expected to receive a life sentence at a new hearing. But he steadfastly denies committing the other crime--the slaying of a security guard at a Chicago McDonald's, for which he was sentenced to death. His lawyer last month detailed persuasive...
...purchase and care for a Gulfstream V jet, perhaps to taxi the multidimensional CEO from his desk at Apple in Cupertino, Calif., to his other CEO job at Pixar Animation Studios, a few short miles across San Francisco Bay. "This guy has saved this company," says board member Edgar Woolard Jr., a former chairman of DuPont...