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...1980s corporate raider going the way of the 1890s robber baron? Exhibit A: last week Carl Icahn, TWA chairman and high-stakes player during the Decade of the Deal, sold his 13.3% interest in Pittsburgh-based USX. Icahn became a force in the company in 1986, when takeover fever was at its height. He waged an unsuccessful 1990 proxy war to force the firm out of the steel business, but seemed to achieve partial victory in January when the company agreed to split its common stock into separate steel and energy issues -- an agreement that went into effect barely...
...writing to put you on the clearest possible notice that future disruptions like this one, or other violations of Law School and University rules, will be immediately such as to disciplinary action." He went on to say that the protestors had "faired to exhibit proper respect for the rights of other members of the community and for the rules that protect those rights...
Hardly the stuff of command councils or the KGB, Clark's letter reads more like the windy babble of a high school principal. (Only an administrator would employ circumlocutory phrases like "failed to exhibit.") Most people would have appreciated the warning, but not the CCR. The mere prospect that its members would be held accountable for their actions was enough to send everyone into a frightened panic...
...exhibition of new paintings by David Salle at the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan (through May 4) has one tiny merit. It reminds you how lousy and overpromoted so much "hot," "innovative" American art in the 1980s was. If Julian Schnabel is Exhibit A in our national wax museum of recent duds, David Salle is certainly Exhibit...
...unusual move for an administrator responding to a student protest, Clark sent copies of the letter, with an additional cover letter, to all students, faculty and staff at the Law School. That cover letter slammed the protesters, stating that they had "failed to exhibit proper respect for the rights of other members of the community and for the rules that protect those rights...