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...next is a matter of dispute. Dollé says he gave a noncommittal reply, and the two moved on to dinner and other business, leaving discussion about a possible merger open. "I said neither yes nor no," he recalled last week. "I just said 75% to 80% of mergers fail because of cultural differences." For his part, Mittal says Dollé immediately ruled out a deal. "He gave several reasons why he wasn't interested," he told Time. "I told him I'd get in touch again, and called a few days later to say there was an urgent need...
McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering Frederick H. Abernathy said that science and engineering concentrators must acquire skills cumulatively from a progression of courses. Students in these fields who fail to take key prerequisite classes during their freshman year may face limitations in their choice of concentration...
...Merkel recently said, “Germany expects all political forces that carry responsibility to accept the preconditions for political activity. That means for me, firstly, that Israel’s right to existence is recognized, and secondly, there is no use of violence.” Should Hamas fail to make these reforms after a short grace period, the Quartet should cease contributing aid to the Palestinian Authority.This is not to say that we don’t recognize the harm to the Palestinian people that the withdrawal of aid may cause. The Palestinian Authority announced yesterday that...
...very different from being a well-known personality and even commentator on public affairs, and the debating in the houses is a lot rougher than it is in a university hall,” he noted. “There are a lot of people who fail to make the leap from being a prominent personality to being an effective politician...
...course, the movie's stars are all hetero. "No one paying attention will fail to know that Heath Ledger just had a child by the woman who plays his wife," says Larry Gross, director of the U.S.C. Annenberg School for Communication, "and that Jake has been dating Kirsten Dunst." But then, every macho Hollywood star is straight--or must pretend to be. "The film says it's terrible that you couldn't be openly gay as a sheepherder in Montana in the '60s, but you can't be openly gay as a successful young actor in Hollywood in 2006," says...