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...countered, so CNOOC's remains the richer bid as Unocal shareholders prepare to vote on Aug. 10. But despite all the high-priced bankers and lobbyists, Fu did not appear to be prepared for what Schurtenberger had discussed at the board meeting in late March: the political firestorm the bid would provoke in the U.S. Fu, CNOOC sources say, was stunned by the June 30 Congressional resolution objecting to the merger. So was the Chinese government. One of Fu's advisers says Beijing, already sparring with Washington over the value of China's currency and U.S. quotas on Chinese-made...
Smart and stinging--that was Bancroft at her best. Born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, she was groomed as a standard babe when Hollywood signed her at 20. It was like fitting a firestorm for a corset. She returned to New York City, and in 1958 became a Broadway star as the spirited Gittel in William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw. The next year she found her great role, as Annie Sullivan, the half-blind teacher of the blind and deaf Helen Keller, in Gibson's The Miracle Worker. Bancroft's ferocity, starkly colliding and beautifully meshing with Patty Duke...
...only reference to the firestorm over University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership in yesterday’s afternoon exercises, Lithgow presented the story of Mahalia Mouse as “oil over troubled waters...
Though Summers has been making steady steps towards this goal since he assumed his post four years ago, the firestorm over his comments on women in science in January triggered a University-wide examination of Summers’ leadership and the decisions he had made for the University throughout his tenure...
Even though Summers’ January speech at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference was widely condemned by members of FAS and the national media, few anticipated the firestorm that awaited the president at the Faculty meeting one month later...