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...even afterwards, when CityStep was having some financial difficulties, Russell proposed setting up a matching fond in which the city would match Harvard dollar for dollar in contributions for the kids' show...
...Turin, the home city of at least 10,000 Juventus supporters in Brussels, there was an outpouring of grief. Among the dead was Restaurant Owner Giovacchino Landini, 49. "Why did it have to be him?" cried his daughter Monica, 22. "He was too passionately fond of Juventus." Of the dead, 31 were Italians, including a ten-year-old boy and a woman. Also killed were four Belgians, two Frenchmen and a Briton who was a resident of Brussels. All the dead were asphyxiated or crushed. Ten spectators, all British, were arrested, none for alleged offenses committed inside the stadium...
...Michael Dingman, Signal's chairman and president, met March 5 at Marriott's Camelback Inn, a plush Scottsdale, Ariz., resort with two 18-hole golf courses, two swimming pools and ten tennis courts. Hennessy and Dingman registered under the last name of Dingman's secretary. Although the executives are fond of sports, they seldom left their rooms. When discussing the firms, they called Allied "East" and Signal "West...
...press entrepreneur in the English-speaking world. On the other is Marvin Davis, 59, son of a New York dress manufacturer who wildcatted an oil fortune in the Rocky Mountains. The two offer a startling physical contrast: Davis is a 6-ft. 4-in. bear weighing 300 lbs. and fond of enveloping friends in an enormous embrace; Murdoch is trim, 5 in. shorter and circumspect, though cordial, in manner. Both share an aversion to the spotlight, a passion for long working hours and, more to the point, a consuming interest in making their millions beget more millions...
...billion-a-year empire, which still has headquarters in Australia (see chart). Even Murdoch's mother, who lives near Melbourne, seemed taken aback. "It was quite a bit to swallow at first," says Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 76, "but that doesn't alter the fact that Rupert is still fond of his country...