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...revolution, or at least social progress, at Harvard. If the Dean of Students can be persuaded to help with a housing search for new social clubs, perhaps the University can be persuaded to help solicit funds from concerned alumni. In fact, taking other schools as a pattern, Harvard could (gasp!) build a legitimate student center or perhaps even buy a bar and make it 18 and over. What the heck, we already own a $25 million share in the House of Blues. All that is required is a little motivation or, in the case...
...overtime period held little suspense except for a last-gasp three-point attempt by junior James White, as Colgate sprinted out to a quick lead and held off the crestfallen Crimson...
...Dinosaurs' Last Gasp...
Hollywood has, in the past, resorted to remakes, sequels, novels and fact-based docudramas to ease it through periodic bouts of creative bankruptcy. After all, why come up with a new idea if you can get a last gasp of life out of an old hackneyed one? The success of "Wayne's World," "The Addams Family" and "The Fugitive" jolted Hollywood executives to the sudden realization that a whole unexplored world of worn-out premises was there for the taking, in the vaults where old TV shows...
Watch a giant takeover brawl unfold before your eyes! Marvel at the clash of colossal egos! Gasp at the gyrating stock prices! Not since the 1980s has Wall Street so unabashedly savored a fight as it did the one that broke out last week for filmmaker Paramount Communications. With a bid from Viacom Inc. valued at $7.5 billion already on the table, QVC shopping-network chairman Barry Diller unveiled a staggering $9.5 billion counteroffer. Paramount stockholders could almost be heard sighing at the thought of their potential profits. In a counterassault with personal overtones, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone fired back...