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...board of Paramount Communications recommended that shareholders reject Viacom's latest bid and again advised that they accept QVC Network's offer, estimated to be more generous by about $600 million...
...resolves another conundrum of local government: Cambridge's boastful claims of a budget surplus. If a town taxes, yet provides no services, the surplus is not much of an accomplishment and even less of a mystery. Well, perhaps "no services" is a bit of exaggeration. Cambridge is at least generous in providing Commissions on Animal Rights, Declarations of Nuclear Free Zone Status, replanting cermonies for Liberty Trees, and Domestic Partner Benefits (even for those, presumably, whose job it is to not plow the snow...
...agreement only allows cooperation betweenuniversities who both admit applicants withoutregard to their family's financial circumstancesand agree to provide full need-based aid to allstudents who are admitted. Rudenstine said only "avery small handful" of colleges and universitiescan afford such generous policies...
...nothing else, I am sure all of us (this, of course, includes us heathens) avail of this hyped-up season to aggrandize our material possessions. We are certainly great supporters of the wonderful, generous spirit of gift-giving. In other words, materialism knows no cultural bounds...
THAT'S THE WAY I SEE IT, by David Hockney (Chronicle Books; $35). The English pop artist's aggressive, arresting and restless work has explored nearly every medium -- painting, photography and printmaking. Here he discusses his development, training and inspirations at relaxed length. A generous selection of milestone paintings and drawings illustrates the scope of his visual assault on the commercial symbolism of the middle class, and Hockney's private vision and public persona...