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Nichols had requested an injunction in federal court to halt what the company characterized as a hostile takeover attempt by the Harvard Private Capital Group--a division of Harvard Management Corporation--and Allen & Co., a New York investment firm...
...when the characters of "Sesame Street" find themselves out on the street holding pink slips. Unfortunately, that may happen if Newt Gingrich succeeds in his efforts to halt Congressional funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...
...Nichols Co., a real estate development company, requested an injunction in federal court to halt the takeover attempt. The Harvard Private Capital Group, an arm of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), invests money from the University's endowment fund...
Russian fighter jets today fired rockets at the presidential palace in Grozny three times, despite Russian President Boris Yeltsin's public order Wednesday to halt furtherair raids on Chechnya's ruined capital. At least one bomb hit the tall concrete building squarely, setting off a fire on the upper floors, but claiming no casualties as Chechen officials kept to the basement and first floor. (Chechnya's president, Dzhokhar Dudayev, reportedly is concealed in a bunker elsewhere.) TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan says the action by the Russian military -- who are no nearer to containing the crisis -- suggests Yeltsin...
...William Perry said that the alternative to the $4 billion accord is heightened military tension in the region. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole had said the Senate might question the "legality and wisdom of aiding North Korea." Perry also said that North Korea has been keeping promises to halt its nuclear program, even during tense negotiations over the fate of Bobby Hall...