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Last week Quebec police arrested George and charged him with the murder of one of two Mohawks who perished in the fight. The victim: Harold "Junior" Edwards, who reportedly had taken no side in the inter-tribal feud...
...HANDMAID'S TALE. Set in a political and sexual dictatorship of the near future, this anti-fundamentalist fable carries a heady pedigree: screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Margaret Atwood novel. But a fine cast is zombified under Volker Schlondorff's drab direction...
Unlike most proxy showdowns of the past, many of the current fights are being waged at Fortune 500 companies. In March, Dallas investor Harold Simmons tried to convince shareholders at Lockheed's annual meeting that he could do better than the present management to rescue the defense contractor from its financial troubles. And on May 7, shareholders of USX (formerly U.S. Steel) will vote on raider Carl Icahn's proposal to get out of the steel business once and for all. Icahn had threatened an all-out proxy fight if the matter were not put to a vote. Already...
...methodical Webb was even rougher on North, who was called by the prosecution but proved so antagonistic that Judge Harold Greene declared him a "hostile witness." Webb got North not only to admit to the jury that he had lied to Congress, but also that he had done so right after Poindexter had told him to "take care" of legislators' questions about the NSC's illegal help to the contras. On his return from the meeting, North got an electronic note from Poindexter saying "Well done...
...come up short in one notable fight, however, when it assisted Paramount Communications in its failed $12.2 billion hostile bid for Time Inc. last year on the eve of the company's planned merger with Warner Communications.) Under Chairman S. Parker Gilbert, 56, the stepson of co-founder Harold Stanley, and President Richard Fisher, 53, Morgan hedged its bets by diversifying into many different fields rather than putting all its money into one or two fashionable trends. At the same time, top investment banker Robert Greenhill expanded Morgan's global reach. The firm is now engaged in businesses ranging from...