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...lung and brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Making more than 50 albums over 40 years, the man who Frank Sinatra said had the "silkiest chops in the singing game" topped the charts with R&B tunes (Love Is a Hurtin' Thing), pre-rap monologues (Tobacco Road) and, during the height of the 1970s disco craze, the rich, sophisticated "Philadelphia sound" typified on his signature megahit, You'll Never Find (Another Love Like Mine...
...Alito wanted a bigger job, but he had a problem. The 35-year-old graduate of Princeton and Yale was working at the Justice Department in 1985 at the height of conservative euphoria over the re-election of Ronald Reagan. But he was not part of what was known as the "secret handshake" crowd?the Administration's tight-knit cadre of Reaganite true believers. He had been one of the young lawyers from élite schools hired without regard to their political leanings by the Solicitor General's office. The Reaganauts suspected many of the career lawyers were liberals hoping...
...through," says Laura Mills of Merrill Lynch in London. Pay-TV operator British Sky Broadcasting is buying the British broadband network Easynet for $367 million. Deutsche Telekom is trying to buy back the outstanding shares of T-Online, the Internet services arm it spun off at the height of the dotcom boom. And Italy's Tiscali and Fastweb are reported to be seeking investors to help them take on Telecom Italia in that country's race for triple-play market share. The wave of wheeling and dealing clearly has risks. NTL, for example, is still hashing out the terms...
...spent the first half of this decade reducing debt and cleaning up their balance sheets, now cheap money - thanks to low interest rates - has revived the M&A boom. The level of merger activity in Europe is still below the absolute peaks hit in 1999 and 2000, at the height of the Internet bubble, but it has been rising sharply in the past 18 months and is set to exceed 2004's volume by more than 25%. During the first years of this decade, while big companies were digesting previous acquisitions or paring debt, private equity groups such as Carlyle...
...Opened in 1816, the Watertown Arsenal was the first major military laboratory in the U.S., employing over 10,000 people at its height during World War II. After the war, the U.S. Army Research and Materials Laboratory used the Arsenal to test the nation’s most cutting-edge artillery systems, transforming it into an advanced research and development facility...