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...Aaron Kessler's leadoff triple kicked things off in the top of the first, and doubles from junior third baseman Hal Carey, Keck, Forst and junior rightfielder Andrew Huling paced the basepath merry-go-round, sticking Donovan with four earned runs on five extra-base hits before a merciful hook...
...hook or by crook I will put this thing on,"Merriman said
...books so long as they can crash the boards, or the opposing quarterback. That self-destructive attitude gets reinforced every time a high school sports star gets special treatment over an A-student classmate; every time a multimillionaire pro like Golden State Warriors guard Latrell Sprewell gets off the hook for violent behavior that would cost him his job and get him arrested if he earned his living any other way. It may have something to do with the wide and troubling gap that persists between black and white scores on standardized tests for college admission. Yet we continue...
...involved? You could buy the perceived targets, hoping for a takeover at a fat premium. But if no deal surfaces, you're sunk. Besides, the latest deals have been "mergers of equals," which allow two banks of similar size to hook up without one paying a big premium for the other. Shareholders still get a (more modest) pop, but in both stocks, not just the target's. So you can do well owning the buying bank--say, a NationsBank, First Union or Chase Manhattan. In many cases, that will be the better long-term investment anyway. But I'd also...
...hook, and its competitors can breathe easier too. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman yesterday dismissed the service provider as a codefendant in presidential adviser Sidney Blumenthal?s $30 million libel suit against Matt Drudge -- on the grounds that the 1996 Communications Decency Act absolves ISPs from responsibility for content supplied by third parties. "Whether wisely or not, [Congress] made the legislative judgment to effectively immunize providers of interactive computer services from civil liability... with respect to material disseminated by them but created by others," wrote Judge Friedman...