Word: jon
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...future. He started slowly at first by acquiring CBS Records for $2 billion in 1987. The real spree began in 1989 when Schulhof paid $3.4 billion for perennial also-ran Columbia and its sister TriStar studios. He immediately spent some $800 million more to recruit Batman producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber, who had never headed a major film company, to run the acquisitions. Next, Schulhof popped for a $175 million make-over of Columbia's movie lot in Culver City, California, and threw in daily deliveries of fresh fruit and flowers to studio executives. Peters was forced...
...MATH CURSE, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Viking; $16.99), is a great book for kids still too young to know they hate math. Even the dedication is fiendish: "If the sum of my nieces and nephews equals 15, and their product equals 54, and I have more nephews than nieces, how many nephews and how many nieces is this book dedicated to?" O.K., 9 and 6. But when the teacher, Mrs. Fibonacci, counts "1,1,2,3,5,8,13..." what are the next five numbers in her puzzle...
...would really be cool if someone could get a bowl of butter up there," said Jon K. Natchez...
Cornue led the Crimson in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:42.24, followed by sophomore Eric Matuszak, freshman Jon Samuel and junior David Alpert...
Most of the hopes and fears of the Crimson seem to lie on the shoulders of that impressive freshman class, led by Alex Kurmakov, Jon Samuel, and Denis Sirringhaus...