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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODBYE TO A PRODIGAL SON | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WONDROUS RIDES | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...would really be cool if someone could get a bowl of butter up there," said Jon K. Natchez...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: Only Two Things Before Graduation? | 12/2/1995 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Aquamen Destroy Army, Columbia | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Keiths. Greenawalt, | Title: Swimming Stuck on You(th) in Coming Year of High Hope | 11/16/1995 | See Source »

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