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...MARY KAY ARNDT -- Arlington Heights...
Summers’ remarks were “quite problematic,” said Kay K. Shelemay, Watts professor of music at Harvard and a member of the Committee on Ethnic Studies, which sponsored the September symposium, titled “On Our Own Ground: Mapping Indigeneity within the Academy...
Consumer-product companies have been going private as well. Mary Kay Ash, chairman of Mary Kay Cosmetics, last May began a $300 million buyout of her company. In August, San Francisco-based Levi Strauss, the largest brand-name clothing maker in the U.S., was acquired for $1.48 billion by a group headed by corporate executives and descendants of the company's founder...
...sure, there are solid business reasons for taking a company private. Once freed from the need to satisfy Wall Street stock analysts and short-term shareholders, who often demand ever rising profits each quarter, corporate leaders can focus on long-term goals. Says Dean Meadors, a spokesman for Mary Kay Cosmetics: "Going private gives us the opportunity to get out of the fishbowl and to make marketing decisions in a longer time frame than a public company has. Sometimes you need to invest in the future, and sometimes the future is more than 90 days away...
...amused myself during the debacle by parsing the commentary of Yanks broadcaster Michael Kay. His partner, the former great moundsman Jim Kaat, sees things clearly, but Kay views the world through pinstriped lenses. I particularly liked his take on a Giambi single to left. That's what they've been working on with him this spring, Michael averred: going the other way. And why might that be, Mikey? I asked silently as I waited for amplification. Might it be that Jason, now (by necessity) off the juice, weighs 140 pounds and the Yanks realize they must turn their erstwhile basher...