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...courtship had all the frenzied twists of a Looney Tunes cartoon--or CNN's Gulf War coverage. For nearly a month, with the world looking on, Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin used shuttle diplomacy to pursue an $8 billion merger with Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting. Spectators watched in bemusement as Time Warner acknowledged its courtship, then appeared to be stymied by cable-TV king John Malone, a Time Warner rival whose Turner stake gives him effective veto power over a deal. But by Sunday, as TIME went to press, Levin and Turner were tantalizingly close to sealing an agreement...
Economics correspondent Suneel Ratan reports that there are also a few regulatory hurdles for Levin to surmount: "The deal will have to gain two sets of clearances -- and any problems encountered likely will be a consequence of the arrangement's giving Malone a significant minority interest in the merged entity. One is from antitrust regulators. The second is from the Federal Communications Commission, which would determine if the deal conforms to a maze of rules." Clearing the federal hurdles, Ratan says, could take up to a year...
Hundreds of students jostled each other in the corridors outside Paine Hall just to catch a glimpse of piano-playing maestro Robinson Professor of the Humanities Robert D. Levin '68 of Literature and Arts B-54: "Chamber Music From Mozart to Ravel...
According to students who attended, Levin attributed the large turnout to favorable CUE Guide ratings and a Confidential Guide review headline--"Get an 'A' for No Effort"--that painted the course...
...unclear last night whether the class would be lotteried. A person answering the phone at Levin's home said the professor was out of town...