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...YORK: AT&T got the bride -- but it's letting Comcast share the dowry. In a string of deals announced late Tuesday, the former Ma Bell became the nation's No. 1 cable company when it finally won MediaOne's hand. Comcast, for stepping aside, gets to buy 2 million of AT&T's cable subscribers to further solidify its current position as a regional powerhouse and national No. 3. Not to mention $1.5 billion in deal-breaker fees from MediaOne (AT&T will foot that bill). So Comcast is happy. MediaOne's stockholders are definitely happy. And the groom...
...additional constraint on the site will be the relatively limited space at the site, only about 3,500 square feet, or roughly the size of Ma Soba, the Pan-Asian noodle eatery located in Holyoke Center...
...additional constraint on the site will be the relatively limited space at the site, only about 3,500 square feet, or roughly the size of Ma Soba, the Pan-Asian noodle eatery located in Holyoke Center...
...novelist currently writing in English does so with more energy, intelligence and allusiveness than Rushdie. Nearly every page of The Ground Beneath Her Feet offers something to arrest a devoted reader's attention: puns and wordplays galore ("Ma, keep mum"; "Where was a penthouse pent?") and enough literary echoes--of Joyce; Yeats; Frost; Dante; oh hell, of nearly everybody--to keep graduate students on the prowl through these pages for years. But for all of Rushdie's brilliance, the parts of this novel seem greater than the sum of its whole...
...YORK: Ma Bell is turning into the Cable Guy. AT&T made a surprise bid late Thursday to break up a planned MediaOne-Comcast merger and claim MediaOne for its own. Doing so would make AT&T the largest cable company in the world (surpassing Time Warner, parent company of TIME Daily), with three quarters of its subscribers in 15 of the top 20 markets -- bringing the ex-monopoly within sight of its pre-breakup glory days. Cable lines aren't just a way for AT&T to get back into the local telephone markets wrested from them...