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MacDonald Mania: The left-wing junior, who was just named ECAC Player of the Week, is still leading the conference scoring race, two points ahead of teammate Tim Barakett. After a 3-3--6 weekend, MacDonald's 123 career points ties him with Dan DeMichele for 10th place on the all-time Harvard scoring list...
...March, 1985, I went to Duluth to cover the men's hockey team's quarterfinal series with the University of Minnesota. One of my preview pieces was a column about the Bulldog mania then infesting Duluth. Some of the comments about Duluth were harsh...
...making it means being at peace with yourself." Boesky has now suffered what he probably feared more than anything else: being portrayed as a fraudulent genius. "I always thought he was a rat," declares one investment banker. The disgrace kept welling up for Boesky last week. His book Merger Mania (subtitled Arbitrage: Wall Street's Best Kept Money-Making Secret), a scholarly tome he published last year in an effort to dignify his profession as a science, was abruptly dropped by its current publisher, Henry Holt...
...reports of abuses in the takeover game proliferate, the political pressure to put new curbs on corporate raiders is sure to rise. At last week's hearing before the House Monopolies Subcommittee, A.A. Sommer, a Washington securities lawyer and former SEC commissioner, delivered a strong denunciation of takeover mania. Said he: "American enterprise, at a time when all its energies are needed for the worldwide economic struggle, is being driven by a . handful of opportunists into a massive restructuring, with consequences that may be disastrous." Sommer's argument struck a responsive chord among the legislators. Said Democratic Representative Mary Rose...
Boesky obviously was sensitive to charges that his was essentially an opportunistic and unproductive occupation. Last year he wrote a book on the subject, Merger Mania, and subtitled it Arbitrage: Wall Street's Best Kept Moneymaking Secret. In the book Boesky loftily declared that "there are no easy ways to make money in the securities market . . . there are no esoteric tricks that enable arbitragers to outwit the system...