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Since taking over as Deutsche Bank's sole chief executive in May 1988, Herrhausen had aggressively begun to change the bank, the world's 20th largest, from an insular institution to a global financial power. Only last week he made a $1.4 billion takeover bid for the British merchant bank Morgan Grenfell Group PLC. Throughout his life, Herrhausen viewed himself as a man driven by destiny to lead West Germany to new heights as a world economic power. It was a mission that was brutally shattered on a street in Bad Homburg last Thursday morning...
...MERCHANT OF VENICE. Dustin Hoffman plays Shylock, warts and all, in a shimmering Broadway production transferred intact from a sold-out London run. A tough ticket worth every penny and every minute of the wait...
...August 1941, five months before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard a battleship offNewfoundland, Canada, and proclaimed an AtlanticCharter providing for freedom of the seas andleading to the arming of merchant ships...
...rapprochement includes an immediate resumption of consular ties, restoration of air and sea links between London and Buenos Aires and the lifting of all financial restrictions between the two countries. Britain also removed its prohibition on Argentine merchant and fishing ships within a 150- mile radius of the Falklands and agreed to help Argentina repair economic links with the European Community...
...England, though, it seriously threatened to starve the embattled island by cutting its lifelines to the west. Britain needed to import by sea nearly a million tons of supplies every week -- food and fuel as well as weapons. For this it required the services of some 3,000 merchant ships, and in this summer of 1940, Admiral Karl Donitz's submarine fleet not only acquired access to the Atlantic at the captured French naval base in Lorient but also started a lethal new tactic known as wolf packs. Instead of one lone U-boat sniping at an Allied convoy, three...