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...Battle for Montedison MONTEDISON: A Milan-based conglomerate (2000 revenue: $12 billion) with holdings in energy, agriculture, engineering, and chemicals. Among Montedison's key holdings is a majority stake in power producer Edison. MEDIOBANCA: Besides its position as Italy's largest merchant bank, Mediobanca also holds stakes in the giant insurer Generali and the media and fashion group HdP. Until Italenergia came along, its 15% ownership of Montedison made it the controlling shareholder. FIAT: Although best known as a carmaker, Fiat has subsidiaries in aviation, insurance, and publishing. It owns over 10% of HdP. It has teamed up with state...
Since the Novartis Foundation awarded Project HEALTH a $76,000 grant to establish a site in Washington last November, coordinators from Harvard have hired a full-time site director who researched potential campus and hospital sites for the program. Kunal K. Merchant, ’01, the Washington site director, said the reputation of Project HEALTH has spread along the East Coast based on “word-of-mouth...
...Before Project HEALTH came to D.C., we had to do a lot of lobbying to convince hospitals in other cities that we had a useful service to provide,” Merchant said. But he said doctors and hospitals in Washington were already aware of the program and were impressed...
...Caretaker at the Arts Theatre sees Pinter's fortunes shoot skyward. Instantly successful, the play transfers to the West End and runs for 444 performances. Productions across Europe, South Africa and in New York City follow. The once-reviled The Birthday Party, starring his then-wife Vivien Merchant, is shown on British television, drawing 11 million viewers...
...Yorkin was born and raised in the coal-mining town of Washington, Pa., where his father, a women's wear merchant, was part of a tiny and somewhat beleaguered Jewish community. Anomalously armed with a degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Tech, he went to New York in 1946 with the intention of becoming a theater director. A daytime job as a TV repair man supported his night classes in English literature at Columbia University. "My partner and I used to find excuses to fix sets in good restaurants so we could get free meals from the waiters," he says...