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Confused? Well, there is a germ of reason amidst all this dizzying dealmaking: As a result of the RJR-NGH merger, NGH manages to consolidate any pending lawsuits under the umbrella (and considerable legal expertise) of RJR. Meanwhile, analysts theorize, Philip Morris will move quickly to spin off its tobacco holdings...
Dunn took over last October when former Radcliffe College president Linda S. Wilson stepped down as part of the Radcliffe merger agreement, which was announced in April of 1999 after months of secret negotiations...
...Tribal Voice and Odigo (blocked, Odigo says, six times in the past two weeks) access to its teeming Instant Messaging network, the online giant floated a proposal that would throw open the doors. Politically, the proposal is perfect for softening the scowl of trustbusters eyeing the AOL-Time Warner merger, and it's also very handy technically in that it doesn't offer any details whatsoever on how outside linkups would be allowed. That, according to AOL, is a security issue, and the company left it to the Internet Engineering Task Force to work out how standards would someday...
Need more? There are no movies made for people your age, the music on the radio is dreadful, television programmers behave as if you don't exist. In an astonishing merger of boomer aging with boomer self-involvement, Matsushita Electric has built a prototype smart toilet with built-in microsensors that can run an automatic, daily chemical analysis of the user's urine. Stock-market analysts are growing bullish on companies that build nursing homes or manufacture laxatives...
...October 1999 1 - The historic merger between Harvard and Racliffe colleges is final, with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study born after midnight...