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...other news, a committee of Harvard and Radcliffe governing board members recommends an expansion of coeducational housing and a revision of Radcliffe's budget but not a merger between Harvard and Radcliffe...
...watch and wait, just like the rest of us. In this era of megamergers, Joel Klein already has plenty of antitrust enforcement on his plate. Last week he announced his intention to fight a proposed partnership between American Airlines and British Airways; the DOJ's case against the proposed merger of Lockheed-Martin and Northrup-Grumman also begins this September; and the chipmaker Intel is said be next in the cross hairs of his colleagues over at the FTC. But the resolute Klein seems determined to make Gates a test case for reinterpreting the 19th century Sherman Act to apply...
...Asia, governments stung by currency speculators, who often use derivatives, are beginning to turn on their foreign bankers. Citibank reportedly had to cancel plans for a press conference in Taiwan last month to announce a merger with Travelers Group. The problem? Taiwanese authorities denounced Citibank for allegedly circumventing banking regulations involving certain derivatives that allowed the bank to bet heavily against the Taiwan dollar. "The bottom line in this whole derivatives issue is if I'm a trader, I'll take the biggest bets that I can because if I win, I'll go home a millionaire," says Peabody...
...antitrust chief also had plenty of incentive to cut a deal. With merger mania rampant in industries from banking to telecommunications, Klein had ample opportunity to prove his trust-busting mettle without taking on Microsoft in a long and costly battle that many legal scholars suspect he will have a tough time winning. Faced with the uneasy prospect of trying to prove consumer harm by a company that has helped make PCs better and cheaper, Klein must have held out at least faint hopes that Gates would renounce enough of his most egregious practices to let them both declare victory...
...spearheaded the Fed-state attack on Microsoft -- the largest antitrust lawsuit of the century -- and the trustbusting assistant attorney general has announced that his cupboard is bare. Apparently a 275-strong legal staff and $95 million in government funding is not enough in these days of monopoly and merger, and Klein requires a budget boost of "certainly several million dollars...