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...WHEN STEVE ROSS, NEAR death with cancer, checked into a Los Angeles hospital in late 1992, he registered as George Bailey, the self-sacrificing common-man hero of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. No doubt that was how the man who masterminded the merger of Time Inc. (which owns TIME) and Warner Communications wished to be perceived. But the Steve Ross who emerges in Master of the Game (Simon & Schuster; 395 pages; $25), New Yorker staff writer Connie Bruck's intelligent and fascinating biography, is composed equally of George Bailey, Don Corleone, Felix Krull and Oskar Schindler...
...federation agreement is both complex and incomplete. It provides for a merger of the Croat and Muslim areas of Bosnia under a strong central government and for a system of cantons with their own legislatures and courts. Bosnia's President, Alija Izetbegovic, and Croatia's Franjo Tudjman thought enough of the plan to fly to Washington to sign the papers linking their two countries. But what the arrangement does not cover is almost as important: the Serbs and the 72% of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina they occupy...
...reason people are using the word `affiliation' rather than `merger' is that instead of squishing two hospitals into one, we're creating a new system that will have a new parent but also new affiliates," said David Estridge, a spokesperson for Brigham and Women...
Teaching hospitals Beth Israel, Children's and New England Deaconess were involved with talks between MGH, Brigham and Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44 before the merger was announced in December...
Both hospitals which are currently reviewingcost-cutting measures had intended to cut $25 to$30 million from their respective budgets beforethe merger was announced, the Globe reported...