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Radcliffe originally provided women undergraduates with housing, supervision and access to a Harvard education. But when the two colleges conducted their "non-merger merger" in 1973, Radcliffe relinquished its responsibility for daily undergraduate life...
What this book brings to the already crowded domain of Hawking lore is a rather successful merger of biography and physics. As it traces the course of Hawking's life, it pauses occasionally to prepare the reader for the mind- boggling complexities of relativity theory and the even more bizarre notions of quantum physics -- twin pillars on which Hawking has constructed his theories -- which he is currently attempting to unite in an all- encompassing theory. The authors characterize their early review of Newton's classical theory of gravitation, for example, as "a gentle workout in the foothills before we head...
...back in the early seventies, Harvard and Radcliffe started down the road to their eventual merger, forever dooming Harvard men to Quad housing...
...solely at the instigation of ailing Steve Ross, abruptly sacked Nicholas and installed the more cerebral, smoother Levin as Ross's new co-CEO. Does that mean the media giant will now achieve the greatness its masters predict for it? A onetime consultant to both companies tells Clurman: "The merger may turn out to be one of the most brilliant business moves in their history or the stupidest." To amend a famous parody of early TIME prose: "Where it all will end, knows God!" Or Mammon...
...Nuys, Calif.-based Pinkerton's (1991 revenues: $640 million) has also suffered from turnover and service problems following a leveraged merger four years ago with a firm called California Plant Protection (CPP). Mark Savage, a former award-winning Pinkerton's manager, says he quit the company in 1990 in part because its management "was cutting corners and pushing people to their limits." In terms of clients, he adds, "companies like Burns and Pinkerton's always take for granted that they will lose business and that if they sell more than they lose, they're still growing. They...