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Some experts viewed the Paramount tactic as a move to buttress its position in Delaware chancery court, where Paramount contends that Time is in effect interfering with its shareholders' desire to tender their stock. "This will add a notch to Paramount's legal argument, but it will only put pressure on Time if 70% to 90% of its shareholders tender their stock to Paramount," said Jeffrey Greenblatt, a partner in Cambridge Capital Holdings. "Time does not have to take any new defensive steps," he added, "because there is no threat that Paramount will be able to acquire Time's stock...
...instead of a top-notch scholar, the search committee selected Wilson, a solid administrator already well-versed in the party-line rhetoric...
...same could not be said of whip Tony Coelho, who had hoped to bump up a notch to majority leader. The Justice Department is reportedly in the preliminary stages of a criminal investigation of Coelho's investment in a $100,000 junk bond sold by indicted inside trader Michael Milken's firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. Late Friday, after Common Cause asked the ethics committee to determine whether the bond deal was a favor, Coelho could see what lay ahead. He announced that he was quitting his leadership post immediately and resigning from Congress on June 15, his 47th birthday...
...NOTEBOOK:The win over the Big Red pushes Harvard up another notch on its climb for the Ivy championship. But Princeton, with only one Ivy loss, can share the title if Dartmouth can knock off undefeated Harvard tomorrow at Soldiers Field...
Despite being outsprinted by the speedy Jamaicans, the Harvard Rugby Club capitalized on its top-notch technical skills to capture a 29-18 triumph Saturday in Ocho Rios, Jamaica...