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Residents see the annual event, at which audience members race to outbid each other for items donated by their classmates, as a sign of a tight-knit community...
...founded Creative Artists Agency, suffered a setback last week when the NFL rejected his proposal to bring a professional-football expansion team to L.A. Ovitz had spent years on the project and secured the cooperation of stars such as Tom Cruise to spearhead the gridiron campaign, only to be outbid by organizers in Houston. This came amid reports that Ovitz, now a manager at his new firm, Artists Management Group, was having trouble interesting Hollywood studios in the rights to the latest manuscript by Michael Crichton. Ovitz recently lured the Jurassic Park author, whose previous novels were turned into...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataBellSouth has the cash to outbid almost anyone, but that $7-a-share premium is for a deal that could face serious problems going through. "This is a Baby Bell trying to get into long distance, and BellSouth alone has already been rejected [as a potential long-distance carrier] by the FCC three times," says Greenfeld. "Until AT&T can make a real business out of offering local service over their phone lines, the FCC is likely to make any BellSouth wait ?- and that doesn?t even include state-by-state approval by state regulators...
While Harvard spent more than a million dollars trying to keep "within shouting distance" of its "peer institutions" by increasing aid packages on a case-by-case basis, it found itself outbid by much of the Ivy League...
Although already loaded with debt from its acquisition last year of the TCI cable system, AT&T was able to outbid Comcast largely because it can make more off MediaOne's cable customers, using the cable lines to sell phone service and, in conjunction with At Home, high-speed Internet access. That last piece apparently scares both AOL and Microsoft. And so the biggest software company and the biggest online service emerge to contest the biggest phone carrier. MORE...