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...those affected by the shooting at Virginia Tech got to choose a singer to memorialize their tragedy, the consensus pick would have to be Elton John, the man who wrote "Empty Garden" for John Lennon, "Candle in the Wind" for Marilyn Monroe and "Goodbye England's Rose" for Princess Diana. If Sir Elton were for some reason unavailable, they'd still have plenty of good-hearted high-quality pop singers to choose from - your Bon Jovis, your Maroon 5s - not to mention all those country singers born to sing in the key of heartbreak...
...That said, with the combined Thomson-Reuters and Bloomberg now so evenly matched, they may enter a kind of Cold War, with neither company able to dominate the other. If today's deal is sure to draw regulators' attention, for example, any play by Bloomberg to pick up additional market share via acquisition would likely draw even closer anti-trust scrutiny...
...think it’s very important for the second dean of the Radcliffe Institute to be chosen in a very broadly extended process where we look for someone who doesn’t just seem to be my pick,” Faust said in February. “It’s not usual to pick your successor so I would like to have a lot of input and a lot of thought about where Radcliffe should...
Grosz had been mentioned as a possible candidate for the deanship of FAS, the University’s flagship school. Faust has yet to name her pick for FAS, but a decision is expected within the next several weeks...
...this as motivation,” Aldrich said, “and try to pick up speed as much as we can before IRAs...