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...Sumner Redstone, the company's iron-willed billionaire chairman, had looked like certain losers. But thanks to frenzied financial maneuvering and a stunning and perhaps precarious alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp., the world's largest retail video-store operator, Viacom turned the battle around and put Barry Diller to rout...
Some soldiers later speculated that their exhaustion had brought on hallucinations. Others thought it was mass hysteria, the result of a battle that was supposed to be easily won by the allies but had turned into a rout. But later stories emerged from the German side of the same incident. The Kaiser's soldiers said they found themselves "absolutely powerless to proceed . . . and their horses turned around sharply and fled." The Germans said the allied position was held by thousands of troops -- though in fact there were only two regiments there...
...bulls are running, that's all well and good. But what happens if the market heads south, in the kind of correction some analysts think might happen soon? Much of the money that has flooded into mutual funds could flood back out, transforming an otherwise modest correction into a rout. "The money that's in there is nervous money," frets Rubin Bergay, a retired Anaheim, California, engineer who is heavily invested in funds. "There's no doubt the interest in funds is governed by the low CD rates, and I'm very concerned that investors will take the first opportunity...
...subject of one full episode, is like an event from prehistoric times; it can't happen here anymore. Yet the account of Hollywood's slick media campaign to defeat him might have come from a 1993 campaign adviser's handbook. The newsreel footage showing police trying to "rout out nests of communists hiding in empty boxcars" seems quaintly dated. Yet the headlines of plant closings and shots of homeless people on the streets look, alas, all too familiar...
...across the river, Harvard football has a bandwagon of its own to jump on. The Crimson looked good, real good during its 30-3 rout of Columbia last Saturday...