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...acquires. Moreover, the firm generally adopts a hands-off approach to managing its holdings. While the cost of the Saks buyout may tempt Investcorp to push for higher profits, the Bahrain firm contends that it will be true to its unmeddlesome philosophy. "We are owners, not managers," said Savio Tung, a top officer. "We bid for Saks because we thought it was a great company, not because we wanted to change...
Mondale: (pause) Um, no that was Mario Savio and he didn't do anything at Berkeley until...just forget it. 1964 was the Johnson/Goldwater race, a contest similar to our sham, I mean, campaign...
Twenty years ago, he carefully slipped off his shoes before climbing atop a university police car so as not to damage campus property. The roof buckled some anyway. So did the University of California, Berkeley, as Mario Savio ignited the Free Speech Movement, which in turn lit the fires of nearly a decade of campus activism. Last week, graying and more introspective but still burning with the spirit of protest, Savio, now 41, was back at Berkeley to celebrate the 1964 birth of the Free Speech Movement. Some 3,000 middle-aging rebels and current students gathered at the scene...
...several, as usual, bore signs and greetings. One at the University of California at Berkeley offered a proud-and significant-variation on the customary HI, MOM. It read: HI, I AM MOM. The message aptly symbolized the presence of older generations among 1984's 1.37 million graduates, Mario Savio, 41, a leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964, finally earned a physics degree, summa cum laude, from San Francisco State University. At Lehman College of City University of New York, Joseph Lipner, 83, was named to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with high honors. Foreign-born...
...resembled the other "creedal passion periods" in the degree of adherence to traditional American political values is not so much wrong as incomplete. Certainly, adherence to some "American creed," especially in the early years, is a current that runs through much of the writing from the New Left. Mario Savio, the leader of the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus in the early 60s, wrote for example that "the things we are asking for in our civil rights process have a deceptively quaint ring. We are asking for the due process of law ... We are asking that regulation ought...