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Once one of the most respected powers on Wall Street, the brokerage firm Kidder Peabody, went through a management shake-up today in a bid to regain some of its lost reputation. Kidder owner General Electric was rumored to be pondering whether to dump the poorly performing financial house, especially in light of recent allegations that the company's leading bonds trader had dramatically inflated actual profits. GE seems more committed than ever: along with the management shuffle, it recently sunk an additional $200 million into the enterprise...
Perhaps most widely recognized as the lead singer of the punk rock band Fat Day. Also well known as a Science Center technician and an Escort Service driver. (It was Matt, incidentally, who, while he was recording Science B-15, used to shake the camera every time E.O. wilson talked about sex.) Favorite class at Harvard was Music 178ar, Ivan Tcherepnin's "Composition in the Digital Electronic Medium." Maximum Rock `n' Roll magazine described his singing on the first Fat Day single as "a really young male or a female with great vocals...
...enormous range of grievances thatall came together during these uprisings,"Brinkley says. "It was an effort to shake up thegoverning structure of the university and,indirectly, society...
That big idea now has the TV world rocking. After less than two weeks of negotiations, Fox and New World brought about the most sweeping affiliation shake-up in network-television history. In return for an investment of $500 million from Fox, New World agreed to align 12 of its stations -- in such major markets as Detroit, Dallas, Atlanta and Phoenix, Arizona -- with Murdoch's scrappy young network. In each city, Fox will switch from a UHF station (one of those occupying the channel numbers above 13, which historically have had weaker signals and lower viewership) to a stronger...
...network's stock has dropped 11% since the Fox announcement, and the affiliation shake-up could have more depressing ramifications. Ratings for the CBS Evening News, for example, already in the doldrums, could be further hurt if the network is forced to align itself with former Fox stations that, typically, do not have an early-evening newscast as a lead-in. In any case, the inevitable scramble for affiliates promises to be a no-win game for all three networks. "There's going to be a lot of churn at the networks," says Stringer. "Loyalty just went out the window...