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Rootin', tootin', acquisition-mad MCI Worldcom chief Bernard Ebbers may have finally met his match: the antitrust boys at the Justice Department. Ebbers' proposed $130 billion hookup with Sprint - the latest in a spectacular string of acquisitions by the southern-fried CEO - would be one of the largest corporate mergers ever, a joining of the No. 2 and No. 3 long-distance carriers that posed a serious threat to leader AT&T. But now Justice staffers have formally recommended to head trustbuster Joel Klein that the merger be blocked, on the grounds that a company with one third...
Yesterday's events began in spectacular fashion, as the Crimson women crushed one school record after another. But by the end of the day, the team just did not have enough points to come out ahead...
Junior John Kraay has had a spectacular season this year for the Harvard throwers. Kraay has been winning the shot put all year for Harvard. He should be able to beat or match his third-place finish in the event at Indoor Heps...
...Company made the startling admission that sport utility vehicles could pose a serious risk other motorists and (gasp!) the environment. No one was surprised by the facts themselves, mind you, but the source of the admission caught some industry analysts and environmentalists off guard. Ford, which has based its spectacular recovery and a hefty proportion of its profits on a hugely successful sport utility vehicle line, seemed to be shooting itself in the accelerator foot by pointing an unequivocally accusatory finger at its own products. Could Thursday's announcement be the beginning of the end for the Sierra Club...
...event, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has--what else?--launched a new website called HubbleSite hubble.stsci.edu) where surfers can study the telescope's history, browse Hubble trivia (it has circled Earth 58,400 times), learn more about the cosmos and, of course, view some of the spectacular images the telescope has collected. Quasars and pulsars and supernovas...