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...company - owner of such venerable papers as the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune - for not much more than the value of the company's landmark headquarters. After that debacle, Murdoch's cash-on-the-barrel offer of roughly $25 above the Dow Jones share price seemed to spell the end of a nightmare...
...does boxing creep back into the cultural consciousness after a five-year dizzy spell? Easy. Take the sport's most talented fighter, Floyd Mayweather Jr., 30, a self-described "hustler" who was nearly gunned down as a baby and is, kindly, referred to by one promoter as "a huge pain in the ass." Pit him against the sport's last glamour boy, Oscar De La Hoya, 34, bred tough in East L.A. but now a clean-cut corporate sweetheart whose broad, boyish smile has made millions swoon into his corner. Naturally, his charm has also turned off others who would...
...things were better, but it’s because we worked harder for them. We didn’t have your SAT inflation—we were happy just to make a 1600. Most of us didn’t have to use spell check on our computers. In fact, we used typewriters. For the class of ’11, Harvard accepted only nine percent of people who applied. A year ago it was 9.3 percent of applicants. Three years ago it was 10.3 percent. In fact, the class of ’11 has the lowest acceptance rate...
...applied" challenge, the court was also saying it might no longer accept the more general method of challenging abortion restrictions based on the argument that they are unconstitutional on their face. And while a commerce clause argument might cut down the intact D&E law, it might also spell the end to federal laws like the one barring picketing of abortion clinics...
With a big serve and soft volleys, the junior has turned a mid-winter cold spell into a spring thaw that has swept away nine of his last 11 singles opponents and eight of his last 11 doubles foes...