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...soon kill off two liberal weeklies. The heat has also been turned up at TV-6, the channel controlled by exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky and now run by a group of former NTV stars. The government is said to be pressuring Lukoil, the energy giant that owns a 15% stake in TV-6, to buy out Berezovsky for $120 million...
After renault took a controlling stake in nissan in 1999, the French carmaker sent in Carlos Ghosn, a Brazilian-born, 47-year-old turnaround expert, to lead the overhaul. TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Tim Larimer recently spoke with Ghosn about the most dramatic makeover to date of a Japanese company...
...perennial Crimson killer, Nickerson drove a stake through Harvard's heart this weekend. The senior third baseman all but sewed up All-Ivy honors, going 8-for-13 with a homer and five RBI in the Big Green's three wins this weekend. He also made no fewer than three spectacular plays in the infield, including a diving, over-the-head catch on a foul pop on Saturday...
With a writers’ strike deadline looming at midnight Tuesday, America’s movie and television industries have been forced to confront the legitimate demands of screenwriters for a greater stake in the entertainment business. A different industry merits a new contract, and we support the members Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) in their demands for a fair share of revenues as well as additional credit and creative control. Though the industries have thus far expressed little willingness to compromise, in the interests of consumers and of the many others employed by Hollywood who will...
...Russians weren't going to give up their rights without a fight. It wasn't only principle at stake: Tito is reportedly funneling $20 million into that country's financially strapped space agency for the privilege of spending quality time in orbit. The original plan was to send him for a visit to Russia's aging Mir space station. But when Mir took a controlled dive into the Pacific Ocean earlier this spring, the Russians insisted that he be allowed aboard the ISS instead...