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...summer recess of Congress would deprive them of "Pharaoh" rulers to plague. Young proposed to make constructive use of delay, and questioned the enormous effort to assemble and maintain a novel protest army of polyglot poor people in Washington. He doubted King's white attorney and closest confidant Stanley Levison's analogy with the Bonus Marchers of 1932-34, whose suffering and rejection had kindled delayed support for New Deal initiatives, and King aide James Bevel renewed his attack on the entire calculation. "Aw, that's just a bunch of bulls___," he declared. "We don't need to be hanging...
...TIME: I was interested in how King continued to turn to [attorney] Stanley Levison. What was it about that relationship that seemed to make him so comfortable? What was the role that Levison filled...
...sweeping Europe these days; in boardrooms from Manchester to Moscow, cross-border strategies similar to Dollé's are the driving force. In Europe and globally, 2005 is poised to go down in the record books as the third best year for M&A activity in history. Morgan Stanley reckons the total volume of European transactions will hit $1 trillion for the year, or about 44% of the world total, and Paulo Pereira, the investment bank's European head of M&A, sees no sign of a slowdown anytime soon. "The first half of 2006 has to be the best...
...banks for Italian ones. But his efforts quickly turned to a scandal after the publication of taped phone calls. Fazio finally quit just before Christmas - and one of the foreign bids, by Dutch bank ABN AMRO for Banca Antonveneta, eventually succeeded. Domestic politics remains a temporary risk, says Morgan Stanley's Pereira, but "the forces underlying European M&A trends are much stronger than any episodic national pushback." Indeed, mergers have a way of perpetuating themselves. Barrett says that chief executives of European companies are now under pressure from their boards to do deals in order to boost growth...
EXECUTED. STANLEY (TOOKIE) WILLIAMS, 51, co-founder of the Los Angeles gang the Crips, who while on death row for the murder of four people in 1979 became renowned for his antiviolence work, including a series of books he wrote urging children to stay away from gangs; by lethal injection; despite his claims of innocence and appeals for clemency, supported by such activists as Snoop Dogg and Joan Baez but denied by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the U.S. Supreme Court; in San Quentin, Calif...