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...Ungeheuer, meanwhile, interviewed investment bankers, corporate chairmen and academic specialists. He also attended a symposium at Columbia University Law School on the ramifications of takeovers. Ungeheuer uses a different simile to describe the latest corporate craze: "During the 1960s, when I was a correspondent covering Africa, there were so many coups d'etat that it became tempting to ignore them. That's impossible to do with mergers: while the afflicted African countries seemed to get smaller and smaller, the mergers keep getting bigger and bigger...
...Mark's proposals were made at a symposium whose right-wing political sponsorship was not mentioned in the Crimson's article. They were put forth over two weeks before the Crimson saw fit to give the story front-page play in an article juxtaposed to another on the problems with the Science Center Men's room...
Three prominent infectious disease experts, at a symposium last night in the Science Center, strongly criticized the lack of social concern about AIDS, warning the disease will soon spread to heterosexuals...
Jeanne T. Newlin, senior lecturer on Comparative Literature and curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, will interview Kopit about his works which also include "End of the World (with Symposium to Follow)". After Newlin interviews him, Kopit will field questions from the audience...
...scientists attending the annual Whitehead Institute Symposium at M.I.T. last week, one keynote address was a rare display of virtuosity. Michael Brown of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas vividly described the twelve years of work that he and Colleague Joseph Goldstein had carried out on the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor, a molecule that ferries cholesterol-rich particles from the bloodstream into the cell. His explanations were crisply organized, and his slides went beyond standard diagrams to include photographs of patients. Said one listener of Brown and Goldstein: "Their work is dazzling...