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...Freshman Tom Stack-Babich, a transfer from Wake Forest, arrives as Harvard’s heralded new power source, and will complement Klimkiewicz and Wilson in the middle of the order. He was recognized as the league’s best new arrival by “Baseball America...
...four of the five top nominees (all but Munich) claiming the tag "indie productions," this is an Oscar year more dominated by non-blockbusters than any since 1997, when four "indie" nominees were The English Patient (the ultimate winner), Fargo, Secrets & Lies and Shine. (The fifth film was the Tom Cruise comedy Jerry Maguire...
...company into a behemoth with a market value as high as $8 billion helped spark a broader M&A boom. Rivals in Japan's go-go Internet industry learned that they too could grow by gobbling up corporate minnows. "A lot of people have followed the Livedoor model," says Tom Sato, founder of Tokyo IPO, a financial-information website. Softbank has executed 140 mergers or acquisitions; Rakuten, Japan's leading online-shopping site, has executed 55 of them; Yahoo! Japan has done 24. Although Japan still accounts for only 5.6% of the world's M&A market, dealmaking has become...
...Perhaps, but other Liberal stalwarts say what the party needs most right now is a lengthy period of re-examination to help it reconnect with voters it once took for granted. "People have to define what it is to be a Liberal again," says Tom Axworthy, a former aide to Pierre Trudeau...
...next House majority leader, it's the one who stands for continuity who seems to be the favorite. "We need some new vision at the leadership table," says Kentucky Representative Anne Northup, but one question is, How new? The candidates for the old job of the indicted Tom DeLay are Roy Blunt of Missouri, the current majority whip; John Boehner of Ohio; and John Shadegg of Arizona. Blunt has positioned himself as the one who can move the G.O.P. agenda most effectively because of his leadership experience. Boehner and Shadegg have run as reformers, calling for changes like stricter restrictions...