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Ciollo ran a personal-record 48.02 seconds in winning the 400-meter, and he finished third in the 200-meter. Junior Dominic Patillo took second in the 800-meter in a personal-best time. He led for most of the way but tired because of the wind, and Yale's Donald Carson passed...
...promise of increased savings to shareholders plays a key role in the precedent-setting battle between Olivetti and Telecom Italia. Franco Bernabe, who took over as chief executive of the recently privatized Telecom only last November, promised to cut costs $560 million a year, including a staff cut of 40,000 employees, nearly a third of the company's total, if shareholders reject the Olivetti bid. Olivetti in turn promised to cut the staff by 12,000 and to spin off noncore operations if its $58 billion plan, among the largest hostile takeovers in history, is accepted. It's easy...
Jean-Hugues de Lamaze, who follows French companies for the Credit Suisse First Boston bank in London, says the BNP offer was "more aggressive than we are used to in France." But he also notes that the French government, which until recently took an active role in overseeing takeover deals in the financial sector, has remained silent at the outburst of cannibalism. "France is eager to remain in the race, and there's an overall feeling that [its institutions] have to be a bit more Anglo-Saxon, more market oriented," De Lamaze says...
...were spent selling the war to aides and Congress, and nights were filled with chats with leaders around the world. As a bid to encourage NATO unity, Clinton told his closest counterparts, Gerhard Schroder of Germany and Tony Blair of Britain, to call him whenever the urge struck. They took him up on the offer. "He doesn't care about time zones," explains a friend. "He tells these guys, 'Call me anytime, day or night.'" Those conversations, which were frequent and interminable, abated last week, but the strain the war has taken on Clinton isn't hard to see. During...
While there is no evidence the missing are being used as human shields, there is little doubt they are in danger. "I don't think anyone took the measure of Milosevic's capacity for brutality," says J. Brian Atwood, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, who is coordinating the U.S. refugee response. Now "the problem we fear is the humanitarian crisis that isn't being managed inside Kosovo." And as fighting between the K.L.A. and Serbian forces begins to pick up, that problem will only grow worse...