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...other side of the Atlantic, Bertelsmann had been quite vocal about its intention to acquire another U.S. company. The Germans perused the profit and loss statements of Simon & Schuster, owned by Viacom, and of HarperCollins, controlled by News Corp., but couldn't make a deal. For Bertelsmann, the world's third largest media company, the merger immediately establishes a long-sought commanding presence in the U.S., the world's largest media market. "Random House is a dream for Bertelsmann," says Thomas Middelhoff, 44, who engineered the deal just six months before officially stepping into...
Pumla's musical tools are his voice and the elaborate karaoke machine which provides the rhythm and beat for his songs. The first-year student at the Berklee School of Music views his subway performances as valuable rehearsal time for his burgeoning vocal career. "I want to be like a professional. A professional singer," says Pumla, "When I sing, I express how I feel, what I'm experiencing. Or to make myself feel good I just start singing or playing my piano, and I just feel better...
...forbade a TIME photographer to take a wide-angle shot of the congregation at worship, lest it show 200 people clustered in a space built for nearly 1,000. And when he preaches these days, admits Marva Dennard, a Bethelite and Lyons supporter, "he's preaching to himself." One vocal critic, the Rev. Calvin Butts, head of New York City's Abyssinian Baptist Church, is incensed: "He has brought spiritual wickedness into high power." Butts and others failed to oust Lyons as convention leader last fall when the allegations began to appear, but they intend to try again in September...
Kaplan--who first met Breindel when the two attended Phillips Exeter Academy and was his roommate during their first year at Harvard--said Breindel was a vocal, charismatic leader throughout his life, "kind of Jewish Kennedy...
...WIRE) ST. LOUIS, Mo.--Leaders of the Association of Black Students (ABS), backed by a vocal crowd of several hundred students, faculty and staff, called on the university to increase minority representation in a rally held on the steps of Brookings Hall midday Monday...