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...sheer size of the breakup, and the secrecy in which it had been planned--Wall Street had heard not a whisper of what Allen was up to--would have made the announcement sensational enough. But the timing and reasoning were more surprising still. The breakup runs squarely counter to the most publicized trend in American business: the move toward bigger and bigger mergers, like the one agreed on by Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting two days later...
...42nd president, but over at alt.music.pearl-jam there was a consensus growing that the correct lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter had been found. Things seemed calm at alt.philosophy.zen, one discussion of zazen culminating with advice from a user going by the name Sleater, "You need only listen to the whisper in your own heart. My brain is only a reflection of yours...
...scene occurred in a dim hallway, deep inside Dillon Field House, far away from any madding crowd. The cheers and the boos had given way to just this--a whisper...
...verse: "Any man of mine'll say it fits just right/ When last year's dress is just a little too tight/ And anything I do or say, that'll be O.K./ When I have a bad hair day." The throaty intimacy, the smart selling of each phrase, the whisper of lightly ironic girl talk in "just a little too tight," the clear but not prissy enunciation--these are signs of a true storyteller in song. And since she delivers the whole verse in a single confident breath, Twain gets a free pass into the pantheon of thrushes...
...confirmation will come from Ovitz, a man who wields power in a whisper. He believes in the Oz principle: the mysterious god is most fearsome. He doesn't often speak to the press; when he does it's usually off the record, and he doesn't give away much. Even before the MCA rumors, he was a frequent subject of what-does-he-really-want stories in newspapers and magazines. And today, after months of entrail reading, nobody but the wizard of Ovitz knows for sure...