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...overtook their European rivals for the first time in 1998 and became the top two advisers for takeovers in Europe in terms of the value of deals they helped bring about, according to Securities Data/Thomson Financial. "I believe there's going to be a lot more hostile activity," predicts Wilder Fulford, a managing director for mergers and acquisitions at U.S. investment bank Salomon Smith Barney in London. "You have a fair number of corporate cowboys out there in the European landscape, and I think there is going to be quite a roundup...
Several parties hosted in the Quad recently took on a wilder tone. From the debauchery of the Swan White cast party last semester to a lingerie party in Cabot House, some Quadlings experience parties of a different sort...
...Little House memoirs, Laura Ingalls Wilder so vividly limned the homesteads and Midwestern landscapes of her 19th century pioneering girlhood that millions of Americans know them as well as they do their own home and backyard. So engaging is Wilder's prose that after finishing all nine volumes, many can't bear to stop. Instead, they retrace Wilder's frontier by reading the series again and again, first to themselves and later to their children...
...many are visiting Wilder territory in person. Claudia Brierre of Tulsa, Okla., is reading the books with her son Will, 6, and daughter Catharine, 8, and has begun taking them to the real-life settings. "I would rather give my children an appreciation of our country's history than take them to Disney World," she says. "These memories will stick with them the rest of their lives...
Across the country, ski areas are getting wilder. New York's Whiteface Mountain recently opened the Slides, hundreds of feet of treeless, sheer rock face atop the East Coast's highest vertical drop. The Mount Hood Meadows resort in Oregon runs a Sno-Cat tractor so that skiers and boarders can move 1,000 ft. higher to reach an in-bounds canyon that offers 55[degree]-angle chutes (90[degrees] is vertical...