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...chip Pentium II. And the day of Digital's suit, microprocessor upstart Cyrix quietly filed its own patent-infringement claim against Intel. Digital followed a day later with full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and San Jose Mercury News. Wall Street took the bait, wrist slapping Intel's soaring stock down $6 and backslapping Digital up $2 in the belief that the microchip David wouldn't rile Goliath unless it had a really, really good case...
...Brian Ralph was named Ivy League Player of the Year. Albers was named to the All-Ivy First Team and Huling was named to the Second Team. Jamieson, Vankoski and Keck each received honorable mention. Army played yesterday's doubleheader without junior shortstop Mike Scioletti, who suffered a fractured wrist last weekend. Scioletti, the Patriot League Player of the Year, led the league in batting, left the yard 12 times and drove in 67 runs in 40 games. He is doubtful for today's game. Army 1 Harvard...
Dealmakers had their heyday in the 1980s. Today the power on Wall Street resides with money managers, who control huge and growing pools of cash amid an unprecedented wave of investment by the American public. A flick of some fund manager's wrist can send $100 million barreling in or out of a single stock. That kind of heft flattens a lot of resistance...
...false reporting. Sawyer, 38, who faces a possible six-month jail term, was charged with obstruction of justice and is currently cooperating with police in their ongoing investigation of the leak. The photographs showed the garotte used to strangle six-year-old JonBenet, a rope tied to her wrist and a scene of her body lying in the Ramsey living room, where her father had carried her after finding her in the basement. The Globe, which had asked around to see who had developed the crime scene shots, agreed to return the photos on Tuesday now that Boulder County...
...York Times and an afternoon press conference. In both venues, Barbour argued that Gingrich has been held to a different standard than Democratic leader Richard Gephardt. When Gephardt twice gave inaccurate information to a committee probing income from one of his rental properties, he was slapped on the wrist with a mild "be more diligent in the future." Though the chairman denied that his last-minute spotlight-hugging was an attempt to change the minds of doubtful Republicans - and said it was for the benefit of the public only - the timing was critical. Earlier, it seemed the effort...