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BOSTON -- A pair of D'Alessandros -- CEOs Dominic and David -- brought Canada's Manulife Financial Corp. and John Hancock Financial Services together and now turn their attention to making the $10.4 billion deal work.
BOSTON -- A pair of D'Alessandros -- CEOs Dominic and David -- brought Canada's Manulife Financial Corp. and John Hancock Financial Services together and now turn their attention to making the $10.4 billion deal work.
WASHINGTON -- Flush with extra cash from tax cuts, America's consumers treated themselves in August and spent with gusto, good news for the economy's revival.
NEW YORK -- The former CEO of Tyco and a onetime Wall Street investment banker on Monday became the first two major figures to go on trial in the wave of scandals that have rattled corporate America over the last two years. Jury selection in the trials of Dennis Kozlowski and former banker Frank Quattrone began just blocks apart in separate Manhattan courts.
When Aaron Steele opened Uncle Fester's House of Blooze, 430 E. Kirkwood Ave., in October 2000, there was no question spring break was a prominent thought in his mind.
NEW YORK -- The challenge facing composer Daniele Lombardi: Through music, transform the tragedy of Sept. 11 into hope.
NEW YORK -- Elia Kazan, the giant of stage and cinema who was hailed for "On the Waterfront" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" but shunned for naming names during the McCarthy era, has died. He was 94.
The room is set up similar to a cooking show, with a chef up front and chairs set up for the audience to observe. Moving quickly, she makes Mandalay, tossing brown noodles, chicken, vegetables into one skillet and tofu and bamboo shoots into another.
Memo to Patrice Worthy: leave the journalism to the journalists and the designing to the design students. Forgive me, but I fail to see the connection between your conclusion that "people in New York assume fashion is for the 30-and-over crowd" and the sentences that follow, which outline your contempt for networking in your Sept. 19 article, "Selling youth to old people."
I suppose this'll make Eric Rasmusen shiver in his combat boots. Harvey Milk High School, our nation's first state-accredited and tax-payer funded school for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, wants to ball up. According to the New York Daily News Monday, the school is petitioning to field teams in the Public Schools Athletic League as soon as September 2004 ... begging us to think.
This Friday, graduate students from the sociology department invited me and my political science colleagues to an Oct. 2 meeting at the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research. According to the flyer sent to the sociology departmental list-serv, its coordinators "have been discussing the idea of forming a graduate employee organization since this spring" because "as employees we lack a strong voice in the decisions that affect our wages, benefits and working conditions.
He hasn't eaten since Sept. 5. Not only does he literally dangle above the River Thames, but his life hangs by a thread as well. Every day, thousands come to watch as an American man suffers from starvation. They stare, not because David Blaine is the victim of a sadistic, ancient torture method; rather, they can't help but gawk at the sheer spectacle.
Last February, many of the top people in college sports gathered for the Sportsmanship and Fan Behavioral Summit to discuss an all-too-common occurrence -- rioting among college students. The discussions were long and the results unsurprising. In the end, the NCAA pointed the finger at the usual suspect -- alcohol.
The IU women's golf team posted a fifth place finish at the Lady Northern Invitational in Columbus, Ohio this weekend. The Hoosiers never moved out of the top five and have now placed fifth or better at the Lady Northern in 20 or their 21 tournament appearances.
CHICAGO -- Eric Karros' camcorder has been busy the last month, capturing the experience he says every player should have at least once -- a season in Chicago.
Althea Gibson, a sports pioneer who broke the color barrier in tennis in the 1950s as the first black player to win Wimbledon and the U.S. national title, died Sunday. She was 76.
IU has opened the Big Ten portion of its schedule in a fashion not seen since 1997. After upsetting the No. 18-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers on Friday night in straight sets, the team carried their success over to Saturday with another straight-set win over Iowa to push their winning streak to five consecutive matches.
IU's field hockey team opened their Big Ten schedule in disappointing fashion, falling to 8th-ranked Michigan State 6-0 Friday night at the Mellencamp Pavilion.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Peyton Manning visited his hometown Sunday night and humiliated his dad's old team. Manning became the first NFL quarterback in more than a decade to throw six touchdown passes, leading the Indianapolis Colts past the New Orleans Saints 55-21.
The Hoosiers earned a split in their home opening weekend, picking up their first Big Ten win of the season Friday night against No. 11 Ohio State.
Going into the weekend, the men's soccer team had one win in its past seven matches and was looking for its first Big Ten victory against Penn State. But the IU team (2-3-3, 0-0-1) did not get its wish Friday at Armstrong Stadium.