The Idea in Brief Half of all acquiring companies pay more for target firms than they're worth. Often it's because of executives' mental biases: Their interest in a deal keeps them from being objective about its value....
By Bill Blankenship THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL When French horn virtuoso David Everson makes his guest soloist debut Saturday with the Topeka Symphony Orchestra in White Concert Hall, he will be quite familiar with the surroundings. This summer marked his 18th year as...
A MAN who drove four times over the booze limit has been spared jail. Instead magistrates gave John Jackson a chance to help him kick his drink problem. Jackson, 50, of Windmill Way, Gateshead town centre, was facing sentence after admitting driving with 150 micrograms of...
Byline: BY LINDA RICHARDS HE HAS lost his marriage, his job and his home through booze. And now John Jackson faces losing his freedom after he was caught driving while four times over the legal drink-drive limit. Jackson, 50, of no fixed abode and...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Werner Braunig. Rummelplatz. Angela Drescher with Sebastian Horn, eds. Ehrista Wolf, foreword. Berlin. Aufbau. 2007. 768 pages. 24.95 [euro]. ISBN 978-3351-03210-4 When Hermann Fischer, a veteran communist and supervisor at the postwar Wismut mining complex in East Germany, brazenly asserts that socialism must be...
Byline: John Avison WHENEVER I see a picture of Egyptian princes in their kohl and gold or Herne the Hunter with his green rags and head of horns, I realise that dressing up has been with us for ages. Taking on another persona has a fierce...
Byline: By LEE RYDER THERE is only one fixture that can be described as match of the day in the Premier League this weekend. And South Shields know that better than anybody as champions South North head for Wood Terrace looking to close in on the...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The chamois herd grazed lazily on the side of the mountain a little more than 200 yards away. Guide Kefer Hubert and I sat quietly in the blind watching them through binoculars. As we watched, a fly buzzed inside my eyeglasses onto the...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Q: Has GUNS ever covered the loading of shot cartridges for handguns, specifically .38 Special, .44 Magnum and .45 Colt? Roger Shoemake Fishers, Indiana A: We haven't covered loading shot charges in recent memory. Sounds like a...
Byline: John Avison I KNOW we have to be extra cautious when bones are found on the moors, as they were earlier this week above Meltham. The discovery of a collection of decaying body bits in the heather and peat lovely couple sparked off a forensic...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I KNEW the situation had reached critical mass when I saw, on a street corner a block from my apartment, a thick-gauge wire-mesh garbage can holding--a mortgage? A sheaf of dollar bills? Presentation copies of John McCain's energy policy? None of the above....
Sir Elton calls in the lawyers as satirical piece strikes a wrong note Sir Elton John is used to being lampooned by comics around the globe, but his sense of humour only seems to extend so far. Lawyers acting for...
Opera THE RAKE'S PROGRESS Royal Opera House LONDON ** It will come as no surprise to anyone that the devil stalks the City of Angels (here, in the guise of Nick Shadow, Tom Rakewell's "benefactor"). But the notion that...
Byline: PAUL TAYLOR AS SOON as you enter the Theatre Royal you cannot help but feel the buzz of flamboyant electric excitement that runs through the air. Fans cheer, wave their flags, clap their clappers and honk more horns than gridlocked drivers on the M4. Yes,...
US take on 'Gavin and Stacey'? Whatever When the British actor Simon Pegg discovered his sitcom Spaced was being remade in the US without his consultation, he hastily issued an angry statement describing the move as a "flagrant snub". Mathew...
WIMBLEDON, England -- After moving within a victory of his sixth consecutive Wimbledon title, Roger Federer found time to catch only a few games of Rafael Nadal's semifinal. Federer does have a DVD of Nadal's match, but he wasn't exactly rushing to use...
OPENING THIS WEEK -- Monday Sweet Branch Library (455 F St.) -- "Reading the Back of the Sky," featuring art by Jamie Peterson, through Aug. 15. Artist reception Friday, July 16, 7 p.m. -- Friday ...
RUGBY LEAGUE Harlequins and St Helens have contrasting fortunes at half-back for their meeting at The Stoop this evening. Saints are able to bring back Leon Pryce, who was rested last weekend after starring for England in Toulouse. But Quins, beaten in four...
PROVO -- Swimming in a sea of red, white and blue shirts, tents, coolers and cookies, Utahns celebrated the Fourth of July in Provo at the ever popular Grand Parade. One of the crowning events of America's Freedom Festival at Provo, the Grand...
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