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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 30, 2007
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Atlantan quarantined with deadly TB strain
CDC issues rare isolation order; air passengers warned
By ALISON YOUNG
An Atlanta-area man
-- infected with a rare, potentially deadly type of tuberculosis -- is
under federal quarantine at Grady Memorial Hospital with an armed
sheriff's deputy outside his door following his odyssey on
international flights, including some to smuggle himself back into the
country.
The globe-trotting tale of the man, his fiancee, their wedding and
honeymoon abroad -- and conflicting recollections of what he was told
about his disease and whether he could travel -- culminated Tuesday with
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issuing an international
health alert.
The CDC is working with airlines to contact passengers who took two
transatlantic flights -- a May 12 Air France flight from Atlanta to
Paris and a May 24 Czech Air flight from Prague to Montreal -- to alert
them that they may have been exposed to extensively drug-resistant
tuberculosis.
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The Christian Science Monitor, May 29, 2007
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After historic talks, US seeks action by Iran
Security in Iraq was the focus of the first US-Iran talks in nearly 30 years on Monday.
By HOWARD LAFRANCHI
BAGHDAD -- The first public, senior-level talks between the United
States and Iran in more than two decades were never going to be a
lovefest.
But the fact that the four hours of discussions on Iraq's security took
place at all here Monday suggests how much each of the two avowed
opponents -- and indeed the top leader of each country -- wanted them.
On the US side, and for President George Bush, joining these talks
signals a new determination to test all diplomatic avenues for bringing
greater security and stability to Iraq. Beyond that, it heralds the
rise of foreign-policy pragmatists within the US administration.
For Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, sitting down with the US
signifies recognition by the world's superpower that Iran is a major
power not just in Iraq, but in the Middle East.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 25, 2007
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May 25, 2007: An excerpt from a story in the Las Vegas
Review-Journal:
Freeing the Force
By SARAH MCBRIDE
(The Wall Street Journal)
George Lucas, creator of "Star Wars," has never hesitated to protect
his intellectual property, which is why some call him "Lucas the
Litigator." But this week, his Lucasfilm plans to make clips of "Star
Wars" available to fans on the Internet to mash up -- meaning to remix
however they want -- at will.
The clips -- about 250 of them, from all six Star Wars movies -- will land on the
Starwars.com
Web site tomorrow, part of this week's 30th-anniversary celebrations of
the release of his hit movie. Working with an easy-to-use editing
program from Eyespot Corp. of San Diego, fans can cut, add to and
retool the clips. Then they can post their creations to blogs or
social-networking sites like MySpace. More clips will come out from
time to time over coming months.
In essence, Lucasfilm is going to legitimize and streamline a pastime
that has become increasingly popular on the Web. A search for "Star
Wars" on YouTube, for example, turns up some 98,000 results, many of
them videos drawing on original content from the movies. But on
third-party video sites, Lucasfilm executives "can't control it, and
they can't monetize it," says Jim Kaskade, Eyespot's chief executive
officer.
While Lucasfilm could fight what amounts to the theft of its property,
it has now decided to take the opposite tack. In doing so, it is
tackling an issue that faces all media companies today: how to keep
some semblance of control over intellectual property in the digital age.
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The Dong-a llbo, May 24, 2007
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May 24, 2007:
Page One news from the Seoul, South Korea newspaper,
Dong-a llbo.
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News & Record, May 23, 2007
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May 23, 2007: An excerpt from a story in the Greensboro, North Carolina newspaper, the
News & Record:
Forecast: Busy Storm Season
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
(Associated Press)
WASHINGTON --
Hurricane
forecasters expect more tropical storms than normal this season, and
"it just takes one to make it a bad year," says Conrad Lautenbacher,
head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
National Weather Service forecasters said Tuesday they expect 13 to 17
tropical storms, with seven to 10 of them becoming hurricanes and three
to five of them in the major category. NOAA is the parent agency of the
weather service.
David Paulison, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
said what keeps him up at night is concern about individual
preparedness.
"If we are going to survive these storms it takes all of us to be
ready," Paulison said, urging that the millions of residents in
vulnerable areas prepare their homes for the storms and keep at least
three days food and supplies on hand.
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Lawrence Journal-World, May 22, 2007
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May 22, 2007: An excerpt from a
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Lawrence Journal-World:
24 Hours of Life in Lawrence
By JOEL MATHIS
We love our history in Lawrence, whether it be Quantrill's Raid, Wilt
Chamberlain, the Kansas Union fire, the making of "The Day After" or
the 1988 basketball championship.
But a community is more than the sum of its most dramatic events. A
community is created every day in the work, play and life of all its
residents.
That's why the Journal-World and 6News undertook
"24 Hours in Lawrence"
-- to go beyond our daily reporting to focus on the stories about how
we live. Reporters, editors and photographers fanned out across the
city from midnight to midnight on May 10, 2007.
And you helped. We received dozens and dozens of photos, videos and blog entries about how you spent the day.
The report is a living, multimedia time capsule.
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An-Nahar, May 21, 2007
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May 21, 2007:
The Beirut newspaper,
An-Nahar, reports on the recent fighting in Lebanon.
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The Miami Herald, May 18, 2007
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May 18, 2007: An excerpt from a
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The Miami Herald:
White House, Senate leaders agree on immigration plan
By DAVE MONTGOMERY
WASHINGTON -- Ending three months of closed-door deliberations, Senate
negotiators unveiled a massive immigration bill Thursday that would
enable more than 12 million illegal immigrants to step out from their
shadowy existence to live and work in the United States legally.
The bipartisan bill, which includes a temporary guest-worker program
and an employee verification system that ultimately would affect all
U.S. employers and workers, now heads toward an uncertain outcome in
the Senate, which is scheduled to begin debate on the measure late
Monday afternoon.
''I don't care how you try to spin it, this is amnesty,'' said Sen. Jim
DeMint, R-S.C., echoing the central opposition theme that began
befalling the bill even before it was officially released.
But proponents, including DeMint's home-state colleague, Republican
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a member of the negotiating team, vigorously
defended the multifaceted bill as the best -- and perhaps last -- shot
Congress will have at protecting the nation's borders and addressing
the widely dispersed population of illegal immigrants.
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The Atlanta Constitution, May 17, 2007
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Firstborn King child's death stuns loved ones
By ERNIE SUGGS
She looked just like her father.
Her demeanor was like her mother.
For those who knew the family well, Yolanda King, the oldest of Martin
and Coretta Scott King's four children, more so than any of the other
children, carried strong traits of both her parents.
She was artistic, like her classically trained mother. As a child, she
organized her siblings and cousins to act in plays she wrote and
produced. As an adult, she appeared in several movies and toured the
country as a performer.
She was a gifted orator, like her father, who nicknamed her Yoki. And
she was a fighter for causes -- spending time after her mother's death
last year speaking out about the risk of strokes. In 1984, she was
arrested in Washington, D.C., for protesting outside the South African
Embassy and in 1990, she defiantly backed out of a performance
engagement in Arizona to protest the state's refusal to recognize her
father's birthday as a state holiday.
"She used her ability to act to tell the story of the civil rights
movement," said U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a member of the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle. "Had the grace of her mother and
the intellect of her father. The combination was beautiful."
Yolanda Denise King, 51, died suddenly Tuesday night in Santa Monica,
Calif., while visiting a friend. She had lived in California for more
than a decade, most recently in Culver City. Relatives are uncertain of
the cause of death, but speculate that the former longtime smoker died
of heart failure.
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News & Advance, May 16, 2007
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May 16, 2007: An excerpt from a
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The News & Advance:
Falwell funeral set; graduation will go on
By RON BROWN
Funeral services will be next week for the Rev.
Jerry Falwell, who died
Tuesday after he was found unresponsive in his office at Liberty
University.
Falwell, founder of LU and Thomas Road Baptist Church, was 73.
Ron Godwin, LU's executive vice president, said Falwell had missed an
appointment Tuesday morning at the church before he was found
unconscious.
He was rushed to Lynchburg General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:40 p.m.
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Die Tageszeitung, May 15, 2007
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May 15, 2007:
The Berlin, Germany newspaper,
Die Tageszeitung, reports on Daimler's sale of the Chrysler auto company.
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Valeparaibano, May 14, 2007
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May 14, 2007:
The Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil newspaper,
Valeparaibano, reports on Pope Benedict's visit to Brazil.
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The Virginian-Pilot, May 13, 2007
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The Virginian-Pilot:
400 years ago today...
During their first weeks in Virginia, the Englishmen explored local
waterways and received friendly receptions at a few Indian villages. In
their search for a place to settle, the newcomers rejected one site
along the present-day James River because the water was too shallow for
ships to anchor nearby. On May 13, they moored next to another site, a
marshy peninsula. The next day they went ashore. Their journey of
nearly five months was over, and the
Jamestown experiment had begun.
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The Roanoke Times, May 12, 2007
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Virginia Tech's graduation: The promise of tomorrow
By GREG ESPOSITO, CHRISTINA ROGERS and ANNA MOLLORY
BLACKSBURG -- Nearly a month after events that made them worry about
things most students never have to think about, Virginia Tech's seniors
turned their attention back to traditional college concerns on their
graduation day.
But whether they had just handed in their theses, were thinking about
how to finish their senior projects or just looking for friends to hug
in the crowd of black robes and mortarboards, they acknowledged that
their graduation was not like any other in their school's history. And
they were reminded of it at a commencement ceremony Friday that honored
32 students and faculty killed in
campus shootings April 16.
In addition to a tribute on the Lane Stadium Jumbotron that played as
Tech President Charles Steger and Provost Mark McNamee handed out class
rings to families of the victims, keynote speaker Gen. John Abizaid and
Steger each offered words of support and admiration about how the
students reacted to the tragedy in the past month.
"Revel in the joy of this day, celebrate your accomplishments," Steger
said. "Celebrate all those lives that have touched yours and helped
bring you to this point. Reach out and hug them if you can....You have
united, and you have shown the world the meaning of 'Ut prosim,' that I
may serve. I love you all."
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The Guardian, May 11, 2007
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May 11, 2007: An excerpt from a
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The Guardian:
Blair to stand down on June 27
By MATTHEW TEMPEST
Tony Blair today announced he was stepping down after
10 years as prime minister and 13 as Labour leader.
The prime minister returned to his political roots in the north east
for his swansong, telling supporters at Trimdon Labour club he would
stand down as PM on June 27. He will tender his resignation to the
Queen on that day.
In an emotional 17-minute speech, he said the judgment on his 10-year
administration was "for you, the people, to make". Mr Blair paid
special tribute to his wife and children "who never let me forget my
failings".
And he apologised for "the times I have fallen short".
But he concluded: "Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may
have been wrong - that's your call. But I did what I thought was right
for our country.
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The Daily Telegraph, May 11, 2007
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May 11, 2007: An excerpt from a
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The Daily Telegraph:
The highlights of an emotional address
The resignation:
(
Tony Blair's speech in full)
"Today I announce my decision to stand down from the leadership of the
Labour Party. The party will now select a new leader. On 27 June I will
tender my resignation from the office of Prime Minister to The Queen. I
have been Prime Minister of this country for just over
10 years.
In this job, in the world today, that is long enough, for me but, more
especially, for the country. Sometimes the only way you conquer the
pull of power is to set it down."
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San Jose Mercury News, May 10, 2007
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May 10, 2007: An excerpt from a
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San Jose Mercury News:
Governor Increases Fire Resources; Los Angeles Fights Early Season Blaze
By STEVE GEISSINGER and RODNEY FOO
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered state firefighting agencies
Wednesday to bolster air and ground forces as a parched California
faces what may be its worst fire season in 20 years.
Schwarzenegger's announcement came as firefighters in Los Angeles
continued their battle to contain a wildfire that has charred almost a
quarter of 4,000-acre Griffith Park, forcing the closure of the park,
the Los Angeles Zoo and the recently renovated Griffith Park
Observatory.
The Griffith Park blaze is the third wildfire that has erupted within the urban Los Angeles area since March.
Firefighters said they hope to contain the blaze sometime tonight if
the weather cooperates. Extremely low humidity combined with
temperatures in the 90s hampered efforts to tame flames Wednesday.
State fire officials fear that California's meager rainfall and winter
snowpack -- the lowest in 19 years -- are harbingers of a long and
grueling fire season.
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Burlington County Times, May 9, 2007
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May 9, 2007: An excerpt from a
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Burlington County Times:
Fort Dix attack foiled
By DAVID LEVINSKY and MIKE MATHIS
FORT DIX, N.J. -- Six Islamic radicals, four of them from Cherry Hill
and one from Philadelphia, have been arrested and charged with planning
a heavily armed attack against soldiers at Fort Dix.
The men planned to "kill as many soldiers as possible" in the attack,
which was described as motivated by a religious jihad, or "holy war,"
but has not been connected to any international terror organizations
such as al-Qaida.
The group scouted Fort Dix and other potential targets, watched
terrorist training videos, and finally discussed attacking soldiers at
Fort Dix with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles,
prosecutors said.
"This was a serious plot put together by people who were intent on
harming Americans," U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said Tuesday
during a news conference in Camden. "We're very gratified federal law
enforcement was able to catch these people before they acted and took
innocent life."
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The Washington Post, May 8, 2007
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May 8, 2007: An excerpt from a
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The Washington Post:
Capital Goes Gaga Over the Queen for a Day
By TAMARA JONES and ROXANNE ROBERTS
Queen Elizabeth II arrived at the White House yesterday for the grand
finale to a visit that's whirled from history to horse racing to high
society with barely enough time for a spot of tea and a cucumber
sandwich between.
Hugs from schoolchildren, a private luncheon, a garden party and the
Bush administration's first white-tie state dinner kept the queen
changing hats and offering polite greetings most of the day and well
into the evening.
Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, arrived at the White House to
greet an estimated 7,000 dignitaries, legislators, Cabinet members and
invited guests on the South Lawn on a blossom-fresh spring day.
President Bush welcomed the queen with a royal faux pas about her age,
suggesting she had witnessed American independence in 1776. Expressing
admiration for her long friendship with the United States, Bush noted
that Elizabeth had dined with 10 presidents and had "helped our nation
celebrate its bicentennial in 17 . . ." He quickly caught and corrected
his mistake, "in 1976."
Her Majesty did not appear to be amused.
Laughter rippled across the South Lawn, but the queen, who celebrated
her 81st birthday last month, shot Bush a look that he sheepishly
acknowledged "only a mother could give a child."
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La Tribune, May 7, 2007
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May 7, 2007:
The Paris, France newspaper,
La Tribune, reports on the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, as the new French president.
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The Courier-Journal, May 6, 2007
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Colt first to win Derby, Breeders' Cup Juvenile
By JENNIE REES
With Queen Elizabeth II looking on, favored Street Sense had his second coronation yesterday at Churchill Downs.
Last year's 2-year-old champion came from near last to capture the 133rd
Kentucky Derby by 2 1/4 lengths over Hard Spun.
It was an electrifying display as the mahogany colt methodically and
powerfully ran down his rivals with a rail-hugging ride until he darted
through horses to the outside and charged down the stretch, leaving no
doubt who was the best horse.
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Florida Today, May 4, 2007
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May 4, 2007: An excerpt from a
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Florida Today:
Schirra lifted spirits, space program
BY TODD HALVORSON
CAPE CANAVERAL -- Pioneering astronaut
Wally Schirra was remembered
Thursday as the funniest and most approachable of America's original
rocket-riders, a merry prankster who loved a practical joke.
But
Schirra, who died Thursday of a heart attack at age 84, also was a
serious pilot who shouldered the fate of the fledgling U.S.
moon-landing program after a 1967 launch-pad fire killed the three
Apollo 1 astronauts.
Schirra commanded NASA's first post-fire mission, a test flight aimed
at qualifying the Apollo spacecraft for half-million-mile round trips
to the moon. And with that clout, he challenged and even badgered
managers and engineers to ensure critical capsule flaws had been fixed.
"He changed quite a bit after the fire," said Guenter Wendt, 83, a
Merritt Island resident who served as NASA's longtime launch-pad
leader. "He became much more serious because we all realized that if
Apollo 7 flopped, it would be the end of the Apollo program. He changed
quite a bit, but that was good. We needed somebody like that at the
time."
One of the original Mercury Seven astronauts,
Schirra was the only one to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.
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Ventura County Star, May 4, 2007
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May 4, 2007: An excerpt from a
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Ventura County Star:
10 favor rekindling Reagan spirit
By TIMM HERDT
In a wide-ranging, fast-paced
debate, the 10 Republicans who want to be
the next president offered a unanimous view of past presidents Thursday
evening at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum: They want
to rekindle the spirit of Reagan, and they don't even want to think
about a possible return of the Clinton family to the White House.
The current occupant received mixed reviews.
"What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan, since we are in his library, is
that great sense of optimism," former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani
said. "You lead from optimism. You lead from hope."
When asked by moderator Chris Matthews whether it would "be good for
America" to have Bill Clinton back in the White House if Sen. Hillary
Clinton were to win in the fall, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
gave a startled response: "You've got to be kidding."
Arizona Sen. John McCain, asked what he would have done differently
from President Bush, asserted, "I would not have mismanaged the war. It
was badly mismanaged for four years."
But the central issue was not presidents past or present, but who would
be the best Republican nominee to be the future president.
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Los Angeles Times, May 3, 2007
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May 3, 2007: An excerpt from a
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Los Angeles Times:
Chief vows full inquiry into violence
Bratton questions LAPD tactics in sweeping protesters out of MacArthur Park during May Day rally.
By RICHARD WINTON and ANDREW BLANKSTEIN
Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton on Wednesday expressed
"grave concern" about his officers' tactics in dispersing a crowd at an
immigration rights rally, where police wielded batons and fired 240
"less-than-lethal" rounds at demonstrators and reporters.
Bratton promised an aggressive investigation as public outrage grew
over the police actions Tuesday that left at least 10 people with minor
injuries -- including seven reporters -- and raised serious questions
about whether officers overreacted when they moved aggressively to
disperse a largely peaceful crowd. Eight officers were treated for
minor injuries at the scene.
"The treatment you received yesterday from some Los Angeles police
officers...we can't tolerate and won't tolerate," Bratton told
reporters at a City Hall news conference, extending his remarks to
members of the public also caught up in the incident.
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The Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2007
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The Wall
Street Journal:
Murdoch's
Surprise Bid:
$5 Billion for Dow Jones
By DENNIS K.
BERMAN and SARAH ELLISON
Rupert Murdoch's surprise $5 billion bid for Dow
Jones & Co. could put into play one of the nation's last family-controlled
newspaper companies, raising the possibility of other bidders, from media
companies to financial buyers to Internet giants.
News Corp.'s bid of $60
a share in cash, or a combination of cash and stock, is pitched at a price
roughly 67% above the recent market value of Dow Jones, which publishes The Wall
Street Journal and a number of financial-information businesses. The offer puts
a large premium on the publisher at a time when most newspaper companies are
losing readers and advertisers to the Internet. A recent auction of Tribune Co.,
which owns the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and television stations,
failed to drum up much interest before Tribune agreed to be taken over by
investor Sam Zell.
The offer from News Corp., which Mr. Murdoch leads, faces obstacles.
Dow Jones's controlling shareholders, the Bancroft family -- who own
24.7% of shares outstanding but hold 64.2% of the voting power, thanks
to a dual-share-class structure -- first heard of the offer
2 1/2
weeks ago. They didn't immediately rebuff it, as they have past
overtures. But yesterday Dow Jones said it had been told by a Bancroft
representative that family members and their trusts "constituting
slightly more than 50% of the outstanding voting power of Dow Jones"
would vote against the offer. The statement indicates that those in
opposition represent about 80% of the Bancrofts' voting power.
