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[Q]: NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Time beat the clock. After rejecting at least two earlier entreaties  the publisher of Fortune  Sports Illustrated and other magazines agreed to be acquired by rival Meredith for $1.8 billion  which includes a hefty 46 percent premium. It’s a lucky break because a go-it-alone strategy looked doomed. Bountiful cost savings  however  will go to the buyer and its new billionaire backers.
Fortunately for Time shareholders  Meredith has been a persistent suitor. After failed merger efforts over the last few years  the $18.50-a-share all-cash offer provides nearly $600 million more than the target’s market value when deal talks surfaced on Nov. 16.
The presence of Charles and David Koch  whose private equity fund is kicking in preferred equity to help pay for the acquisition  may create concern for some readers because of the brothers’ history of supporting conservative causes. They aren’t getting a board seat  though. The investment  which resembles  one Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim made in the New York Times   also includes a solid financial rationale.
 Meredith  is touting between $400 million and $500 million of cost savings within two years of the companies uniting. Once taxed and capitalized  at the low end of that range they would be worth some $2.4 billion today – on a $2.8 billion deal  including debt. If nothing else  that should buy  Meredith  and the Kochs some time.
[A]: Meredith


[Q]: Stephen Paddock  fired hundreds of rounds out of a 32nd story window in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Sunday night  police have said  killing 59 and injuring over 500 in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history.
 Paddock  had no military training. According to Paddockâs family and the ongoing police investigation   he  had a penchant for guns and some experience hunting. But there is no indication  he  had formal training.
Nevertheless   he  managed to kill dozens and wound hundreds from 32 stories above the ground and a distance of three to five football fields between  him  and  his  victims.
The reason  he  was able to carry out the massacre lies largely with the tools at  his  disposal and the completely helpless nature of  his  targets.
Some of the weapons had scopes to increase  his  effective range. The length of the bursts of fire suggest  Paddock  likely used extended magazines to store many times a firearmâs normal capacity in ammunition.
All of Paddockâs guns legally belonged to him. Nevada  where  Paddock  lived  allows the sale of high-capacity magazines  high-caliber weapons and ammunition  and military-style weapons  but it doesnât allow fully automatic weapons.
 Paddock  got around the limitation of government-mandated semi-automatic weapons by using something called a âbump stock â which effectively turns a semi-automatic rifle into an automatic  according to The Associated Press.
From 300 to 500 yards away  the crowd of 22 000 were essentially âfish in the barrel â which is how country singer Jake Owens  who was on stage in Las Vegas  described that night. It wouldnât take a military operative or master marksman to inflict grievous damage on a crowd with the tools  Paddock  had available.
 Paddock  simply rained down bullets on an unsuspecting crowd that was focused on the stage. Because bullets from high-powered rifles travel at supersonic speeds  the first shots probably hit the victims before the sound of the rifle even rang out.
[A]: Stephen Paddock


[Q]: It would seem as if Zimbabweâs military has  President Robert Mugabe  backed into a corner.
The 93-year-old has been held under army supervision since the military took over the airwaves on Nov. 14  and tanks patrol the still quiet streets of the capital  Harare. His former vice president-turned-rival Emmerson Mnangagwa  whose abrupt dismissal the week before triggered the political crisis  is back in the capital and determined to take powerâseemingly with the blessing of the armed forces. Meanwhile  Zimbabweans are already celebrating the downfall of a dictator who has held the country in  his  iron grip for the past 37 years.
Yet  Mugabe  refuses to relinquish power before elections slated for April 2018  even as the military  the opposition and members of  his  own party insist that stands down immediately and hand power to Mnangagwa. And he can. Because he holds a trump card: the fear that the militaryâs power play could be called a military coup.
You could be forgiven for thinking that this was indeed a coup â despite the armyâs insistence it has not taken over the government. Zimbabwean intelligence reports  cited by Reuters  suggest that Mnangagwa may have been planning for Mugabeâs exit with the military for more than a year. And Zimbabweâs military chief General Constantino Chiwengaâs recent trip to Beijing to meet with the Chinese defense minister  though billed as a ânormal military exchange â is now raising questions. China maintains a close diplomatic and economic relationship with Zimbabwe  and its support for any change in government would be vital.
If the military does force  Mugabe  out of power  even with the support of the populace  it would still be considered a coup. That would automatically trigger suspension from the African Union as well as the 15-nation Southern Africa Development Community  and all of their activities. The region  and even European nations would likely impose economic sanctions. Zimbabwe would have trouble getting development assistance or even loans from international banks. And even the United Statesâ limited engagement with Zimbabwe would have to be dialed back. The U.S. Foreign Assistance Act ârestricts assistance to the government of any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree.â That means that U.S. support for family planning  HIV/AIDS prevention  governance programs and  ironically  democracy promotion  could be cut.
If  Mugabe  stands down on  his  own  however  the political transition maintains a veneer of legality that ensures the next government  whatever it looks like  has a soft landing and the chance of international economic assistance. âIf this transition  for which Zimbabweans and friends of Zimbabwe have been waiting for such a long time  is to have a chance of succeeding it will need international engagement â says J. Peter Pham  director of the Atlantic Councilâs Africa Center. Zimbabwe is already in economic freefall  beset by hyperinflation and unemployment so high that an estimated 3 million citizens are now living in neighboring countries. âNo one wants to provoke a crisis that will send even more Zimbabweans fleeing over the border.â
Even members of Mugabeâs own party  Zanu PF  seem to understand whatâs at stake. The party is working on its own transition plan  senior officials told Reuters on Friday  drafting a resolution to impeach the president if he refuses to stand down. âThere is no going back â the official told Reuters. âIf he becomes stubborn  we will arrange for him to be fired on Sunday. When that is done  itâs impeachment on Tuesday.â
In the meantime  Harareâs streets remain calm  and Zimbabweanâs characteristic black humor about their own predicament remains intact: âMugabe is suddenly a real Zimbabwean: an adult with several degrees just sitting idly at home â tweeted @CynicHarare  a self-proclaimed âdetractorâ from Harare.
[A]:
Mugabe