Under terms of the agreement, Kraft will first split off or spin off Post and its related assets to shareholders.
But Ralcorp's board determined that it preferred its current plan to spin off Post, the maker of Honey Bunches of Oats, Grape-Nuts and Cocoa Pebbles, saying this would create more value for shareholders.
Even though he is now technically paying more for Ralcorp, which spun off Post in February, Mr. Rodkin argued that the strategic rationale for buying the company remained in place.
At the other end of the spectrum lies "The 9," which Mr. Scott wrote with the alto saxophonist Louis Fouché; its serpentine melody evokes the head-spinning post-bop once epitomized by Donald Harrison (a saxophonist, and Mr. Scott's uncle) and Terence Blanchard (a trumpeter, and his most direct stylistic forerunner).
The post-spin, post-partisan election seems to have been one many watched and few enjoyed.
Last Tuesday, Spin posted an entertaining, seven-person roundtable about Boards of Canada's "Tomorrow's Harvest," which is not commercially available until this Tuesday.
Spinning in the post, crashing the boards for rebounds and wearing his usual intense stare, Hansbrough capped a career that will rank among the university's best.
In a post spinning off last week's shootings at the Fort Hood US military base, he accuses 'citizen journalists' of indulging in a dangerous kind of selfishness.
Minutes before, the car tore onto the sidewalk, striking the woman before slamming into a corner fence post, spinning airborne into a thick sycamore and finally coming to rest against the chain links of a local baseball field.
When the deal was done there was talk of spinning off Huffington Post, and a research note on the deal from analysts Forrester even titled a section on the sale "forget the media brands".
