--------------------------------------------------------------------- The Evening Bridge - April 18, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP STORY -- Morgan Stanley Investment Management withheld its votes for directors at The New York Times Co.'s annual meeting today in protest of the company's dual-class share structure. The investment firm, which owns about 5.6 percent of the Times' stock, said it was calling for the elimination of the two-class structure because it "creates special privileges as well as responsibilities" and the Times has "failed to fulfill these responsibilities effectively."
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