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...face of the Master Chief is never revealed. His visor is solid reflective gold, like the faceplates of the Apollo astronauts. Halo 's designers see the Master Chief's facelessness as a dramatic device, a way of allowing players to place themselves in the game's leading role, to map their own faces onto that of a blank protagonist. "If he takes off the helmet, he should be you," says Marty O'Donnell, Halo 's audio director. "I mean, that's the big deal. Taking off the helmet is unacceptable." Engineering lead Chris Butcher agrees: "It's your experience...
...magnitude of deals-- in volume and size--is unprecedented, said Andrew Nussbaum, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which has represented such firms as Apollo Management and Starwood Capital in LBO transactions. "There are many buyers for practically every seller," he said. All this has left private-equity players scrambling to find the next deal while they're still flush...
...ensuing bidding war wound up costing Blackstone significantly more to buy Equity Office in what became the largest leveraged buyout in Street history. Blackstone was forced to boost its bid to $55.50 a share, or $39 billion, from the original $48.50 a share. Another deal jumper: an affiliate of Apollo Management challenged a bid to take EGL private with a counteroffer that has driven up EGL shares more than 50% and added more than $750 million to the original takeover price...
...firm that specializes in hedge funds, are down 28% since the close of trading on their February 9 debut. Granted, that's a short-term, backward-looking view?never the best way to size up a potential investment. Yet as other shops like Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Carlyle Group, Apollo Group, and British hedge fund manager GLG Partners toy with listing public shares, it's worth taking a critical look at the broader, ongoing forces impacting these stocks...
...space race by launching the satellite Sputnik. Thanks to the frantic efforts of U.S. officials to match that feat, aerospace engineer and longtime Caltech professor Homer Stewart was hired to help develop a similarly impressive craft. With guidance from Stewart-- who later worked on early planning for the Apollo mission--the U.S. sent into orbit its first successful satellite, Explorer I, in January 1958. Stewart...