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Loveman, the CEO of Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., announced last Thursday a $9.44 billion deal to purchase rival casino behemoth Caesar’s Entertainment, Inc. If approved by the companies’ shareholders, the deal would be the largest in casino history, creating a giant enterprise with 56 casinos, about 3.7 million square feet in gaming space and over 40,000 hotel rooms...
...gunfight with only a knife." But Adami surely needed all the fighting spirit he could muster when, almost 18 months ago, his longtime employer, South African Breweries (now known as SABMiller), dispatched him to Milwaukee, Wis., to help restore its floundering new subsidiary as a serious rival to behemoth Anheuser-Busch...
...played football for eight years," Reagan protested. "Gipp weighed five pounds less than I weigh right now." The producer was still dubious. The problem, Reagan saw, was that he was wearing a business suit, and the producer envisioned a behemoth in helmet and shoulder pads. Reagan raced home, gathered up some pictures of himself in uniform, raced back to the studio and won the part. It made him famous, and years after he performed Gipp's death scene, he would still get "a lump in my throat ... just thinking about...
...features the creature of the title, a giant sperm whale, as it swims through disparate oceans, encountering man and beast through the ages. Foregoing a traditional story, it reads like Neptune's dream after a night of bad sushi. Harder depicts the whale as a fearsome monster, a silent behemoth that rules the seas. He battles a giant squid, dinosaurs, The Pequod from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," the Titanic and even Noah's ark. It is not about a real whale, but the idea of a whale...
Microsoft as Turtle? The software behemoth is still on top, but some think the boom days are over...