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...formidable intelligence. At Istanbul's top law school, he graduated with the best grades ever; now he is applying his smarts to a different cause. He is fighting to stop his motherland from joining the European Union. Kerinçsiz's strategy is simple: to try to block the reforms that the E.U. is imposing by rallying Turkish nationalists to his cause. Late last month, by seeking a last-minute injunction, he almost succeeded in shutting down a conference on the mass killings of Armenians in 1915, one of the most brutal episodes in Turkish history, and one which...
...battling over bass, with three of the industry's major players trolling for profits. In 2001 Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN acquired the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, which holds tournaments around the country. This year ESPN will run 29 different fishing shows, including a four-hour Saturday-morning block. "Bass can be much bigger," says ESPN-ABC Sports president George Bodenheimer. "We're in this for the long haul...
When we got to the café, we ordered frozen lattes and powdered donuts. To our left, a man whose entire body was painted silver stood on a block of plywood and posed. Behind us, another had draped Mardi Gras beads around his neck and propped a handwritten sign in front of him: MAKING ‘MONEY’ FOR MY ‘HONEY,’ it said. I pointed to the sign. “Yeah,” Matt said. “We’ve seen a lot of misused quotes...
...Large blocks of shares can also be unwieldy to trade. Because enough buyers may not exist at the market price, a seller of a large block may have to settle for a price below that quoted on the open market. Conversely, a buyer of a large block may have to purchase securities at an above-market price...
Mazza was injured on the second play of Harvard’s game-tying drive as he attempted to block one of Brown’s defensive backs at the first-down marker. As running back Clifton Dawson neared the spot, he, Mazza, and a number of Bears defenders were tossed into the same heap, with Mazza somewhere near the bottom. As the pile thinned, Mazza was slow to get up, the damage already apparent...