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...First Instance. That's what Mario Monti, the E.U.'s competition Commissioner, is discovering. Monti famously withstood pressure from Welch, the former General Electric chairman, when the E.U. last year blocked GE's $43 billion acquisition of Honeywell. But last week Monti took a one-two punch from Bo Vesterdorf, president of the Luxembourg-based Court, in separate rulings that savaged the "errors, omissions and contradictions in the Commission's economic reasoning." The court overturned vetoes blocking two mergers: Schneider Electric's purchase of Legrand and a deal between packaging firms Tetra Laval and Sidel. In June it threw...
...grow like thick vines around his chosen trees. For him trees are best classified by personality type: gods and goddesses, grizzlies, dwarfs, aliens and ghosts. Some are already famous, such as California's brutish General Sherman sequoia, the largest living thing, or the 2,200-year-old Sri Lankan bo tree that was reputedly grown from a cutting of the tree under which Buddha found enlightenment. Others are less well known: the Montezuma cypress in Tule, Mexico, 140 ft. high and 190 ft. in girth, which "wraps itself around you with its huge, bare brown arms"; the troll-like...
...happened, history was with the guitar; Elvis and Buddy Holly, B.B. King and Bo Diddley, The Beatles and the Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck, ad infinitum ad gloriam, closed that case. And Jerry Lee would be the definitive piano rocker in part because he was, in the music's infancy, one of its last. (The saxophone, primal ax of early rock, also went nearly extinct.) He worked under another disadvantage: A pianist, unlike a guitarist, couldn't take his instrument to a gig; at least back then he didn't. Janes ascribes some of Lewis' extreme behavior...
...decided by penalty kicks. Jo knew this was the part where she was going to awaken, because dreams always end before you get to the really good stuff. This time, though, a miraculous reality intervened. After Spanish midfielder Joaquin muffed his side's fourth penalty, Korean captain Hong Myung Bo drove the ball into the top of the net, clinching victory. "I am not sure what is real and what is a dream," said Jo, as more than 1 million red-shirted fans overran the streets of Seoul in glee. "It's like the whole world has turned upside down...
...Junior Bo L. Cowgill, who describes the Stanford campus as sunny and beautiful, says students who attend the school are glad to be receiving a high quality education without going to the northeast...