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...exception. While Suez and GdF are aiming to slash annual costs by as much as €500 million, utility deals don't always make stockholders smile. After a study of almost 40 such transactions involving U.S. energy groups, Credit Suisse analyst Dan Eggers recently concluded that mergers "consistently destroy value." The utilities' obligation to pass on savings to consumers means that shareholders are often shortchanged. "Most [utilities]," Eggers added, "have been best served by trying to create value independently." So how to proceed? Beyond the E.U.'s creeping borders, rapid developments might make a single, competitive market for energy more...
...words, followed by a nice thick slice of Humble Pie. But wait, he can’t eat—he’s dead! Conclusion: We realize that five out of seven days of the week, most people would rather push a button that says “Destroy the Whole World” than roll out of bed and face the misery that is life. But when you can type in “C6” and receive a pack of Cheese Fries in exchange, you just have to believe that maybe there?...
...Islamic leaders have a great deal of freedom. They are free to destroy Buddhist shrines in Afghanistan without a word of protest from Muslim nations. They are free to deny non-Muslims the opportunity to worship freely, as in Saudi Arabia. They are free to deny the Holocaust and vilify the Jewish religion. Yet publish a few cartoons, and the Muslim world is aflame. Perhaps Islamic leaders will now acknowledge that their actions over many years have been deeply offensive to other religions and take steps toward a more balanced and sensitive approach. Michael Renan Cape Town...
Soldiers, guns, tanks and planes -- as a boy I had them all. While my friends were out playing football, I found what troops I could (many imaginary) and jaunted into the nearby woods on search-and-destroy missions. Now, after eleven years as a clergyman, I can say I learned quite a few good lessons from those military adventures, one of which is expressed in the words of the Apostle Paul: ''Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ . . . that you may please Him who hath called you to be a soldier...
...that developers eager for large tracts of open land would push the city to bulldoze whole neighborhoods of traditional housing, like the long, narrow "shotgun" houses that produce the intricate streetscape rhythms around large parts of the city. Because replacing them with cookie-cutter suburban development would destroy the heart of the city, the National Trust for Historic Preservation teamed with the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans to help finance the restoration of a number of flood-damaged older homes. The point was to show that it was entirely possible to bring them back to life...