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Mittal's bid could still be derailed. Financial markets bubbled over with rumors that Arcelor was looking for a rescuer, possibly a Japanese firm who would put in a higher offer, although no such "white knight" had emerged by the end of the week. Mittal also needs to convince investors that his bid, which consists mainly of Mittal Steel stock with some cash, is good for them. Mittal Steel has what many see as a financial weak point: its corporate governance structure, which locks in Mittal family control. Lakshmi's son Aditya, 29, is president and ceo of the company...
...knight with-out armor in a savage land," the theme song said. Paladin was a good guy who dressed in black, dispensing bullets, beatings and quotes from Shakespeare with equal facility. As incarnated by Richard Boone, whose dandyish mustache and amused baritone voice lent ironic counterpoint to a face that looked as if it had just lost six barroom brawls, Paladin was the hired gun as moral arbiter. He needed no supporting cast to cheer on or question his decisions; he already had the writers and directors to make this series the best in the West...
...Real It took Perle years. "Embarrassed and occasionally unnerved by my own tendency toward erratic fiscal behavior, I've stubbornly refused to examine it, instead choosing to pin my hopes on that white knight, dream job, unknown dead rich uncle, or winning lottery number," she writes...
...colleagues, he never seemed rushed. Many of Evans’ colleagues remarked on his gentlemanly presence, his modesty, his refusal to say anything unkind about anyone. Tobin said he remembers that at Evans’ 90th birthday party, a friend gave a toast comparing him to a medieval knight. “There was a kind of chivalric elegance to him,” Tobin said. Bruster quoted a passage from Shakespeare in which Hamlet laments the loss of a great king and father. “Hamlet’s line, ‘We shall not look upon...
...behavior. SALMA HAYEK and JULIANNE MOORE served as co-hosts of the Nobel Peace Prize concert, which airs this week in the U.S. The event, held last month in Norway, honored Nobel laureate Mohamed el-Baradei and his International Atomic Energy Agency with performances by Duran Duran and Gladys Knight. Hayek knows viewers may tune in to see her and Moore, not the honoree. "Why do we only pay attention to important issues if people from an unimportant sector--entertainment--talk about them?" the Frida star asks. "We want to be distracted from thinking...