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Personal lobbying helped to overcome some political obstacles. For weeks, Mittal made the George V Hotel in Paris his home base, jetting around Europe to shake hands and put his case to anyone who would listen. Critically, labor unions weren't hostile; they had already worked with his company and knew what to expect. And Mittal won a powerful French ally early on: François Pinault, a fellow self-made billionaire whose holdings include luxury designer Gucci. Pinault was appalled by the reaction to the bid. "I didn't like the welcome he received in France, nor the xenophobic...
...even borrowed from the exile poetry of Ovid, 2000 years of moons ago, as that poet’s life winds down. This is just one of a number of such borrowings, and if you want to know the difference between plagiarism and creative reuse and legitimate theft, listen to Dylan with his intertexts (which of course he wants you to spot): in “Ain’t Talkin’’ his line “in the last outback at the world’s end” comes from Ovid?...
...Listen up, potential investment bankers: all work and no play makes for a lousy sex life, according to a new Harvard Business Review study. The study, published in the magazine’s December issue, polled high-earning professionals with “extreme” jobs to examine how their work affected their private lives. The results showed that roughly half of those polled felt that their work interferes with a satisfying sex life, and 46 percent said their job negatively impacted their spousal relationships. An “extreme job,” by definition, involved working...
Being popular was all I could think about last year. I wanted to, like, be cool with everybody. I listened to music that I didn’t like and laughed at stuff that wasn’t funny. I programmed myself to be a totally different person to everyone. But I wasn’t myself. Now I’m not pretending to like indie rock or anything like that. And people think that’s cool.* So here are five albums from 2006 that I only pretended to like. Because now that...
...back for more. Ghostface is a great storyteller, which is what sets him apart from a most other rappers. Songs like “Miguel Sanchez” and “Alex (Stolen Script)” portray complicated situations so enthralling that they practically demand that you listen repeatedly until you understand everything. His depictions of the street life are vivid and even touching in the case of “Josephine.” Yet they still always seem real and raw: contrast “Greedy Bitches” with Kanye?...