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...stake in Arcelor. "The day we received that news, we felt it was over for us," Mittal recalls. "The whole team was disappointed and somber." But when they looked at the Russian deal more closely, Mittal and his advisers realized that Arcelor was essentially giving away the company without proper consultation with its own shareholders - and to a little-known Russian with far less of a track record than Mittal. His investment bankers sprang into action and helped foment a shareholder revolt that drove Arcelor into Mittal's arms...
...baby sister and my best friend, and she just does her own thing. We're different in many ways. My sister is totally a free spirit, wild and fun and funny. Me, I'm more organized and proper. My sister, when she was younger, she didn't care what she wore. She would put on the craziest outfits, whereas I stop to look at myself in the mirror before...
...isn’t the material, but the proper execution of a fluffy film that matters, so casting is key—plus, it doesn’t hurt that Myers wrote the script with her leading actors in mind. Jude Law is an obvious choice as the romantic book-lover with more baggage than the average bachelor. Black is best in the few moments when he’s himself, working those eyebrows and serenading Iris with movie themes at the local Blockbuster (observe his incredulous onlookers closely and you may recognize...
...1840s England. From the very beginning, they often included a newsletter. The entire Victorian project of keeping up appearances and maintaining a veneer of respectability made it inevitable that this newsletter was a heavily amended summary of the events of the year, of course interspersed with all of the proper holiday pleasantries...
Opening the story proper, our historian sets the scene in Amsterdam, 1972. Sheltered, studious, and alienated from the “tough-talking, chain-smoking sophisticates” in the brat cohort of diplomats’ children, the protagonist spends long hours with the 19th century tomes in her father’s library during his frequent absences. She becomes captivated by a “much older volume” that breaks the collection’s uniformity: an enigmatic medieval text marked by a woodcut of a dragon and concealing a collection of yellowing letters...