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...deal, as it's taking shape, is complicated. First, GM would spin off Hughes into a separate company, which would then be merged with News Corp.'s own satellite unit, Sky Global Networks. The resulting company would be majority-owned by new Hughes shareholders (currently, the company is merely a tracking stock) but controlled by News Corp. by virtue of its largest-shareholder 36 percent stake, giving Murdoch control over the day-to-day operations. (There are some other potential machinations, including a $4 billion investment by Microsoft, but with the deal weeks away from even glimpsing the finish line...
...every student should be familiar with the methods of inquiry employed in the study of the social and natural sciences, literature, the arts, foreign cultures, philosophy, history and mathematics. Second, any graduation requirements intended to guide students toward this familiarity should give them the maximum degree of flexibility to shape their own academic careers...
...lunch unless we get cracking.? Now Europeans have the opportunity to move beyond such laments about American hyperpuissance and seize a role in the world that matches their ambitions. On many fronts?from peacekeeping to climate change to Russian democracy?Europe is better situated than ever before to shape a future that accords with its interests. There?s no better reason than that to get cracking...
...what about that second idea? What if you eat right, get into shape, drop all your bad habits and start treating your body like the temple the ancients said it is? Is it too late? If you start today, can you repair the damage...
When he retired from the NBA in May, CHARLES BARKLEY gave himself the gift of corpulence. "I'm 37," says Barkley. "I've worked out every day since I was nine. So I gave myself six months off from being in shape." By eating whatever he wanted, playing golf every day and drinking Grey Goose vodka with cranberry juice every night, Barkley added 70 lbs. to his frame. By Jan. 1 he had hit 337 lbs. Now, in his new gig as a TNT studio analyst, he's submitting himself to humiliating weekly weigh...