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...several private-equity groups are poring over at least one transaction involving a telecommunications firm in Spain that is worth more than $12 billion. One reason Europe is attractive: such huge firms as electronics giant Siemens, automakers DaimlerChrysler and Fiat and the French media company Vivendi Universal have shed operations they deem no longer core to their fundamental business. Also, investors have been buying medium-size companies whose family owners are looking to sell. Once the Americans take over, they move fast, prodding the firms to make their operations leaner and frequently reshuffling management. The worse off an operation...
...INSIDE THE MIND OF AN IRAQI SUICIDE Bomber" was chilling. I congratulate TIME for gaining contact with the interviewee. Your story shed valuable light and helps explain why some zealots make the inconceivable choice to carry out horrendous acts of terrorism...
...Niger mission, according to the report. In a Feb. 12, 2002, memo to her boss, Plame wrote that "my husband has good relations with both the PM [Prime Minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity...
Hammonds, who could not be reached for comment, said in the press release that she intends to conduct a survey of Harvard’s junior faculty in order to shed statistical light on the murky corners of the University’s tenure policy. The survey, developed by researchers at the Graduate School of Education, has already been used at a number of other institutions...
...Woodward's memoir, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat, doesn't shed much new light on Watergate. But it does tell us a lot about how Woodward, the journalist who helped bring down a President, cowered around his secret source, W. Mark Felt...