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...popping $33.4 billion, and he changed the ownership structure of the firm to reduce his family's dominant stake. But in late July, almost six months after his initial foray, Mittal had his prize. He admits that the personal attacks were wounding. Yet ultimately they came to naught: through sheer obstinacy and financial savvy, Mittal, 56, overcame every sort of political, personal and financial objection to forge a global steel titan, a 120-million-ton-per-year company whose vast size and range, in theory, should enable it to ride out the ups and downs of a notoriously cyclical industry...
...still remember the end of my first carol service, four years ago, with the choir singing the final verse of ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,’” Wilson writes in an e-mail. “The organ amplified the sheer emotional intensity of the moment and the beautiful, soaring descant made me realize that this moment would be how I remembered my freshman year….The Carol Services are a quintessential Harvard musical and emotional experience...
...Cypress Hill, “How I Could Just Kill a Man”: Before you call Room 13, I implore you to recognize the sheer beauty of the song: its completely monotonic sensibility, its “middle-schooler in the drum room” beat, and, of course, its canonization of classic lines such as “I be doing all the dumb shit, yo, cause nothing is coming from it/I’m not gonna waste no time f****** around, I got ya humming/humming, coming at ya/then you know...
There’s no question: The Colbert Report dominates every other show on when it comes to sheer manliness in interview technique...
...were looking for sheer comedy last Friday night, the place to be wasn’t with Stephen Colbert or John Negroponte at the Institute of Politics, but in Science Center D.Sure, Colbert is funny, and Negroponte can talk a lot without actually saying anything, but where else can you sit in a room full of revved up undergrads, chugging malt liquor out of 40 oz. bottles in brown bags and hearing jokes about why it’s not so great to have a large penis? The punchline to that particular gag, by the way, is too risqu?...