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Icahn has earned accolades on Wall Street for his savvy stock-picking choices, knack for launching feisty board battles at poorly performing companies and, most importantly, his ability to snap up unwanted, undervalued or mismanaged companies at bargain-basement prices and turn them around for big profits...
...surprises for even the best-behaved celebrity and booby traps from rogue journalist elements. It is one area where even the most tight-fisted publicist has to give up control. "There were rules before," says Jose Martinez of vice president of media relations for Fingerprint Communications. "Now anyone can snap a photo and write whatever they want and it's online in five minutes." (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...packet contained a thousand banknotes, or 20 million Colombian pesos - the equivalent of nearly $7,000. His wallet had never held more than petty cash, but now he was stuffing his uniform pockets with thick wads of currency. It wasn't easy because his whole body quaked with the snap realization that he, Walter Suárez, a $44-a-week anonymous soldier condemned to a mission impossible, had just won a kind of ad hoc lottery...
...warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased. That's in part because of global warming - hotter air can hold more moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of snow. Colder air, by contrast, is drier; if we were in a truly vicious cold snap, like the one that occurred over much of the East Coast during parts of January, we would be unlikely to see heavy snowfall. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...pack of wolves with the wolf man. This was the same wolf man who trained the wolves in ‘Dances with Wolves’ and ‘The Chronicles of Narnia.’ They are wild animals. They are unpredictable. At any moment, they could snap...