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...about what Icahn's latest target, media giant Time Warner (which publishes TIME), is up against as the renowned Wall Street maverick pushes the company to boost its stock price, stalled at about $18. Icahn's prescription is strong (and expensive) medicine: a $20 billion stock buyback and the spin-off of its vast cable operations. Icahn, the Princeton University philosophy major from Queens, N.Y., who staked his earliest ventures with money he won playing poker in the Army, loves taking on the big boys. He won't be bluffed--and he often wins...
...force his will on management. And many investors note that Parsons is already looking at a stock buyback (although a more modest $5 billion) and plans to split off 16% of the cable division. What's more, Parsons has the Time Warner board in his corner. He has presented spin-off scenarios and, according to a Time Warner insider, "the board has concluded there's no magic bullet...
...Unfortunately, the Solstice's curb-appeal loses its luster once you take the car for a spin. Like many a roadster it is shamelessly impractical. Drivers under 6 ft. may feel visually challenged, since one sits a few inches above ground and Pontiac skimped on a height-adjuster for the seats. Rear visibility is fine with the roof down, but when it's up the glass rear window provides minimal views. The cockpit feels sports-car Spartan; our test car featured a two-tone "sand-and-steel, " design scheme, with a five-speed manual shifter...
...Brilliant But Creepy"). I was nervous, but I don't think the boys noticed. "Can't bat, can't bowl," I said to Freddie Flintoff when he was on nought. It did the trick. Flintoff was caught in the deep for 72. My first scalp. "Don't try and spin it so much," I told Warney at drinks. He'd never thought of that. Thirteen wickets to Shane for the Test. We'd won by an innings and 50 runs. I still hate Perth...
...quality and an elegant, easy-to-read design. The black and white artwork has been done mostly in pencil, with soft shading, capturing a grayed out world devoid of color. His simplified characters inhabit more detailed environments, in the classic European bandes dessinee style, but with Delisle's own spin. Visual jokes also lighten up the grim totalitarian atmosphere. One panel imitates a Sunday comics puzzle, depicting a police lineup of ordinary-looking North Korean citizens with the quiz, "Which one is the spy?" The answer, upside down, reads, "No. 6 because he is not wearing his official...