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After weeks of twists and turns in the battle for control of General Motors' European unit Opel, the U.S. car giant finally made up its mind Thursday and decided to sell a majority stake to a bid headed by Canadian car-parts firm Magna, albeit with strings attached. The deal came as something of a surprise; over the past few days there has been feverish speculation in Berlin that GM had decided to hang onto Opel in Germany as well as its Vauxhall brand...
...family has already been selling off stakes in some of its other businesses. It divested its Conwood tobacco company for $3.5 billion, sold a 60% stake in its Marmon Group industrial conglomerate to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion and even sold a 13.6% stake in Hyatt to Goldman Sachs and Madrone Capital Partners for $1 billion...
...This complaint is entirely legitimate. However, in the case of text messaging, the temptation is so insidious that people cannot be fully trusted to decide for themselves whether it is safe to text behind the wheel. Besides, with so many lives at stake, is it really that much trouble to just pull over...
...However, there is a bigger issue at stake here. To think of public speaking as something that can be practiced in an ideal section mischaracterizes it as a pure skill instead of an art form. There’s a big difference between an adequate orator and an inspiring one, and the difference does not lie in avoiding obvious faux pas, like not breaking into a terrible sweat or remembering the rules of grammar. Undergraduates could probably figure out the mechanics of public speaking without lessons. But when it comes to crafting a persuasive message and delivering...
...There is much at stake. Securing the Caucasus region, which is veined with oil and gas pipelines, has become a priority for both Russia and the U.S. But history is a potent saboteur in this part of the world and talks have collapsed before under its weight. In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish army, fighting against Russia to maintain its territories, sent the region's Armenian population on a "death march" toward Syria. Armenians say 1.5 million were killed in a genocide. Turkey rejects that term, maintaining that the expulsion was a wartime measure necessary to quash Armenian nationalists who sided...