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...likes to travel by motor scooter, the rebels then anointed a new board made up of unemployed executives, retirees, a sociologist and one man under investigation for money laundering (which he denies). Welcome to shareholder activism, French style. Their prize: the company that built and operates the Channel Tunnel, the rail link beneath the English Channel that was hailed upon its 1986 launch as Europe's largest privately funded infrastructure project. When the stock was introduced in 1987 at the equivalent of €5.33 per share, thousands of investors bought stakes in a transport monopoly serving two of Europe...
...Plain English Campaign among its 5,000 supporters, identified other terms deemed past their sell-by date: "to be honest," "like" and "thinking outside the box." Fortunately for the unimaginative - and headline writers the world over - some old favorites escaped sanction. There's light at the end of the tunnel, after...
Band of Bozos? The Fellowship of the Dingbats? Dawn of the Brain Dead? Something along those lines might be a more telling title for The Ladykillers, wherein the Coen brothers merrily subvert that standard caper trope in which a bunch of guys tunnel their way toward a large cache of cash and, naturally, an even larger concluding irony...
...hardliners squash the pragmatists with their isolationist and extremist policies, then I see dark clouds in the sky. But if the pragmatists are able to triumph over the hardliners and push through with their proclaimed plans of economic improvement, then I see light at the end of the tunnel...
...advancing campus safety, however, Harvard cannot afford to have tunnel vision and focus solely on its existing safety resources. Currently, students who feel unsafe near residential Houses other than their own are denied keycard access between 2:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.; upperclass students who walk between the Science Center and River Houses at night cannot swipe into first-year dorms even at normal hours. Although students who feel uneasy can phone HUPD, waiting for the cruiser outside in the dark puts them in danger...