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...plot is relatively thin and ends with a cliff hanger you will either love or hate (and may have to wait another three years for Halo 3 to resolve). So why buy it? There are several serious upgrades, as legions of Halo junkies will attest: the ability to wield two weapons instead of one, for instance, or to perform spectacular hijacks of alien vehicles the moment they zoom past you. The big picture, though: designers at Bungie deserve credit for not fixing what wasn't broke. Combat evolves incrementally, and Halo 2 just became the best reason...
...Thus mergers have proliferated: Luxembourg-based Arcelor, currently the world's largest steel producer, was formed in 2002 through the merger of steel companies in Luxembourg, Spain and France. Corus emerged from the 1999 union of British Steel and Dutch firm Hoogovens. In order for steelmakers to wield sufficient clout, notes Tommy Trask, an analyst at Standard & Poor's, steel "needs to be as consolidated as the iron-ore suppliers or the end customers." Both Mittal and Wilbur Ross, the former investment banker and distressed investment specialist who helped create ISG, envisage a future where steel is dominated...
...Wyss’ donation will wield an impact well beyond the Business School’s Allston campus, said Janice McCormick, executive director of the doctoral program...
Most important, women can wield their voting power further by becoming actively involved in the political process themselves. They could volunteer in political offices, work on electoral campaigns or organize grassroots efforts for specific issues they are passionate about. In fact, these female voters could even run for office themselves...
...Peter, an ill-fated professor and Grace Zabriskie as Emma, an elderly woman who’s either a heavy heroin addict or a precog. Except for Zabriskie reinventing the doped-up old woman role, the rest of the cast disappoints—especially Gellar. Sure, she can wield a wooden stake, seduce her brother and spot Scooby Doo like no one else, but Gellar just can’t handle the role of horror heroine...