Word: winded
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...risks, but calculated risks." Now Sawiris stands on the edge of his biggest gamble, and it's not in an unstable country. This month he closed a massive $15.6 billion deal with the Italian utility Enel to acquire a 62% stake in its mobile-phone network, Wind. Sawiris borrowed more than $12 billion...
...Wind buyout has some investors puzzled because it runs counter to Sawiris' strategy of investing in underserved Middle Eastern markets. Wind, with 12 million subscribers, is Italy's third largest mobile-phone service, but it has never made a profit. Moreover, given Sawiris' focus on bringing phone service to developing countries, it's hard to see the attraction of Italy, a wealthy nation saturated with telefonini. That's one reason Sawiris is investing his own money, not Orascom's. "It doesn't fit," he acknowledges--at least not for now. Yet Sawiris can point to his record of success...
...Yimou?art-house directors who dipped into the popular genre?fused poetry with action. Heroes soared through the air as though composed of pure light. Swords, however, is fixed firmly to the earth, a production of dust and blood and stone. In the jolting opening scene, the villainous Fire-wind's (Sun Hong-lei) army mows through an innocent town with all the subtlety of a chain saw. Dressed like members of some death-metal rock band, complete with pale white makeup and black leather body armor, the bad guys decapitate and dismember with glee, wielding savage hooks and spears...
When Fire-wind sets his sights on Martial Village?so named because everyone there studies martial arts, a big no-no for the new Qing Emperor?the townspeople enlist the help of fighters from the local holy mountain, each gifted with a mystical blade: the Seven Swords. Tsui's purposefully gritty visual style makes it tough to tell the players without a scorecard, but Hong Kong movie veterans Lau Kar-leung, Leon Lai and Donnie Yen lead the way in thrashing Fire-wind's warriors, despite odds of about...
...years, it's been the same question: Which Neil? The lumber-shredding, screeching Canadian eagle of vengeance? The willfully weird but kind of dull experimenter? The acoustic guy? This time it's just Good Neil. Neil Young, 59, started making Prairie Wind, out Sept. 27, his (lordy) 31st album, a week before he had brain surgery--a nice p.r. detail but also a legit reason for him to think about mortality and drift back to his days on the Canadian steppe. There's politics and religion too, as well as some of Nashville's best musicians, though...