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...Sawiris stands on the edge of one of the biggest risks of his life. Last week, he began exclusive talks with the Italian utility Enel to acquire its mobile-phone network, Wind, in a deal that values the firm at ?12.2 billion. Assuming Sawiris pulls it off, the Wind deal will be the largest private-equity takeover in European history. It will also put him in the unusual position of building the first European telecom powerhouse out of Egypt...
...million customers in Pakistan. Last year, the company generated over $1 billion in earnings before interest, dividends and amortization - more than double the total for 2003. Sawiris still sees plenty of opportunity to grow his business in the Middle East, but these days his appetite seems bigger. The Wind deal involves his own money, not Orascom's - in part so as not to destabilize the firm, which is publicly traded on the Cairo and London stock exchanges but is 57% owned by his family...
...started out with a bang, because we played really difficult stuff and everybody was tremendously enthusiastic,” Yannatos says. “It was wonderful. And then the Vietnam thing just sort of depleted everything, the wind got knocked out and the kids were much more interested in protesting than playing...
...Revolutionary War, Spivey’s ancestors earned a plot of land for their service in the Continental Army. “My whole family still lives on this giant piece of land,” she says in an accent straight from “Gone with the Wind...
Racing conditions on Saturday in Cambridge weren’t exactly ideal—a mediocre high of 51 degrees with a brisk wind. Luckily, the Radcliffe women’s heavyweight crew was enjoying a road trip to a much more temperate climate, and took full advantage of the impeccable Syracuse weather conditions to retain the O’Leary Cup with open-water victories over Dartmouth and Syracuse on Saturday at Onondaga Lake...