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Viacom couldn't afford to let Blockbuster get away, because Redstone needed the video chain's financial clout to defeat Diller and then help pay interest on the debt after the Paramount merger. So Greenhill, whose firm earned $12.5 million for advising Viacom, resorted to a game of high-stakes financial chicken. He allowed the Blockbuster talks to break off rather than accede to Berrard's demands. At the same time, Greenhill instructed Levitt to maintain contact with his pal Berrard. The strategy paid off on Christmas Day, when Levitt, calling from New Jersey on his Jeep Cherokee car phone...
...some he is poison, to others an antidote. Why does Minister Louis Farrakhan, one of America's most popular black leaders, resort to venomous racism against Jews and whites in general? A look inside his ministry sheds light on his allure...
...resort to lying," Razaq said laterof Peres' response. "He contradicted the historythat I learned at Harvard in History...
...staff's only argument, exaggerated if not faulty is that the Gift organizers resort to "high pressure" and "strong armed" tactics--such as sending out a letter explaining the Gift, having friends call friends for donations and identifying seniors who might be able to give more money...
First, he partied at a Slovenian resort amid reports of glass smashing and heavy drinking ... then was in Croatia threatening war with NATO ... in Montenegro he announced a new secret weapon that "acts directly on the brain" ... and ended up in a ruckus at the Budapest airport, where a pistol was found in an aide's luggage...