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...mining firm worth as much as $1.5 billion that was sold for just $100 million, also to a consortium linked to Pinchuk. Rotterdam-based Mittal Steel, for one, is excited about the prospect. Its joint bid last year with U.S. Steel for Kryvorizhstal included $1.5 billion for a 93% stake in the plant, plus promised investment of $1.2 billion to raise production and improve quality. The offer was blocked on technical grounds that Mittal and others attacked as spurious. Now the company is hopeful it will win out. "If they do annul [the sale] and ask for bids again...
...summoned Bach in order to set him a musical challenge--one that Bach triumphantly met two weeks later when he presented Frederick with one of his greatest works, Musical Offering. But, as Gaines argues in Evening in the Palace of Reason (Fourth Estate; 336 pages), much more was at stake than music...
...members put in compared to co-sponsors. However, we are still worried that FiCom is ignoring the Seneca’s obvious heavy involvement in the project. If the coalition of student groups—even including unrecognized student groups other than the Seneca—had more at stake in the planning and execution of the event, then the event would pass muster under the UC’s non-discrimination clause. As it is, it seems like the Seneca is merely bowing to FiCom pressure: portraying the semblance of a coalition when in reality it is still...
...believe the Harvard men’s basketball team is unaware of what it can accomplish this weekend. The Crimson knows exactly what will be at stake when it takes the floor on Friday night at Princeton’s Jadwin...
...need to be very clear-eyed about what's at stake here when we stir up the Lebanese opposition. The Syrians believe that retaining control over Lebanon is a vital interest of theirs. They can stir up considerable trouble in Lebanon using Hizbollah. That can lead either to chaos and sectarian war in Lebanon, or a flare-up on the border between southern Lebanon and Israel, or both. The Syrians have ways to say to us, 'You want us out of here, then you live with the consequences.' We may find ourselves in a situation which has the potential...