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...beef up its original bid to compete with E.ON's all-cash offer - the German group may switch its attention instead to the British market. That's in part thanks to a U.K. government that's "pretty relaxed" about letting power providers join up with foreign suitors, says Hendrik Van Brevoort, a utilities analyst with Putnam Investment in London. "They take the attitude, it's a regulated industry ... whoever owns [British businesses], it's the same rules." To foreign shoppers like E.ON, that leaves Britain "wide open," Van Brevoort says. Scottish Power - which already rebuffed a $19 billion bid from...
...whose beard (believed to be fake) was a different color from his hair. DON'T LEAVE CASH LYING AROUND: Possibly after realizing fresh bank notes are easily traceable, the panicky thieves dumped more than $2 million, along with clothes and firearms that may yield forensic evidence, in a van parked outside a hotel. A passerby alerted the police, who promptly swooped in. EXPLORE STORAGE OPTIONS: It took police less than a week to round up the gang's main vehicles, including two recovered in local pub parking lots and one car found still burning. Neither did it take long...
...looking ahead to life after college, while nihilist son A.J. (Robert Iler) is taking cellphone pictures of himself instead of studying in class. Carmela has settled into a melancholy peace with having chosen the good (but bad) life with Tony over being a poor-but-noble divorcee. Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) and Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico) are still the mafia princes of comic relief. ("It was f___in' mayham!" Paulie blusters after a holdup gone awry.) Uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese) is slipping deeper into senility, believing that he's being harassed by a long-dead enemy...
...general sense, in this last season, of a deathbed taking-stock, even a few self-referential scenes in which the series' history flashes before our eyes. Silvio, for instance, reveals that he was once considered to take over the family instead of Tony, an allusion to the fact that Van Zandt was originally asked to read for the role of Tony...
...Kodak Theater hosts the 78th Academy Awards on Sunday, Fong Auditorium will feature a cinematic event of its own: the premier screening of “Bachelors Cottage,” the first film produced for public exhibition on Harvard’s campus. Written and directed by Michael Van Devere, a Harvard Box Office associate and Extension School student, “Bachelors Cottage” tells the story of six World War I soldiers who return home, in 1918, to celebrate a friend’s wedding. They arrive at the estate of their friend?...