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...once in a long time, Fireman can afford to gloat--and even hint that Reebok might again have a shot at unseating Nike, the champion of footwear. The roster of top athletic talent and deals with the NFL and the NBA have turned Reebok from an also-ran into a contender for domination of the athletic-apparel market. Sure, Nike owns 36% of the U.S. sneaker business right now, compared with Reebok's 11%. But the league deals represent a long-term threat to the Swoosh. For one thing, it means that if Michael Jordan returns to the game...
...part of the grand empire of Michael Marks, the amiable, fast-talking chief executive who since 1993 has driven Flextronics, based in Singapore and San Jose, Calif., from also-ran to pacesetter in the so-called electronics-manufacturing services (EMS) business...
...Tchuruk, though, clearly has ambitions to be more than an also-ran. Brought into the company as chairman in 1995 with a reputation of something of a turnaround artist - based on his previous stints at France's Total in the early 1990s after returning CDF Chimie, a French chemicals company, to profit - the 64-year-old Tchuruk has aggressively remade Alcatel since his arrival. Inheriting an unwieldy conglomerate with operations in everything from atomic power to vineyards, Tchuruk stripped the company down and shifted its focus squarely on the telecom business. Among his moves was to go on a buying...
...oligarchs might have liked, but Vladimir Putin looks ready to take the "acting" part of his title and take over as the next president of Russia. With more than 80 percent of the vote counted, the tally shows Putin with 51.5 percent. A distant number two is the 1996 also-ran, Communist Gennady Zyuganov. The race was surprisingly close, considering polls showed Putin with 50 percent of the vote last week, and considering he was virtually the official candidate of the Russian government. Putin's support was soft in the Russian Far East, where Communists such as Zyuganov have done...
...That's the fascinating phenomenon of art: you can paint a picture of a bird, and I can paint a picture of a bird, and they can be two completely different birds." Still, Wolfe's bigger-budget production has perhaps more to lose if it is perceived as an also-ran...