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Tough under any circumstances, competition in the auto industry gets particularly nasty when business is bad -- as it certainly is in Europe these days. Last week German investigators found three boxes of documents from a General Motors subsidiary in the apartment of former employee Jorge Alvarez Aguirre, now with Volkswagen, and a feud brewing for four months flared into a bitter brawl. Alvarez was one of seven executives who last spring defected to Volkswagen with GM purchasing czar Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. "I cannot say that the papers we found were secret," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor...
...ripe-breasted beauty in her 30s who was known to friends as "the hummingbird." Navarro was a Colombian who had studied at the Sorbonne and converted to Judaism while living in Israel; she could seduce men in five languages. She was also the chief U.S. agent for Carlos Jader Alvarez, one of the godfathers of her country's drug trade. With careful stroking, Darias had persuaded Navarro to let his firm launder more than $1 million of Alvarez's cocaine profits when Operation Swordfish was abruptly halted, partly because a corrupt DEA agent had blown its cover...
After MIT won the first point and the two terms exchanged side-outs, the Engineers scored eight straight points on Alvarez's serve. MIT extended its lead to 10-0 and never looked back, pasting the Crimson...
...Captain Daniel Alvarez--who used every delay tactic in the book whenever the Crimson had any momentum,--got caught with his serve down when he tossed the ball and let it drop on consecutive points...
With the one-point penalty, Harvard regained the serve and the lead. Although the Engineers managed to tie the score at 10, 11, and 12, Alvarez--MIT's strongest server--did not have another chance to serve again, and the Crimson rolled off the final three points...