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...senior management and had a friendly conversation," he says. "They said, 'welcome aboard.'" In a perverse way, Kerkorian may be the bogeyman GM needs, allowing CEO Rick Wagoner to play the good cop in negotiations with GM's union, with the specter of a Kerkorian-led breakup in the background. GM can now go to the United Auto Workers and say "you can deal with nice Rick Wagoner or Gordon Gekko," says auto analyst Stephen Cheetham of Bernstein Research...
...wife, tennis pro Lisa Bonder, to whom he had been married for a month, admitted faking DNA tests to prove he was the father of her child. Still, when he attends boxing matches, Kerkorian sits up in the cheap seats, not at ringside. "He wants to be in the background," says Molasky. For a guy who may be about to rumble with General Motors, that may be his toughest act yet. --With reporting by Laura A. Locke/ San Francisco and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...Stephanie was a very talented player and has a proven coaching background and record,” said associate athletic director Sheri Norred, who headed the search for a new coach. “We are very confident that she is going to raise the level of our women’s soccer program...
Lithgow’s background gives him a different approach: “I intend on being memorable, as all actors do,” he says...
Lussier says NAHC has met with the admissions office to express its concerns, but Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 wrote in an e-mail that the office has no plans to require proof of background for Native Americans or other students...