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...catch his flight to make a game--caused the airport to be shut down for three hours. Lasseter's sprint into a secured area has already earned him a criminal charge of disorderly conduct. Now it looks as if the civil courts will get a piece of the scurrying banker too. AirTran Airways, which says it lost $1 million when air traffic across the East was disrupted, is suing Lasseter for $100,000. Delta Airlines, which has not followed suit--yet--claims to have lost up to $8 million. Lasseter, whose attorney calls AirTran's suit "irresponsible," says...
...JEAN-MARIE MESSIER Put an ambitious, cosmopolitan French banker in charge of a 148-year-old French water company, and you get...a global-media megalith called VIVENDI UNIVERSAL, with telecom and cable assets in Europe; TV, movie and music studios on both sides of the Atlantic; and theme parks in the U.S. and Japan. Internet maven Messier, 44, may have racked up too much debt on his recent acquisition binge. But Vivendi posted a 30% jump in third-quarter cash flow, thanks much more to subscriptions than advertising. Just like in the water business...
Monreal wanted to call the exhibition "Afghanistan: The Forbidden History," but after the events of Sept. 11 - when some of the exhibits still had not arrived in Barcelona - his banker patrons asked for a less provocative title for security reasons. So the exhibition is called "Afghanistan: A Millenary History." Its success in Barcelona, with long lines some days, has drawn the interest of other museums. Monreal says there are negotiations with London's Royal Academy and a possibility of eventual travel...
Jordan recalled his own days as a chauffeur for a retired Southern banker. His employer was shocked that Jordan was college-educated. One day, Jordan heard the surprised man tell his friend, “Vernon can read...
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