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...political waves Sunday when he revealed on “Meet the Press” that he has given some thought to running for the White House in two years. Previously he had said that he would finish his six-year term in the Senate before considering a presidential bid...
...Nearly everyone at the event knew that the real reason for the fete was not to honor Stone's award from his hometown film festival, but to help launch Paramount's bid to snag Oscar nominations for his recent 9/11 movie World Trade Center. And to launch Hollywood's annual effort to get around Academy rules that try to limit the increasingly aggressive studio campaigns for Oscars...
...Chissano of Mozambique in 2004; President Festus G. Mogae of Botswana in 2000; former British Prime Minister John Major in 1999; and former President George H.W. Bush in 1998. And it appears that Pataki aspires to the title of president as well. While he has not officially announced a bid for his party’s nomination in 2008, his political action committee has opened campaign offices in Iowa and New Hampshire, two states that are early stops on the road to the White House...
...this year, he urged his countrymen to dream big. India, he said, should "be bold. It must look at the future ... It must look big, and look out." Last week he showed just what he meant: Tata Steel, part of his sprawling $22 billion empire, made an $8 billion bid for the Anglo-Dutch steel manufacturer Corus. The deal, accepted by Corus' board last Friday, creates the world's fifth-largest steel company and is the largest Indian takeover of a foreign company ever...
...controls of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary has transformed the Irish no-frills carrier into Europe's most profitable airline. But he's not cooling his jets. Earlier this month, Ryanair launched an audacious y1.48 billion takeover bid for Ireland's flagship airline, Aer Lingus. With the[an error occurred while processing this directive] offer still pending, the famously outspoken O'Leary, 45, talked via e-mail to TIME's Adam Smith...