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...advances will break an indie carmaker's bank. One reason: parts suppliers have become powerful arbiters of success, as more auto companies outsource R. and D. of their components. Traditionally, Mercedes would develop a new antiskid technology in conjunction with a high-end component maker like Germany's Robert Bosch. Then, after Mercedes had made a splash by being the first to sell cars with the new technology, it would allow Bosch to sell the technology elsewhere. Now the suppliers are driving the process. Says Flynn: "BMW is going to get a shot at the suppliers' best technology because suppliers...
...factories are in Europe, BMW built a new plant in Spartanburg, S.C., which now exports the company's popular X5 SUV to 100 countries. Aiming to develop technologies such as alternative-fuel engines and drive-by-wire (an electronic, joystick-controlled steering system), Milberg forged partnerships with Robert Bosch and Delphi Automotive. Karl Ludwigsen, an auto analyst in London, contends that a carmaker need not be huge to survive. Rather, he says, "you've got to be big in the segments in which you compete, and you've got to be competitive in those segments globally...
HANGED. MARIETTE BOSCH, 50, for murdering her best friend in 1996 so she could marry her widowed husband; in Gaborone, Botswana. The tabloids dubbed the case "White Mischief," and Bosch, a South African, hired a lawyer nicknamed "Scarlet Pimpernel" for his reputation for saving expats from the death penalty. She lost an appeal in February and became the first white person executed in Botswana. SENTENCED. PERRY WACKER, 32, to 14 years in prison for the manslaughter of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants who suffocated in the back of his truck while being smuggled into Britain from Belgium; in Maidstone, England...
...Bosch awaits her fate in Gaborone-at a time when African governments are generally moving slowly away from legal executions despite rising crime rates-another blonde white woman sits in a cell in Tanzania's Arusha Prison. Kerstin Cameron, a 40-year-old German national who has lived most of her life in Africa, is charged with the 1998 murder of her estranged husband Cliff. For her, too, conviction could mean death by hanging...
...While Cameron's case creeps through the Tanzanian bureaucracy, Bosch's life is in the hands of Botswanan President Festus Mogae. He has the power to grant her clemency, but legal observers say that is unlikely, given the courts' unanimity. Bosch lost her final appeal despite the legal muscle of Desmond de Silva, a British barrister who has saved 35 clients from the gallows, and South Africa has not come to her aid. "Here we have what we call unbuntu, which means we honor our fellow men because they are human," says Grace Morgorosi, a secretary in Gaborone...