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Vasella could have summoned the police. Instead, he stepped outside and asked the crowd, "Who's the boss here?" A man stepped forward, and Vasella told him the commotion was scaring his two younger children. Vasella invited the protest leader and two of his companions for breakfast on his terrace to talk things over. Vasella's wife Anne-Laurence served croissants to the rest of the group...
Officials at NASN, now run by the Disney-owned U.S. sports boss ESPN--which bought the independent European channel from Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports and venture-capital group Benchmark Capital Europe in 2006 for a reported $120 million--say their goal is to reach 100 million households in Europe, surpassing espn's 93 million subscribers in the U.S. The last person to call such an ambitious shot may have been Babe Ruth, but NASN executives say they've tapped into a growing demographic of European sports fans who no longer consider American baseball, football, college basketball or even NASCAR exotic...
...Roth, the adamant journalist deeply disappointed with the course the government is taking. How many more of these archetypes do we need? The characters’ oversimplified personas rarely break free from their stereotypes. The film’s single exception is Roth’s confrontation with her boss over publishing Irving’s story. It serves as the most exciting and well-acted scene of the film. Disappointingly, she gives in to her bosses’ wishes and refrains from being the strong figure that the film desperately needs. From the beginning, the movie builds towards...
Instead, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin became chairman, and German-born, London-based Sir Win Bischoff was named acting CEO. A search party of board members is looking for a new boss while, six blocks south of Citi's Manhattan headquarters, the man whom Weill once saw as his obvious successor but booted in 1998, Jamie Dimon, was leading archrival JPMorgan Chase through the credit market's troubles with far less drama...
...rascal," he told Parliament, "I can stand firm ... and say, 'This one cannot lead.'" But Mbeki's own leadership has been called into question in recent months. In August he was widely condemned for dismissing the highly regarded Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge after she disagreed with her boss, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang--an Mbeki ally who recommends garlic and beets for treating AIDS. (The President himself is famously skeptical that HIV causes AIDS.) In late September, Mbeki outraged the country again by sacking the head of the National Prosecuting Authority, Vusi Pikoli, who had issued an arrest...