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...That's just the sort of worry that rankled investors in the early days of James' reign. Of course, if he can continue to add subscribers--and keep profits moving up--maybe that won't matter. It may even help him leap ahead of brother and New York Post boss Lachlan, 33, for Pop's ultimate gift: succession to the News Corp. throne. --By Mark Halper/ London
...summer of 1993, and bankers in the West have woken up to the fact that something, economically speaking, is really happening in China. Tim Clissold, the author and, in this case, the dutiful assistant, is in the midst of a grand tour of China with his new boss, known by the pseudonym Pat in the book, but in real life a fellow named Jack Perkowski, who in the roaring '80s had risen to become head of investment banking at Paine Webber. Theirs is not a sight-seeing tour. They are looking for places to invest millions of dollars that...
...WITH YOU ONCE WHEN YOUR FANS SORT OF GOT OUT OF HAND. YOU SAID, "WELL, WHEN YOU SIGN ON, YOU SIGN ON FOR THE WHOLE RIDE." WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPAND ON THAT A LITTLE? It's just, you know, a trail boss--ism. I used to get a kick out of actors who'd have 10 minutes of fame and they'd start going, "Oh, my God, I can't stand this, and I don't really like it and I just wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to really be successful...
...goods with the purchase of the Gucci group in 2001. Though Pinault is the scion of France's third wealthiest family--which owns a 42% controlling interest in PPR--he has also headed several PPR units. Instead of the nickname Daddy's Boy, he has earned a new moniker: Boss. --By Bruce Crumley/Paris
...DIED. ALFRED SIRVEN, 77, former senior executive of French oil company Elf-Aquitaine, jailed for his role in France's biggest-ever corporate-graft scandal; in Deauville, France. Sirven and his boss, Loik Le Floch Prigent, were convicted in November 2003 of siphoning large sums?Sirven alone allegedly amassed over $222 million?from the then state-owned Elf-Aquitaine between 1989 and 1993 to buy political favors and fund luxurious lifestyles. Sirven received five years in jail in 2001 and was released last May on probation...