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Many commentators see the general decline in sports behavior as consistent with falling standards in society as a whole. What do we expect of sports fans in a nation where episodes of humiliation, greed and win-at-all-costs behavior (from Survivor to My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss) pass for family entertainment? "Incivility, boorishness and crassness are everywhere in the idiot culture that we live in," says veteran NBC sportscaster Bob Costas. "And yet we celebrate all this as edginess. This behavior is encouraged...
...Central Bank, where he oversaw the introduction of the national currency and was credited with steering the country through the turbulence of the 1998 Russian economic crash. Tapped by President Leonid Kuchma as Prime Minister a year later, Yushchenko alienated Ukraine's financial oligarchs and overshadowed his unpopular boss, who fired him in 2001. As head of the Our Ukraine opposition bloc, he has become a skilled political adversary, leading meticulously planned demonstrations and framing the election in stark, eloquent terms. "Our choice is very simple," he said just before the runoff. "Either we live according to the code...
...mention in his Horatio Alger-style tale is that as a teenager he spent almost four years in jail for robbery and assault, though the charges were later reversed. Genial but wooden tongued and more fluent in Russian than in Ukrainian, Yanukovych is reminiscent of a Soviet-era party boss, an image aided by his 6-ft.- 6-in., 240-lb. frame. That style goes down well in his conservative home base in the Donbass, Ukraine's industrial powerhouse, where the Russian-leaning (and -speaking) population tends to view his rival, Viktor Yushchenko, as a pawn of the West...
...time passed, Ferraris had second thoughts. He couldn't understand why the company's interest payments on its debt were so high. Nor could he grasp why his boss wouldn't give him free access to the accounts. So over the summer, Ferraris asked two members of his staff to investigate discreetly. They came back several weeks later with a total debt estimate of ?14 billion, or $18.2 billion--more than double the amount shown on the balance sheet. Ferraris went to see Calisto Tanzi, the Parmalat founder and chief executive, whom he viewed as "an excellent person...
...local press treated CEO Li, 43, like a movie star. She got more space in the South China Morning Post than did Elton John, who had performed in Hong Kong that week. That's because in Asia, Li is almost royalty. Not only is she the first female boss of a foreign-listed, state-owned Chinese company, but her father is former Chinese Premier Li Peng, a controversial figure who became the public face of the Communist Party's hard line against democracy protesters in 1989. Li Peng, who stepped down last year, was also once minister of the power...