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...MEANWHILE IN SICILY ... He'll Get a Horse's Head A lawyer in Corleone wants the town's name to sleep with the fishes. Antonio Di Lorenzo has proposed changing the name - synonymous with the Mafia thanks to the Godfather and for being the hometown of real-life mob boss Bernardo Provenzano - to its original Cuor di Leone. Townsfolk are opposed; no comment yet from Provenzano, on the lam for 40 years...
...convention in Toronto last week, Paul Martin. A former Finance Minister who has had the longest dauphinate since Brian Williams was first tagged as the heir to Tom Brokaw, Martin will soon replace Jean Chretien, who has led Canada for a decade. Last week the Liberals elected Martin party boss on Chretien's retirement, and the Prime Ministership, for which he has been preparing half his life, will soon...
...boss also needs to take a grinding wheel to costs, which are among the highest in the industry because of expensive labor in Germany, where it runs 10 plants. VW has moved production to eastern Germany--to qualify for government aid and take advantage of lower wages--and to lower-cost countries like Slovakia. Pischetsrieder, known as a gearhead with a good grasp of finance and marketing, hopes to save $3.4 billion over the next five years. Some of the savings will come from sharing more components, like engines, transmissions and ventilation systems, across VW's models and brands...
...employee of Zeitgeist Gallery, which hosts local performances in addition to displaying artwork, says her boss let her off work early so she could attend the meeting. A young woman standing at the edge of the room describes herself as a commuter who has come to offer her support...
...same boss and the human resources officer approached me,” he said. “I then uttered a profanity...