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...possibility, he said last week, is to split Vivendi into two companies: one focusing on entertainment, the other on telecommunications. "Should they remain together?" he asked. "I give myself a few more months to answer that question." In the meantime, others question whether GE - the ultimate old-school, button-down business - will be comfortable with the highly volatile movie business. But Ron Meyer, head of Universal's entertainment division, insists: "This business isn't volatile if you manage intelligently and properly, which we do. It doesn't have to be like going to the craps table in Vegas." Maybe...
...other leading contenders voted with Bush. An insurgent has more room in a field as large as this one, in which no true front runner has yet emerged to marshal the party's institutional forces. Dean's outsider appeal has made all the other first-tier contenders blend into button-down sameness. Campaign manager Joe Trippi, 47, a veteran of six presidential races whose bare-knuckled style matches his candidate's, argues that the early focus on one upstart--which usually doesn't happen until January--has created "the strongest insurgency in the history of politics." Trippi also argues that...
...Independence Day parade in Amherst, N.H., and John Forbes Kerry, the elegant Senator from Massachusetts, is wearing a button-down, long-sleeve tattersall shirt, khaki pants and topsiders. He is surrounded by about 100 supporters, many of them young people toting signs. There is a Kerry truck blaring music. "It doesn't get much better than this," he says, a statement meant to convey enthusiasm but which comes off as Kerry's awkward guess at what a politician ought to be saying in such circumstances...
...independence day parade in Amherst, N.H., and John Forbes Kerry, the elegant Senator from Massachusetts, is wearing a button-down, long-sleeve tattersall shirt, khaki pants and topsiders. He is surrounded by about 100 supporters, many of them young people toting signs. There is a Kerry truck blaring music. "It doesn't get much better than this," he says, a statement meant to convey enthusiasm but which comes off as Kerry's awkward guess at what a politician ought to be saying in such circumstances...
Dressing typically in khakis and a button-down shirt, Gross seems to disdain ties...