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...Bennett arrived at the appointed hour and got into a car that sped west out of the capital. Halfway between Fallujah and Ramadi, he was blindfolded, and the car turned off the highway. After 10 minutes it stopped. His guide explained that they were placing wooden planks over a canal. They drove over the water and into a grove of baby pomegranate trees...
Teddy Roosevelt was the first U.S. President to go abroad on business-to check the construction of his Panama Canal in 1906-but a 21st century leader is expected overseas on a regular basis. Last Thursday, George W. Bush, an unenthusiastic traveler, began his third trip to Asia, where memories of past presidential visits are vivid-and where the footsteps he follows are sometimes those of his old man. His stops...
...media empire imploded under huge debt and a devastated stock price. Now Vivendi will get its $14 billion asking price, including $3.8 billion in cash up front as well as a 20% stake in the new venture, while still hanging on to its telecommunications company Cegetel and the Canal Plus TV business. NBC Universal would unite the top-rated TV network with Universal Studios, Universal's theme parks and cable networks that include...
...churning out about €3.8 million on revenue of about €18.4 million in 1999, the last year it reported figures. The ultimate secret ingredient is stardust, which is why Jean-Louis hired Claude "Coco" Bakonyi as schmoozer in chief. Bakonyi handled meet-and-greet chores for TV station Canal Plus, and made sure every guest who appeared on the station's popular Nulle Part Ailleurs broadcast ended up at Costes afterward. "We're not a palace, and we don't have the biggest rooms, so it's important that when they come here, they're among friends," says...
...billion when he joined the company in July 2002. After the deal, it will be below €10 billion. Fourtou's problem is that Vivendi remains a jumble. It has some telecommunications businesses, plus the world's largest music company, Universal Music Group, and the French subscription TV station Canal Plus, neither of which is doing well. Then there are the "noncore" assets: a remaining 20% stake in the water utility it spun off last year, Veolia Environnement, and a shareholding in Elektrim, a Polish telecommunications company. For a while Fourtou seemed to be betting on telecom: last year, even...