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...cooperation and generosity extends beyond the financial sector. Many others have shown in this past week that profits are not the sole end of American life. There has been an amazing upsurge in corporate and personal donations since the attack on the World Trade Center; from companies such as Coca-Cola and AT&T to celebrities like Madonna, many have made generous donations to the relief effort and the Red Cross. American patriotism and generosity have also been apparent on a more local level; New York delis gave free coffee and movie theaters gave free tickets and concessions...
...outside the company, particularly on Wall Street, where GE stock has enjoyed a hefty Welch premium, Immelt knows it's just beginning. Following a successful CEO is never easy. Consider such CEO casualties as Coca-Cola's Doug Ivester and Xerox's Rick Thoman, who followed high-profile bosses--Roberto Goizueta and Paul Allaire--and barely got a chance to make a mark before the long knives came...
...spirit to break the monopoly on power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which had run Mexico as its private hacienda for 70 years. But Fox ultimately owed his popular election victory last year to the profound hopes of most Mexicans for a better life. And right now, the former Coca-Cola executive's ability to deliver is dependent in no small part on his special relationship with President George W. Bush...
...farmer's dislike of being cooped up and his salesman's instinct for staying mobile, exercises power on the move. If it's Tuesday, this must be Santiago, Chile; or Detroit; or the state of Chiapas; or downtown Mexico City. Constantly in the public eye, the former president of Coca-Cola Mexico has made himself Mexico's motivational speaker in chief...
...Fourteen months ago, Manser returned to Batu Lawi at the end of a 12-year personal crusade to help his adopted tribe, the Penan, preserve their landscape and their way of life from the cancer of all things modern: cash, Coca-Cola, television, but above all the mowing down of their native forest. If he had reached the summit he would have been confronted with glaring evidence of his failure: the verdant forest slashed by logging roads, a net of wounds bleeding orange mud, the animals largely gone. Manser had lived with the Penan in their jungle for six years...