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DOUGLAS DAFT Coke CEO still faces Johnny Cochran but settles bias suit, and the stock is bubblin...
...continent still following America's lead on all things connected (except for cell phones), the threat of WorldCom or AOL owning too much of Europe's Internet plumbing is practically a matter of national security, or at least of national pride. It's worse than McDonald's, Coke and Nike all rolled into one, because even the Europeans know that high-tech telecom is the future of the world economy, and they're determined that globalization not mean - sacre bleu! - Americanization. (Maybe when Vivendi finishes Seagram's and gets into Hollywood, the French, at least, will feel better...
...some see that as a good opportunity. Says luxury-goods consultant Armando Branchini: "Giorgio Armani products have great potential, but they need new ideas and new management--a new approach to the market." Armani himself agrees. Sort of. "Armani does not have the big brand problems of Nike and Coke," says corporate spokesman Robert Triefus. "Mr. Armani doesn't feel the brand needs to be reborn. But it's going through an evolution. Absolutely...
...easy to think of America's two major credit card companies as competitors in a classic tradition: Yankees vs. Dodgers, Coke vs. Pepsi, Visa vs. MasterCard. But according to the Department of Justice, that sheen of rivalry may be little more than a carefully maintained illusion. After examining Visa and MasterCard's overwhelming presence in the American financial market (the companies issue roughly 75 percent of the country's credit cards and enlist about 7,000 banks), DOJ lawyers have brought monopoly charges against the credit peddlers. In a case opening Monday in New York's District Court, the Justice...
Christie's morphed into 7-Eleven last summer as well, but the only addition I noticed was the Slurpee machine. After gazing longingly at the bright red cups and party straws for a week, I took the plunge. Coke slurpees became our excuse--all summer--to step out of the office. I happily and gleefully slurped my way through the afternoon, nothing saddening me more than the tell-tale flavorless suck telling me: You have struck slush...