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...WORLD SERIES: In eight of the past 11 elections, an American League victory presaged a Republican victory, an N.L. win a Democractic coup. Despite Toronto's win, baseball's average drops...
Sketching quickly, letting a line stand for a landscape, the author shows us Moscow in the month before last year's coup. Marxism's fragments still clog streets and government offices. The ruble is nearly worthless. Murderous Chechen bandits and corrupt former party officials war bloodily over control of the new capitalism, which turns out to be the old black market grown great. Ordinary people stand in lines for food, and when they have time, go to work...
...inside look at the crisis within the world's largest automaker, where directors carried out a boardroom coup that could hasten the elimination of 120,000 jobs...
Even then, Stempel showed flashes of defiance, disdaining an offer that would have allowed him to save face by resigning for health reasons. Instead, he laid the cause of his departure at the feet of the directors, thereby calling attention to the board's handling of the coup they seemed to be planning. Declaring that "the effects of rumor and speculation" had crippled his chairmanship, Stempel stepped down on Oct. 26 from the helm of the world's largest company...
...redeemer who would bring out the best in GM. Like soldiers in a conquered army, many roamed aimlessly last week along the corridors of the company's limestone-clad Detroit headquarters. The ouster shook even Stempel's union adversaries, who feared what life would be like after the boardroom coup led by John Smale, 65, the hard-charging retired chairman of Procter & Gamble. Smale has emerged as a possible Stempel successor and the real power inside the embattled company...