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Eaton, now a lame duck, had basically surrendered Chrysler's power base. As Stallkamp had feared, the announcement undercut the Americans' influence with the Germans. He "abdicated," in the words of a DaimlerChrysler official. At a top-management seminar in Seville, Spain, last December, Eaton delivered a passionate speech on the new company and how its leaders had to band together to make it work. The oration left even Schrempp uncharacteristically at a loss for words. But by February the Germans were referring derisively to the speech as "Eaton's farewell...
Other intriguing projected candidates include Yale Head Coach Tim Taylor '63, Mighty Duck forward Ted Drury '93, who would retire to take over the reins, Union Head Coach Kevin Sneddon '92 and Hobey Baker winner Mark Fusco...
...network's "Seamlessness Initiative": the characters in each show connect to the characters on all the other shows, so that "the star of the afternoon soap opera The Naked and the Damned (formerly Trailer Park) would appear as a contestant on the game show Quacks like a Duck." Or, in one of the book's funniest running motifs, the transplantation of a pig liver into the female protagonist's father, a Hollywood hustler of exceptional charm and exceptional coarseness. (Son-in-law to daughter: "You had a whole childhood to get nauseated by show biz. I was vulgarity-deprived...
Robert Rubin's been a lame duck for only one day -- could the economy be overheating already? Well, Thursday's round of economic reports from Washington certainly raised a few red flags. The Labor Department's Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.5 percent in April, up from March's rise of just 0.2 percent. And though retail sales for April rose only 0.1 percent, inflation hawks would have much preferred a drop -- considering that April was the ninth straight month that America's drunken-sailor consumers spent more than the month before. TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl says...
...TOURISTS DROWNED IN 51 FEET OF WATER IN THE SINKING OF AN AMPHIBIOUS "DUCK" VEHICLE IN AN ARKANSAS LAKE IN 12.5 MINUTES...