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...bringing an explosive end to his career as CEO of the Franco-American media giant Vivendi, Jean-Marie Messier managed a rare feat in the world of global business. He combined Gallic intransigence with Yankee arrogance to infuriate shareholders and employees on both sides of the Atlantic. The French hated him for selling out their culture, acting like a foreign mogul and moving to New York City. North Americans hated him for losing money and refusing to concede that his strategy had faltered. Even as the company's stock price descended to new lows, he spoke of running Vivendi...
...withdraw his letter. CHAD Oldest Humanoid A French-led research team announced the discovery of the oldest human-like fossil. The skull is from a creature (nicknamed Touma?) that lived 6 to 7 million years ago - 3 million years older than any other known humanoid fossil. The Mission Pal?oanthropologique Franco-Tchadienne found only a cranium and lower jaw, so it's not known whether Touma? walked upright - or how the discovery fits into the pattern of human evolution. SOUTH AFRICA More Perfect Union African leaders launched the African Union, which they hope will assist in averting war, reducing poverty...
...Vivendi's French rival Suez. Their view that Messier would bankrupt his corporate creation - discrediting the entire Paris Bourse in the process - was pressed upon Chirac allies on Vivendi's board, and down went Messier. Replacing him is Jean-René Fourtou, the non-executive vice chairman of Franco-German pharmaceutical giant Aventis and respected baron of French business. Staid, solid and focused on getting Vivendi past its liquidity crunch, Fourtou will also likely sell off some Vivendi assets and establish a tighter, slimmer industrial strategy. That's not exactly the "think big" spirit that made Messier a star...
...stunned to find they all had information indicating that a strike was in the offing. When the Genoa summit passed without incident, says a French official, attention turned to the possibility of attacks on U.S. bases in Belgium and Turkey. Then, at the end of July, Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian al-Qaeda associate, was picked up in Dubai on his way from Afghanistan back to Europe. Beghal started talking and implicated a network of al-Qaeda operatives in Europe, who, he said, were planning to blow up the American embassy in Paris. (Beghal, who has since been extradited...
...best role since Coyote Ugly) and occasionally works on his thesis. But he finds himself on the wrong side of the law when a Harvard athlete’s father and known gangster (The Sopranos’ James Gandolfini) threatens to kill him unless his son (James Franco, Spider-Man) is named The Crimson’s Athlete of the Week every week. Martin finds this tough to pull off, especially since the player in question—a punter on the football team—has been injured all season and was marginal prior to that. As the weeks...