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...government and culture where real responsibility generally arrives at around 60. Zhou's years of studies in the U.S. were what qualified him for his last job, as the guy in Shanghai responsible for playing host to foreign big shots, such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and GE's Jack Welch. Zhou picked up their style. But his politics are old China...
...Enron, among others, helped win him the nickname "Irv the Liquidator," has changed his style and gone back to work in this new climate. Last year he bought nearly 5% of the all-but-dead insurer Conseco--some 16 million shares, at about $7 each. Jacobs helped install former GE star Gary Wendt as CEO, and with Conseco now trading at $16, he has a paper profit of $144 million...
...numbers are getting ugly. Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas says announced job cuts for December were the highest since the firm began tracking them in 1993. And January's are bound to be even higher. General Electric is poised to idle 75,000, according to BusinessWeek Online, though GE disputes that figure...
...City of Rock. Actually, it turns out not to be a city at all but a rather ordinary-looking festival site, albeit larger than most. The festival is all about product placement, advertising and naked commerce. Huge billboards sprout up from the walls around the festival, signs for GE and Nextel, Direct TV and Polaroid 'I-Zone' cameras, and one desperately commercial sign in which a brand of Brazilian beer seems to be ejaculating its contents. Outside the walls hundreds of local kids, mostly in their teens, roam about, most shirtless, some playing guitar, others asking for tickets, others seemingly...
...also notice on the wall of the base of the statue a small plaque announcing that GE provides the lighting to light up Christ. I assume the plaque is referring to the statue and not the real guy. It would be a bit of a theological disappointment if the Star of Bethlehem turned out to be some sort of product placement thing...