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...hard to find anybody in France who feels sorry for Jean-Marie Messier, the self-promoting former head of Vivendi Universal, who tried to turn the onetime water utility into a glitzy worldwide media giant and ended up driving it to the brink of bankruptcy. But after Messier was held in jail for 36 hours recently by magistrates who opened a formal criminal investigation against him, the big question is no longer how inept he's been. It's whether he was solely responsible for Vivendi's near downfall or is just taking the fall for the failings...
...where's Lonsdale now? Basking in glory as a giant of veterinary science? Well, no. In fact, he's an outcast, having recently been expelled from the Australian Veterinary Association for bringing the profession into disrepute. There's much to suggest that Lonsdale has become a victim of his own obsession. He quit practicing in 1992 to eke out a living researching and promulgating his theories. Ever since, he's hammered a simple message: commercial pet food - on which Australians spend $A1.3 billion a year - is bad for cats and dogs, which should be eating raw, meaty bones. Many vets...
Nancy spent some of her time watching a replay of the cathedral service on a giant TV screen and reading letters of condolence from famous friends like Billy Graham and Queen Elizabeth. At one point Nancy and the children, filled with their sense of loss but not muted by it, gathered around the casket and seemed to reflect Reagan's own advice to look to the future. They talked of son Ron's television career and Patti's writing...
...week couldn't think of enough ways to honor their conservative hero. The ideas ranged from putting his picture on the $10 bill to renaming the Pentagon the Ronald Reagan National Defense Building to carving Reagan's face on Mount Rushmore. (The late President already has an airport, a giant trade building in Washington and an aircraft carrier bearing his name...
FINANCIALS "There's a good chance that Kerry would go much easier on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," the giant mortgage agencies, says Tom Gallagher, analyst at research firm ISI Group. Bush wants tougher oversight, possibly helping drive up the agencies' borrowing costs. Kerry would probably leave them alone. Investment companies like T. Rowe Price and Schwab Soundview would benefit if Bush gets his way with Social Security savings accounts...