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From his debut movie, Roger & Me, which detailed his attempt to confront General Motors boss Roger Smith about the social effects of closing a GM plant in Moore's hometown of Flint, Mich., the filmmaker has been America's pre-eminent populist pest. He has taken on Nike's Phil Knight over factory conditions and the N.R.A. and America's gun love. Fahrenheit 9/11 considerably ups his nuisance value: he is after a President's foreign and domestic policy, and Moore is not cowed. "I come from a factory town," he says, "and you don't go to a gunfight...
...Athens this summer.) But it took a union with Dumars to give the itinerant coach his crown. And the ex-Piston bad boy, who helped Detroit win back-to-back championships as a player in 1989 and '90, made history of his own, becoming the first African-American GM to craft an NBA champion...
...very difficult for him to give up that control," says Brown's brother Herb, 67, a Pistons assistant. At the same time, Dumars wasn't about to cede authority, because he had built the team in his own image as a player--tough and selfless. When he became GM in 2000, Dumars brought a team philosophy to Detroit, but he didn't have much of a team to work with. The players he brought in were misfits elsewhere, but they fit perfectly in Motown. Dumars picked up big, Afroed Ben Wallace from the Magic and watched him develop into...
DIED. JAMES M. ROCHE, 97, former head of General Motors who guided the company through the turbulent 1960s; in Belleair, Fla. After starting his 44-year career at GM as a statistician, he got the top job in 1967 and helped steer the automaker toward better corporate citizenship as Detroit struggled in the aftermath of the 1968 riots. In 1971 he nominated to GM's board the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who became one of the first African Americans to serve on a major corporate board...
...prize--and the site of the problems--is Fiat, 30% of which the family owns. Morchio had put in place a tough turnaround plan designed to rescue the automaker. The fourth CEO in two years, Morchio was negotiating with General Motors over an option to sell Fiat to GM that was signed...