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Sexy, But Which Sex? An inspiration and patroness to adventurous young directors, especially women, Swinton made her American-film debut as a pan-sexually voracious attorney in Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lynn Hershman-Leeson cast her as Lord Byron's daughter Ada King, who devised an early computer, in Conceiving Ada, and, in Teknolust, as a geneticist who makes three copies of herself (you must see the trio dance together in kimonos). But it was Sally Potter's Orlando, which Swinton helped raise the money for, that won the actress her sturdiest pre-Hollywood acclaim...
...catch the men. Women's boxing, for one, had a nice late-'90s run, but there weren't enough talented fighters to challenge big names like Laila Ali. "There are very skilled women in MMA, but there's going to be a smaller pool [than the men]," notes Ken Hershman, the sports programming GM at Showtime. And at the end of the day, the women must realize that, for the most part, they will still be sold as entertainment for men. It's the ultimate cat fight: as the Fatal Femmes ring announcer put it, "Let's get ready...
...Hershman, the ethics cop whom Kleinfeld hired, has been holding compliance training sessions with hundreds of executives. The week before Easter, he met the chief financial officers of divisions in a conference room at the busy Munich airport. Most of their questions were technical in nature, but some revealed how raw emotions are at the company. "How long will it take before everything is known?" asked one. "How long will it take before Siemens' reputation is restored?" asked another. During his wanderings, Hershman has been learning a lot about what went wrong at Siemens. The Munich meeting, for example...
...consulting contracts linked to sales to have the final approval of Noa, the CCO, and rules requiring divisions to report to the CCO have been strengthened. Siemens businesses may no longer use a bank outside a vendor's home country to pay the supplier. At Kleinfeld's request, Hershman dispatched four teams to scrutinize Siemens operations in what the CEO calls high-risk countries...
After four months of digging around Siemens, Hershman says he is suffering from déjà vu. He compares Siemens' dilemma to General Electric's when Jack Welch was forced to confront similar issues, and he believes the challenge for German industry is much broader. "Germany is now not unlike the U.S. in the 1970s, when there was a host of big corruption cases," he says. For Siemens, the end of the bad news is far from over. As Kleinfeld was making his parting statements, the SEC launched an official investigation into the company. And Siemens conceded that the amount...