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Indra Nooyi's bulldog determination is already the stuff of musical legend--a friend once rewrote Black Sabbath's Iron Man in honor of the electric guitar-loving PepsiCo president and chief financial officer. ("Driving them up the wall/Iron Woman rules them all.") Nooyi, 48, plays a mean power chord herself. In 1997 she prodded Roger Enrico, then CEO, to spin off PepsiCo's fast-food business. She later pushed Enrico to buy Quaker Oats and Tropicana, two bold acquisitions that kept the company squarely in snack foods while adding healthier fare to the mix. Strategic vision has always been...
DIED. MITCHELL PAIGE, 85, retired Marine Corps colonel who received the Medal of Honor--the military's highest award for valor--for serving in the 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal; in La Quinta, Calif. With all 33 men in his platoon dead or injured, Paige single-handedly staved off some 2,000 Japanese soldiers, moving between machine-gun stations before reinforcements arrived at dawn...
...yours, I thought." Benjamin Zephaniah, British Rasta poet and activist, in an essay explaining that he turned down the Order of the British Empire honor because it "reminds me of slavery...
...While the plight of the mentally sick patients is disturbing enough, what adds to their suffering is the apathy of mentally sound individuals who are unable to help them live with dignity and honor. Navneet Dhawan New Delhi...
...decade away), Borissov, a former bodyguard to the Prime Minster, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, wants to be seen as a loyal soldier to the West in the war on fakes. Next June, the country is hosting a Europe-wide conference on forging currency. "It's a question of honor," says Borissov. "We want to prove that Bulgaria is ready for Europe, that we are real Europeans." Breaking up individual operations is one thing, Borissov concedes. Stamping out the problem altogether is something else. The counterfeit networks operating in Europe are highly decentralized, police believe. Financiers who place the orders, printers...