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...targeting the ship or its sailors. We just consider this a dirty sponsor for such a beautiful sport." He promises further protests when Le D?fi leaves France and on its arrival in Auckland in September. Just wait until the racing starts. CYCLING Downhill Race While the Giro d'Italia came to a sprint finish in Milan on Sunday there was one thing the race still couldn't seem to shake: the annual drug scandal. Although not on the same scale as last year, when 200 police raided the cyclists' hotel rooms seizing large quantities of medicines, it doesn't bode...
...Last night, the Time Olympic team got a taste of Turin, site of the 2006 Games, at Casa Italia. The Casa, a restaurant created on the second floor of a Salt Lake office building by the Turin Organizing Committee and the Italian Consulate General, is staffed by a chef flown in especially for the occasion. Italian athletes, support staff, dignitaries and their guests feast every night on a buffet of northern Italian delights, and drink from a never-ending supply of red wine. By the looks of things, Turin will be a very pleasant site for the next winter games...
...short-lived, as he turned out to be unlucky in his alliances. Cuccia died, and D'Alema was forced to resign as Prime Minister, only to be eventually succeeded by Berlusconi this spring. Then the market turned against Colaninno in March, punishing the share prices of Olivetti and Telecom Italia, and causing some concern among Colaninno's investors, largely 175 businessmen from Mantua who had backed him in the hopes of a quick return on their money. No new investors were on the horizon, and a plan to raise $8 billion in cash through a conversion of savings shares...
...curtain was about to fall for Colaninno. Pirelli and Benetton put together a $6 billion package that allowed them to buy 23% of Olivetti, which in turn owns 55% of Telecom Italia. Since they already owned nearly 4% of Olivetti, their share rose to 27%, with which they can control the telecom giant. Tronchetti Provera, who is credited with turning around Pirelli, had been sitting on $3.2 billion in cash after selling two optical technology firms to Cisco and Corning. For months the guessing game in Milan was what will Pirelli buy? "Telecom has a strong market position...
...Berlusconi government, which Agnelli has supported, has officially remained neutral in the Telecom Italia deal, although a few ministers expressed satisfaction that the firm would remain in Italian hands, as have most of the Italian media, perhaps no surprise since most of the major papers are largely controlled by the main players in the deal. "Maybe the old-style is better," muses Galli. "But it seems to me that we've brought the king back." And the crown prince as well...