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...together. Last week's talk of a $35 billion purchase of Canada's Seagram by France's Vivendi represents the latest human attempt to make some of these pieces click into a seamless, revenue-generating new-economy Tinkertoy. The toy boys in this deal, Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier, 43, and Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., 45, can't resist the urge to merge Vivendi's telephone company, Internet provider and cable system with Seagram's Universal Studios and Universal Music Group...
...comparison is appropriate, for the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli dispute will mirror the aftermath of the superpower rivalry, writ small. Once again the dangers will shift from big bloody wars between states or their surrogates to a bunch of smaller but messier and more persistent conflicts within countries. But don't be fooled. The stakes will be just as high over the next quarter-century as they were in the last, for the new disorder won't dissipate until the political map of the Middle East has been redrawn...
...story line for Bill Clinton's visit to India this week, the first by an American President in 22 years, is a travelogue in the "new," high-tech India. But India's realities are far messier. The nation's ongoing cold--and at moments hot--war with Pakistan became more dangerous still when both nations tested nuclear weapons in 1998. And nowhere are the contradictions of globalization more manifest. India's economy is growing at 6%, and software exports are increasing 50% a year; last month an Indian technology magnate--Wipro's Azim Premji--became one of the world...
...Mark Messier once said about Wayne Gretzky, "He never put anybody ahead of himself, and he has the ability to make people feel comfortable around...
...Messier, with none of Gretzky's class, then exiled himself to Vancouver for a few extra dollars. Rangers GM Neil Smith, with none of Gretzky's hockey smarts, never found a suitable replacement...