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...trademark tan has dimmed, and his voice softens when he recounts the tumultuous events surrounding his downfall as a corporate titan. But if former Vivendi Universal CEO Jean-Marie Messier no longer boasts the "master of the world" moniker, don't expect to find him repudiating his stint as an empire-building media tycoon either. "I still receive e-mails and get stopped in the street by young people saying 'You gave me the desire to form my own company,'" says Messier...
...followed that very desire in the months after his 2002 ejection from Vivendi in the depths of the tech bust. With the help of a borrowed office, he founded the New York City--based mergers-and-acquisitions advisory boutique Messier Partners. Says Messier, in one of the rare interviews he's given since he left Vivendi: "I don't manage large teams anymore that run businesses that you can't control or you can't be sure to get satisfaction from. I like advising CEOs, and I love helping them with negotiations...
Acquisition negotiation is something Messier, 51, knows a little bit about, having overseen some $100 billion in M&A during his six years at Vivendi. Yet it is Messier's calamitous experience with the buzzy, fuzzy concept of convergence that has made him a player again. Just as in 2000, media and Web companies today talk of straddling a world in which users of any device--mobile phone, laptop, PDA, TV--can command voice, data, video, entertainment and games on demand. Messier saw that coming--perhaps too soon...
...sanctioned the brazen attack by hooded protesters on the U.S. embassy and other Western embassies. Belgrade is also taking steps to undermine the fledgling state itself by encouraging the partition of Serb-dominated areas in northern Kosovo. Though a new Balkan war seems unlikely, Kosovo's birth is proving messier than its backers expected. And Serbia, which had been edging toward membership of the European Union and NATO, instead faces a degree of international isolation not seen since strongman Slobodan Milosevic was in power. Taken aback by all this anger and acrimony, Goran Svilanovic, a former Foreign Minister now working...
...Crimson’s Friday night victory, Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 was inducted into the Massachusetts Italian American Hall of Fame. He coached part of the game in a tuxedo…One of the linesmen for the Harvard-Cornell game was named Mark Messier. Although the official wasn’t the Hockey Hall of Famer who won six Stanley Cups in a 25-year NHL career, he kept the game running smoothly on the ice...Harvard outshot the Big Red, 35-23. —Staff writer Courtney D. Skinner can be reached...