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...Michel Bon turned France Telecom (FT) from a national fixed-line phone company into a European powerhouse. But the acquisition binge that brought the company Orange, a 28.5% stake in MobilCom and a disastrously expensive 3G presence also left it with a staggering debt of nearly ?70 billion, and as Bon resigned last week that looked like his lasting legacy. FT now seems to be headed for a ?10-15 billion rights issue to plug next year's funding gap. But that's a flimsy plaster for a company that hemorrhaged ?8.3 billion last year and ?12.2 billion in this...
...that they expect pressure on Switzerland to build this fall as more politicians direct the spotlight toward Swiss morals. "The Swiss will inevitably be portrayed as profiting from the proceeds of what everyone else thinks of as a crime," says a senior official closely involved in the discussions. Quips Michel Y. Dérobert, secretary-general of the Swiss Private Bankers? Association in Geneva: "We?ve left the field of taxation to enter the field of wild politics...
...dozens of other Sept. 11-themed shows, graced this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.) "I haven't tried to make political capital," says Berkoff. "I feel deeply for the victims and wanted to portray that." While Berkoff uses verse to emphasize the epic magnitude of the disaster, French playwright Michel Vinaver goes one step further. His homage, The 11th September 2001, which will premiere at Barcelona's National Theater of Catalonia in October, couples expressions heard on and around the day itself with his own translation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. "There is an illuminating relationship between the fall...
Showing true pluck, Trista Rehn has recovered from being dumped in front of 18 million viewers and marshaled the courage to date another day. Last spring on the reality program The Bachelor, ABC provided one man, Alex Michel, with 25 women from among whom he was intended to choose his intended. Rehn was one of two finalists, but in the end she was thrown over for Amanda Marsh. (Marsh and Michel are said to be dating, though not engaged.) This winter, along with a new edition of The Bachelor, ABC will air The Bachelorette and has chosen Rehn, a physical...
...hunting in the hot, wind-scoured desert of central Africa, an international team of researchers has uncovered one of the most sensational fossil finds in living memory: the well-preserved skull of a chimp-size animal, probably a male, that doesn't fit any known species. According to paleontologist Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers in France, whose team reported the find in Nature last week, there is no way it could have been an ape of any kind. It was almost certainly a hominid--a member of a subdivision of the primate family whose only living representative...