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...another way change could come to the top of France's economic pyramid: the foreigners who hold 40% of the CAC 40 companies' capital could increase that amount and then demand the kinds of shareholders' rights and powers they enjoy in the U.S. and Britain - and stage a mini-coup of the France Inc. boardrooms...
...number of the students offering the courses have previously served as teaching fellows or lectured to peers in their field—but for most, the mini-courses constitute a unique opportunity to draft a curriculum and conduct their own classes...
...vital for Kraft to be viewed as respectful of Cadbury's British values - especially in the U.K., the world's second largest candy market. But it needn't be unprofitable. Take the Mini, for instance. German automaker BMW, which started producing the cars in 2001 after the collapse of British manufacturer Rover Group, has reaped rich rewards by "playing up the Britishness and keeping a link to the heritage" of its spruced-up new models, says David Bailey, a professor of international business strategy and economics at Coventry University. Ford, on the other hand, fell afoul as the former owner...
...also offered the pertinent observation that "I've in my long career played so many extraordinary women that basically I'm getting mistaken for one." The winner for Most Incoherent Speech would have to go to Drew Barrymore, whose thank-you - in recognition for her work in the HBO mini-series Grey Gardens - was a ditsy dither that seemed to channel both Sarah and Michael Palin...
...billion over the past decade, a scam in which he got them to plow money into lucrative, securitized lawsuit settlements that usually turned out to be nonexistent. The alleged crime wasn't as massive as New York City financier Bernard Madoff's recent $50 billion Ponzi con, but the Mini-Madoff scheme has slapped the Sunshine State, already reeling from myriad corruption scandals of late, with one of its darkest stains in decades. "So many frauds have been committed here recently," says William Scherer, a Fort Lauderdale attorney representing some of Rothstein's alleged victims. "But Scott's audacity...