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...Corporate luminaries like Smith are not accustomed to having their parties gate-crashed by irate hecklers. But in South Korea, the incident was just one of many nose thumbings and eye gougings GM has endured on its way to acquiring South Korea's third largest automaker. After nearly three years of courting Daewoo, GM and its partners?including Suzuki Motor Corp. of Japan?agreed to pay $400 million in cash for a majority stake in the broken-down carmaker. GM's gamble is that it can radically rebuild the busted company, transforming it into a low-cost producer of cheap...
...nearly 50 years ago when Tommasi played in a tennis tournament in Clerici's hometown, Como, make an unlikely pair. Rhino, as Clerici calls his partner?"Look at his nose and then you understand," he says?is a former top international boxing matchmaker, once ranked as the world's third-best promoter by Ring Magazine. A stats junkie endowed with an encyclopedic sports memory, he moonlights as a columnist for the Italian dailies Il Tempo and La Gazzetta dello Sport. In 1993 he won the atp media excellence award...
Clerici was a tennis player of some distinction, good enough to make the main draw at Wimbledon in 1953. "I lost in the first round because I had bad nose cramps," he jokes. He went on to become a highly regarded poet and novelist?his book White Gestures was a top seller in Italy?and he published a well-received biography of the grande tennis dame Suzanne Lenglen. He was also once named Italy's playwright of the year. The son of a Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser...
...Winners RIAN HEIDICK Former porn star is cast for next season of Survivor. Reality show's producers say his audition tape was the best they'd ever seen MICHAEL JACKSON King of Pop produces his third child. The infant has his father's eyes, nose, chin and years of plastic surgery to look forward to FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO President of economically troubled Brazil creates Switzerland-sized national park, invites Swiss to move right in?and bring their banks Losers LI KA-SHING Hong Kong magnate loses controversial bid for a stake in TV station, says he only wanted to spare...
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