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...INDICATORS Taking The Rap Bengt Braun, chairman of Swedish insurer Skandia, resigned after a report alleged former executives misled the board and received excessive bonuses in the late '90s. Braun was not accused in the probe, but he sat on the board during that period...
...controls not only BSkyB but also the 20th Century Fox movie studio, Fox television networks and newspapers around the world, would quash any dissent. But BSkyB shareholders may want to stick around to see how the show plays out. After a mediocre early business career--he started a rap-music label and lost News Corp. money in a bad Internet play--James proved himself at the company's Star TV. A karate enthusiast, he transformed the lossmaking Asian satellite broadcaster into the largest private TV player in India and penetrated the booming China market with cheesy American-style reality police...
Lets face it, the capital of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, gets a bad rap. Many visitors arrive with a litany of security advisories tucked in their briefcases and are destined to sit in hotel rooms, fearful of engaging local people for their entire stay...
...face it, the capital of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, gets a bad rap. Many visitors arrive with a litany of security advisories tucked in their briefcases and are destined to sit in hotel rooms, fearful of engaging local people for their entire stay. The truth is, most residents of Moresby are generous and friendly. "A lot of the bad reputation is created by some expatriates who live here and is due to their lack of understanding of the culture," says Suzanne Robson, an Australian who has lived in the capital for 12 years. "There is a certain crazy bravado...
...school he studied dance, theater, art. In another environment, this bright, friendly kid could have become Will Smith or Wayne Brady. But rap's siren song called, and with it a rap sheeta gangsta's bona fides. As he says, "I had no police record until I made a record." Before he was 20, he went gold with the CD 2Pacalypse Now and joined the thug elite. "I didn't create thug life," he protested. "I diagnosed it." But he also lived it and paid...