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...question is no longer how inept he's been. It's whether he was solely responsible for Vivendi's near downfall or is just taking the fall for the failings of the French business establishment. After 20 months of investigation, the two magistrates on the case, Henri Pons and René Cros, are focusing on three major allegations: that Messier used false information to make Vivendi's accounts look better than they were; that he manipulated Vivendi stock by launching a huge share buyback after Sept. 11, 2001; and that his j21 million severance contract, since canceled, amounted to embezzlement...
...reinforced after fissures appeared - and even that failed to prevent the audible cracking and widespread leaks that preceded the cave-in. Cracking elsewhere in the departure structure was heard after the collapse, forcing administrators to close the entire building. Even in the best of cases, says CDG director René Brun, 2E will remained closed for "months, even a year." The crash has even further-reaching business ripples. For years, ADP has sold consulting, engineering, and management services to airports abroad that want to improve or extend their infrastructure. Its acclaimed work in new airport construction in Asia, the Middle...
...fact, Winston took a semester off last spring to read Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in Copenhagen...
...murdering 17 boys. Cops, long reliant on heavy-handed monitoring of neighborhoods, struggle to maintain law and order amid China's increasing freedoms: the incidence of violent crime has risen 73% over the past five years. "Society now has blind spots that have become a heaven for killers," says Ren Jiantao, head of the School of Government at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, who warns that serial killing in Shenzhen, China's migration capital, is "just a few years ahead of everywhere else [on the mainland...
...volumes” (the second to be released in February), Kill Bill focuses on The Bride’s recovery from the DiVAS’ brutal assassination attempt and the beginning of her solitary mission, in which she tracks down the first two Vipers on her hit list: O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) and Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), code-named Cottonmouth and Copperhead, respectively. Much like Pulp Fiction, the film is delivered in chapters that are presented in a thematic, rather than chronological, order. With each episode, the film adds a few more layers of depth to The Bride?...