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...instinct may have been right - with foreign investment in the U.S. down 85% since 2000, the currently wimpy dollar may yet be punching above its weight. Broken Records EUROBLUES It's not because I'm in competition with Thierry Breton that I announce these results," said Vivendi CEO Jean-René Fourtou), but the CEOs were locked in a race to the bottom, kicked off on Wednesday when Breton's France Telecom announced a €20.7 billion loss - the biggest in French corporate history. But Vivendi reclaimed the title the next day with its own €23.3 billion loss. Both...
...share. Agricole realized it goofed, replaced its chairman and bid €56 per share in cash and stock for the whole bank, valuing once-moribund Crédit Lyonnais at €19.5 billion. Laurent remains CEO - for the moment - but the man to watch is new chairman René Carron, who's also a dairy farmer. "We went a bit higher but not that much higher" as a result of the blunder, he said sheepishly...
...boiler room, Kamagi, a six-armed troll, keeps stern watch over dozens of soot-ball slaves--cute vermin, thrilled when Chihiro shows up to lighten their work load. Ren, a scrubwoman, offers Chihiro the weary wisdom of the eternal underclass. The child's best hope for fleeing Yubaba on the undersea railroad is young Haku, a boy who can take on the shape of a dragon. When Chihiro and this beautiful beast take to the sky, they express the most elevated forms of teamwork and puppy love...
...history of art has Pablo Picasso to thank for René Magritte. "You see, like many young painters in the 1920s I wanted to live in Paris," Magritte once told a pair of journalists visiting his picket-fence cottage in suburban Brussels. "And in Paris, there was this wild Catalan who was doing all there was to be done with technique. I could tell there wasn't going to be any technique left for the rest of us to invent. So that's when I decided I was going to paint ideas...
Even Jean-René Fourtou, Vivendi's new CEO, seems puzzled. "We can continue to build an international media and communications company," he wrote to investors last week, but "with what strategy?" There may be order behind his confusion - Vivendi's last CEO, Jean-Marie Messier, was criticized for depressing the price of assets he planned to sell by broadcasting his intentions. As Fourtou sells j10 billion in assets to service Vivendi's debt, that's not a mistake he can repeat. Yet he must also be genuinely perplexed by his options. "My sense is that they would like...