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...million engines annually. Spanking The Banks U.S. Senate investigators testified that Citicorp, the top U.S. bank, and J.P. Morgan Chase helped Enron hide more than $8.5 billion in debt. Canal Plus (Or Minus) In his first move to reduce Vivendi's ?19 billion debt, new CEO Jean-René Fourtou will separate Canal Plus into a new company and sell the rest of its pay-TV unit. INDICATORS A Family Affair Think your family reunions are stressful? John Rigas, founder of Adelphia Communications, was arrested in New York City with his two sons and two other former executives for allegedly...
...Monod - a former official at Vivendi's French rival Suez. Their view that Messier would bankrupt his corporate creation - discrediting the entire Paris Bourse in the process - was pressed upon Chirac allies on Vivendi's board, and down went Messier. Replacing him is Jean-René Fourtou, the non-executive vice chairman of Franco-German pharmaceutical giant Aventis and respected baron of French business. Staid, solid and focused on getting Vivendi past its liquidity crunch, Fourtou will also likely sell off some Vivendi assets and establish a tighter, slimmer industrial strategy. That's not exactly the "think big" spirit that...
...common with many other abuse cases, the church seemed unwilling to take action against one of its own. However, in a landmark case in France last year, Father Pierre Pican, Bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux, received a three-month suspended sentence for failing to inform the police after Father René Bissey confessed to him that he was sexually abusing children. Bissey was jailed for 18 years in 2000 for raping one boy repeatedly and abusing 10 others betwen 1989 and 1996. Pican's defense claimed that the bishop had been motivated by his priestly obligation to keep Bissey's remarks...
...Liaoyang and Daqing provide the most dramatic examples of organizing, workers in Zhengzhou over the past two years built a network of activists that succeeded, for a while, in resisting factory closures with the risky tactic of physically occupying their plants. A man who goes by the pseudonym Wang Ren is one of the leaders. Now in his 50s with ample girth and a wide-open face, he could have stepped out of a 1960s propaganda poster. For three decades he labored at the Power Generation Equipment Plant, a money-losing factory with half-century-old machinery, that...
...growing up in Hong Kong's rural Sheung Shui, Lau, the son of chicken farmers, hardly played with toy figures. "We were too poor," he says. (Today he has 30 boxes full of G.I. Joe, Ren and Stimpy, Playmobil and The Simpsons dolls in storage.) An artistic streak led him to design college, then to a stint as a struggling painter and part-time window-display designer for a department store. Lau got into 3-D art by accident. "The big change in my career was in 1997, when my friends in a band called Anodize asked...