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...million for an 11% stake in StarMedia. It hopes to use the ailing multilingual Latin American Web portal as a launching pad for services like e-mail on mobile Internet--"for those epic traffic jams we all know so well in Sao Paulo," says BellSouth's Latin American director, Roberto Peon...
...outside the company, particularly on Wall Street, where GE stock has enjoyed a hefty Welch premium, Immelt knows it's just beginning. Following a successful CEO is never easy. Consider such CEO casualties as Coca-Cola's Doug Ivester and Xerox's Rick Thoman, who followed high-profile bosses--Roberto Goizueta and Paul Allaire--and barely got a chance to make a mark before the long knives came...
...looking for answers, and perhaps some pictures of Nicky Hilton, I read INSTYLE's special issue The Look. On page 104, I saw Jordana Brewster in a pair of jeans with holes cut out from the ankles to the waist. The pants, which cost $4,975, were made by Roberto Cavalli. So I headed to Cavalli's, a very posh store on Madison Avenue that sells to Cindy Crawford and Bruce Springsteen's wife and has a window display with a pair of leopard-print pants and a matching leopard-print shirt. I went to ask saleswoman Tiffany Denee what...
...Najimy his bemused wife) makes its escape in style--in Hitler's onetime touring car. Best of all, there's Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Pollini, a good-natured Italian immigrant struggling hilariously with his nonnative language and with the narcolepsy that overtakes him at crucial moments. He's what Roberto Benigni would be if he knew how to play for laughs instead of killing for them...
...Roberto Tramontin, 47, whose family has been making gondolas since 1884, knows something about apprentices. "I've had four of them in the last six years," he says. "I just don't think young people want to work today like they used to." Tramontin, who has one new gondola under construction in his yard and another being restored, says he currently has orders for 37 boats. "We do two a year," shrugs his father Nedis, who is still working even though he will turn 80 in September. "It's not like the old days, when we had more skilled workers...