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...swaggering chairman of DaimlerChrysler, is praying that the billions of dollars in losses at Chrysler and Mitsubishi (in which he bought a ruling share last year) don't sink the entire company. Ford CEO Jacques Nasser has a collection of premium brands in his stable: Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo. But amid a weak economy, sales at Ford and GM are down some 15% this year, and even the luxury brands are under new pressure from smaller Japanese and German automakers...
...already moving when he took the CEO job, and within 18 months he acquired Volvo, Land Rover--and a divorce. Then he launched a complete corporate reorganization, in an everlasting quest to keep up Ford's rep as Detroit's best-run car company. "A lot of things came together," says Nasser. "We were a new generation in a new century and an incredible technological and communications revolution in which the consumers had the power. So it was time to make them the driving force...
...change! No change!" As soon as they see him, the hot, sweaty crowd starts shouting, pushing to get close, trying to touch him. A sea of hands waving thumbs-up draws President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni out through the sun roof of his white Land Rover to return the victory signal. Dressed in suit and tie and wearing his trademark wide-brimmed green safari hat, he grins at the warm reception. Even in multitribal Uganda, this is not your everyday political rally. The Karamajong are colorful, usually naked cattle rustlers straight out of the pages of National Geographic magazine. Full Story...
...giving was the spirit in the Douglas household, then stealing was the name of the game in the Madonna mansion. While she was sleeping upstairs earlier this week in her London palace, thieves broke in, nabbed the keys to her Range Rover and drove off. (You get inside Madonna's house and then you steal her car? And I thought the British were revolutionary!) This is the second time in six months that Madonna's house has been burglarized. And to think, she moved to London because it was "safer...
...pictures. It's so nifty, Bill Gates was spotted admiring it on the show floor. In the "old dog, new tricks" department, Sony unveiled the next generation of its Aibo robotic puppy ($1,500). The new pooch--full name ERS-210 (we've come a long way since Rover)--can learn 50 distinct words. Tell it to "take a picture," and it snaps a photo with a digital camera in its nose...