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...head of this new media power, Vivendi's Messier, is a former civil servant who has undergone a new-economy makeover. When he took over the firm four years ago, it was primarily a water-and-waste management operator--who needs that kind of boring stuff in the new economy? Since then, he has been reconfiguring the company through a flurry of mergers and asset sales, shifting the product flow from water pipes to fat data pipes. After this deal goes through, he will probably spin off the remaining hydro assets to concentrate on whether or not he should green...
...them of their civil rights after having initially allowed them greater freedom. Further fueling the protests is the case of Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy kidnapped by the papal police and raised by Pius IX despite the anguished protests of his parents because a Mortara household servant claimed to have doused the boy with holy water...
...full disclosure time, when close readers of the news can find out which of those fat cats in Washington are really fat and which are just overpaid. This year's theme: How To Get Rich in the Markets Without Quitting Your Day Job as a Public Servant...
...While political pundits accused him of being politically and personally aloof, Schlesinger has stayed the political course, never searching for the media spotlight and serving his life in the political sphere in the unassuming role of a public servant for the common good...
...collar work. Just as workin' the line at U.S. Steel was no walk in the park in 1946, passing papers in the tower is no great joy. My dad did it for 41 years at the Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. He was, sad to say, a white-collar indentured servant...