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...DEFEATED. SILENT WITNESS, 5, by stablemate Bullish Luck in the Hong Kong Champions Mile; in Hong Kong. First sold for the bargain price of $39,000, the Australian-bred sprinter has won more than $6 million in career earnings and scored 17 consecutive victories, eclipsing the record of 16 held by champions Ribot, Citation and Cigar. His unlikely rise and winning ways have made the horse an icon in his gambling-obsessed hometown, although the loss means touted trips to high-stakes races in Japan and the U.S. may not happen. "Every horse has to lose," said his owner, Archie...
...cataloging the failures of U.N. aid agencies during North Korea's famine. Their chief mistake, he writes, was their failure to speak out in protest against Kim: "This undermined the credibility of those that accused Kim Jong Il of allowing millions to die and made the United Nations a silent partner in the North Korean holocaust...
...suggests he may not be in love with the goods. Loaded down with excess factory capacity, waning SUV sales and crushing health-care liabilities, the company is no quick turnaround play. So you have to wonder, What is he thinking? Kerkorian isn't talking--he has been virtually silent with the press since 1971. But there was no shortage of speculation on Wall Street and in Detroit. The scuttlebutt: that Kerkorian will try to force GM to spin off its lucrative financing unit, GMAC; that he will try to line up a murderers' row of billionaires and private equity firms...
Christensen promises that Kerkorian will be a gentlemanly, silent partner this time. "We made a courtesy call to GM senior management and had a friendly conversation," he says. "They said, 'welcome aboard.'" In a perverse way, Kerkorian may be the bogeyman GM needs, allowing CEO Rick Wagoner to play the good cop in negotiations with GM's union, with the specter of a Kerkorian-led breakup in the background. GM can now go to the United Auto Workers and say "you can deal with nice Rick Wagoner or Gordon Gekko," says auto analyst Stephen Cheetham of Bernstein Research...
...aflame and silent at the stake...