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What do these two actors, three politicians and four musicians have in common? They all took the stage in 2006 and got us talking. But it wasn't always for the right reasons. Not all these performances are to be admired, but they are sure to be remembered...
JESSICA SIMPSON got so flustered at the Kennedy Center Honors as she was singing 9 to 5 to Dolly Parton that she stopped midway and fled the stage--hardly an argument for women in the workforce...
TEXAS QUARTERBACK VINCE Young played the perfect game on the biggest stage, romping over U.S.C. in the Rose Bowl to lead the Longhorns to their first national championship in 35 years. He ran for 200 yds., passed for 267 more and scored three touchdowns, including a fourth-down scoring scramble with 19 sec. left. Said U.S.C. coach Pete Carroll: "That's an extraordinary football player...
...Even excluding the Mittal-Arcelor deal and the pending bid by Tata Group for Corus, data compiled by Winterbotham's firm shows that Indian companies spent about $6.5 billion on international acquisitions in 2006, almost triple the volume of the previous year. And this new prominence on the international stage is winning plaudits back home. "Lakshmi Mittal has done an extraordinarily good job for us," says Venugopal Dhoot, chairman of Videocon, whose businesses run from consumer electronics such as televisions to oil and gas production. "The world had questions about the ability of Indians running a global company...
...world has seen. In global capital markets, London?on some measures, even Hong Kong?now rivals New York as a business mecca. And perhaps above all, there is the steady shift of economic power from the Atlantic world, dominated by the U.S., to Asia, where it must share the stage with China, India, and Japan...