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Morgan Stanley strategist Byron Wien has posed "10 surprises" annually for 20 years. "I see a tough backdrop this year," says Wien. His 2005 list...
...insider. "Even when Follini and Berlusconi were no longer talking, communications were always open with Letta." Letta has an official Cabinet title: Undersecretary to the Prime Minister with Oversight on Intelligence Operations. But he is much more than that. The former newspaper editor is Berlusconi's sounding board and strategist, helping the Milanese media mogul navigate Rome's innermost circles of influence. Their partnership dates back to the mid-1980s when Berlusconi hired Letta - already a Christian Democratic power broker - as the point man in Rome for his Fininvest holding corporation. During Berlusconi's eight-month stint as Prime Minister...
...Year's in 2003. The President had been out clearing cedar, and Laura Bush was lying on a sofa reading, or at least pretending to. That Christmas holiday was a deep breath between the 2002 midterm elections and the walk-up to the war in Iraq. Karl Rove, chief strategist for the Bush re-election campaign, arrived at the house with his faded blue canvas briefcase in hand. He had come to help put together a different kind of puzzle...
...toils for a media warlord, sparring with corporate enemies, many of whom seem to be co-workers. He takes names and then, turning to his guise as a columnist at FORTUNE, kicks butt in print. In Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Bing unloads on the famed Chinese strategist whose treatise, The Art of War, launched a thousand battles in China centuries ago--and a million management books in the past decade purporting to adapt Tzu's sublime Eastern battle philosophy to winning in Western business conflicts. Tzu counseled self-knowledge and restraint. "Subduing the other's military without battle...
ALEXANDER KIM, equities strategist at Renaissance Capital, after Russian authorities slapped a $157 million back-tax bill on VimpelCom, the country's No.2 mobile-phone company