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...would have been an unremarkable exchange, if only the two men hadn't been live on the air, purportedly delivering television commentary on the Open for Italy's Tele+ cable network. This, however, was typically digressive banter from Clerici, 72, and Tommasi, 68. An announcing tandem for more than 20 years, they fill their broadcasts with more random ruminations, mutual dissing and off-color commentary than Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. "Even people who don't like tennis will watch them to hear what outrageous things they're saying and doing," says Rita Grande, an Italian currently ranked...
...head of Morgan Stanley's investment-banking efforts in India, Kidwai, 45, recently guided that country's fastest-growing telecommunications company, Bharti Tele-Ventures, through its IPO. Her unit also managed an IPO for software provider i-flex solutions at the height of fears of an India-Pakistan war. When she needs to unwind, which is often, Kidwai loves to hike the Himalayan foothills...
...other words, if Armstrong's going to get humiliated, he wants more money. The CEO started at AT&T promising to make Ma Bell into a one-stop-shop for local, long-distance and high-speed Internet services - which spawned his acquisitions of cable guys Tele-Communications Inc. and MediaOne (the latter in an 11th-hour, Comcast-topping bid that president Brian Roberts never forgot) for a total $90 billion a few years back...
...lasted 15 years until 1990, and is now to be resurrected. In the meantime Gilbert Hernandez has used "Luba" as one of his forums for the cast of characters he created in that pioneering series. Hernandez mixes Latin America with pop-culture America and comes up with an absurdist tele-novella-style work of art. But nicely, while "Luba" has 20 years of backstory, it can still be read as its own work...
...bandwidth grows, more of these narrow interests--recreational, political, cerebral--can be pursued online. In 2025, the League of Women Who Find Gilligan More Attractive Than the Skipper and the Professor can not only form online; it can tele-convene and watch reruns! More and more, obsessions will be online obsessions...