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...trademark tan has dimmed, and his voice softens when he recounts the tumultuous events surrounding his downfall as a corporate titan. But if former Vivendi Universal CEO Jean-Marie Messier no longer boasts the "master of the world" moniker, don't expect to find him repudiating his stint as an empire-building media tycoon either. "I still receive e-mails and get stopped in the street by young people saying 'You gave me the desire to form my own company,'" says Messier...
...GSPC kept 31 captured European tourists hidden in 2003 until Germany allegedly paid a ransom). But because AQIM action is driven in part by the need for ransom payments, French officials hope these terrorists are less prone to committing the beheadings of valuable hostages that has become the gruesome trademark of other terrorists in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan...
...north Africa has risen for the past two years - particularly since Algeria's Salafist Group for Combat and Preaching (GSPC) allied itself with al-Qaeda under the AQIM name. AQIM promised to internationalize its jihad against the Algiers regime by striking out at foreign enemies, notably Europeans, and adopting trademark al-Qaeda terror and communication techniques. As part of that, French intelligence officials say, AQIM and its sympathizers in North Africa are using kidnapping to both call attention to its cause and raise money...
...Wednesday, Eliot Spitzer hit bottom. For a man who so often seized the moral high ground, it was an excruciating fall. Clad in his trademark starched white shirt, the governor resigned, sunk by his stunning patronage of a high-end prostitution ring. "I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people's work," he said. "To every New Yorker, and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize...I look back on my time as governor with a sense of what might have been." His wife Silda stood heartbreakingly next...
...iconic ball descend to herald each New Year, "it's amazing to think something would happen here." As uniformed military personnel ducked in and out of the recruiting office, the poster of Uncle Sam maintained his familiar pose - eyes fixed on prospective recruits, index finger outstretched, issuing his trademark beckoning call: "I Want You." But to Damian Brown, 31, peering at the scene from across the street, the blast conveyed the opposite message. "Time to bring those boys home," he says quietly...