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...HOSPITALIZED. Gianluca Pessotto, 35, team manager of Italian football club Juventus, after falling 15 meters from a window at the club's headquarters in an apparent suicide attempt; in Turin. He had reportedly been suffering from depression. Formerly a defender with Juventus, Pessotto took up management duties in May in a bid to restore morale at the club amid corruption allegations. Juventus is among 30 defendants in a match-fixing trial that began in Rome last week; Pessotto's name has not been linked with the scandal...
...long frame to the songs, clapped along with "Hey Jude" and, when a huge bed sheet whooshed up from the stage to eventually cover most of the 2,000 spectators, lifted his arms with an eager reverence to touch the fabric, as if it were a gigantic Shroud of Turin...
...fine-dining experience you might expect an Agnelli would prefer. The anointed heir to Italy's greatest industrial fortune is settling into his chair at Vittoria, a homespun Turin trattoria where plates clank every time the nearby kitchen door swings open. But for John Elkann, the 30-year-old vice chairman of both Fiat and IFIL, the Agnelli family's €6 billion holding company, this is the perfect place for a power lunch. After ordering his favorite Vittoria dish - a lightly fried veal cutlet with fresh tomatoes - Elkann leans in to better explain his choice. "You know...
...grandfather," Elkann said. "It was a family feeling to respond." Though it unfolds like a Victorian play, Elkann insists that his ascendancy to the Fiat throne was "very natural." Born in New York City and raised in Britain, Brazil and France, he returned to his parents' hometown of Turin to study engineering at the rigorous Politecnico University. That was when Elkann began to pass Sundays on the family yacht and afternoons at the Fiat offices with Agnelli, who was then still Fiat's chairman. Speaking from his corner office - the same space at company headquarters Agnelli once occupied - Elkann recalled...
...models, the Panda and Grande Punto, and streamlining management, Marchionne personally negotiated the deal that forced General Motors to pay out $2 billion to Fiat to free itself from a put option in the companies' 2000 joint-operating accord that could have forced the U.S. automaker to buy the Turin company outright. In the coming years, however, Elkann is expected to become the singular face of Fiat. "Because of his background, John's international mentality is not a question of schooling, it's a natural part of who he is. This is a great advantage," Montezemolo says of Elkann. More...