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...wisdom of decisions Iacocca made for the company when he ran it, there is grumbling now that their former boss, susceptible to Kerkorian's unwholesome charms, is putting the company in jeopardy to satisfy his own ambition. "They are shocked and pissed,'' says one board member. "It's '80s greed vs. '90s forward-thinking management. Iacocca's involvement is really getting under people's skin.'' Certainly there's a prospect of money in the deal for him. For all his wealth-$200 million at last estimate-Iacocca has never been able to move as an equal among the billionaire financiers...
...kind of Paradise Regained. "You have to strain to find the war now," he says. "And it's beside the point." Everywhere, the economy is booming, and, says Gibney, "everyone wants a piece of Vietnam's future." Even legendary war hero General Vo Nguyen Giap, now in his 80s, who used to talk of nothing but the war, is snapping up books about development. "Vietnam," Giap told Gibney, "will be one of the key topics of the 21st century...
Born in New York City and raised in Japan, Gibney has been in Asia since the early '80s, covering the region for Newsweek until last year. Last week he was filing reports on Vietnam to our offices in New York as he lay on his bed, suffering from a couple of herniated disks. (To work on his computer, says Asia editor Don Morrison, Gibney "had weights and pulleys rigged up.") The fact that he roams from a base in Vietnam, says Gibney, typifies today's mercurial, surprising Asia. "Five years ago, the story here was coups and authoritarianism...
ManRay. 21 Brookline St., Central Square, Cambridge. 864-0400. Domination on Saturday, April 22. Hi Energy and Euro Dance on Saturdays. The Best of the Early 80s on Wednesays...
...genuine good-news story for both customers and the industry. At the rich and influential house of Chanel, designer Karl Lagerfeld talks of a "new tendency for beauty to combat ugliness." New York designer Isaac Mizrahi observes: "People are in a kind of sobering position. In the '80s it was so incredibly over the top. Now it's about how can we express ourselves and still maintain a certain amount of dignity." Michael Kors, who presented a sleek, sophisticated collection in New York City last week, expresses the fashion industry's new sensitivity to the marketplace: "The plain fact...