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Lewis is a narcissist and a coward who spends as much of his time as possible defending himself in the media. He tried to excuse the mistake of buying Merrill Lynch by saying that the government forced him to close the transaction. As the sitting head of a public company he should not have agreed to the request if he believed it was not in the best interests of the bank...
...Lucent and other wire-line-equipment powers have found it difficult to take market share in next-generation technologies such as Internet telephony and wireless broadband. Recession has served, as it often does, to fast-forward a power struggle that promises to reshape forever how we communicate and consume media...
...million in 2009, driven in part by Videotron's ability to attract subscribers to a discounted triple-play bundle that combines voice, cable and high-speed Internet. "We're prepared to fight for new business," says Robert Depatie, president and CEO of Videotron, a division of multinational media company Quebecor Inc. Videotron plans to roll out a wireless network covering Quebec and parts of Ontario...
...cell bosses," or favored inmates who are selected by prison staff to oversee small groups of prisoners. Several of the deaths have been attributed to beatings at the hands of prisoners acting on orders from other inmates. Because the problems have only been identified at the local level, Chinese media has been given relative freedom to cover abuses, says David Bandurski, a researcher with the China Media Project at Hong Kong University. "These cases of jail deaths are focusing right now on brutal acts carried out by gangs of prisoners," he says. "While the lines of responsibility leading to local...
...This time, Berlusconi offered no apology for his plans to sex up Italy's image in the European Parliament. Instead, he told reporters on Wednesday that "La Signora" - a distant and formal designation for his wife of 23 years - had been manipulated by his enemies in the left-leaning media. Later in the day, he insisted that he would put the so-called showgirls, or young women, on his electoral list and personally accompany them on the campaign trail. Unlike other parties, Berlusconi said, his list would not include "smelly or badly dressed people." But by Thursday morning, he seemed...