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...month, while he was vacationing, the papers were full of reports of an exit-and- exile plan allegedly hatched within his zanu-pf party. On his return, Mugabe scotched the rumors, cracked down on opponents and cranked up his propaganda machine, as if to show that he still can pull the levers of power at will. Six trouble-free Cup matches would be a nice birthday gift for himself. Britain's attempt to use sport to seize the moral high ground is annoying enough to the Zimbabweans who even noticed it. But the laughable part of the England players' call...
...must recognize that weapons inspectors are doing their job and doing it well,” he said. “There’s no need to pull the trigger...
...Gibson's company recently signed a lucrative deal with Fox TV's film-studio sibling and has optioned O'Reilly's novel Those Who Trespass. So his TV anger may simply be the latest form of media synergy. Besides, Hollywood likes Gibson; moguls wish him well. "If anyone can pull it off, it's Mel Gibson," says Richard Cook, chairman of the Walt Disney Studios, for which Gibson made the megahit Signs. "The project is fraught with all sorts of issues, but I would never bet against...
...Mizuho's precarious position and the sheer size of its offering will make it difficult to raise the money by the bank's stated deadline of March 31. "There are lots of questions about whether they can pull this off," says Brian Waterhouse, an equity analyst at HSBC Securities in Tokyo. Mizuho president Maeda has said that he is looking at foreign and domestic investors alike. Most likely, he'll have to sell preferred stock to the bank's own customers and close business partners. This will perpetuate a pattern of cross-ownership between banks and affiliated companies that...
...word Friday morning that Fiat's stock price had shot up 6% at the opening in response to the death of company patriarch Giovanni Agnelli. The market is unsentimental, and crudely calculated that the passing of the 81-year-old Italian corporate legend - who had blocked earlier moves to pull the Agnelli dynasty out of the auto business - cleared the way for the family's long-anticipated and inevitable exit from carmaking. The market's initial reaction was a reminder of just how much the Italian industrial landscape has changed since the heady days of the post-1950s boom, driven...