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...lifelong obsession with breaking new ground, Davis revolutionized jazz time and again. One such turning point was the legendary series of albums (among them, Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain) that he recorded in the 1950s and '60s with arranger Gil Evans. Borne on Evans' rich orchestrations, Davis' risky improvisational strategies and restless experimentation lifted jazz onto higher planes of complexity and excitement...
...PORK QUEENS--Italy, Spain, Europe, Logic...
Heckendorn, a native of Valencia, Spain, lost the CEO race last spring during a management shakeup at National Medical, a troubled behemoth that faces $750 million in lawsuits for allegedly overbilling insurance companies. While Heckendorn claims to have been the handpicked successor of Richard Eamer, a co-founder of the firm who stepped aside in the shuffle, the top job went instead to Jeffrey Barbakow, a National Medical director and former executive of the securities firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. According to Heckendorn's suit, influential board members rebelled at the thought of a female CEO and called the idea crazy...
...probing charges that Lopez had absconded with corporate secrets. Lopez, once heir-apparent to GM's North American car business, had helped develop the Opel project for GM but jumped ship after the company decided to put his dream plant in Hungary rather than in his hometown of Amorebieta, Spain. Volkswagen had wooed Lopez with promises to build his | plant in Amorebieta, but the dismal state of European car sales forced VW chairman Ferdinand Piech to suspend plans for the factory two weeks ago. On top of Volkswagen's $780 million first-quarter loss and bleak prospects for the rest...
Britain's immigration laws have been tough for decades, but a bill now before Parliament would tighten the requirements for political asylum and take away the right of tourists and students to appeal when their request for an extension is refused. Under pressure from the E.C., Spain requires visas for arrivals from Morocco. The Spanish have persuaded Morocco to take back its own citizens as well as others who illegally enter their country across the mouth of the Mediterranean...