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...name may be new to some, but not to watch industry insiders. Simone Bédat has been in the watch buiness for some 40 years. She co-founded the Raymond Weil brand. But when her son Christian came of age she sold her stake to help him launch Bédat & Co. Now Christian designs and mom supervises. The five-year-old company does about $12 million in sales. Christian says the Gucci deal gives them protection: "It's a jungle out there...
...line wealth? His answer: there's not much of it. DMGT paid only something in the "mid-six figures" for Soccernet. (In 1999, Disney paid $25 million for 60% of the site and bought the rest a year later for an undisclosed sum.) While Hadfield's Soccernet stake was valued at about $11 million in a financing round last April, that's just paper wealth. "I don't drive a flash car or live in a flash house," he says. "Money's a side issue...
...straightforward about your expectations and what you can afford to pay. You may want to think twice about hiring anyone who gets a commission from other health-care agencies or has a stake in them...
...rebels have been repelled rather than destroyed. They have retreated, either into the mountains or back into Kosovo. The real challenge is now political - whether the government can cement its military gains by making new efforts to address the grievances of Macedonia's Albanian population. What is at stake now is the very survival of a multi-ethnic Macedonia, and the crisis is not yet over, even though there may be a brief respite. If the government is unable to address the political grievances that the rebels have exploited, we could see violence flare up again within the next week...
...AIDS pandemic is a global emergency, and there is little time for token gestures when many millions of lives are at stake--and when a realistic solution has already taken too long...