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...The highlights here are two virtual pieces: Ian Cheng’s artificially intelligent caterpillar splurging across a screen “Bob (Bag of Beliefs)” and — the poetic heart — Cyprien Gaillard’s “L’Ange du Foyer”...
...list included a work about 9/11 by philosopher David Ray Griffin, who argues the Twin Towers more likely collapsed because of explosives than because of the aeroplanes that crashed into their side, and Fritz...
...She is Elysium’s ruthless, super-chic security head, for whom Foster borrows Christine Lagarde’s haircut (the “IMF bob”?)...
...First name out of the e-mail bag was Bob Buhr. Congratulations. Forbidden Planet (1956) was the answer, starring Leslie Nielsen. Quizzes will not feature in every future column....
...General Motors has shaken up its management team just three days after Fritz Henderson was sacked as chief executive....
...After Ed Whitacre fired his predecessor Fritz Henderson, the chairman and interim chief executive of General Motors told employees that it could take up to a year to find a replacement....
...General Motors ousted Fritz Henderson as chief executive on Tuesday night in a surprise move that will see the ailing US government-controlled carmaker get its second new boss in less than a year....
...“It certainly wasn’t on Fritz’s agenda.”...
...As Bob Schulz, Standard & Poor’s auto analyst, points out: “The debt repayment is coming from existing cash balances rather than from internally generated cash.”...
...“From this point on, our efforts are dedicated to customers, cars, culture and repaying the taxpayer,” said Fritz Henderson, chief executive....
...Fritz Henderson, Mr Wagoner’s successor, is breathing fresh air into GM’s head office in Detroit....
...The bulk were sold by Bob Lutz, who retired as vice-chairman last month. Under the debt-swap offer, GM must garner the approval of 90 per cent of its bondholders....
...“There is no way we could finance the business while in bankruptcy,” said Fritz Henderson, GM’s chief operating officer....
...Bob Cook, an IFA who had cover for at least 70 of his customers cancelled said: “You just don’t ditch your old customers like this....
...Fritz Henderson, GM’s chief operating officer, is most often mentioned as Mr Wagoner’s likely successor. Like Mr Wagoner, Mr Henderson, 50, is a GM veteran, having joined in 1984....
...“The original plan was $4bn,” said Bob Schulz, of Standard & Poor’s....
...The scale of the task was underlined by Bob Nardelli, Chrysler’s chief executive, just minutes after President George W....
...But Bob Lutz, GM’s product development tsar, had a different message on Tuesday....
...Bob Lutz, GM’s vice-chairman, recently mused that the carmaker was also considering a four-cylinder Camaro....
...So did Fritz Kroymans, whose Netherlands-based Kroymans Corporation GM has appointed as Cadillac’s pan-European distributor and which is investing €150m ($182m, £105m) in a network of luxury “experience...
...And Fritz Henderson, the carmaker’s new chief financial officer, has arranged to meet Mr York for a quiet chat. “We would have liked to have Jerry York on the board,” Mr Henderson said yesterday....
...Fritz Henderson, chief financial officer, is leading an assessment of the potential benefits of a deal....
...Mr Fields led Mazda, Ford’s Japanese affiliate, through a successful turnround four years ago, while Mr Wagoner has brought Fritz Henderson, former head of GM’s profitable Asian operations, back to the US...
...The Florida seat had been vacated by Bob Graham, a three-term Democratic senator who briefly ran for president, dropping out in October 2003....
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