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...Jo-Marie Burt – a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights group – said the Conga dispute had become “a battle for the heart and soul of the Humala administration....
...But the film is just as much a study in sexual frustration by Burt Lancaster as the chiropractor husband, Doc. The Doc of Kevin Anderson here is no ageing bull....
...Mr Burt’s appearance is expected to be followed by testimony from two other high-profile members of Hollinger’s audit committee: James Thompson, former Illinois governor, and Marie Josee Kravis, the economist...
...Two other members of Hollinger’s audit committee, Marie-Josee Kravis and Richard Burt, similarly testified in recent days that they also missed the disclosure of two so-called non-compete payments worth...
...Hollinger’s vaunted board of directors, including Marie- Josée Kravis, the economist and wife of the financier Henry Kravis, and the former Illinois governor James Thompson, then ratified many of the executive...
...Marie-Josée Kravis said on Monday that while serving as a director of Hollinger International’s audit committee she missed 11 disclosures of a $15m non-compete payment to Conrad Black and other executives...
...Jim” Thompson, Richard Perle, former White House defence adviser, Richard Burt, the former German ambassador, and ex-secretary of state Henry Kissinger....
...Given these sorts of characterisations, it is hard to believe Mr Thompson and his long-time Hollinger associates – Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle, Richard Burt and Marie-Josee Kravis (who resigned in 2003...
...The deal closes an awkward chapter in Vivendi's past, which saw the French group pushed to the edge of bankruptcy in 2002 following an aquisition strategy led by Jean-Marie Messier, the group's ousted chief...
...The deal removes athorn in Vivendi's side,dating back to 2000when Jean-Marie Messier, the French group's former chief executive, unveiled an ambitious merger with Seagram....
...Fortunately for Mr Wright and GE, Vivendi was even more defensive, looking to sell assets after the disastrous expansion strategy of Jean-Marie Messier, the chief executive who almost bankrupted the French...
...“If you do something like The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks, you figure you can take a chance on making Marie-Antoinette with Sofia Coppola,” said Amy Pascal, chairman of the motion picture group at Sony...
...; and Marie-Josee Kravis who resigned last year....
...Vivendi, burdened with €35bn of debt, had ordered a rapid withdrawal from US entertainment after jettisoning Jean-Marie Messier, its maverick chief executive, in the summer of 2002 and embarking on a disposal...
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