Accepting the … bid also implies that investors miss an expected 500 million euro special dividend and the benefits from a 500 million euro share buyback program in 2006.

As VNU seems to be willing to open up the books, chances of a bid on the whole company have further increased.

There were different camps in the past but now, in effect, it's one company.

Gladiator.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.