They may have been a bit complacent about their businesses, hidden away down their dark alleyway, but their growing anger at this new competition is very real.
Downing Street has told German car manufacturer BMW of Prime Minister Tony Blair's anger at how he was kept in the dark over the break-up of the Rover car group.
Rudolph, wearing a dark-gray suit and blue shirt with no tie, said his goal had been to confound and anger the federal government and to force the cancellation of the games -- or at least get people to stop attending them.