In fact, Seagram boss Edgar Bronfman Jr. has already done Vivendi the favor of quietly wrapping up the goodwill accounting for his 1998 purchase of music giant PolyGram N.
Fighting continues in the region despite the JEM and local government signing a "goodwill and confidence-building" agreement earlier in February, according to the U.N.
These columns have long tried sympathetically to explain Mexican realities to our readers, but President Vicente Fox's U.N. war straddle will cost his country years of U.S. public goodwill.