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Former AT&T Chief to Be GM Chairman

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Mr. Whitacre drives an old Chevy Suburban, and teaches business at San Antonio Lutheran University. He was an industrial engineering student at Texas Tech University in 1963 when he joined Southwestern Bell. Steve Rattner and Whitacre share amedia and telecommunications background. Says Austin Ligon, retired CEO of CarMax Inc. "Whitacre will have an open mind and no embedded committment to existing GM strategy or management." Ligon was a longtime critic of the way the previous board, under board leader Fisher, simply rubberstamped GM chairman and CEO Wagoner's work.


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