He can't give it up. Earlier this month, Kirk Kerkorian's claim that he was fooled into agreeing to the 1998 "merger of equals" that turned into a Daimler takeover was denied. Everyone was glad ...

Back in April, Kirk Kerkorian claimed he wanted to buy an extra 20 million shares of Ford Motor Co. That would have given him a total of 120 million shares and 5.6% of the Dearborn-based automaker.