A few years ago, long after corporate raider Carl Icahn had amassed a fortune that reached into the billions, he was asked by a television reporter : "Why do you keep do-ingthis?" His tart reply: "It's a way of keeping score." Now at 64, Icahn, the whip-smart kid from Queens, N.Y., who grew up to be one of the most feared predators of the go-go '80s, is shooting for his biggest score yet: General Motors.
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