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...much so quickly as Cambodia, whose jungles hid cities built by the mysterious Angkor Empire between the 9th and 14th centuries. Peace has proved far more destructive than war to the turbulent nation's antiquities. While the relic-rich northwest was under Khmer Rouge control through the mid-'90s, Western dealers couldn't reach many of the prime sites for fear of land mines and cross fire. It was only with the full cessation of civil war a few years ago that foreigners could once again freely visit the relic sites around the legendary Angkor Wat temple complex. Since then...
Winning over Mrs. D. was just one of his problems. The '90s were plague years in Los Angeles--riots, earthquake, recession--and a risky new classical-music hall looked like the last thing a threadbare city wanted. When it seemed as if the project would founder entirely, Richard Riordan, then mayor, brought in Eli Broad, billionaire home builder, financier and all-purpose Los Angeles power broker, to head a $175 million fund-raising campaign to get the thing finished. (In the end, it cost $274 million...
That's a simplistic, if inaccurate, charge. Yet those historical grievances, says Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, are something foreign investors have too quickly forgotten--not just in Peru but throughout Latin America, where politics are turning sharply leftward after the capitalist reforms of the '90s left more of the region in poverty...
...WELBURN Design Driver Now steering styling at General Motors is Welburn, 52, who was promoted in October to the top design job. Welburn is charged with advancing the work of his predecessor, Wayne Cherry, who rescued GM from the bland boxes it produced in the '80s and early '90s. Welburn recently headed design of GM trucks and SUVs, overseeing the look of the hot Cadillac Escalade and Hummer H2, among other vehicles. Welburn's passion is muscle cars: he created an Oldsmobile that sustained 257 m.p.h.--a world record...
Year of Graduation: early 90s...