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...long have antiglobalists feared giant corporations? Well, Irish satirist Samuel Madden predicted that two companies would eventually control the world economy in his Memoirs of the Twentieth Century--in 1733. Now, in The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, both editors at the Economist, take a Churchillian view: corporations are the worst form of economic organization, except for all the others. The book is an entertaining romp through the highs and lows of corporations since the first compagnia appeared in 12th century Italy. An 18th century British lord complained, "Corporations have neither bodies...
Hideaway-resort king Adrian Zecha, of Amanresorts, is restoring Galle's 300-year-old New Oriental Hotel, a veritable museum of Dutch-colonial furnishings. He is also creating a beach resort in Tangalla and will no doubt take his celebrity clients with him. If Sri Lanka is calling you, now is the time to make a move...
...there isn't a single one between the Suez Canal and Phuket. "I now term this part of southern Sri Lanka as the Serendip Riviera. The stretch from Galle to Tangalla will in time become the best address in the Indian Ocean." Amanresorts, the ultra-chic chain run by Adrian Zecha, is moving in too. Zecha is restoring Galle's New Oriental Hotel, a 300-year-old Dutch barracks that was converted into a hotel by the British in the early 19th century. During the civil war, visiting foreign correspondents were usually the only guests in this museum of Dutch...
Kitzinger’s wife Suzan died in 2002. The couple is survived by three children, Stephen Anthony, Margaret Rachel and Adrian Nicholas Kitzinger and three grandchildren...
...Adrian D. Maldonado...