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...When they succeed - and TIME has found six men and women who are succeeding, in ways large and small - their victories are all the sweeter. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," said Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel. "The mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." These crusaders have chosen the long, humble road...
When they succeed--and TIME has found six men and women who are succeeding, in ways large and small--their victories are all the sweeter. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," said Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel. "The mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." These crusaders have chosen the long, humble road...
...surest sign of a boom. Laredo banks are open 7 to 7 daily, including Sundays. Walk into the main office of the IBC and listen: English rarely spoken here. Upstairs in the executive offices, executive vice president Gerald Schwebel explains that his mother is Mexican, his father Austrian; he went to school in Nuevo Laredo. Bilingual, binational, he is the whole global economy in a suit. Schwebel's bank, the biggest in town with assets of more than $6 billion, has a small fleet of jets at the airport standing by to fly bankers to Europe, Asia and, of course...
...Current plans place the memorial, an imposing (detractors say fascistic) design by Austrian architect Friedrich St. Florian, smack dab in the middle of the Mall, between the towering Washington Monument and the stately Lincoln memorial (site of Martin Luther King?s "I Have a Dream" speech). Opponents call it an outrageous defacement of a national space, while defendants consider the prominent placement a fitting testimony to the monument?s importance...
...Indeed, no one wanted a rerun of the Austrian diplomatic sanctions, which divided the E.U. and were dropped after only eight months. "Everyone is reading into Berlusconi's election what they want to read into it," says Dominique Moïsi, deputy director of the French Institute of International Relations in Paris. "Conservatives are pleased to see the right back in power, the left is happy over Bossi's defeat and the avoidance of an Austria-style scenario. Yet everybody also realizes that Italy is a special case - that Berlusconi is unique, in a uniquely Italian situation...