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...Warsaw she is known as Mrs. Big. It's a reference not only to Barbara Lundberg's physical stature (5 ft. 10 in.) and no-nonsense New England manner but also to an audacious operating style that has in the past 10 years made her one of Warsaw's most influential executives. As CEO of Elektrim S.A., one of Poland's biggest and oldest communist-era companies, Lundberg, 47, admits that she attracts attention. "I think people find it amusing that a woman is president," she says. In her case they also find it daunting. Late last year the conglomerate...
...there are cultural barriers too, particularly in Southern Europe and rural regions. More women work in countries where there are better public child-care facilities and more equitable wages; Europe needs more of both. "Getting more European women to work isn't just a question of fairness," says Barbara Helfferich, a top aide to Diamantopoulou. "It's a question of being competitive in a globalized market...
DIED. WILLIAM SIMON, 72, philanthropist, Treasury Secretary under Nixon and Ford and the "energy czar" who helped stem public hysteria during the '70s oil crisis; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...around George W. Bush these days is thick with ghosts. At the family getaway in Kennebunkport to attend a surprise birthday fete for mom Barbara and work on his convention speech with some advisers, Bush found himself standing at the front door and telling reporters - one more time - that those 131 people deserved to die. The Texas criminal justice system in which Bush is the last link "adequately answered innocence or guilt" in the death row cases on his watch, Bush insisted again Sunday. But the reporters are digging, and the corpses they find are telling a different tale...
...Barbara E. Martinez '00, a History concentrator in Quincy House, was executive editor of The Crimson...