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...Ghosn, who was born in Brazil to Lebanese parents (and speaks six languages), enjoys rock star popularity in Japan for turning the flailing company around nearly a decade ago. But not even a champion CEO is safe from the current crisis, which he calls "unchartered territory" that could stretch anywhere from six months to three years. (See the history of the electric...
...born in Taiwan in 1968. His father died when he was a toddler and his mother, an English professor, moved with her two sons to the U.S. in 1978. According to published reports, the only English word that Yang and his younger brother knew when they arrived in America was "shoe." The family eventually settled in San Jose, Calif...
...health issues. Nearly every abandoned child came from a single-parent household. In September, one father walked into a hospital and left nine children, ages 1 to 17. He reportedly told hospital workers that he'd been overwhelmed since his wife died a few days after their youngest was born...
...born in Pittsburgh in 1958, the son of a car upholsterer named Norton. Growing up, he was an overweight kid with Coke-bottle glasses, devoted to stamp and coin collecting. He wanted to be rich from a very young age, selling everything from garbage bags to magazine subscriptions door-to-door to make money...
...opening words of your lead article on Obama's victory are astonishing [Nov. 17]. Last week a conservative columnist in the British press complained that many commentators were comparing Obama with Jesus Christ, and I thought he was exaggerating. But then I read in TIME: "Some princes are born in palaces, some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope." Your writer thus places Obama on a more exalted pedestal than Jesus! Surely some sense of proportion is called for? Michael Grenfell, VENCE, FRANCE...