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...Rome, he spoke with Time about his rapid rise in Italy's leading business family, Fiat's struggle to adapt to a shifting global playing field, and a young man's relationship with his famous silver-haired grandfather. The death of this formidable figure and of Gianni's younger brother Umberto Agnelli, both from cancer within a 16-month span, created the vacuum that forced Elkann - the eldest child of Gianni Agnelli's daughter Margherita and French-Italian writer Alain Elkann - to step to the fore ahead of schedule. He did so amid the company's two-year crisis that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...eldest son, Giovanni Alberto, who died rather suddenly from fast-spreading stomach cancer in 1997 at 33. Gianni's only son, Edoardo, who battled depression and did not partake in the family business, committed suicide by jumping from an overpass in 2000. Just last year, Elkann's younger brother, Lapo, head of Fiat marketing, nearly died from a cocaine overdose. Elkann absorbed himself in business instead. After getting his degree, Elkann entered General Electric's highly competitive Corporate Audit Staff program, where he mixed with other future business leaders and got hooked on high finance. Back at Vittoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...Theodore, then 19, was overcome by grief, but within a year he fell in love with a Brahmin beauty named Alice Lee, who found his stories of hunting in the Maine woods charming. Just before they wed in the fall of 1880, he went West to hunt with his brother Elliott. He hoped life in a saddle and breathing the open air all day would build up his strength once more. On the trail, he fell in love again, this time with the American West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Self-Made Man | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

Roosevelt was, for an American, unusually familiar with naval history. Two of his uncles, brothers of his Southern-born mother, had been involved in the Confederate navy in the Civil War. (One of them, James D. Bulloch, was a Confederate naval agent who commissioned the C.S.S. Alabama, the famous commerce raider on which his younger brother Irvine served.) The young Theodore had grown up with stories about earlier naval battles and eagerly read works on the history of war. Yet it would be fair to say that his notions about sea power--build bigger warships, concentrate the fleet--were primitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Birth Of A Superpower | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...WADE: From day one, when me and Shaq first talked on the phone, we jelled. And we've jelled ever since. We're both on the same page on the court and we're both on the same page off the court. He's like a father, like a brother to me off the court. He gives me advice on everything right or wrong. Our relationship will continue to grow and it's not just going to be while we're playing together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dwyane Wade | 6/23/2006 | See Source »

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