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Leung hardly looks the part of a modern Mata Hari, with her librarian glasses and hair in a bun. She lived with her husband and son in a $1.3 million house in the leafy L.A. suburb of San Marino. Although she called herself a venture capitalist and ran a consulting business from home, she spent much of her time courting California's political players. She was host of a fund raiser for the failed gubernatorial race of former L.A. mayor Richard Riordan and gave $10,000 to his campaign. When Chinese leaders Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji came to town...
...benefit of her top salesman's being able to tap into the database minutes before he sits down with a client--and place his order immediately afterward. "Intuitively, I felt there was going to be a market for this in the business community," says Ted Schell, a venture capitalist with Apax Partners in New York City, one of the backers of Cometa...
Kokkalis has donated more than $5 million to the KSG’s Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe. The program, established in 1997, sponsors research to help Balkan states become democratic and capitalist, according to its website...
...oversees Latin America's largest economy and the world's tenth-largest - work. If he can make that happen, he'll achieve something even more remarkable: a leftist Latin American government that works. Lula, 57, is pursuing his own, more poverty-focused version of the Third Way, the socialist-capitalist hybrid once touted by European leaders like British Prime Minister Tony Blair. His ultimate goal is to improve the lives of the poor as well as the rich - something the free-market reforms that swept Latin America in the 1990s failed to do - and he's betting that fiscal responsibility...
...similar learning curve faces the celebrity executives leading some of China's top private companies. Most came of age during early capitalist reforms, when a cowboy approach made them popular--though their talents sometimes failed them outside China. Wang Licheng, 42, CEO of Holley and one of China's most celebrated executives, typifies the breed...