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Today AIG operates in 130 countries, has a stock-market value of $143 billion and nearly $100 billion of annual revenue. It's had a staggering transformation from the obscure firm that Greenberg took command of in 1967 and took public two years later with just $13 million of annual profit--a figure that swelled to $11 billion by last year. While building AIG in the 1970s and '80s, Greenberg often was the only foreigner in sight in politically combustible countries like Romania, Iran, Vietnam and other parts of the Far East, and would draw a curious crowd just crossing...
...lost the 2002 presidential battle in the first round, has emerged as the favorite to lead the 2007 challenge for the presidency by France's Socialist Party (PS). That result comes after two leading PS contenders tangled. Laurent Fabius, 58, was ousted as the party's second-in-command last week in a move led by PS first secretary François Hollande. Fabius' crime: defying party policy to campaign for a no vote on the E.U. constitution. "Fabius' reversal on the referendum was to provide him with support for a 2007 presidential bid," says Dominique Reynié, a political...
Murphy was even more dynamic on the defensive end against Princeton. She scored just five points but contributed four steals, two of them back-to-back swipes that put Harvard in command late in the first half...
That day, Harvard’s second-in-command sat near his boss after a second consecutive meeting in which faculty members lined up to criticize Summers’ leadership. Hyman did not say a word...
Also “memorable,” he says, was his interview with Vice President Dick Cheney at Camp David three days after September 11—when the second-in-command assured Russert and the rest of America that the terrorists would be brought to justice...