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...dealing with Susie's oral cancer. Buffett, who always expected his wife to outlive him, reels from the news. He is terrified of losing her and cries for hours. Buffett had always avoided hospitals and was squeamish about all things medical - a "man who ducked the subject of a common cold and used terms like 'not feeling up to par' as euphemisms for illness; the man who changed the subject uneasily whenever anyone spoke of physical complaints." And yet with his wife undergoing radiation after facial surgery, he overcomes his limitations, learns everything he can about oncology and sits...
...Nazi Germany [Sept. 15]. The founder of Sasol was my brother, the late Etienne Rousseau, a chemical engineer. In 1990 he described to me how he had used a combination of the Fischer-Tropsch and the complementary American Kellogg process, not the German process only. Moreover it is common knowledge that after World War II the U.S. used captured German scientists to work on synthetic fuels. This was a U.S. Bureau of Mining project instigated by the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act. Not many people would call the U.S. a Nazi country. Leon Rousseau, JEFFREY'S BAY, SOUTH AFRICA...
...common for Harvard students to make fun of their overly-zealous peers who have a laser-like focus on becoming doctors or investment bankers. Some of that derision may be deserved. But there is much to admire in pursuing a clearly articulated career goal. For those without a professional plan (and even for those who do have one) there is an implicit mission inherent in attending the world’s greatest university: to sate one’s intellectual curiosity. No minor administrative hurdles and no trivial commute should stand in the way, no matter what the subject...
...lonely figure who lacks Zuma's common touch, Mbeki has proved to be an astute policy architect, but ultimately lost out in what many say essentially boils down to a bruising popularity contest between the two leaders. Mbeki fired Zuma, his then deputy, in 2005 amid a corruption scandal over shady arms procurement deals. But the President's political star has waned since last December, when a party leadership conference removed him as ANC leader and replaced him with Zuma...
...nuclear weapon is the CIA's deepest fear. While he was right in the sense that bin Laden potentially could again kill thousands of Americans, it's a worst case terrorist scenario and not the most likely one. The Marriott bombing reminded us once again that it is the common, everyday weapon we should be most afraid of. The 9/11 hijackers took over four airplanes with box cutters...