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...huge that Nehru, the new Prime Minister, had to fight his way to the grandstand, at one point knocking off the turban of a man who had gotten in his way. He was worried for the safety of his friends, the last British viceroy Lord Mountbatten, who was a cousin of England's monarch, and his wife Edwina, with whom Nehru was secretly enamored. But Mountbatten knew of another secret that would cause great grief...
...regime built on terror, al-Majid, 62, has stood out as one of the most ruthless members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle. A cousin of Saddam's, he presided over the occupation of Kuwait before the first Gulf War, crushed the 1991 Shi'ite rebellion in the south and oversaw the execution of two Iraqi officers--who were also his nephews and Saddam's sons-in-law--after they defected to Jordan and returned to Iraq...
...lacking volunteers willing to join a polygamous union, Mitchell allegedly resorted to kidnapping. His first quarry was Elizabeth Smart, then 14, whom he took from her home to a nearby primitive campsite. There, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, a self-styled "marriage" ceremony took place. Smart's cousin was next on his list, but he failed in that attempt...
...impulse to escape. Having secured his first new bride, Mitchell made a move for another. Police suspect that on the evening of July 24, he climbed atop a chair and carved a hole in the screen of the bedroom window of Jessica Wright, Elizabeth's 18-year-old cousin...
...many of his holdings, including his stake in Investor. The episode was a harsh test for the latest Wallenberg generation (the fifth) to run the business. It is led by Marcus Wallenberg, 46, a shy Georgetown University graduate who took over as Investor's CEO in 1999, and his cousin Jacob, 47, who is vice chairman. The two are struggling to reverse huge losses in Investor's portfolio, whose net asset value per share almost halved last year as core holdings, including mobile-phone giant Ericsson and ABB, a Swedish-Swiss engineering firm, ran into serious trouble. The Wallenbergs' strategy...