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Whitacre brought that high intensity to ADM, where he arrived in 1989 after jobs as a researcher at Ralston Purina and a manager at Degussa, a German-owned chemical firm. He organized and ran ADM's fast-growing biochemical-products division. Under Whitacre's supervision the company began making the feed additive lysine in 1991; it now controls half the worldwide market. That made Whitacre a favorite of ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas and a likely successor to company president James Randall, 71. "He was very proud and excited about his work at ADM," says Combs, who kept in touch with...
Such earnest talk may leave cynics wondering whether the Clintonites were still analyzing leadership more than exercising it. The early reports are not encouraging. "The whole deck was reshuffled," said one German diplomat after the meeting in Bonn, "and Lake and Tarnoff came here not showing a great deal of imagination." A French diplomat called the U.S. visit a "very positive element" and said, "We feel that the Contact Group should first develop a common approach and then present it to the parties in ex-Yugoslavia." It would appear that in neither case did the Americans take charge...
Matteo is the son of wealthy Italian parents, Sophie the daughter of equally rich German ones. They meet, marry and set out for India in 1975, Matteo carrying a copy of Hermann Hesse's The Journey to the East with him. The immensity of the country--its beauty and its filth, its holy men and its begging children--initially overwhelms them. And they discover that their reasons for going differ. Sophie is a hedonist, looking to apprehend reality through the senses: "I want to go to Goa and eat shrimp. I want to go to Kashmir and live...
...stage for his story about the hydrogen bomb, Rhodes deftly recounts the deeds of the perfidious Klaus Fuchs, the German emigre who furnished the Russians with not only a hand-drawn model of the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki but also the theoretical plans for making the H-bomb. As scientist Hans Bethe remarked later, Fuchs was "the only physicist I know who truly changed history"--but he changed it by passing on nature's secrets, not discovering them...
STEFFI GRAF No love lost in a singles match against her toughest opponent: German tax collectors...