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...This much is known about Abe. He is a born conservative?literally. As the grandson of Nobusuke Kishi and the grandnephew of Eisaku Sato?two of postwar Japan's most powerful and conservative Prime Ministers?Abe always knew which side he was on. Katsuei Hirasawa, now an LDP Diet member, tutored a young Abe for two years, and he recalls taking the primary-school student to his dorm at the University of Tokyo, at the heart of Japan's 1960s political tumult. "He would be right in the middle of pacifist, anti-Sato protests," Hirasawa recalls. "He wasn't angry...
...feel that what we have learned over time is a big asset for the company," says Markus Langes-Swarovski, 32, an executive-board member who oversees branding and communication and is a great-great-grandson of the company's founder, Daniel Swarovski. "Protecting your know-how is one element of showing appreciation for what you've achieved...
...Establishing authenticity is very important for all luxury companies," says Robert Buchbauer, 40, a great-great-grandson of the founder who directs the company's consumer-goods business. "The more interchangeable products become, the more important it is, but so far we're in the lucky position that our product is unique...
Legacy was started by two Dallas businessmen: Ray Washburne, a real estate and Tex-Mex-restaurant baron, and George Seay III, founder of the Seay Stewardship & Investment Co. and grandson of former Texas Governor Bill Clements. Its members are mostly young--in their 30s and 40s--and wealthy, through entrepreneurship, inheritance or both. They are Christians concerned with social justice, in the mold of Rick Warren of Purpose Driven Life fame, and practice their faith without, as a Broadmoor attendee put it, "quoting Leviticus"--a reference to the harder-edged rhetoric at other gatherings of social conservatives...
...sake of Darnum's little church, long may she live. Her elegant presence helps keep its Sunday numbers in double figures; she has a son, grandson and great grandchildren who are also regulars. A total of 11 worshipers this morning in a farming town of fewer than 300 people isn't such a bad ratio. But church chairwoman Dianne Sergeant is concerned. "The numbers are slowly dwindling," she says. "We're like many churches today: the congregations are getting older, and with that they're getting a bit smaller...