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...certificate of Suri Cruise, the still-unseen baby daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. The website first reported the incendiary allegations lodged by Denise Richards against husband Charlie Sheen in divorce papers. It also captured, in sound and streaming video, disparaging comments about Lindsay Lohan by Brandon Davis, grandson of deceased billionaire Marvin Davis, as he walked down the street with a giggling Paris Hilton...
...what you like doing in life. He believed in people developing the capabilities they're most suited for." In the Agnelli bloodline, that often means entrepreneurialism. Fiat was founded in 1899 by Giovanni Agnelli, a wealthy Turinese landowner, who imported Henry Ford's assembly line. He chose Gianni, his grandson, as his business heir after Gianni's father was killed in a 1935 plane accident, just as Gianni would later anoint Elkann. With his aquiline features and elegant but easygoing manner, Elkann certainly evokes his grandpa, among the 20th century's most admired business leaders and the epitome of globetrotting...
...also at work. There could not have been a more literal legacy than the 1953 coup engineered by the U.S. to oust Mohammed Mossadegh, the Iranian Prime Minister who attempted to nationalize Iran's oil industry. The CIA officer in Tehran who choreographed the overthrow was Roosevelt's grandson Kermit...
Happy Bloomsday! Stanford University professor Carol Shloss marked the 102nd anniversary last week of the epic trek through Dublin by Stephen Bloom, hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, by filing a lawsuit. She accuses Joyce's estate and its agent, his grandson Stephen Joyce, of intimidating her and unfairly preventing her from quoting Joyce's writings and family records for her 2003 book about Joyce's daughter Lucia...
...female housemaster in College. Nancy Garrison Jenn, the mother of recent graduate Alexandre, goes so far as to say her son's classmates were "humble and very internationally minded. They can talk to anyone." The headmaster, who signs his name "Tony," is part of this aerating trend. The grandson of a farm laborer, he is inclusive, calm and genial rather than grand and terrifying. As compared to when he was a student in the 1960s, he thinks Eton is "more outward looking, more diverse and kinder." If so, that has helped those who leave it. A senior headhunter, John Viney...