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Last year, another Opus Dei priest was dismissed from St. Peter’s parish near the Quad, where 50 to 100 Harvard students worship every week, according to James Roosevelt ’68, grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a resident of Cambridge. Roosevelt says he and a group of parishioners asked their pastor to dismiss the Opus Dei priest. The pastor, he says, consented...
...want us to get the land, and Harvard is a very powerful institution—richer than some small countries—and someday they are going to have a very beautiful, expansive campus in Allston,” said Bruce E. Houghton, president of the company and grandson of the owner. “Certainly, we were a little perplexed by Harvard’s bid—but Harvard is my new landlord and I look forward to working with them...
...gathered at a Zurich restaurant for a reunion of a remarkable family. Not only does it own a controlling stake in the 112-year-old Swiss bank Julius Baer Group, which manages about $80 billion in assets, but its members still run it too. In May, Thomas Baer, a grandson of Julius', will retire as chairman and hand the post to his nephew Raymond Baer...
...next generation. Giovanni's only son Edoardo killed himself two years ago, and Umberto's son Giovanni Alberto, who was being groomed as the successor, died of cancer in 1997. The burden of securing the family's financial future will probably fall to Giovanni's U.S.-born grandson John Elkann, who is just 26. Giovanni installed Elkann on Fiat's board in 1997, when he was only...
Founded in 1905 in Kerrville, Texas, by the late Florence Butt, H-E-B, named for the initials of her son, is still family owned and today is run by Florence's grandson, chairman and CEO Charles Butt, 65. In a business increasingly dominated by huge national chains, H-E-B is a rare regional firm that has found a niche where it can beat the giants. Long established in San Antonio and Austin, H-E-B is making a major push into Houston--with 50 stores open and seven more to come this year--and into Mexico, where...