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...widow of the heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune and wife of presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., is sharing some of her wealth with two of Harvard’s top professors...
...rumored to have once been the home of Kuomintang General Fu Zuoyi and served as both an infirmary and message center for the Communist government. In the late 1960s, a bomb shelter was dug out from under the courtyard on the orders of Lin Biao, Mao's then-heir apparent. Brahm has turned it into the three-chambered Bomb Shelter Bar, a lushly decorated wine and cigar lounge where you can sip red Bordeaux while watching vintage films, such as The East Is Red and Ballet of the Red Detachment of Women. Brahm has improved on one of the most...
...What about the pressures of being the heir to the departed Young Giant? "As far as I'm concerned, they were just looking for a good player to come in and help," Dan-ni-er replies. "Not as a replacement?those are shoes I can't fill. Yao's larger than life...
...would come up with the billions needed to keep Fiat whole. "He was a remarkable man and it will be hard to replace him. I just wish he had not seen his empire plunge into disaster," said one worker clocking off at Fiat's Mirafiori plant in Turin. The heirs of Fiat (the family controls 34% of the stock) inherit a desperate company. Fiat Auto lost j1.35 billion last year, and the parent company was forced to string together a huge j3 billion loan just to keep operating. At least j3 billion in additional capital will be needed, according...
...Fortuyn (lpf), one of the three coalition parties. lpf, of course, was catapulted to power by its charismatic leader, the maverick right-winger Pim Fortuyn, who was assassinated just days before the 2002 election. After Pim, the party fell asunder - and now Bos is emerging as his true heir. Dutch political analyst Kay van de Linde, who was Fortuyn's campaign manager and spent 18 years working with U.S. campaign guru David Garth in New York, calls Bos "a typical American-style television candidate. He's cool, self-assured and projects credibility. People believe what he says. The Dutch...