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Amid this turmoil over Harvard’s South African investments, the Kennedy School announced it would name its library after Charles W. Engelhard, an industrialist whose political and financial participation in South Africa reputedly supported the apartheid regime. In their protests for divestment, some students denounced the naming of the library after Engelhard...
...DIED. ENRIQUE ZOBEL, 77, Filipino industrialist who, as president of Ayala Corp., helped transform a swampy outskirt of Manila into the city's financial district; in Muntinlupa, Philippines. A scion of the wealthy Zobel de Ayala family, Enzo, as he was known by his countrymen, had a reputation as a high-flying but hard-working tycoon who later became a generous philanthropist, particularly after a polo accident in 1991 left him paralyzed from the neck down. Recalled fellow Manila businessman Guillermo Luz: "He was proud to be the working rich...
...takeoff of Nehru," says Singh. Bhagwan, like Nehru, is a Brahman from Kashmir, British-educated, brilliant, agnostic, a follower of Mohandas Gandhi, and with big dreams of modernizing his impoverished country. There's one difference: instead of going into politics, Bhagwan decides to transform India by becoming an industrialist to give his country the economy it deserves. The crux of the novel comes when the middle-aged industrialist, overworked and undersexed, meets Ma Durgeshwari, a holy woman with a pet tiger, and enjoys a reinvigorating bout of Tantric lovemaking with...
...CHARGED. KASITAH GADDAM, 56, Malaysia's Minister of Land and Cooperative Development, and ERIC CHIA ENG HOCK, 71, a prominent Malaysian industrialist; with separate alleged corruption-related offenses; in Kuala Lumpur. Kasitah served as a minister three times under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Chia, a poor fishmonger's son who built an auto-and-heavy-machinery empire, led various Mahathir-championed commercial projects. The two arrests are considered to be signs that Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, who took office in October and is expected to call elections soon, is cracking down on corruption. "My first hundred days were...
...continued the tradition for more than 30 years. After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks lost track of the eggs--there were probably 50--and when they reappeared in Western art markets (after being smuggled out of the country or sold off by the new regime), many ended up with industrialist Armand Hammer, among others...