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...supporters have gathered to hear their nominee speak. For many in the excited crowd, it's their first political event. "This one feels big because the whole country is paying attention to it because it's a change in the attitude: people are fed up with Washington," says Lisa Manser, 42, a Leesburg, Va., teacher who had knocked on doors as a campaign volunteer for the first time in her life earlier that...
...than the others" is what excites him, he says. "Screw them, in a sense." He spends about a third of his workdays traveling around Europe, Asia and the Americas. The rest of the time, he is usually in back-to-back meetings with managers. "He challenges us," says John Manser, Novartis' treasurer, who meets with Vasella once a month to discuss the firm's investments. "He wants to know what sectors, what stocks--he goes to that level." Notes another top manager: "He's not a patient guy. He won't sit with you for 15 minutes as you carefully...
...last two people to see Manser alive were a Penan named Paleu and his son. When the group of three came within view of Batu Lawi, Manser asked Paleu to leave him there. Manser said he was heading to Batu Lawi...
...Bruno Manser Foundation organized its own search party, which penetrated to the foot of Batu Lawi; a helicopter circled the rock. The expedition found nothing. One major gap in all the searches still remains, however: none of the search teams was able?or willing?to follow Manser and scale the murderously difficult last 100 meters of sheer limestone that forms the tip of Batu Lawi...
...choking cloud of yellow dust. Along buries his head in his wife's white T shirt. He keeps his head pressed down long after the truck has passed, and several others have taken its place, refusing to watch, clinging onto Iot's shoulders. Perhaps it is better that Bruno Manser disappeared: the logging trucks have surrounded his best friend among the Penan, and they're not going away. Perhaps, that is exactly why Manser isn't here...