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...industry, so his daughter has dealt for years with charges of nepotism. Being his daughter "does come with a lot of tension and, with that, pressure," says Li. "But I've worked hard to get to this stage of my career." Li, who graduated from Tsinghua University with a master's degree in engineering, helped found China Power and worked her way up from vice president. As CEO, the charismatic Li has led the company, which is 67% state-owned and one of China's top five electric-power producers, through two acquisitions. Says Li: "We have a number...
...president of TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Watkins, 51, proved his mettle as both master marketer and manager. Not only did he help turn its antacid Prevacid into a $3.2 billion über-blockbuster and double the company's annual revenues, to $4 billion; he also helped the firm clean up its act after it paid $875 million in fines and civil penalties in 2001, in part for bribing doctors to prescribe one of its drugs. Now as the new CEO of Human Genome Sciences, in Rockville, Md., Watkins has taken on a different challenge. Since HGS was founded...
...Magilno concept, to set up the link. O'Keefe established a personal friendship with Ona; so much so that he was the only white man invited to the coronation, and was permitted to film it. But on his last attempt to enter the zone, the Queensland web master was stopped at a checkpoint manned by Musingku's men and turned back. O'Keefe says that on a previous visit Richards had signed an activities agreement with Musingku, whom Richards believed had access to millions of dollars in private bank accounts. But when the business deal failed to materialize, he chartered...
...Professor of Business and Government and Dunster House Master Roger Porter watched as Dunster made their way to victory...
...manages to meet many of the epoch's most colorful and influential characters?from Chiang, whose cozy relationship with TIME's editor-in-chief Henry Luce makes Rowan wonder if his stories will be censored, to China's impressively urbane first Premier, Zhou Enlai, to the aging ink-scroll master Qi Baishi, who, fearful of the Communists' hostility to his art, locks up his paints at night and wears the key on a rope around his waist...