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...helped midwife the Northern Irish peace, and Richard Holbrooke, the brash, Balkan knucklebuster and current U.N. Ambassador--Ross is far and away the most modest. While Holbrooke is known for his deft use of sycophancy and insinuation--key tools of diplomacy when used properly--Ross uses a different method. "Dennis makes up for that lack of flattery and manipulation through trust and discretion," says a former confidant...
Along with a strategy, those passing on businesses need to follow an organized plan. They should seek advice from an estate-planning attorney and a financial planner who are experienced in working with family-owned small businesses. Experts say each family has to evaluate which method of succession is best for its particular needs and for its type of business. A trusted board of directors, of whom half are family members, should assist in the succession plan. "Too many entrepreneurs work in the business, not on the business," says Eddy. "This is where an impartial board can help with...
Mugezi's uncanny omniscience takes some getting used to, but the effort is worth making. Isegawa's method of portraying a broad swath of national history through the wise eyes of a young observer has its precedent in such reality-bending epics as Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Mugezi and all the members of his extended family play out, in microcosm, the upheavals of postcolonial Africa: the diaspora from stable rural societies into hectic cities governed by money rather than loyalties. Mugezi learns that he must be devious and tough simply...
...John Paul Stevens, 80; Sandra Day O'Connor, 70; and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 67 (all have battled cancer)--belong to the court's 6-to-3 pro-choice majority. Anthony M. Kennedy, usually counted among the six, dissented last week because, like many Americans, he finds the partial-birth method particularly abhorrent. Assuming Kennedy settles back into the pro-choice camp, if Stevens and O'Connor step down during a Bush presidency and are replaced by pro-life Justices, the 6-to-3 majority in favor of choice would become a 5-to-4 majority in favor of overturning...
...while Yale's method has its allure, administrators say Harvard's House tradition and advising system make the proposal unlikely to be enacted here...