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...once noted: "In a country the size of Italy, a company the size of Fiat has a certain pulling power, which can reflect itself in certain things that are done in the country." Agnelli's business losses were compounded by personal ones. A year after he had chosen his nephew Giovanni Alberto to be his heir at Fiat's helm, the 33-year-old died of cancer, in 1997. Three years later, Gianni's own son Edoardo Agnelli committed suicide by leaping from a viaduct. Fiat today could surely use some of the old Agnelli style. Gianluca Pediconi, an analyst...
...Although he was raised a Catholic in an East Timor village and was originally named Roberto Freitas, the 39-year-old Hasan became a Muslim when he was still a teenager. He is not the only Indonesian running questionable shelters for East Ti-morese children. The nephew of the former Governor of East Timor, Octavio Soares, has 156 children in his charge and has clashed frequently with U.N. officials seeking their return. Critics claim people like Soares and Hasan are motivated less by altruism and their religious beliefs than by greed. Hasan uses children "as an asset or a bargaining...
...nephew John would have been enormously honored to have the Forum in his name,” said Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.). “I know that for Caroline and his family and our family, this is the most important memorial to him the family could have imagined...
...website to help other campuses get organized against the war. Buckley concedes that the peace efforts at U.T. may have little bearing on the country's actions, but he hopes that they will at least catch the ear of the President, whose daughter Jenna is a junior and nephew George P. Bush attends the law school. Neither of the younger Bushes has participated in the campus discussions about the war. "I don't think they are particularly interested in joining this debate," Buckley says. But, he speculates, "maybe word will get to Mr. Bush that we don't want...
...shift gears professionally and write for kids. “The Zarma people have a saying: ‘One who hears something good must repeat it.’” She had been reading nightly to her three-year old niece and five-year old nephew, Lauren Petra and Harris Ned LaTeef, and came up with the idea of doing an anthology of folktales. “But if you put the tales together there’s no room for illustration,” she says. “And the perfect bridge between cultures...