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When he was in his late 20s, Ernesto Bertarelli had the world at his feet. A passionate yachtsman, he was handsome and wealthy, on his way to getting a Harvard M.B.A., and his girlfriend was a former beauty queen. But when his father Fabio fell sick with cancer, Ernesto had to grow up fast. In 1996 he took over Serono, a fertility-drug company Fabio had built up after inheriting it from his father. If anybody inside or outside the Geneva-based company had doubts about the succession, those doubts quickly disappeared. Under the younger Bertarelli's leadership, Serono...
...Another serious Arab concern is what Jordan's Queen Rania calls the "hope gap." Apart from fearing the consequences of a new war, Arabs are depressed by their inability to do anything to prevent the American attack. Arab anti-war protests have been notably smaller than those in Western countries, but only because Arab governments have severely curtailed them. Governments in the Arab League, torn by dissension over how strongly to oppose the U.S. plans, couldn't even get it together this week to send a promised peace mission to Baghdad...
...toughest problem facing any President since Abraham Lincoln." On that day, 41 looked up at the wall in the President's study and once again saw what he calls "a glorious picture." The painting, by George Healy, depicts a meditative Lincoln meeting in 1865 on board the River Queen, anchored in the James River near Richmond, Va., with Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter. The picture is named The Peacemakers, and the men are planning the end of the Civil War. In the small window behind Lincoln, the viewer can see a rainbow...
DIED. SIR HARDY AMIES, 93, Savile Row designer who clothed Queen Elizabeth for four decades; in Langford, England. London's most successful couturier (with model Faraday, above), he was a self-described snob who disdained strapless gowns and resisted critics who would have the Queen look more chic, insisting her understated style suited her. "I'm for elitism and its survival," he said...
...said that, since winning the pageant last year, he had acted in a movie called Crouching Tiger Hidden Drag Queen. He also complained about having failed with his “world peace” platform, and said that he came back sore from visiting American troops in Afghanistan, who he said had not seen their wives in a long time...