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Then, at 7:14 p.m., a group of people made hushing noises and suddenly the retail space was eerily quiet...
...financing of Enron and to the tainted stock research of former telecom analyst Jack Grubman that helped feed the stock-market bubble. There's also plenty of skepticism, even inside the firm, that Prince is anything more than a seat warmer to get through this turbulent period. A quiet man and a consummate insider, Prince also faces a personal challenge: he will have to step out of his shell to lead a complex company with $1 trillion in assets spanning more than 100 countries...
...some ways CEO purgatory has been a familiar place for Prince, a quiet lifetime sidekick who once postponed his kidney surgery to help Weill close a deal. He has always been on hand when Weill is taking a bow. But he is the man on whom Weill has relied consistently in the crunch. "I've seen Sandy turn to Chuck over and over again," says a banker who has worked with both men. And Prince's willingness to recognize the good work of others and even let them take credit endears him to many...
Every summer, as the hordes amass along France's Mediterranean coast, savvy travelers head southwest to the Atlantic and the relative quiet of the Bay of Biscay. There, in the region known as Basque Country, flat beaches give way to the soaring Pyrenees, which separate France and Spain. Those willing to forgo the glitz of the Cote d'Azur will be rewarded with splendid outdoor activities, including some of the best fly fishing to be found...
...When Lewis died last week at the age of 95, the world remembered him for the seamless polish of his prose, the quiet subversion of his deadpan wit and, perhaps, for the fortitude, stoicism and sense of curiosity that had once been Britain's best contribution to the world-at-large. Yet those of us in Asia owe him a particular debt for his two post-war books, A Dragon Apparent and Golden Earth, which caught Vietnam, Laos and Burma as they will never be seen again. Even more than in his novels, in his study of the Mafia...