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...certain places or images may call up traumatic memories of the event, signs of a deep emotional shift that never wholly resolves itself. "It doesn't mean you can't go on," says Fassler, "but there are scars." The Smart family was still basking in the joy of their reunion last week. There will be time enough to tend to their wounds. --By Jeffrey Kluger
...couple of years ago, the descendants of banker Julius Baer--more than 100 of them--gathered at a Zurich restaurant for a reunion of a remarkable family. Not only does it own a controlling stake in the 112-year-old Swiss bank Julius Baer Group, which manages about $80 billion in assets, but its members still run it too. In May, Thomas Baer, a grandson of Julius', will retire as chairman and hand the post to his nephew Raymond Baer...
...other, though Franks went to high school with Bush's future wife Laura. She doesn't remember him, and their high school principal's memories aren't particularly vivid either: "You were not the brightest bulb in the socket," the retired principal remarked to the general at a recent reunion. Replied Franks: "Ain't this a great country...
Recently George H.W. Bush was at a little family reunion in the White House. Since 9/11 the father has become convinced that confronting terrorism is "the 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...
...becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil (the dark impulse to rape or murder, say) and macro-evil (the urge to genocide) achieve an ominous reunion in any bid for the apocalyptic gesture. That's the real evil that is going around...