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...rating to negative from stable, citing a fraught political and global environment. "The Turkish economy is in a major transformation with high efficiency gains, whose impact will be even more evident in the next decade," asserts Suzan Sabanci, chairwoman of Akbank, Turkey's largest privately owned bank, and a scion of one of Turkey's wealthiest families. "Global events will have an influence on the Turkish economy," she notes. "But I do not expect them to be dramatic...
...delightful company. Australian novelist Kathy Lette says "there's a loving, frivolous side of him," and describes a surprise party Brown organized for his wife Sarah that started with Lette and other female friends including J.K. Rowling hiding, giggling, behind Downing Street's formal furnishings. But as a scion of his nation's Calvinist tradition and the son of a Church of Scotland Minister, Brown grew up marinated in duty - which has perhaps contributed to the dour image the British press has long bestowed...
...Kilpatrick resigns or is found guilty of the charges before his term expires next year, he will be succeeded by Kenneth V. Cockrel Jr., 42, the well-regarded president of Detroit's city council who is, like the mayor, a scion of a powerful Michigan political family. In an interview with TIME Monday, Cockrel said that as long as Kilpatrick remains in office with the charges pending, "it will have an impact on how we're viewed around the world, by people who'll think twice about doing business in our city." Cockrel voted in favor of the city council...
...bought it because I want to be the best in the world.' SAEED KHOURI, 25, scion of a wealthy Abu Dhabi real estate family, after spending $14 million at a charity auction for a license plate that displays the number...
...roomful of foreign policy experts at the Middle East Institute that the 34-year-old cleric was a "deeply troubled young man" who is spending most of his time in Iran watching events in Iraq move "beyond his ability to influence." Those are strong words about the surviving scion of a revered religious family who has proven time and again to be a thorn in the side of U.S. efforts in Iraq...