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...moot by the time the screaming started over the new borders. No preparations were therefore made to control the inevitable havoc. The result was a bloody birthday gift to newborn India and Pakistan as millions of people were uprooted amid massacres and murder. "I am sick with horror," Nehru would write his friend Mountbatten after visiting one affected area. More horror was to come: refugee camps everywhere and, eventually, war with Pakistan over Kashmir, an enmity, potent as nuclear bombs, that lasts to this day. Five months after independence, the idealism of the struggle for freedom was shattered when...
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...
...ville. A sharp editor would have axed it in favor of expanding some of the other stories that seem under-developed. "Cake," for example, about a disgruntled teacher who starts sharing urine-spiked cakes with his co-workers, strains to keep its head above the quicksand of the central sick joke. Only at the end does it start to get interesting when the teacher sits down with an attractive therapist. Then, abruptly, the story ends with his dismissal of her as, bizarrely, "a Freudian...
...from those places for Thailand to undergo preboarding screening. "This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide threat," said Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, director general of WHO, which last Wednesday issued its first global alert in 10 years. "The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread...
...orderly to a KMT general?until he accidentally shot a loaded gun and was cashiered. He had a nice scam fencing linen in Nanjing; then the Japanese took control of China. Charles was jailed and forced to watch executions. The sight of beheadings made even this tough guy sick. Still, Charles was lucky. A relative with connections sprang him from jail, and by fleeing to Chongqing province after Japanese air raids killed his parents, he missed the Japanese army's vile rape of Nanjing...