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Dele recovered from depression and a 1992 suicide attempt to play eight seasons with five teams, including a stint with Michael Jordan and the 1997 World Champion Chicago Bulls. But in 1999 he gave up the remaining $35 million on his contract, telling his agent he was going to do something "to make the world better." So it seemed as if he might have embarked on another existential adventure when he disappeared in waters near Papeete, Tahiti. Surely he was reading Sartre on some remote beach. But authorities inspecting his abandoned yacht last week found blood traces and gunpowder residue...
...upstate New York, he joined the Navy, where he gained his first merchandising experience as a supply officer during the Vietnam War. He made his mark at P&G overseeing the successful launch of Liquid Tide in 1984, and made an even bigger impression during his three-year stint in Asia in the mid-'90s, building the company's now booming business in China almost from the ground up and resuscitating its faltering cosmetics business in Japan...
Perez's army career wasn't supposed to turn out like this. A child of Texas' Rio Grande Valley and the grandson of four Mexican immigrants, Perez had seen a stint in the Army--safely in the rear--as his ticket to college. When he enlisted in 1991, his father Ramiro had a warning for the recruiter: "If he ends up in the infantry," he said, only half-joking, "I'll break your legs." So Perez became a supply soldier, responsible for making sure the men on the front lines got their beans, bullets and boots...
...parents and three sisters for Fort McClellan, Ala. There he fell in love with a college student named La Donia Miller, the woman who would become his wife. Despite his dad's warnings, he also fell in love with the idea of becoming a warrior. A three-year stint in Germany--tagging along on road marches, soaking up the camaraderie of Desert Storm veterans--led him to re-enlist. While in Europe, he spent six months in Bosnia. Suddenly the supply guy "was in full battle rattle, doing patrols," he says. "I loved being out there with them guys...
During his three-year stint as Swiss envoy to Berlin, Borer, 45, did just that. He and his wife Shawne Fielding, 34, a former Texas beauty queen, became fixtures on the German capital's party circuit and in the popular press. Establishment figures back home may have been perturbed by Fielding's appearance in a German magazine photo spread, but Borer makes no apology for the shots of his glamorous blonde wife in a strapless gown astride a horse and toting toy guns in a red miniskirt - a dollar sign above her cleavage - on the roof the newly refurbished embassy...