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...purposefully across the terminal and started talking to her. She did not know the man, she says, recounting the story, but he knew her--knew, at least, what she had once been--and he had something urgent to say. "You've spent enough time with your family now," the stranger, earnest and friendly, told Karen Hughes. "They need you back at the White House...
Rudolf Amenga-Etego is no stranger to conflict. As a college student in the early 1980s, Amenga-Etego protested Ghana's military rule; government officials threw him in prison and threatened to execute him. A sympathetic army captain helped him escape. These days he's fighting global institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The subject of his protests: water...
...stranger to offensive eruptions, Bernakevitch—who has notched 10 points since joining the line—has come on strong since exam break, with 18 points to his name since January...
...other Iraqis, al-Jalili routinely veers from optimism to apprehension. He drives to work in a new government car but nervously checks for potential gunmen in any vehicle that draws alongside him. He can afford to call his uncle in Texas on his new cell phone, but when a stranger at a cigarette stand cast an odd glance at him recently, al-Jalili dialed several friends to escort him home. "The roofs of Mosul are covered with new satellite dishes, and the streets are littered with Pepsi cans and banana skins," says al-Jalili, ticking off some of the items...
Sage, the new COO of Tata Technologies, the automotive-software division of India's largest conglomerate, is no stranger to the world stage. During his two-decade career at IBM, he not only helped design a Mercedes plant in Alabama but also merged GM's information technology with its South Korean partner, Daewoo Motors. At Tata, Sage plans to cash in on outsourcing; a group of Tata engineers is already writing code for GM and Chrysler. A carpenter's grandson, Sage, 51, leaves behind more than IBM as he departs for India; he now has to sell the log cabin...