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During fiscal year 2007, the first full-year with El-Erian at the helm, the endowment returned 23 percent, ballooning from $29.2 billion to $34.9 billion. A search for El-Erian's successor will begin immediately, a press release said...
...Back in May, Valentino told TIME that he was thinking of retiring and was waiting for a successor to be chosen. He said that his preferences were Nicholas Ghèsquiere of Balenciaga or Alexander McQueen. "Someone who knows fashion," he explained, although it is unclear how much say the couturier really had in the choice, given that Permira had already targeted Facchinetti when they closed the deal on the Valentino purchase...
...APEC's challenge - getting countries of vastly different levels of economic development on the same page - is the same one that faces the world as it begins to plan a successor to Kyoto, which expires in 2012. For all its path-breaking importance, Kyoto was flawed because it proved unacceptable to Washington and put no clear demands on major developing countries like China, which has just passed the U.S. as the world's top emitter. If Howard's aspirational goals - which emphasize clean technology and energy efficiency over hard emissions caps - get Beijing and Washington talking at the same table...
...using the international carbon market to fund tree preservation. "Having the world's third-largest emitter leading a group of nations on climate change doesn't break the U.S.-China logjam, but it does put pressure on it," says Petsonk. With the U.N. set to begin talking about a successor to Kyoto at climate change talks in Bali at the end of the year, every bit of pressure counts...
...closest aide. Armed with a vast web of informers, Basri repeatedly quashed popular uprisings in the '80s and '90s. ("I'm not Jesus Christ," he once said. "If someone slaps my right cheek, I do not turn the left.") Fired in 1999 by Hassan's son and successor, Mohammed VI, he died in self-imposed exile in Paris of a lung infection...