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...laws. The money is fueling a grossly incongruous boom in luxury-home construction in Port-au-Prince and, say locals, paying for a glitzy new shopping center in more impoverished Port-de-Paix. The mall was built by Michel Oreste, 70, whom Haitian officials describe as a modern-day successor to the buccaneers who once controlled the northern coast. Oreste denies involvement in drugs, and while Haitian police say they fear that drug money is filtering into his businesses, he is not suspected of drug trafficking. "But I have many friends here involved in that business," he says, smiling...
Indeed, Welch, who will be with GE another year, seems to have already said his goodbyes. "You can be sure that they're being pursued very aggressively on the outside and are evaluating their options," he said of Nardelli and McNerney while announcing that Immelt will be his successor. It was as though he wanted to start a bidding war. Was that the consolation prize...
This isn't the presidential search of today in which a select committee will pick Neil L. Rudenstine's successor. It is instead the search of 1953--James B. Conant '13 was preparing to step down and Nathan M. Pusey was standing in the wings...
Eisenhower's election as U.S. President in 1952 not only left a vacancy in the Harvard presidency, it also set the atmosphere in which the Corporation would need to select Conant's successor...
Although Pusey was slow to recognize his own talents, many said that his past achievements indicated that he would be the perfect successor...