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When Kosovo Albanians first took up arms to free themselves from Serb domination in the mid-1990s, Ramush Haradinaj was working as a bouncer in a Swiss nightclub. He returned to his homeland and, on the strength of his battlefield wits and charisma, rose to become the most visible commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.), losing two brothers and surviving three wounds of his own. After the war, he launched a political party, the Alliance for the Future of Kosova (AAK), and following elections last October, at 36, he joined the ruling coalition as Prime Minister - completing the transformation...
What sets Miller apart, says McNichol, is his "supreme self-confidence; not a cockiness, just a deep rooted belief in himself and his ability." That may explain his popularity. A recent Swiss poll rated Miller the most popular skier on the mountain. He's even appreciated by his rivals. Writing in Sportwoche, an Austrian weekly, slalom ace Rainer Schoenfelder credited Miller and his versatility with keeping media attention on the old-fashioned finesse events like slalom in the X Games era. "Thank God for Bode Miller!" he said. Heading into next year's Olympics in Torino, the U.S. ski team...
...with in the 1980s. Among the shadowy middlemen involved over the years were South African Johan Meyer and German-- South African Gerhard Wisser, who allegedly helped set up a processing facility that could be shipped whole to Libya. Khan's crew tapped furnacemakers in Italy, lathemakers in Spain, and Swiss middlemen who helped design parts for construction in Southeast Asia. The network began sending Libya crateloads of equipment, routing the ships through Europe and the Persian Gulf city of Dubai before they reached their destination in Tripoli. It was an audacious enterprise, given that Western spies were on the hunt...
...more than 2 sec. each. Endowed with boyish good looks and an easygoing manner - he's known to enjoy a few beers after a race - Miller has a huge fan following, especially in ski-mad Europe. Top European skimakers like Atomic use his face to sell their products. A Swiss poll conducted last month even rated Miller the most popular skier of his generation among all age groups. Miller says he has never been able to get used to the celebrity status. His solution, though, is not to scale back on the tour but to spend more time doing what...
...been easy to poke fun at from the time the World Economic Forum, founded in 1971, first got widespread attention in the 1990s. And this year is no different, as business leaders, politicians and, O.K., some lucky inky-fingered wretches prepare to trek to the conclave in the Swiss Alps town of Davos. The annual meeting of the international business ??lite, Davos developed a reputation as a cheerleader for globalization. But by the late 1990s, it was fashionable to argue that economic integration benefits only those who live in rich countries and who work in multinational companies, able to source...