Word: umbertos
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...every second ? anything that isn't a hindrance is considered neutral." But with 100,000 copies sold since April, Saviano is no longer considered neutral, and no longer safe. After getting death threats from the local organized crime syndicate, he's keeping a low profile under 24-hour guard. Umberto Eco has compared the situation to the Islamic fatwa against Salman Rushdie, but the mob's violent persecution of muckrakers is, in fact, a particularly Italian legacy. "You need journalists," says Giovanni De Mauro, a Rome magazine editor whose journalist uncle was killed by the mob. "But then the battle...
...death of that formidable figure and of Gianni's younger brother Umberto Agnelli, both from cancer within 16 months, created the vacuum that forced Elkann--the eldest child of Gianni Agnelli's daughter Margherita and French-Italian writer Alain Elkann--to step to the fore ahead of schedule. He did so amid a two-year corporate crisis that began in 2002 when weak management damaged brand image and forced a $3.8 billion bank bailout to stave off potential bankruptcy. "If the situation had been different, I might have had more time to ease into the job. But I was forced...
...spoke with Time about his rapid rise in Italy's leading business family, Fiat's struggle to adapt to a shifting global playing field, and a young man's relationship with his famous silver-haired grandfather. The death of this formidable figure and of Gianni's younger brother Umberto Agnelli, both from cancer within a 16-month span, created the vacuum that forced Elkann - the eldest child of Gianni Agnelli's daughter Margherita and French-Italian writer Alain Elkann - to step to the fore ahead of schedule. He did so amid the company's two-year crisis that came...
...great sense of responsibility," Kissinger told Time. "I've seen, in the past few years, he has managed several crises with extreme dignity and wisdom." Such leadership is vital in a dynasty with a Kennedyesque whiff of tragedy. The originally anointed successor to Gianni Agnelli was Umberto's eldest son, Giovanni Alberto, who died rather suddenly from fast-spreading stomach cancer in 1997 at 33. Gianni's only son, Edoardo, who battled depression and did not partake in the family business, committed suicide by jumping from an overpass in 2000. Just last year, Elkann's younger brother, Lapo, head...
...This is a great advantage," Montezemolo says of Elkann. More than ever now, the dynasty's future will be anchored by the eldest Elkann, known to friends and family as "Jaki." But it won't always be smooth sailing. His second cousin, Andrea Agnelli, also 30, son of Umberto and a Fiat board member, publicly contested Elkann's decision to up the family stake in the automaker. Differences of opinion are part of every family, Elkann notes, but insists that he aims to bring all into the fold, citing his grandfather's views. "He believed that leadership is consensus," Elkann...