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...Victor Li is the presumed heir to the business empire of his father, billionaire Li Ka-shing, but he hasn't lost his taste for construction sites. The Stanford-trained engineer occasionally slips away from his deputy chairman's office at Cheung Kong Holdings to schmooze with fellow engineers at half-built apartment blocks. He brings that hands-on spirit to Cheung Kong and sister company Hutchison Whampoa. In addition to property, Hong Kong's biggest conglomerate controls third-generation mobile-phone networks in Europe as well as the world's largest port operation. In Hong Kong...
...father, on the 70th floor, guides strategy. Some investors wonder if the relatively unknown Li can effectively succeed his father, 75, whose net worth Forbes estimates at $7.8 billion. Still, it is widely assumed that Li--and not his younger brother, telecom tycoon Richard Li--is next in line. Victor avoids the issue but notes how much he's like Dad. "We almost always arrive at similar conclusions," he says. That may be a result of close tutoring. Father and son share a house--Victor, his wife and three daughters on one floor, Dad on the other. --By Michael Schuman/Hong...
...epic musical makes its way to Boston for the seventh time since its 1985 London debut. Les Mis, a self-described tale of “the passion and triumph of the human spirit,” bases itself on Victor Hugo’s celebrated novel and tells the story of Jean Valjean, a noble fugitive, and his run-ins with determined policeman Javert. 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets $28-$85. Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street...
...intrepid Harvard Early Music Society had to go digging in the bowels of Widener before they could produce the play. Somehow, while searching Hollis, Musical and Orchestral Restorer Victor Fell Yellin ’49 discovered that one keyboard score of the show had survived there all this time. He went on to restore the operetta for this production, and did a winning job. Moreover, the work was remarkably well executed by Music Director Marisa W. Green ’04, who rose above the well-known difficulties of working with a hastily assembled orchestra...
...people who had summer internships, people who are going into the industry,” says Boris Gokhfeld ’04, who got a summer internship at Merrill Lynch through OCS last year. Believe it or not, not every high-paying job is also a snug fit. As Victor Y. Amoo ’05, co-president of Aspiring Minority Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs and a recruiting enthusiast, says, “Make sure that at the end of the day you’re going to what company and what industry makes you happy...