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Sawiris is no bootstrap entrepreneur. He comes from a wealthy Coptic Christian family. His father Onsi made his fortune in Egypt in the 1950s in the construction industry but then lost it all when President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the business in the early '60s. After living in Libya, the family moved back to Egypt a decade later. There Sawiris Sr. built his fortune anew. He has since divided his empire among his three sons: Naguib, the eldest, took telecommunications; Nassef, the youngest, runs the construction business; and Samih, the middle brother, has a tourism and travel company...
...prosperity to be shared among all classes, not just the élite. Still, the streets of Tehran's better-off northern districts were like a ghost town full of zombies, with residents in shock over the accession of a little-known revolutionary and Islamic zealot. "We are doomed," said Nasser Soroudi, 33, a salesman at a photo shop. He, like many of his countrymen, believes that the new President will turn their country into "Taliban-land...
Exactly what was happening was difficult to tell. There were reports that President Ali Nasser Muhammad, 46, had been injured, that he had been killed, and that he had survived. There were rumors that four key plotters who tried to take over the government, including former President Abdul Fattah Ismail and Vice President Ali Ahmed Nasser Antar, had been executed. But the persistence of the fighting suggested otherwise. On an ideological basis, the struggle appeared to pit the pragmatic Marxist, President Muhammad, who has sought more amicable relations with his Arab neighbors and would welcome aid from such countries...
...last week's ASCO meeting reassured me that I made the right decision when I rejoined the Celebrex study. Joining the trial in the first place seemed utterly logical--I had cancer of the esophagus, and I was going to go after every advantage I could. My surgeon, Dr. Nasser Altorki, chief of thoracic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, is both a top esophageal specialist and a researcher. He has been investigating--along with my oncologist, Dr. Roger Keresztes, also at Weill--whether COX-2 inhibitors have a role in making treatment more effective...
...seen as a consensus builder, giving him an advantage over other top candidates such as former police chief Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, from the neo-conservative camp, and former Minister of Science and reformist candidate Mostafa Moin. "He's the only candidate capable of preventing extreme factionalism in Iran," says Nasser Hadian, a political science professor at Tehran University. "But he's also the only one who can broach relations with America," because only he has enough political power internally. In his two consecutive terms as Iranian President, from 1989 to 1997, Rafsanjani negotiated the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon...