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Nowhere is Greenberg's standing more firm than in China, where the forerunner company to AIG was founded in 1919 in Shanghai by the most important figure in his career, Cornelius Vander Starr, who hired Greenberg in 1960. Even though AIG had to shut down its operations in China in 1950 after the communists took over, Greenberg never lost sight of those roots and was thrilled when his company in 1998 reclaimed one of its original offices on the Bund in Shanghai. Ahead of most, he understood the vast economic potential of China and advocated for better relations to every...
...death of his son, Pedro, whom he calls Pedrito. The Antioquia Museum in Medellín contains a room dedicated to Pedro, who was killed at the age of 4 when a truck rammed into Botero's car in Spain during a family vacation. Juan Carlos recalls his father shut in his Paris studio for weeks after the accident, inconsolable. Even now, 31 years on, Botero can hardly bear to discuss his loss. Botero says the tragedy destroyed his relationship with Pedro's mother - he is now married to the Greek sculptor Sophia Vari - and drove him into a depression...
...just too confusing." Because there were too few guards, she says, each had to fulfill a different mission, depending on how an attack unfolded. "One person could have as many as seven places to go," she says. When Davidson complained, she says, she was told "to keep my mouth shut, that nothing was going to change." Since the plant's post-9/11 security plan took effect last fall, she tells TIME, there have been 29 in-house classroom exercises--with members of the guard force split into groups of "attackers" and "defenders"--designed to show how well the guards...
...power in the age of terrorism. The U.S. has been criticized for mistreating Gitmo prisoners and denying their rights at a facility Amnesty International has controversially called the "gulag of our time." Along with lawmakers and human-rights groups, former President Jimmy Carter has called on Washington officials to shut the camp down. Even President George W. Bush told Fox News last week that his Administration was exploring alternatives to the detention center...
...typical response is to take a low profile, the Universal School gave Time an unusual degree of access for a look inside a community searching for its identity. "We're telling our kids they're American," says Farhat Siddiqui, Universal's principal. "But the doors of opportunity have been shut since 9/11. What's the password to open them...