On the evening of Jan. 5 Adolf Merckle, Germany's fifth-richest man, opened the door of his modest home in Blaubeuren, Germany and stepped out into the frigid air.
His fingerprint was lifted off the door of a hotel room where the man suspected of being the terrorist cell leader stayed, according to prosecutors.
And then through the door, the figure of a slender man with a long white beard and a stack of RFCs in his hands showed up.
Pc Roper was heard to get out of the patrol car and open the rear door to handcuff the man in the back.
We called them Bermanites, after their intellectual and sartorial model, an English teacher named Robert Berman: a small, thin, unsmiling man who papered over the windows of his classroom door so that no one could peek through.
The man in charge of that transition has just been shown the door.
The door opened, and a second man came in and casually sat on the edge of a couch on the other side of the room.
McKinsey, the man whose name hangs over its front door (and who died young of pneumonia in 1937), but Marvin Bower (born 1903), the most powerful influence on the firm in the 65 years from James McKinsey's death to his own, at the age of 99, in 2003.
It would be a costly pair of shoes if they blabbed about Howard, the nice man who lived next door over the garage.
Fortunately for the British, his Anglophilia survived the rebuff he received as a young man when his admiration for William Pitt the Elder had led him to knock on the door of Pitt's house in London, by then the home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
The newest man in a revolving-door job is Mark Fields, who last October was handed the task of fixing Ford's North American operations.
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