will be a "bit of a learning curve'' -- but it seems as if she has been training for the position her whole life. ---- Page 2 `UNIVERSAL CITIZEN' ON ISLAND TOU `Universal citizen' on Island Yirgalem (Yuri) Tadesse is Jesse Jackson's political strategist, campaigned last year for Bill Clinton and has lobbied Fidel Castro face-to-face over students' rights. And Bermudian Clement Talbot is virtually his substitute father. ---- Page 5 ACE TO KEEP DIVERSIFYING BUC ACE to keep diversifying ACE Ltd., which started life as an excess liability insurer in the mid-1980s, plans to continue to diversify its business in 1997. And that will include diversifying the reinsurance business written by Tempest Re, the Bermuda-based property catastrophe reinsurer it purchased last year. ---- Business, Page 9 SMITH THE CLASS OF THE FIELD MAR RUN Smith the class of the field Kavin Smith didn't get close to his best time, nor even his winning time of a year ago. But that was hardly surprising as he defended his Princess to Princess road race title virtually unchallenged on the event's 20th anniversary yesterday. ---- Sport, Page 17 BERMUDA TEAM OVERWHELMED RUG Bermuda team overwhelmed Bermuda's rugby players expected a baptism of fire at the World Sevens Rugby tournament in Uruguay -- and that is what they got on Saturday. ---- Sport, Page 17