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Byline: Dodie Kazanjian
Emily Rafferty was on a hiking trip in Italy last September when the call came through on her cell phone from James Houghton, the chairman of the Metropolitan Museum's board of trustees. "I'm calling to tell you that you'd better come home," he said. Not entirely surprised-Emily knew that she was under consideration for the job of president of the Met-she left her hiking boots, her husband, and the three other couples they were traveling with, flew back to New York, attended the board meeting at which she was elected the museum's fourth president (and first woman in the job), and then flew right back to Tuscany, where "I met my family and ...