A BUSINESS TITAN-AND COVER STAR

WARREN BUFFETT'S face-always smiling, whether he's slurping a milkshake, brandishing a lasso, or palling around with fellow multibillionaire Bill Gates-has graced the cover of Fortune more than a dozen times. And it's no wonder:

- Indrani Sen

Buffett has been a towering figure in both business and investing for much of hisand Fortune's-95 years on earth. (The magazine first hit newsstands in February 1930; Buffett was born that August.) As Geoff Colvin writes in this issue, Buffett's investing genius mani