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...passed over in favor of elder brother Victor, now 35, as heir apparent to the Li empire; and of the differing styles of father and son. The father is reclusive, cordial, traditional and lives in the same house he bought for $13,000 in the 1960s. Richard likes junk food, can be blunt with subordinates, is building a lavish mansion and flew Whitney Houston to Hong Kong for his millennium party. (One trait the duo share is a penchant for being seen with beautiful women; Ka-shing is a widower, and Richard has never married.) When asked which businessman...
...send it to?" Dad asked. "Our home, Hamra Street, Concord Building, eighth floor, across from Saint John's Church," I told him. "Of course I didn't get it," he said. "They bombed the church." Europeans seem to agree that Lebanon is a special case. In the 1960s a group of experts was commissioned to study Lebanon's economy. Their conclusion: We have no idea how the country works, but we recommend that no changes be made...
Last week a jury ordered Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds to pay $20 million in punitive damages to a dying ex-smoker who picked up the habit after the Surgeon General's warning began appearing on cigarette packs in the late 1960s. Warning or not, the juries have primed the pump and Big Tobacco is going to pay. The tobacco companies are already paying $246 million in an out-of-court settlement to the states for the health costs of smoking--with this ruling, any smoker could feel the legal costs are worth the chance at a day in court...
...show and fraternized the rest of the year on special club nights. Other than the creation of the Kroks in 1944 by a group of four guys who liked hanging out in the second floor bar, little of lasting significance occurred. But things began to change in the late 1960s and early 1970s when counterculture found a foothold at Harvard...
...spirit of liberalism, students who did decide to join wanted to widen the scope of membership to include a greater number and range of people. Newell Flather '61, who served on the selection committee as vice president of the Pudding, says the application process in the early 1960s was simple. When the committee went over applications, they established a rule: "If someone on the committee knew them and liked them, they would be elected. If someone of the committee didn't like them, they would not be elected unless there was a groundswell of support...