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DIED. BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD, 71, banker-benefactor; of emphysema; in Geneva. The scion of the banking dynasty oversaw operations in Paris and Geneva and gave away much of what he made, most often to Israel...
...trite-sounding plot line. Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray) is a high school actor whose ambitions landed him smack dab behind the counter of his local Blockbuster video store. His brother (Peter Gallagher of sex, lies and videotape fame), on the other hand, is a smooth talking well-dressed I-banker in London. Wallace decides to drop in on his brother for his birthday (thankfully Gallagher saves us a reprise of his recent flop To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday). The brother, James, freaks, being on the cusp of a multimillion dollar deal with the Germans" (soon virtually every nationality...
...Bonham Carter might seem enough, for her family story is one of distinction and poignant drama. Her great-grandfather H.H. Asquith was Prime Minister in the very years (1908-16) when so many of her films are set. Her father, a Harvard business school graduate, was a successful banker until, after an operation for a benign brain tumor, he suffered a paralyzing stroke. Helena has her looks from her mother, a psychotherapist of Franco-Spanish-Austro-Russian-Jewish ancestry. She lived with her parents until she was 30, when she bought an apartment a few minutes from their London home...
...Berezovsky is one of seven tycoons who between them control as much as half of Russia?s economy. Last summer, their harmonious coexistence was shattered when upstart banker Vladimir Potanin (with a loan from George Soros) scooped up a giant government-owned investment firm, upstaging a key Berezovsky ally. In months of political intrigue that followed, Chubais stepped in to back Potanin, and now appears to have persuaded Yeltsin to fire a man who is alleged to have contributed as much as $30 million to the president?s re-election campaign...
...when the world's scariest banker appeared before the congressional Joint Economic Committee, he was positively jolly. "Provided the decline in financial markets does not cumulate," he said, "it is quite conceivable that a few years hence we will look back at this episode, as we now look back at the 1987 crash, as a salutary event in terms of its implications for the macroeconomy." Quite...