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...came to the bluegrass pastures of Lexington, Ky., to build a $5.2 million 18th century French-style horse farm for a Canada-based relative. Charmed by the quiet, order and beauty, he stayed on with his American wife Mary Lou and their two children and became a Thoroughbred racehorse broker for absentee owners. He has rented a house with an option to buy, and intends to apply for citizenship. Says Bohsali: "I don't think anybody who has come here would ever want to leave." To a growing number of the world's wealthy, the sentiment makes increasingly good horse...
...part, this blind faith in academic achievement stems from the normal yearning of all immigrants to bootstrap their families into the comforts of middle-class American life. But it also bespeaks a deeper ethic permeating many Asian societies. Says Yong-Il Yi, 55, a New York City real estate broker from Seoul: "In Asia, if you don't have a higher education, you are a second-class citizen...
ENGAGED. Liv Ullmann, 46, Norwegian actress of stage and screen (Dangerous Moves), autobiographer (Choices) and emissary for unicef; and Donald L. Saunders, 50, Boston real estate broker; at her summer retreat near Sandefjord, on Norway's south coast. It will be the second marriage for Ullmann, who also had a long relationship with Swedish Filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, the father of her daughter Linn...
...Taiwanese who now lives in Queens, runs a gift shop -- for now. Business turnover in Flushing, he says, "is very high. We are all so competitive. One year in business before selling out is not unusual." As soon as Ou sells, he plans to become a real estate broker...
...were anxious to end the hostage stalemate under terms that bolstered the position of Nabih Berri, the Amal militia leader who in effect hijacked the Americans from their original hijackers. For Assad, Berri and his Amal movement play a vital role in Assad's long campaign to become power broker and peacemaker among Lebanon's warring factions. While Amal currently commands the allegiance of most of Lebanon's estimated 1.2 million Shi'ites, its leadership has come under intense pressure from far more radical and fundamentalist Shi'ite factions, especially a group called Hizballah (Party of God), which has strong...