Word: businessman
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...time erodes his physical powers and numbers the days of his pontificate, John Paul seeks strength from the friends of his youth. Several times a year, he dines with Jerzy Kluger, a Jewish classmate from Wadowice who is a businessman in Rome. Swapping stories and memories, Kluger calls the Pope by his youthful nickname, Lolek. John Paul likes to spend his vacations hiking with the Rev. Father Tadeusz Styczen (pronounced Stee-chen), the Polish philosopher who succeeded to Wojtyla's chair at the University of Lublin and plays a key role in the shaping of his encyclicals. Styczen, 62, continues...
Unexpectedly, the woman who is proving Fleiss's greatest defender is the same one who delivered Fleiss's verdict: jury foreman Sheila Mitrowski. Persuaded by the defense argument that Fleiss had been entrapped when a police detective posing as a Japanese businessman asked her to provide call girls for himself and his pals, Mitrowski, 48, had wanted to acquit Fleiss. Her view never wavered through four days of a debate that grew so rancorous she sometimes had to blow a whistle to silence the bickering. But with the weekend approaching and the jurors tiring, Mitrowski agreed to a compromise with...
Queen Elizabeth II has given a Canadian businessman the go-ahead to drill for what could be one of Europe's largest onshore oil deposits -- right on the grounds of her cherished Windsor Castle. The would-be driller, Canuk Exploration Ltd. director Desmond Oswald, promised yesterday that the exploratory drilling will be a half-mile distant from the queen's ancestral home and won't mar her view of the family parkland. He didn't precisely address what would happen if the hoped-for 100 million barrels of oil starts gushing out. "I don't believe...
...Rubin, 56, gained fame as one of the Chicago Seven who led bloody protests against the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, then wore judicial robes into court -- inviting nearly 200 contempt citations -- while being tried on conspiracy charges in connection with the riots. He later became a tailored businessman, selling health foods and networking on Wall Street, and once said he cut his hair and shaved so people would listen.Post your opinion on theSocietybulletin board.Copyright 1994Time...
...collector while still in his teens. Then he collected a hockey team, collected a football team, collected race horses, collected Rolls-Royces and five residences and a private jet and well-placed friends -- collected, all told, a worldwide reputation as an expert in antiquities, a nice guy, a canny businessman and a fine judge of athletes and horseflesh...