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...MALAYSIAN BILLIONAIRE. The biggest winner to date in Indian gaming is surely Lim Goh Tong, the 85-year-old Chinese-Malaysian businessman who bankrolled Foxwoods in northeastern Connecticut. Foxwoods, the country's largest gaming venue, is actually a constellation of five casinos about 10 miles down the road from the Mohegan Sun. On an average day, 40,000 people pass through what was a quiet, mostly rural patch of New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indian Casinos: Who Gets The Money? | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

MEANWHILE Man Bites Croc In Malawi, businessman Mac Bosco Chawinga, 43, was swimming in Lake Malawi after a long day's work when he was attacked by a crocodile. The beast grabbed both his arms in its jaws and was dragging him into deep water when Chawinga decided to put up a fight. Make that a bite. He sank his teeth into the croc's nose, forcing the creature to spit him out in pain. Incredibly, Chawinga managed to swim to shore and safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

...world: Cuba; Turkey; Norway; even Afghanistan, where Taliban leader Mullah Omar is rumored to have escaped a U.S. bombing raid on the back of a Minsk, known locally as the "Kabul tank." When a Minsk Moto-Velo Zavod company director visited Hanoi in 1999, club members welcomed the bemused businessman with banners, cheers, chilled vodka and a 40-motorcycle escort from the airport. "There was so much dust and exhaust kicked up, he couldn't see a thing," recalls a club member. "But we think he appreciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Cut | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

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Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan and Nathaniel A. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Entrepreneur Teams With Council Veteran, Pledges Efficiency and Reform | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...Sadly, someone new may mean more of the same. While Kenyans worry about their future, both the ruling party and the opposition are fielding candidates with strong links to the past. Moi's choice to lead the ruling Kenya African National Union party (kanu) is Uhuru Kenyatta, 41, a businessman-turned-politician and son of Kenya's first President, Jomo Kenyatta. The young Kenyatta has never held a publicly elected office; he contested a seat in parliamentary elections five years ago and lost by 12,000 votes. But Moi brought him into parliament as a "nominated" M.P. anyway, and later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the New Boss | 12/8/2002 | See Source »

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