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...already tried. On her second day, after instruction from Mama San on how to apply makeup and satisfy a client, a drunken Bangkok businessman beat her when she complained he was being too rough. She fled when she was released from the hospital. "I went to the temple," she says, pointing to the golden stupas on a hill high above the eastern outskirts of Mae Sai. "Mama San paid the police to come and arrest me. They held me there with only bread and water for three days. After that I was too afraid to run away. Mama San knows...
...return of the stone sculptures was cause for celebration: Mamoru Kusaka, the Japanese businessman who owned them, had decided they rightfully belonged in Korea. But Koreans are acutely aware of how much of their cultural patrimony remains in exile. From the late 19th century until Japan's defeat in World War II, Japanese colonial officials and private collectors amassed at least 100,000 artifacts and cultural treasures from all corners of the Korean peninsula. Japanese looters and government-sponsored archaeologists violated the tombs of Korea's Kings and Queens, plundering finely worked gold jewelry, jade pendants and delicate celadon bowls...
CLAUDIO DEL VECCHIO Bespoke Businessman...
...state of politics was "far from ideal"; it didn't directly point the finger at MalacaNang, but the seemingly calculated ambiguity allowed others to do so. The favorite charge is that she's no different from Estrada?or not different enough ("same dog with a different collar," says businessman Zobel, who predicts some kind of mass uprising before the summer is out). One of her first Cabinet nominations was a former general who was being investigated for corruption. Accusations against her husband?for steering government money to favored Senate campaigns, and for taking bribes?have likewise been damaging...
America lost more than a businessman Monday night when Dave Thomas, patriarch of the fast food giant Wendy's, died at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the age of 69. It lost a social activist, author, and an instantly-recognizable TV personality. Thomas, who lost a lengthy battle with liver cancer, was a leading proponent of adoption awareness, and dedicated much of his time and wealth to the cause. He was also a celebrity of sorts, as the result of appearing in the burger chain's humorous commercials. In addition, he authored two books detailing his life, success...