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There is almost no conventional plot. The accident, which may not have been an accident, exposes a tense situation: the businessman has two wives and families. The play ends with that conflict deliberately unresolved. The chief revelations occur in flashback, and the play's hallucinatory nature makes them all a little suspect...
...black bears in American forests and a mysterious murder in Brooklyn? Answer: the burgeoning global trade in scarce animal parts, some used for exotic medical purposes. Police think that a theft of bear gallbladders may have been behind the killing last week of Lee Haeng Gu, a Korean-born businessman who was found in his apartment with his throat slashed. Lee apparently conducted a lucrative international trade in bear parts and kept his wares at home in three freezers...
...luck of the draw can mean freedom to take a different kind of risk. "I'd been trying to build a hotel," says businessman Porchia, who owned several minimarkets. "But the banks weren't interested in financing it." Then he hit California's $10.7 million jackpot in 1987. "Suddenly, financing was available," he says wryly. At 55, he enrolled in Azusa Pacific University to earn a master's degree in business administration "to maximize my investments." His 75-room Comfort Suites Hotel opened three years ago and is being followed by his large apartment development. "Every goal you ever desired...
Little Man should answer that question. Based on new research and interviews with Lansky's friends and family, the book presents an emotionally cold businessman, a survivor who exacts grudging admiration but little compassion...
With about 60 parties fielding candidates, the run-up to Poland's first truly independent parliamentary elections next weekend has been chaotic. But at least emigre businessman Stanislaw Tyminski, founder of Party X, won't be there to kick the electorate around anymore. Earlier this month he flew home to Canada, disheartened because Party X, which claims 4 million supporters, was denied a place on the national ballot on account of signatures on its qualifying petitions that were discovered to be false...