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...state officials took steps "to cover up these disappearances" and "may themselves be involved." All such charges have been flatly denied by Lukashenko and his aides. In public, Belarusian citizens display a remarkable indifference to the rigors of their life. At home, though, they're grumbling. Alex, a small businessman who refused to give his last name, says he envies the freedom people have "to make money and live" in Ukraine. "They don't have to pay bribes now, they are no longer afraid of the police, fire inspectors, tax officials and other extortionists," he says. Tanya Trupsh...
Indeed, he is known for diamond dealing on the highest level, jumping on his private jet to sell stones to heads of state and, once, jetting off to his yacht in the Mediterranean with $150 million worth of stones in his pocket to rendezvous with a U.S. businessman on a less traveled stretch of sea between Italy and France. Of course, he sold all three of the famous stones he was carrying that...
...most reductive form, Syriana is about a businessman (Matt Damon) mixed up with oil sheiks, a poor Pakistani (Mazhar Munir) desperate to give meaning to his life and death, a CIA agent (George Clooney) on the trail of terrorists and a very big oil deal...
...Death" [Oct. 24], on the Iraqi insurgent who trains suicide bombers. Although we know that people like that terrorist instructor are at work, I was nevertheless appalled by the explicit facts of his activities. What dismayed me most was your treatment of him as some sort of modern businessman. You utterly failed to categorize him as a raving psychopathic murderer, a class to which he belongs. Carl Templin Johannesburg...
...From this humble beginning, the company has become an international force with sales of $230 million a year. Along the way, there were innovations and successes as well as botched shipments, lawsuits, and other setbacks. The one constant was Chouinard, who has reviled the idea of being an ordinary businessman throughout the years. “I continued to practice my MBA theory of management, management by absence,” he writes, “while I wear-tested our clothing and equipment in the most extreme conditions of the Himalayas and South America.”Chouinard?...