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...However, after she gave a speech on civil rights at a local meeting when she was 18 years old—“You know how 18-year-olds can sound off,” she would later recall in the New York Times—a white businessman in the audience was so impressed that he decided to finance her education...
...fascism of becoming a Green Street Hooligan—if only because I don’t work out enough—and I’m certainly never going to be taken seriously if I spout off rhymes like “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man! Let me handle my business, damn...
Spain's Audiencia Nacional sentenced the Syrian businessman Edin Barrakat, alias Abu Dahdah, alleged leader of Al Qaeda in Spain, to 27 years in jail for his role in the 9/11 attacks. His sentence is considerably less than the 74,337 years demanded by the prosecution, after Abu Dahdah was found guilty of conspiracy in an act of terrorism over 9/11, but not guilty of the murder of 2,973 victims of that day's attacks. The court sentenced 17 of Barrakat's fellow accused to between six and 11 years in jail, and acquitted the remaining...
...much of it. The chase, often gripping, also goes on too long, though the bond between Halloway and his relentless chief pursuer -- the one person he can talk to and who truly understands him -- lends an intriguing psychological edge to the action. First Novelist H.F. Saint, 46, a Manhattan businessman, clearly knows his financial world and takes it none too seriously. Analysts, brokers, commodities traders are all wickedly caricatured, and in one of the book's most fascinating passages, Halloway's invisibility affords sweet revenge on the market's greed and phoniness. In need of untraceable income, he invents...
...people who could vividly recall the arrival of the gold-seeking Australian Leahy brothers and their "giant bird" planes, the effect was hypnotic. Joe Leahy's Neighbours (1989) followed, charting the struggle of Mick Leahy's mixed-race son Joe to be both a traditional bigman and a modern businessman running a lucrative coffee plantation on Ganiga land. The cash economy was seeping into their remote world, and the Ganiga longed for Joe's wealth. Black Harvest revisited the Ganiga five years later, on the eve of the long-awaited first harvest of coffee from a joint venture with Leahy...