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...Authorities described him as a bumpkin desperate for the $15,000 fee he reportedly earned for the murder. But Aguilar insists--and underworld colleagues confirm--that he is in fact a member of a sophisticated kidnapping ring that abducts not for ransom but for hire--usually by politicians, businessmen or criminals who want to scare rivals into submission. Aguilar was highly trained for the ring's SWAT-style ops--to fly single-engine planes, for instance, and belay from a helicopter. "We weren't like the sloppy ransom kidnappers," he says. "We had an honor code...that dictated that...
Less amusing is the number of intellectuals, businessmen and political leaders who gave eugenics their blessing or fervid support. The list begins with Darwin, who in The Descent of Man praised his cousin Galton and decreed that genius "tends to be inherited." Other champions included the young Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Alexander Graham Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Roosevelt and the usually taciturn Calvin Coolidge, who declared during his vice presidency that "Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races...
...charitable foundations. Earlier this month he donated $100 million in cash toward vaccinating children in the developing world. It was just one of numerous conspicuous gifts made in 1998. Among them: Armenian-American billionaire financier Kirk Kerkorian's $200 million in aid to earthquake-ravaged Armenia, and businessmen Ted Forstmann and John Walton's $100 million fund to subsidize private-school scholarships for inner-city students...
...Justice prosecutor David Boies has countered that the merger was a last resort for Netscape -- a direct consequence of the beating it took because of Microsoft's underhanded grab for market share. And regardless of the new world order, the image of one of the world's most brilliant businessmen pretending not to understand the simplest questions about his own company will be hard to dispel. A new playing field doesn't mean you didn't cheat...
...first glance, the business world of the 20th century would not seem a propitious breeding ground for eccentricity. Businessmen and -women, in the main, pride themselves on probity, predictability. "Sober" and "well-rounded" are considered compliments. Little wonder, then, that a hectare of executives contains fewer kooks than just about any other sampling of humanity. Compared with poets and philosophers, bankers and industrialists have been relatively late adopters of berets, ferrets and home brewing. Yet, even so, the century has hatched its share of "true originals"--some of whom won fame and fortune, others who left only a gaudy afterglow...