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...company), half of his 50% stake in the RusAl aluminum monopoly and his stake in Aeroflot airlines. Last July, he bought Chelsea for $230 million and spent another $190 million on new players. Four months later Abramovich paid $48 million for a six-story house in Belgravia, London, to complement his $20 million estate in West Sussex in southern England and his home in St. Tropez, France. While Khodorkovsky watched from behind bars as Yukos lost 40% of its worth (taking his own net worth down with it), Abramovich topped the Sunday Times Annual Pay List as Britain...
...known as “Lorenzo the devil” in sixteenth-century Florence, the hedonistic favorite of the Duke Alessandro de Medici, his cousin and eventual assassin. Never predictable, mostly because he was perpetually drunk and always irreverent, he became a symbol of Florentine decadence, a worthy complement to the debauchery of Alessandro himself...
What if those unknowns realize their potential? What if Kevin Rogus plays strong defense to complement his deadly-accurate jump shot? What if Brian Cusworth returns from injury to become a menace in the paint, blocking shots, snatching rebounds and tantalizing opponents with a tricky hook shot? What if Matt Stehle and Michael Beal continue to perform like they did in the exhibition game...
Despite their divergent performances, the two rappers complement each other well. “[Def Jux] is a tight-knit community,” Aesop concedes—though he rejects the idea that El-P’s brand of gloomy industrial beats set the tone. “All the artists [on Def Jux] have very different sounds. Possibly there’s a similar mentality; everyone wants to make their own music...
...Generally, playing multiple sports give you good game sense, and in that way [field hockey and ice hockey] complement each other,” Pell says. “But, I would say that overall it doesn’t make me better, because I miss part of each season. It’s a sacrifice that I guess I have to make...