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...only are most of the stolen items from the 363-piece Croesus Treasures still missing. But one of the men arrested in the plot is the same man who was hailed in 1993 as a hero for bringing back the collection (dating from 560 to 546 B.C.) from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art after a lengthy, multimillion-dollar legal battle. Turkish curator Kazim Akbiyikoglu, along with six others, was arrested for stealing the famous Croesus gold brooch (shaped like a seahorse) and several coins and replacing them with well-crafted fakes...
...name only." And Richard Scrushy, CEO of HealthSouth Corp., "thought his financial officers, though aggressive, were operating within the confines of the law." It is stunning how men who claim to be so clueless came to run huge companies and earn salaries that would make Croesus blush. I would like the board of directors of any corporation looking for a new ceo to know that I am available and ignorant - just the qualifications, apparently, to get me a job at the top. Allen J. Schuler Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Classy and Controversial Your story on the success of U.S. secretary...
...name only." And Richard Scrushy, CEO of HealthSouth Corp., "thought his financial officers, though aggressive, were operating within the confines of the law." It is stunning how men who claim to be so clueless came to run huge companies and earn salaries that would make Croesus blush. I would like any corporation looking for a new CEO to know that I am available and ignorant--just the qualifications, apparently...
...film] has a lot to do with the nature of wanting to be famous," says Scorsese, "the nature of wanting to be a star." Beyond that, though, he sees his flyer in classic terms: as Croesus or Midas, with a golden curse, or as Icarus, flying too close to the sun on waxy wings. Above all, The Aviator, expensively set in the America of the 1920s, '30s and '40s, promises to be as grandly aspiring as its subject, and this being a Martin Scorsese film, full of grim foreshadowings as well. "The seeds of his own destruction are right inside...
...there's a point to it. It's hard to defend the deception of Joe Millionaire--which set up 20 women to court construction worker Evan Marriott by telling them he was a multimillionaire--as hilarious as its fool's-gold chase can be. Even the show's Potemkin Croesus contends that producers hid the show's premise from him until the last minute. "The day before I left for France, I signed confidentiality papers which said what the show was about," Marriott tells TIME. "At that point, could I really back out?" Others are concerned about the message...