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...Frankfurt ghetto where the fortune started, the paterfamilias, onetime coin dealer Mayer Amschel Rothschild, left a last commandment to his five sons: Maintain absolute unity. In later years the brothers quarreled often but obeyed their father. They wrote to one another voluminously in the privacy of almost indecipherable Judendeutsch (German written in Hebrew characters) and bailed one another out. Hard times for James in Paris brought Nathan's London to the rescue, and so on--meaning that the Rothschilds, a power unto themselves, could usually float above the fates of individual nations and regimes...
Almost half a century before Ray Kroc sold a single McDonald's hamburger, Ford invented the dealer-franchise system to sell and service cars. In the same way that all politics is local, he knew that business had to be local. Ford's "road men" became a familiar part of the American landscape. By 1912 there were 7,000 Ford dealers across the country...
Perhaps the most chilling moment comes when Starr defends his staff for telling Lewinsky she risked 27 years' imprisonment if she called her lawyer. He explains that she was "a felon in the middle of committing another felony." Is she an Uzi-wielding drug dealer? Detective Sipowicz couldn't have put it better...
...baby girl hanging by her hands from a clothesline at six months and tumbling in her first gymnastics class at age three. It paid off. Soon after her 10th birthday, they left their jobs in Tampa, Fla.--Camelia worked in a hair salon, Dumitru as a used-car dealer--to follow her to the Houston gym of legendary trainer Bela Karolyi to preside over her vault into the spotlight. In a best-selling autobiography written on the eve of the Atlanta Olympics, Dominique, 14 years old and headed for gold, thanked her parents. "I look in the mirror...
...lime daiquiri; and a third can't quite make up its mind (the siding is pumpkin orange, the trim is bright fuchsia, and the door is turquoise). And then there are the shops. A red-and-tangerine party-supply store looks like a circus tent, and an auto-parts dealer is full-body lavender...