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...just the superrich who are spending like drunken sailors. According to Marquis Jet CEO Bill Allard, his clientele extends beyond athletes and entertainers. "We have people in their 20s up into their 80s. We have people who haven't necessarily built up their nest eggs, and then we've got billionaires," he says. "When you look at the growth in luxury brands, first you have to look at the economy, and obviously it has really revived over the last year. But there is a premium in terms of quality of life. People are saying 'I've worked hard...
...Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.), could recall whether anyone at the I.N.C. had discussed the U.S.'s ability to intercept and decode Iran's secret communications. The Iraqi, who knew Franklin's name but had never met him, was startled by the call. "How about discussing Iranian codes with a drunken American? Had anyone ever done that?" Franklin wanted to know. For nearly half an hour, Franklin quizzed him about Pentagon officials and Iranian spycraft. "That was really scary," recalls the Iraqi. "I told him, 'I don't remember anything...
...skin running from his left temple down to the corner of his mouth. "Thirty-four stitches," he says, then spreads his jaws and taps his upper teeth. "Not real." The scars are reminders of a 1988 Bangkok accident in which Nikorn's car was sideswiped by a drunken 18-year-old driving a pickup truck...
...another, and another. Eight tables and countless cups later, he is red faced, still screaming chants and bear-hugging an unfortunate reporter. When dancing girls in short skirts and blond wigs start jiggling to ear-numbing Korean pop music, the tireless Kim, 59, cavorts in a mosh pit of drunken workers near a makeshift stage. Later he ascends the stage himself, microphone in hand, to croon out a popular oldie called Nui (Sister). "We love our CEO," says Kim Young Kee, an LG executive vice president. "He shows us a good time." CEOs rarely stoop to carouse with the common...
...wake of the indictments, the behavior of Enron's former management team has run the gamut from arrogant (this spring Causey asked a judge to unfreeze some of his assets to pay for a country-club membership) to paranoid (in April, Skilling got picked up by police following a drunken scuffle in which he accused fellow bar patrons of being undercover FBI agents) to surprisingly defiant. Lay launched a p.r. blitz last week, using a post-indictment press conference to express grief at his failure to save the company while angrily proclaiming his innocence. "Failure does not equate...