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...appeared in a movie since, say, Barack Obama was elected to the Senate. Indeed, of the Harris 10, Smith and Depp are the only two who are under 50 and had a hit movie last year. Depp fronted only the third movie in history to earn more than a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and he dropped from #2 to a seventh-place tie. Clooney can star in and direct politico-art movies, like Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck, and be an outspoken liberal just ahead of the Iraq-fatigue curve, yet he stays more...
That could take a while. Azerbaijan--which BP says stands to earn about $230 billion from BP's pipeline during the next 20 years--has rarely been independent either of Russia's influence or foreign treasure hunters. Baku's élite included the Rothschilds during the 1890s, when Azerbaijan produced half the world's oil supply. Oil production slid steadily as the Soviets let the infrastructure rot. Today hundreds of rusted oil derricks and pump jacks, many predating World War II, cram the seafront outside Baku like a scrap-metal forest, with old Soviet tractors turning several wells. The astonishing...
DIED. Ruthanna Boris, 88, wry dancer-choreographer who in the '40s became the first American ballerina to earn top billing with the vaunted Ballet Russe; in El Cerrito, Calif. Famous for her versatility--she shone equally in Swan Lake and Frankie and Johnny--she directed pieces like 1947's Cirque de Deux, a spoof that likened ballet dancers to circus performers...
...shoulders with the cream of Japan's corporate class. These were men - they were almost all men - who control companies worth billions of dollars. I control a checkbook that sometimes has a positive balance, making me something of an impostor at an event to which Japanese executives jostle to earn an invitation...
...Japan, in truth most young people here still dream of joining the ranks of Sony or Canon or Toyota, just like Dad did. And why not? If you work hard enough - which is to say, put in 16-hour days for 30 years or so - you too could earn a place among the elite, eating fugu on the company dime. Being a salaryman is good, but being a salarymaster is better. And if you can't be one, the next best thing is to be on their guest list...