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...already a consummate showman. The talent was developed early. Born the first of four children, he took a variety of jobs?from selling newspapers to driving a minibus?to support himself before and after his years as an electrical-engineering student and a fledgling entrepreneur. But according to Ahmad Soliekhin, one of Aa Gym's closest aides and a former conductor on his minibus, it was their experience together as itinerant buskers that brought them the most success. "We used to get called back to the rich people's houses the next day for a repeat performance," says Ahmad, smiling...
...Yang's turn to be ambushed on Oct. 4, when the 39-year-old entrepreneur?who recently was chosen by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to run a special free-trade zone on the Chinese border?was escorted from his Shenyang home by police. Chinese authorities aren't saying why he is being held under "house supervision" or what crimes they think were committed. "Yang Bin and his enterprises in China are suspected of being involved in various illegal activities in China," Zhang Qiyue, China's foreign ministry spokeswoman, said last week without elaboration. Speculation ranges from tax evasion...
This seemingly multi-footed entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist is Gregory C. Carr, one of Harvard Square’s most quietly influential people...
...docility that’s an able contrast to Barry’s bouts of high emotion. Nearly as good in tiny roles are Anderson veterans Luis Guzman as Barry’s eternally arch-faced co-worker and the ever-sublime Philip Seymour Hoffman as a crass Utah entrepreneur...
...Prince of Canto-pop. This year he won a World Music Award as China's top-selling artist. And a poll of 1,343 Mainland students found him to be the fourth highest-ranking "idol," after Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Bill Gates. (Hmmm: diplomat, oarsman, entrepreneur, rock star; prc kids have a nice sense of variety...