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It was fitting that the Champions' League final was held in Moscow, because Chelsea is owned by a Russian billionaire, Roman Abramovich, who made his money investing in denationalized Russian industries. Since he bought the team in 2003, Abramovich has sunk over $1.1 billion into it, and bagged five trophies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's New Goal | 6/11/2008 | See Source »

For all that, Gwat, 29, considers himself a lucky man. With no high school education, he spent several years driving a cab for a taxi company in Yaoundé, earning about four dollars a day - and used that income to put his four younger brothers through high school. Then, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Navigating a Real Oil Shock | 6/11/2008 | See Source »

For centuries the Roma community eked out a living as fiddlers, fortune tellers and dancers for the Ottoman court, and later for Turks from all walks of life - a tradition captured on-screen in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love. Their fortunes took a downturn in the 1990s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constantinople's Gypsies Not Welcome in Istanbul | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

It may be thousands of miles, in every sense, from Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, but this improvised open-air arena in a remote town in southeastern Nigeria is where current WBC world heavyweight champion Samuel Peter first honed his jab. But while Peter may have moved on to fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punching Their Way Out of Poverty? | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

For those who haven't experienced it firsthand, e-recruiting can be thought of as an assembly line that picks up the hapless, risk-minimizing Harvard student with no great interest in the business world sometime during junior year and deposits him in the lobby of a Fortune 500 firm...

Author: By Brian J. Rosenberg | Title: Risking It All | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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