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...little to merit his wealth, or the reputation that goes along with it, but he’s done little good with the money that he does have. Wealth should, if anything, be a means towards greater refinement and culture and a higher sense of social and moral responsibility. Gold plated toilets and a jet with your name on it do not qualify as such...
Tonight, tens of millions of Americans will tune in to the season finale of the reality TV show, “The Apprentice.” The show, which has been ratings gold for NBC, features several contestants vying for “the dream job of a lifetime” working under the tutelage of Donald Trump himself. Each episode features a business contest of sorts between two teams in which the winning team gets a taste of Trump’s luxurious lifestyle, while members of the losing team duke it out in a boardroom, trying to avoid...
...Except for the traditional gold suq, where tourists like to wander, little is left of Old Dubai. But Sheik Mohammed's planners are also taking care of those who crave that experience. Madinat Jumeirah, scheduled for completion later this year, will feature clusters of villas made with a mud-and-beam design to re-create a 19th century Arab city?oh, yes, and two five-star hotels. A country has to have standards, you know...
...movie mogul. He bristles at the word games, preferring to call his product interactive entertainment. For the past few years, he has been aggressively racking up licenses to movie franchises, like Mission: Impossible, so that Atari can create games based on them. He seemed to have struck gold when he inked a deal--terms undisclosed but by all accounts incredibly generous--with the Wachowski brothers for Enter the Matrix, a game whose plot dovetails with that of Matrix Reloaded, going so far as to buy the company, Shiny Entertainment, that already held the Matrix license...
...brought us Jaws, E.T. and Indiana Jones--unless you're the guy who created Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. and Zelda. Ever since Shigeru Miyamoto first sicced that platform-climbing arcade monkey on us back in 1981, everything Nintendo's lead designer has touched has turned to gold. His games have sold in excess of 100 million copies. Practically all the under-35's in the games industry today--which is most of them--grew up influenced by his work. "Every Miyamoto title pushes game technology and creativity a little further," says Souris Hong-Poretta, co-president of New York City...