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...IRSA, a company that has made its mark on the financial markets in the past six years. IRSA's shares trade on the Buenos Aires bolsa, but they are also listed as the only Argentine real estate play on the New York Stock Exchange. IRSA's American connection is gold plated: much of the firm's capital comes from U.S. hedge-fund billionaire and philanthropist George Soros. IRSA's president and CEO, Eduardo Elsztain, 37, met Soros in 1990 in New York City, where the younger man, who was tending a $10 million portfolio of Argentine-owned properties, had moved...
...people at Ellis Island gave him a map and said 'pick,' so he chose Argentina-the only other country he knew, where, like America, the streets were said to be paved with gold and you could make a fortune for your family," she says...
...true and not quite true. Because while he has been coaching at Harvard for more than half a century, it trickles out that has also done a bit of work on the outside as well: chairing the Massachusetts Boxing Commission; coaching at the Olympics; taking Rocky Marciano to the Gold Gloves, ("Ali wouldn't have been able to lay a hand on him," he insists, "Rocky would've crushed his ribs...
...Rabbi [Ben-Zion] Gold was always interested in moving and I never could understand that," Rosovsky says...
Years ago, the expression was "He's not a bad guy, but he's no Albert Schweitzer." Mother Teresa then replaced Schweitzer as the gold standard of goodness. Who will succeed her? Tom Hanks could, Jimmy Carter would want to, but we place our bets on the Dalai Lama or Nelson Mandela...