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...Football Club in 2003 and has spent so heavily on top soccer players that some team bosses complain they can't compete. Boris Berezovsky, a close ally of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, made his $1.5 billion mainly in cars and oil and was instrumental in making Putin the heir to Yeltsin. But his major preoccupation now is his loathing of the Russian President--one reason he employed Litvinenko, who accused Putin of blowing up apartment buildings in Moscow to aid his presidential campaign and of ordering assassinations...
...known as the “Monarchy.”“Because the new Board was not elected, we ratified an interim, emergency set of by-laws declaring HRG&SP a monarchy, with me as King and my sister, [Edith S. Marshall ’74] as heir apparent,” Marshall writes.The decision was ratified and accepted by Harvard. “For one full year, I received official correspondence addressed to ‘Jack Marshall, King of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players,’” Marshall recalls.After a year...
...Kremlin. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the Kremlin has also scrapped the minimum turnout requirement to validate the election, to eliminate staying away as a means of sabotaging the stage-managed poll. Everything would seem to be under control. But, the big intrigue remains: Who will be Putin's heir, appointed if not anointed, just as Putin was when he succeeded Boris Yeltsin...
Campus activism also can mean concrete transformations in the lives of people close to home. That is one of the underlying motives behind Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), the heir to the Living Wage Campaign, of which I am a member. Campus workers can be disempowered and intimidated, and have a hard time winning their demands alone. But when students support them, they can win. Such is the power of student-labor solidarity...
...Some call it Bing vs. Big Oil. The bulk of the money behind the measure comes from Stephen Bing, 41, a Hollywood producer who was, until now, best known for fathering actress Elizabeth Hurley's baby out of wedlock. Bing, heir to a $600 million New York real estate fortune and a generous contributor to Democratic candidates, has spent $40 million of his own money on Prop 87 so far. Though he won't talk to the media, he has recruited two prominent spokesmen, former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore, as well as such Hollywood supporters...