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The Air Force, which spends millions on its fleet of 43 planes for the VIPs, relishes the chance to curry favor with its sources of money and influence, including Congressmen and Senators, whose taste for junketeering is legendary. The White House advance teams, the Secret Service -- which deploys hundreds of...
Aside from their politically correct products, however, what these stores are really selling, it seems, is a lifestyle, or rather, the illusion of one--how to be organic, mystical and color-coordinated in one easy lesson.
But she added that physical barriers and nationalist tendencies will serve as obstacles to internationalization and that modern technology will give humans the "electronic illusion of being in touch."
The Robert Maxwell case was stranger than most tabloid tales. The Czechoslovak-born press baron had created an empire financed largely through illusion, yet his holdings included the London Daily Mirror, New York City's Daily News and Macmillan, the U.S. book publisher. In assembling his web of 400 companies...
The latest revelations revived speculation linking Maxwell's death to the dire financial condition of his media empire. Although the preliminary autopsy report claimed the 300-lb. 68-year-old died of "natural causes," the exact circumstances of his death are still unknown. Even Maxwell's Mirror reported in its...