Word: impresario
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...seat in the Brussels body still appears strangely attractive to a raft of minor celebrities. Among the candidates hoping to be elected or re-elected are former Czech astronaut Vladimir Remek; Finland's four-time winner of the Paris-Dakar rally, Ari Vatanen; Bulgarian Taekwondo champion and nightclub impresario Slavi Binev; and Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus von Habsburg, the grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor. Also making a bid is Gigi Becali, the owner of Romania's Steaua Bucharest soccer club, who is facing kidnapping charges...
...impresario of this year's list--and alchemist of the magical pairings--was deputy managing editor Josh Tyrangiel, whose day job is presiding over TIME.com He was assisted by numerous section editors as well as tireless deputy chief of reporters Andrea Dorfman. Deputy art director D.W. Pine and associate art director Chrissy Dunleavy created the strong and elegant design. Pine also oversaw the wonderful gatefolds that invite you to dive deeper into the TIME 100. Our photo team, led by deputy picture editor Dietmar Liz-Lepiorz, Amy Hoppy and Diana Suryakusuma, delivered a collection of arresting portraits...
...There is something about the profession of impresario, the entire tribe of them, that has fascinated me ever since I learned that such weird and exotic beings existed,” said the late Clive Barnes, one of the preeminent dance critics from the turn of the 20th century. “I think I originally imagined them looking a little like Serge Diaghilev. A grandee of café society, yet a man of classless class, who wore his cultural and intellectual distinctions as casually as a subtle aroma of cologne.” The Sergei Diaghilev in question...
...names. That's great if you work for Page Six or can waltz past the velvet ropes at Les Deux. But the study seems not to hone in on places generating buzz but rather on those whose names already resonate. This distinction is probably mere semantics to a nightclub impresario or budding restaurateur deciding where to situate a new venture. Buzz, the authors find, begets buzz. If you want to be bathed in flashbulbs, set up shop near the paparazzi scrums, and try to bask in the reflected glory...
...uncovered seven new Ponzi schemes this year alone, the most recent being this week's $4.4 million affinity Ponzi hitting Hawaii's deaf community and, though not officially called a Ponzi, the SEC's alleged $8 billion CD fraud by R. Allen Stanford, the globe-trotting financier and cricket impresario...