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...those willing to pay the price. It has been a collector's item for wealthy Italians like Gianni Agnelli and Roberto Rossellini and European royalty such as Baron de Rothschild and the Aga Khan. After Hollywood gave it a starring role in The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968, a legion of iconic owners, including Dean Martin, Elvis Presley and Steve McQueen, followed...
...heritage of success, and a national popularity, cannot alone confer greatness—or, at least, inspire true affection and devotion from a legion of discriminating fans. More importantly, Yankee Stadium will repose dearly in the hearts of Yankee fans, and all true devotees of baseball, not because of its many championships—and other trophies to the vanity of man—but because of the noble spirit, the magnanimity which it has always represented and with which it had imbued the sport...
Griffin attracted a legion of supporters last year with her desperate refusal to accept a judge's order that her son's father be given a chance to share custody. She sent the boy into hiding in May 2007 and showed up at the Milwaukee County courthouse and told District Judge Michael Goulee to go ahead and put her in jail. He did just that and sent deputies searching her family members' homes, threatening to arrest anyone found helping hide the child. But as the months passed, nothing changed. Griffin remained in jail, and her son, Jesse Moses Griffin-Sebuliba...
...follow the boundaries of the nation's tiny tourism industry. The few foreign tourists who come to Afghanistan, estimated to number under a thousand yearly, need plenty of help to pull off their holidays safely. In cities like Kabul, Herat, Faizabad and Mazar-i-Sharif, a small legion of Afghans who spent the last seven years as translators and security aides are spinning their expertise at navigating this shifting landscape into a new business. Now, they are also tour guides...
...Under the current plan being hawked by Paulson and the Bush administration, that astronomical sum would be used to buy up bad debt from ailing institutions in order to clean up their balance sheets. The criticisms of the plan are legion, but one irksome feature is that the banks that made the worst mistakes are in line to get the most help, providing little incentive for future managers to mend their ways. And all taxpayers would get for their rescue money is a mountain of toxic loans of highly dubious value...