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...process making a fortune for himself estimated at $25 billion. The two men have known each other for years and, as board members of the steelmakers' international trade group, meet regularly to discuss industry-wide issues. But on Jan. 13, after predinner drinks in Mittal's Kensington Palace Gardens mansion, the Indian popped the surprise question to his European rival: Why not merge their two companies...
With business success has come wealth and opulence. He acquired the Kensington mansion, said to be the world's most expensive home, from Formula One racing's Bernie Ecclestone two years ago. And in 2004, he and his family made headlines around the globe when he threw a $50 million wedding bash for daughter Vanisha. It included an engagement ceremony at Paris' Tuileries Gardens featuring parrots and a tiger; an opera and banquet at the French royal palace at Versailles; and a Kylie Minogue concert and sit-down dinner at the 17th century Vaux le Vicomte Chateau, where chefs from...
...DARKER COMPLEXITIES OF BUILDING A life abroad are lost on most Tuxpeños, who see Coria's mansion in Mexico and his new truck as tangible evidence of his success. Early on, friends and relatives asked how they could make their way to the Hamptons. In 1985 he brought over his half brother Fernando. Fernando invited two friends, who started bringing their relatives. A handful became dozens. Dozens become hundreds. There are no reliable estimates, but workers in the Hamptons say there are as many as 500 Tuxpeños living full-time in the area, and scores more show...
...states were more active than Missouri, where Republicans last year took control of the Governor's mansion and both houses of the legislature for the first time in 84 years and thus strengthened the antiabortion majority in the statehouse in Jefferson City. Governor Matt Blunt even summoned the legislature into special session in September to pass bills that allow civil suits to be brought against anyone who helps a Missouri teen obtain an abortion without a parent's consent and that require doctors who perform abortions to have privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. Generally, only...
Meanwhile, dozens of border guards, National Guard soldiers and other law-enforcement officials in Arizona have been charged with accepting bribes from FBI agents posing as Mexican drug smugglers. Towns in Florida and Connecticut--where Republican John Rowland quit the Governor's mansion in 2004 and went to jail last year for his part in a gifts-for-contracts scheme--are also charging their local officials. The FBI even had a local West Virginia politician facing corruption charges pose as a candidate in a state-legislature election in order to help uncover vote buying and other instances of election fraud...