Word: mogul
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...Many of cricket's traditional fans are worried that the IPL and all these piles of cash could lead the game into strife. They're old enough to remember cricket's first revolution in 1977, when the Australian TV mogul Kerry Packer secretly enticed most of the world's best players to join his rebel outfit, known as World Series Cricket (WSC). Back then, cricketers were expected to play for little besides national pride and really did get a crummy deal from the establishment - match fees in the hundreds of dollars and no contract money. WSC changed that and, though...
...Just before 12:30 at Heathrow, Virgin Atlantic's 747 touched down in Amsterdam, finishing off the event without a hiccup - which is more than could be said for Branson himself. For kicks, the mogul had drunk a sample of his firm's coconut oil and babassu oil jet-fuel blend. "My God that was horrible," he told reporters afterward. "I've been burping ever since." Now that, without a doubt, is a publicity stunt...
...that summons old memories of Nov. 22, 1963, and a more recent nightmare snapshot, from last Dec. 27, of Benazir Bhutto felled by bullets and bombs. Oh, it's nothing personal, current office holders. Not even political. It's just business - the movie business. If there's anything a mogul loves, on the screen and in the box office cash register, it's dead Presidents...
...multi-aliased rapper, an actor and a fashion mogul, and his intense turn as an ambivalent striver in the TV-movie adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun airs Feb. 25 on abc. Sean Combs will now take your questions
...government and government-backed militias. Spielberg, the director of such films as Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, had written letters to Chinese President Hu Jintao urging him to take more action to encourage Sudan to resolve the conflict. Despite what he called "some progress," the movie mogul said the continuing bloodshed meant he couldn't continue his work for the Games. "Sudan's government bears the bulk of the responsibility for these on-going crimes," he wrote, "but the international community, and particularly China, should be doing more to end the continuing human suffering there...