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...late real-estate mogul Seymour Durst first erected the clock on Feb. 20, 1989 to call attention to the consequences of Reaganomics. At the time, the country had a national debt of $2.7 trillion. The original 25-foot-wide, 1,500-pound, 306-bulb sign cost more than $120,000 to create and install. (It now costs more than $500 a month to operate and maintain the light bulbs). Durst told reporters he had no plans to ever remove the clock. "It'll be up as long as the debt or the city lasts," he said, adding, "If it bothers...
...Other gifts included $25 million from Brazilian businessman Jorge P. Lemann ’61 to fund Brazilian studies, $15 million from an anonymous donor to fund science programs, $13 million from the estate of television mogul Alan Gleitsman to support social activism at the Harvard Kennedy School, and $10 million each to support the Harvard Divinity School and to fund research on energy and the environment...
That potent combination caught the attention of music mogul Alan McGee (who signed Primal Scream and Oasis, among others, to his former label) when he saw Glasvegas playing third on the bill at Glasgow's tiny King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2006. "The night was more exciting to me than when I saw and signed Oasis at the same venue," McGee wrote on his blog for the Guardian. Lisa Marie Presley was inspired to seek out the band in Scotland last year after hearing their demo online. By this June, influential British music magazine...
...want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters. If you could all please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.' SEAN (DIDDY) COMBS, hip-hop mogul, in a video blog, on the high cost of fuel. Combs added, "I can't believe I'm flying commercial...
...outcry, since the biggest expected beneficiary of the resulting advertising windfall will be private station TF1 - whose owner, Martin Bouygues, was best man at Sarkozy's wedding to former wife Cécilia. Opponents also claim Sarkozy has used his friendship with Bouygues - and one with another media mogul the president has called "my brother" - to direct the alleged nomination of sympathetic journalists into important editorial positions as a means of shaping friendly political coverage...