Word: moguls
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...Never write anything down that you wouldn't want published on the front page of the New York Times." His notes to his children are loving, stern, minutely involved. His messages to his wife Rose express tenderness and devotion. To judge by these papers, one might think the Hollywood mogul's longtime relationship with the actress Gloria Swanson was strictly business. And of his other free-lance sexual buccaneering, there is not a trace. Old Joe is the one who taught his son Jack how to keep secrets...
VLADIMIR GUSINSKY Anti-Putin media mogul faces new charges. A big nyet for press freedom...
...Coffee mogul Dang Le Nguyen Vu, 31, owes much of the success of his 400-outlet-strong Trung Nguyen franchise to reviving Ca Phe Chon. According to legend, the chon (weasel) would eat the choicest coffee beans, then digest the outer shells, leaving the innards to, um, emerge in long strings. Farmers collected the beans and roasted them?presumably after a thorough washing?to make a rich brew. While Vietnam isn't alone in making such coffee (Indonesia has beans predigested by civets), Vu has brought Ca Phe Chon back in a more sanitary incarnation. He processes the beans...
...fair to say it produced no broken hearts among male pop fans. On December 2, 2000, however, I'm a proud enough fanboy to admit that I felt a slight twinge of envy when Latin music megastar Thalía, 28, tied the knot with music mogul and Mariah-molder Tommy Mottola, 52, in a $3 million wedding ceremony at New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...wrath on the oligarchs who picked up much of the power that the Communist Party dropped a decade ago. Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire business tycoon, is in self-imposed exile, while his close associate Nikolai Glushkov, former vice president of Aeroflot, is being interrogated in Lefortovo prison. Media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky was arrested in Spain on demands from Moscow. The Spanish government's decision on his extradition to Russia is pending...