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So who are these guys? Outside the world of leveraged-buyout firms, few know the partners of Texas Pacific--and they like it that way. Even their website is blank. Yet their $10 billion portfolio has included such names as Bally shoes, Beringer wines, Del Monte foods, Ducati motorcycles, J...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There A Doctor On Board? | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

Mass tourism dates from the 1840s, when Thomas Cook began chartering trains to take Britain's working class at reduced fares to temperance meetings within the country. By the 1860s Cook was selling tours to continental Europe, and by the start of the 20th century even the grandest hotels on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Nice for Too Many | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

Can he escape? Will he get his revenge? It's an old story--The Count of Monte Cristo by way of TV's The Prisoner--but Fry (who played the pompous detective in Gosford Park) has the wit and erudition to make it run like a well-made pocket watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mystery Meets History | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

For 10 days earlier this month residents in the tiny Italian Alpine village of Macugnaga (pop. 700) were under threat. A giant lake had formed atop a glacier on Monte Rosa, and authorities worried that the water would burst its banks - or worse, that the glacier itself would become dislodged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Out Below | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

German basic-cable subscribers can watch as many as 30 channels that air popular game shows like Wanna Bet? or mini-series like The Count of Monte Cristo for $10 to $20 a month, which is typically included in apartment rents. To complicate matters, German cable providers don't own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cable Guy: John Malone: Wiring Europe | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

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