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...When Einhorn was first arrested in France in 1997, TIME magazine?s Steve Lopez explained the whole story, from Einhorn?s ascension in the hippie world as a student at the University of Pennsylvania to his arrest in the town of Champagne-Mouton...
...like a sun king in the south of France, sharing a tile-roofed farmhouse with his strawberry-blond Swedish wife. He read books, put idle thoughts to paper and played in a bridge club every Friday. She baked bread, tended garden and strolled into the nearby village of Champagne-Mouton on market day, tall and delicate, a sight so fair the mayor's tired old heart would stir. The Gold Creek met the Silver Creek near the Mallons' acreage, and all around, the gentlest breeze would set fields of sunflowers ablaze with waves of golden light...
...international rock star and a billionaire socialite; and even a brief attempt by a vigilante cyberposse from Australia to stalk the computer junkie by Internet. Three times in those 16 years, police were close enough to feel his heat. Each time, Einhorn melted away. Now, in remote Champagne-Mouton, another chance...
...That was May 15, Einhorn's 57th birthday. DiBenedetto notified French authorities and gave them the Champagne-Mouton address on the driver's license application. French police, posing as tourists and fishermen, ran surveillance on the farmhouse in Champagne-Mouton. DiBenedetto waited. Days passed. Weeks passed. Finally, on Friday, June 13, word came: There had been an arrest. DiBenedetto could hardly believe it. He didn't trust it until two days later. "That was Father's Day. I thought about Holly's father, about her parents, and I just jumped up and cheered." DiBenedetto's daughter, born when he took...
...yacht packed with vacationing millionaires off the coast of St. Bart's is an unlikely laboratory for social-policy reform. So perhaps it was the Caribbean sea breeze or the free-flowing 1945 Mouton-Rothschild that got Michael Saylor, the 35-year-old CEO of the high-tech company MicroStrategy, thinking about how to amend the inequities in higher education. He shared his thoughts over sea bass and chocolate souffle. "And by the end of the evening," he recalls, "I knew I'd hit on the next big thing in education...