Word: napoleon
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This is the ultimate nightmare scenario. The Pharaohs built their pyramids, the Emperors built Rome, and Napoleon built his Arc de Triomphe--all, at least in part, to make the permanence of stone compensate for the impermanence of the flesh. But big buildings and big tombs would be a poor second choice if the flesh could be made to go on forever. Now, it appears...
...often referred to as Japan's Bill Gates. But his $4.5 billion buying spree over the past 18 months has made Masayoshi Son something closer to the Napoleon of the multimedia business. First he swallowed Ziff-Davis, the American computer-magazine giant. Then he bought 37% of Yahoo, the U.S. Internet search-engine company. In June he and another corporate conqueror, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, acquired a 21% interest in TV Asahi, which will be the entrepreneurial duo's base for a 150-station satellite network called Japan Sky Broadcast. And in September, Son's Tokyo-based Softbank paid...
...modern-day society. He knew what he wanted and was determined to achieve it. Instead of being a victim of circumstance, he turned events to his purpose. That's why he is today the ceo of Microsoft Corp., the world's richest man and perhaps the modern-day Napoleon of the technological world. But I wonder, Is Bill Gates as vulnerable as Napoleon was? MATHEW THURING Glen Waverley, Australia Your story on Gates resembled an episode from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Such details as an income of $30 million a day, a $380,000 Porsche that ended...
Learning BASIC language from a manual with his pal Paul Allen, Trey produced two programs in the eighth grade: one that converted a number in one mathematical base to a different base, and another (easier to explain) that played tic-tac-toe. Later, having read about Napoleon's military strategies, he devised a computer version of Risk, a board game he liked in which the goal is world domination...
...Should [our leaders] be quietly inscrutable? Should they have the power to transform great crowds [with their oratory]?" he asked. "We seem to yearn for a touch of Napoleon in our head of state...