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...conversation between Dante and Magellan about sailing around the wold or under it, and so on. So along comes Steve Martin who went to school before teachers were this nice, and he decides to write a fictional meeting between two of the 20th century's most formative figures, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, not knowing that the entire premise would be his best joke for young audiences...
...produces real victims. In Japan the accounting director of Nippon Steel Chemical leaped to his death beneath a train last May after he lost $128 million of the company's money by using derivatives to play the foreign-exchange market. In Chile a derivatives trader named Juan Pablo Davila lost $207 million of taxpayers' money last fall, instantly earning himself a place in Chilean infamy, by speculating in copper futures for the state-owned mining company. In Germany the giant conglomerate Metallgesellschaft dwarfed even those losses when it dropped $1.3 billion last year by betting the wrong...
...Once, someone brought Monopoly into the room," says Pablo H. Padilla '97. "We played once and formed teams and played again and formed new teams and played again and thenplayed again the next...
...thousands of supporters who gathered last Friday afternoon hoping to glimpse Escobar's body before it was lowered into his grave, few remembered that more than 20 years ago, he had launched his ascension to head the world's most powerful drug organization by selling tombstones he had stolen. Pablo Escobar's career was ending exactly where it began -- in a Medellin graveyard...
Billionaire cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was killed in a rooftop shoot-out with soldiers and police in Medellin, Colombia. Police found his hideout by tracing a phone call he made to his wife and two children the day after his birthday. The death of Escobar is not expected to reduce the flow of cocaine to the U.S., since his influence on the drug trade significantly diminished during his 16 months as a fugitive...