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...President Fernandez presides over a country that is laudable for its advances in trade and tourism, its partnership with America and the improvements it has made for its own citizens. But President Fernandez also presides over a country that maintains a “permanent underclass,” confined to subhuman living conditions, unobtainable rights, and indentured servitude...
...strategy involved sidelining Choo, who maintains a bespoke business and is no longer part of the company; relentlessly supporting his niece by marriage Sandra Choi, whose designs have been key to the brand's success; and learning the language of business along the way. A partnership was formed with Equinox Luxury Holdings in 2001, and by 2004, when Lion Capital acquired the majority shareholding, Jimmy Choo was valued at $207 million. Earlier this year, Jimmy Choo was acquired by private-equity fund TowerBrook for $379 million. Mellon is thought to have netted about $49.2 million from the deal, the majority...
...FOUGHT JAMES BROWN IN the recording studio--and once even in court--but that did little to dampen the friendship and creative partnership Bobby Byrd shared with the Godfather of Soul over a half-century. In the early '50s, the singer helped secure the release of a young Brown from a Georgia youth detention center, invited him to join his gospel band and began to shape the future funk king's sound. As collaborators in the Famous Flames, the band that launched Brown, the pair co-wrote tunes, including Brown's signature Get Up (I Feel Like Being...
...miners. "So your family have been peddling hooch around here for 150 years," jokes Peren, who hails from such quintessentially Kiwi stock--as New Zealanders would call it--that his grandfather even had a breed of sheep named after him. Peren launched the Peregrine Wines label in 1998 in partnership with oenophile oncologist Murray Brennan of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. (Brennan visits for vacations.) Peren's connection with the land that Peregrine has under vine comes through his wife's grandfather, who won a small plot in a card game. The Peren family also...
...territory. The two got along quite well by all accounts. Sattar had even made Patriquin an honorary member of his own tribe. But a roadside bomb killed Patriquin and two other Americans, just as U.S. military officials and tribal leaders were seeing the beginnings of gains in their nascent partnership against insurgents...