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...With its seamy mix of political power, billions of baht in booty, and high-society scandal, the Hangthong case is just the latest installment of a Tumwattana family saga that is Shakespearean in its tragic body count. Starting in the 1950s as owners of a slaughterhouse, the clan's patriarch, Arkom, and his wife, Suwapee, built a Bangkok-based real estate empire worth an estimated $400 million. But wealth didn't bring security to the family, which numbered 10 children. In 1966, Arkom was shot dead in what was believed to be a business dispute. The case remains unsolved. Thirteen...
...MATRIX TRILOGY. The movies' premise that the world we know is neither good nor real but the creation of a malign power echoes early texts that are now known as Gnostic. Similar themes mark the work of science-fiction patriarch Philip K. Dick, whose stories have been turned into movies like Blade Runner, Minority Report and John Woo's Paycheck, opening on Christmas...
DIED. RUBéN GONZÁLEZ, 84, pianist and patriarch of Cuba's music scene who found late-life stardom after his appearance on the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club and in the subsequent documentary; in Havana. González, who was rediscovered by guitarist Ry Cooder, was initially nervous about playing on the album: he suffered from arthritis and didn't have a piano (his was ruined by termites). But he welcomed the attention and happily began performing again. "If I can't take a piano with me to heaven," he said...
...group, led by Patriarch Alexy II, was scheduled to arrive in New York last night. Lucie McNeil, a spokesperson for University President Lawrence H. Summers, said that she will meet with the monks on Summers’ behalf, and the Russian delegation will also speak with Harvard College officials...
...Army regards this as a security issue," says the Agriculture Department official, who just returned from Iraq and is worried that the country's farmers might take to the streets. "It does not want the violence to spill over into the countryside." Haj Abdul Wahab al-Bunnia, 82, patriarch of a family-run agribusiness empire in Iraq that farms 25,000 acres and employs 6,000 people, has the same concerns. "We need to get people off the city streets and back onto the farms," he says. "With incentives, we can do this. But if there is no farm work...