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...around this time that young John set himself two life goals: to be a millionaire and to be Prime Minister. Through currency trading, he realized the first before he was 25. Some two decades later, with an estimated fortune of $40 million, a wife and two children, he'd no sooner ticked off the second goal than he was pushing for the handover from Clark to be fast-tracked so he could attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in Peru from...
OUSTED After three terms as Prime Minister of New Zealand, Labour Party leader Helen Clark, 58, lost the nation's Nov. 8 elections to National Party leader John Key. Majority power in parliament shifted to Key's party, resulting in Clark's resignation from her post as Labour Party head three days later. Saddened colleagues praised Clark's years in office, during which she boosted New Zealand's economy by cutting debt and building huge surpluses...
...Fleming's Bond either. The early novels were intended as light entertainments; they inhabited a world in which an überstud with refined tastes (the right car, martini recipe, cigarette) also accessorized by bedding beautiful, willing, duplicitous women; it's no coincidence that 007 and Playboy were the prime male icons of the Eisenhower-Kennedy era. Bond occasionally engaged in fisticuffs with a brigand, but that was just a different kind of workout. As played by Sean Connery and Roger Moore from the '60s through the '80s, Bond greeted each new threat to his life with an upper-class smile...
...likely in January, when Barack Obama moves into the White House. And it's not just Washington: China has announced a $586 billion stimulus plan, although it's not clear how much of that will be new spending. Germany has approved $29 billion in spending and tax cuts. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to announce tax cuts soon...
...young, handsome and even has a good tan.' Italian Prime Minister SILVIO BERLUSCONI, joking about Barack Obama becoming the first African-American President. He later added, "If some people don't have a sense of humor, then it's their problem...