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...when it was synonymous with dodgy privatization and contract killings. These days he wants to depict the Russian corporate world as dynamic, modern - and predictable. That image shattered last week when the Kremlin went head to head with Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the 40-year-old proprietor of the oil giant Yukos and the richest man in Russia. The markets dropped abruptly, and polite discourse was infused with language reminiscent of The Godfather. The operation against Khodorkovsky, pundits and Yukos supporters claimed, was a Kremlin "contract" designed to punish him for his incipient political ambitions. Khodorkovsky suggested...
...released at the end of a service, staged a beach party--complete with seashells and margaritas--for a late Jimmy Buffett fan, and regularly covers chapel walls with sheets of white paper on which attendees can record their memories of the dead. Jason Bradshaw, the second-generation proprietor of a funeral home in Minneapolis, Minn., has attended customer-service seminars at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., to pick up tips. "We look at ourselves as being in the hospitality industry," says Bradshaw...
...more customers. But the megamalls can beat the small shops on opening hours too: Xanadú has special permission to remain open 365 days a year. Like many small-business owners, Carlos Perez Gonzalez has no interest in working Sundays. "When do we rest?" asks the 61-year-old proprietor, who has managed his shop - selling 16 varieties of olives, 14 kinds of canned tuna - for the past 29 years. Gonzalez's establishment is located in a mercado, a two-story covered market where dozens of small stands sell fresh meat, fish, cheese, flowers and produce - sort of a Spanish...
...eventually wrenching control from the British. Since then, our fair city has sat squarely in American hands. But when seminal punk band Dropkick Murphys invade the Avalon Ballroom for a series of four sold-out St. Patrick’s Day shows this weekend, Boston will have a new proprietor: the Irish...
...contest is “long overdue,” according to Louisa Salerno, proprietor of the Grolier Poetry Bookstore and a competition judge last year...