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...Girshkin isn't so much an expatriate but a repatriate--born in Leningrad and raised in New York City. Girshkin does a favor for a New York-based Russian mafioso, who pays him back by sending him to the East European city of Prava--read Prague--to run a pyramid scheme aimed at slumming young expats, the "pretty castoffs of well-to-do America, cruising along on their five-year plan of alcoholic self-discovery." They're easy marks, and easy targets for satire too. In less skillful hands, The Russian Debutante's Handbook could have turned into a fish...
...same way that yesterday's nasties are turned into today's partners-in-peace by the outcome of wars, MikeTyson underwent a metamorphosis at The Pyramid in Memphis Saturday night. The onetime king of pugilistic beasts became a pussycat...
...fracas-cum-pre-fight press conference last January when an enraged Tyson suddenly threw down his hat and, during the ensuing melee, bit Lewis in the thigh. After that, everyone agreed the two men should be kept apart until they crawl into the padded ring at The Pyramid, the 10-year-old downtown arena normally reserved for the city's new professional basketball team...
...contrast to MIT’s tidy pyramid, Harvard’s diagram showed a sprawling, wildly-branching tree...
RightCyberUp says the BCC has a “pyramid-shaped structure with absolute authority at the top,” with disciples reporting to their partners, who report to their partners, and so on. The pyramid ends with McKean himself, who is self-appointed and has hand-picked all of the leaders beneath him. Some allege that McKean views himself as chosen by God. (The BCC website says that though McKean is “a very talented leader, he is not infallible, he is not an apostle, and does not claim to have a sense of being supernaturally...