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...MELISSA SARMIENTO, 28, RETAIL STAFFER, TORONTO Attending TIFF since...
Sitting in his majestic home in northern Johannesburg, Richard Maponya tells a story. After building up a retail empire in the 1960s and 1970s, South Africa's first black tycoon fought for six years to become a racehorse owner when the Jockey Club of Southern Africa (now known as the National Horseracing Authority) was a white-only bastion. But once he was admitted (after a lengthy legal battle), he couldn't resist the temptation to needle his adversaries. "I called my first horse Another Color," the 80-year-old Maponya recalls. "On his third time out, Another Color came scorching...
...facilitated way. Richard was black and rich and proud - and he did it himself. That made him one of the first black icons, a role model when there were practically none." The Little Black Book, an annual rundown of South African business leaders, calls him "the father of black retail...
...self-fulfilling panic, one that really needs to be nipped in the bud. At banks serving retail customers, it is automatically nipped these days by federal deposit insurance. Fretful depositors have still lined up at branches of the bank arm of troubled mortgage lender Countrywide, but there's really no rational reason...
...through the records of Wikipedia, the publicly editable Web-based encyclopedia, and checks on who is making changes to which entries. Sometimes it's people who shouldn't be. For example, WikiScanner turned up evidence that somebody from Wal-Mart had punched up Wal-Mart's Wikipedia entry. Bad retail giant...