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Much of the Class of 2008 was only 12 when J.K. Rowling’s first novel, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” was published in the U.S., the beginning of a seven-book sensation that has made Rowling richer than the Queen of England and turned thousands of readers, like Gong, into Potter fanatics...
...while the poor get poorer, the rich are getting richer. Last month, the national tax agency released its annual list of the country's top 100 taxpayers. Tatsuro Kiyohara, a 46-year-old fund manager at Tower Investment Management, ranked No. 1, with a tax bill that suggested a personal income of approximately $100 million. This marked the first time a wage earner had captured the top spot, an occasion that many writers and talk-show hosts alternately hailed and lamented as a signature moment in the new, more Darwinian society?for Kiyohara's pay is almost entirely performance-based...
...right. Chevron has not yet countered, so CNOOC's remains the richer bid as Unocal shareholders prepare to vote on Aug. 10. But despite all the high-priced bankers and lobbyists, Fu did not appear to be prepared for what Schurtenberger had discussed at the board meeting in late March: the political firestorm the bid would provoke in the U.S. Fu, CNOOC sources say, was stunned by the June 30 Congressional resolution objecting to the merger. So was the Chinese government. One of Fu's advisers says Beijing, already sparring with Washington over the value of China's currency...
...Cotrubas, who sings Magda, the Lyric's handsome, glittering production is cast with young Americans. Originally presented in 1981 at Pisa's Teatro Comunale G. Verdi, it is directed by Giulio Chazalettes, who might have made more of Rondine's disillusioned subtext and in so doing brought out its richer texture. But as performers gradually realize the opera's possibilities, harder-edged interpretations will no doubt follow...
...What [decentralization] does is allow the rich to get richer. It’s just a trade off. What you’re hearing is from people who would draw the line at a different place,” Chait says...