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...sometimes wish you were still a small-venue troubadour instead of a really rich guy with a lot of toys and way more responsibilities? -Linda McDaniel in South Fulton, Tenn.No. You get dealt a deck of cards and you go where you wanna go. And, I can be a small-time troubadour and still be the same person. I'm looking at the next ten years of what I'm going to be doing performing-wise, and if you look at what has just happened, I mean, I'm playing less large shows. In the beginning of this year...
...national polls place J.F.K. among the three greatest Presidents. That's laughable. Compared with giants like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt (the last three on earlier Making of America covers), J.F.K. was a spoiled rich boy who took most of his barely three years in office learning the job, getting little of his domestic program through Congress, having his foreign policy set by trial and (huge) error, and playing politics with civil rights. And he used his power to make sexual conquests...
...FILMS, WHICH vividly illustrate the friction between old and new in a rapidly changing Taiwan, put his country on the cinematic map. Director Edward Yang, a leader of Taiwan's 1980s new-wave movement, told rich stories, set in modern Taipei, of teenage gangs and empowered girls coming of age. He was best known for Yi-Yi, a family saga told from numerous points of view that won him the 2000 Best Director award at Cannes. Yang was 59 and had colon cancer...
PHILANTHROPY The world's millionaires gave less than 1% of their net worth to charity, though the net amount of money --and time--donated has increased. For the rich...
...RISING RICH Singapore, India and Indonesia had the highest growth in the population of millionaires. Russia, the U.A.E. and South Korea also saw increases...