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...quit Sharon's government immediately and force elections as early as next March. He hopes to draw voters with a social agenda that includes a higher minimum wage and government-subsidized pensions. He hopes the program will attract poorer people who have dismissed Labor as a party for the rich, particularly Arab voters and Jews whose origins, like Peretz's own, lie in the Arab world. Officials in Sharon's Likud Party and others who have built recent electoral success on the discontent of those voters acknowledge Peretz could hurt them. "He observes some of the traditions of the Sabbath...
...Still, when rich Chinese hire a security detail, protection isn't always their primary concern. Cui Fengxian, a Beijing lawyer, founded Beijing Capital Bodyguard Security Consultants, which in 2002 was the first firm of its kind to receive government approval to do business, because he believed China lacked adequate means to protect its richest citizens. Now he estimates that about 30% of his 200 clients hire his guards-all former secret-service members-for "ornamental" reasons. Cui travels with eight bodyguards himself and dresses them in long leather coats. "It's a question of image," he says. "[These...
...wealth, danger is waiting." Today he refrains from inviting friends to his opulent Beijing villa, keeps his net worth a secret (Jianguo is a pseudonym), and pays a bodyguard $1,200 a month to ensure that "the poor people who hate us for using our talent to get rich" won't come after his own sons...
Famous for their previous display of Fabergé eggs, the Forbes Galleries in New York City are now trying to attract visitors with lesser-known "Treasures of the Titans." A more accurate description of the 140 items assembled by the National Jewelry Institute: knickknacks of the rich and famous. Who, after all, wouldn't want to see J.P. Morgan's Cartier cologne holder, right, or William Randolph Hearst's buffalo-horn drinking cup, above? Come March, the bric-a-brac exhibit will shift from the first half of the 20th century to the latter, featuring, among other items, Elvis' most utilitarian...
...than payback for a personal betrayal. Often U.S. actions play a role. War Within's Hassan is radicalized after American agents snatch him in Paris as a terrorism suspect and send him to Pakistan to be tortured. In Syriana a young Pakistani immigrant can't find work in a rich Persian Gulf nation, so he joins an extremist madrasah, but the movie's sprawling story also faults the U.S. for supporting corrupt, oil-rich despots...