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...founded the American Tobacco Company. But the richest girl in the world found only domestic rancor: a hateful mother, scheming lovers and, finally, a butler (Richard Chamberlain, all oil and vitriol--a nicely creepy job) who hastened her death and gained her fortune. This mini-series, directed by John Erman, has the impulse for high trash but not the racing pulse, the quick, bold strokes; its view of the rich getting skewered by the would-be rich is curiously sedate. The reason to watch is Lauren Bacall; she has the glamour, gravity and great bones to give the elder Doris...
These differences are significant, but the stratification--like that between society's richest and poorest citizens--occurs on a continual basis...
...hard to see why these two larger-than-life figures--one the world's most powerful man, one the richest--didn't become fast friends. The two Bills are as different as the two ends of the baby-boom generation they represent. Clinton, who entered college in 1964, is dripping with Sixties values: a John F. Kennedy-style belief in public service as a calling; an Age-of-Aquarius focus on emotional connection; and a countercultural streak of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Gates, who came of age in the 1970s, has a Watergate-era detachment from politics...
...prefer--in the bidding for last year's Winter Games, won by Nagano. By 1991 Salt Lake City, always a suitable site and now represented by a savvy bid team, had grown to be an odds-on choice. But Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, then one of the world's richest men, had a dream: an Olympics in Nagano. "When I speak, 100 politicians jump" was his calling card. When he said he wanted to be president of Japan's Olympic committee, that group said sure. When he said he wanted to bring the Olympics to Nagano, many said...
...start passing the plate for a Bill Gates defense fund just yet. The world's richest man is yet richer than anyone suspected. This week when Microsoft posted its profits for the fiscal quarter ending Dec. 31, its earnings had climbed 75 percent over the same period last year. A recent estimate of Gates's personal fortune puts it at $73 billion. The incredible rise -- Microsoft earned $1.98 billion -- was attributed to strong personal computer sales that triggered equally swift sales of the operating systems Windows NT and Windows...