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...older, and Broadway looks more enticing than it did when they were churning out Top 10 hits. But it can be tougher than it looks: telling a coherent, musically integrated story onstage is not like choosing songs for a concept album. Newman, for example, has written some of his richest, most antically likable music for Faust, but the jokey, sophomoric book doesn't serve it well enough...
...Berezovsky is a former mathematician who today is ranked by Forbes magazine as the world?s 97th richest individual and has long held a shadowy influence on the Yeltsin government. While the given reason ? that Berezovsky?s business interests conflict with his senior government position ? may appear plausible enough, there are deeper conflicts at work...
...richest Marlin fan was no happier than one of the team's poorest fans. Miriam Hernandez, the mother Livan left behind in Cuba, can't afford a radio strong enough to pick up the broadcasts of her son's games, so she relies on a man who lives four floors below her to shout up the play-by-play. After Game 5, in which her son struck out 15 Braves to outduel Greg Maddux and win 2-1, she told the Herald, "God has touched his hands. How much I would give to be able...
...Russia, the half-dozen or so richest men in the country seem to be living out that teaching. These new oligarchs, all fabulously rich thanks mainly to their intimacy with the country's democratic leaders, control as much as half the country's gross domestic product and many of the most powerful media outlets. Last year they played a major role in the re-election of President Boris Yeltsin. To say, as many Russians do, that the oligarchs run the country is an exaggeration. To say they would like to is closer to the truth...
...hope that in telling this big story I've helped illuminate the class question at a time when the gap between our richest and poorest citizens grows ever wider," Lukas wrote in the author's note in the book...