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...Eastwood stands at another juncture. Finally, he has been embraced by those who practice his craft. He reigns as the richest and most powerful man in an industry where the two attributes are virtually synonymous. Yet his focus is on the next task. In the Line of Fire, a film about the Secret Service, is due for release this spring. He'll be taking the crew to Texas soon to get started on A Perfect World, a crime drama about a Texas sheriff chasing an escaped convict who has kidnapped a child. Neither may win any awards. "Hollywood pays...
Around the editors' table, you can almost hear the jaws drop. At 50, Roddick may be Britain's best-known female entrepreneur --famed for having transformed herself from a penniless hippie to one of the five richest women in England -- but she still takes some getting used to. The darling of London's City in the 1980s (she was named Business Woman of the Year in 1985), a favorite of the royal family (awarded an Order of the British Empire in 1988), a tireless + promoter of worthy causes (from development in poor countries to preservation of rain forests...
...feat was worthy of the genie in Aladdin. In the twinkling of an eye, Disney chairman Michael Eisner and president Frank Wells last week turned 7 million stock options into a $263 million profit, one of the richest corporate paydays ever. Eisner alone raked in $202 million. The executives cashed in their options, which were set to expire in 1994, to avoid the tax increases that Bill Clinton has pledged to ask Congress for next year. While both men were staunch Clinton supporters, his proposed tax on wealthy individuals could have cost them an extra $20 million if they...
...Less than two years ago, there had been nothing in the whole countryside but a few primitive villages. Then geologists discovered the richest iron ore in the world. Now the blast furnaces tower, prickly with wooden scaffolding. In a wasteland these furnaces are rising, the highest man-built structures the workers have ever seen...
...immediate cause of the problem is beyond De Beers' control: political instability in some of the planet's richest diamond regions. Although the Angolan drought made alluvial-plain diamonds easier to find, Angola's rush was triggered mainly by the chaotic aftermath of civil war. Thousands of demobilized soldiers with no job prospects began scratching around for easy money. Legislation enacted in November permitting Angolans to trade in uncut diamonds was intended to soak up rough stones that people had illegally hoarded down through the years. Instead, because the move made it vastly easier to unload illegally dug diamonds...