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...Europe. No melting pot here; instead it is a patchwork stitched together for common convenience -- and prosperity -- with each part retaining its distinctive culture and mores. There is no center, no dominating commercial or political capital. Power here is even more discreet than money, and like money in this richest of all European countries, it is spread around...
...richest Kuwaitis are not alone in benefiting from the government's financial maneuvers. The Emir's first act after liberation was to forgive all consumer debts -- a gift of about $1.2 billion that, naturally, applied only to Kuwaitis...
...inheritors and the self-made, the legit and the tainted, the inventors and the investors, the generous and the tight. Some shun the spotlight, like 94-year-old shipping billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig. Others crave it, like former self-proclaimed billionaire Donald Trump. Sam Walton, who'd be the richest businessman in the world, Forbes says, if he hadn't divvied his $18.5 billion Wal-Mart stake among his family, is famous for his battered Ford pickup, while the late Bhagwan Rajneesh, who was blessed more richly with followers than cash or good tax advice, had 92 Rolls-Royces...
...cultural differences, economics is the main engine propelling the separatist drive. Slovenia, the richest republic, is tired of seeing its dinars siphoned off to support its underdeveloped southern neighbors. "The poorer parts of Yugoslavia have commanded the richer parts for too long," argues Toman Bojan, a waiter in a seaside restaurant that has lost its Italian tourist clientele since ethnic hostilities erupted this year...
They are among the richest families in Colombia, but to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, they are the new kings of cocaine, patriarchs of a criminal consortium more disciplined and protected from prosecution than the Sicilian Mafia and now bigger than the Medellin cartel...