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...wife and a mistress, was taken by his chaffeur for a little cheering up to Gigi's Cabaret. It was the kind of place where young women dance exotically for their suppers. And that is how Anna Nicole found her second husband, Howard Marshall II, one of the richest men in Texas. They married in June 1994. He was 89 and she was 26. "He wanted to make me happy," she said. "His wish was my command...
SILVIO BERLUSCONI, former Italian Prime Minister and the country's richest man, in a public apology to his wife after she demanded one--in a letter she published in a newspaper--for flirtatious comments he reportedly made to other women...
...Chengdu. Although 1,000 miles from the glamour of Shanghai, Chengdu has a surprising number of choices for Wang and her fellow aspirants. As China's fourth largest city, it is catching up to the world's richest at a blistering pace. It has a booming economy, escalating incomes and 10.8 million people--more than New York City. Wooing the newly wealthy of Chengdu is a top priority for consumer companies from Coca-Cola to General Motors to Christian Dior. Chengdu is only one of several mammoth metropolises--like Chongqing, Wuhan and Xi'an--experiencing similar booms of investment, wages...
...section on endowment transparency. “Detailed proxy voting records are available to the public upon request,” the report said. “Information on endowment holdings, however, is only available to the board and senior administrators.” The report rated the 100 richest American and Canadian universities on their environmental sustainability practices, examining both endowment and campus initiatives. Dartmouth College, Stanford University, and Williams College also averaged an A-, the highest average awarded. “The goal of the report is to spark discussions,” said Mark Orlowski...
...also enabled rural people to enjoy higher income levels, sparing Japan from the social inequality that has beset such rapidly growing neighbors as China. But the policy was sustainable only as long as Tokyo had budget surpluses to burn. Today, Japan may be the world's second-richest nation, but its public debt that is more than 1.5 times the size of its GDP, the highest in the developed world. So, a budget-conscious central government has cut subsidies, and Yubari will have to pay back $293 million over the next 18 years...