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...world's richest man in 1937 was His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, an Indian potentate. TIME featured him on its cover that year, estimating his fortune at $1.4 billion, including "$150,000,000 in jewels [and] $250,000,000 in gold bars." Such fabulous wealth enabled free-spending Indian princes like the nizam to fill the best hotels in London and Paris with massive entourages that made impossible demands and gave outrageous tips?long before Arab sheiks got into the habit. The nizam and his ilk have disappeared from the world's glamour magazines and gossip columns...
...sentence in much of world, so President Bush pledged $15 billion over the next five years for the relief of the disease in the most severely affected nations of Africa and the Caribbean. At least $10 billion a year is needed, according to U.N. estimates, but the world's richest countries spend a total of about $2.8 billion annually...
...difficulties of even maintaining, much less improving, one of the world’s greatest libraries must be; I sympathize with whoever holds this responsibility,” Womack wrote in his letter. “But I will not silently accept that the world’s richest university should spend so much on making money and spending it on real estate and physical structures, while it cuts its services for teaching and research...
...working on some interesting things that we simply cannot talk about at this point," says Bezos. The scuttlebutt is that A9 will be focused on product search, so it will compete less with Google than with Froogle--a relatively small slice of the search market but potentially the richest. Amazon--which is still glowing from its first profitable nonholiday quarter ever--has been working with a shadowy start-up called Groxis, a company that dabbles in curious, arcane techniques for graphically displaying search results...
...ARRESTED. YASUO TAKEI, 73, founder and chairman of Japan's largest consumer-credit firm, Takefuji, and the country's second richest man; for breaching Japan's telecommunications laws when he allegedly ordered his staff to wiretap the phone of a freelance journalist who published articles critical of him; in Tokyo. Takei's family fortune is estimated to be worth about $5.3 billion. His company Takefuji has also come under legal scrutiny for its alleged hardball debt-collection methods and for overworking its employees...