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...reasonable judgment, but a tough and gifted woman who, owing to her hagiographic suffering (not to mention being ardently collected by the likes of Madonna), has become Exhibit A, by now somewhere above Artemisia Gentileschi in the pantheon of feminist art-saints. The live Colombian is probably the richest artist alive, the unbearably repetitious and banal Fernando Botero, 69, who has made millions, millions and millions of dollars painting and sculpting mountainously fat people over and over and over again. These sleek, bloated lumps of cellulite have the same appeal to the international nouveau riche that the semi-skeletal poor...
...Median household income, surpassing perennially richest state Connecticut...
...about throwing his clout around, and that's caused critics and a sometimes-hostile press to label him an authoritarian. But in Thailand, being rich is considered a virtue, and being very rich is practically godly. Thaksin benefits from being one of the country's richest men, with a fortune estimated at more than $1.2 billion and interests in sectors ranging from cell phones to satellites. His confidence is that of a man who has had vast, bankable successes. His election campaign inculcated in Thais the idea that if he could make billions for himself, then surely he could generate...
...polluted" version of Java, or one that Microsoft hoped it would soon be able to license itself (and leverage its Windows/Explorer monopoly in the hope of making programmers sign up for it). Not surprisingly, McNealy took Gates to court. The latter lost, and it cost the world's richest man a cool $20 million...
...arming has traditionally been severely rebuked?the legislative step was dramatic. Once legal barriers to a full-fledged military are removed, Japan could quickly and easily become one of the world's most muscle-bound nations?because its forces, despite the "defensive" tag, are already some of the richest and best-equipped in the world...