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...years ago, the richest man in the world was...?" McCain asked, springing a pop quiz and calling on George Stephanopoulos, the former Clinton wunderkind and now ABC commentator, who couldn't answer. Sultan of Brunei, McCain said, going on to make his point that three of the five richest men in the world now live near Seattle, and the new millennium presents challenges and opportunities no one imagined. And then, with schoolboy delight, he called out, "Stephanopoulos flunked the quiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Lone Ranger | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Until you pass by the Naito Chemistry Lab, or meet one of Harvard Law School's Binladin Fellows--funded by the family of accused international terrorist Osama bin Laden. Harvard's biggest donors are no longer just New England's richest--in recent decades, they have grown to include the world's richest...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Foreign Donors Swell Harvard's Coffers | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...Diamond analysts calculate that UNITA made more than $2.5 billion from diamond sales between 1992 and 1997, and last year collected at least $225 million. U.N. researchers and human-rights lobbying groups put the figure far higher. By any estimation, Savimbi's 40,000-strong UNITA must be the richest rebel movement in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diamonds In The Rough | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Foul play is confirmed, but the identity of the players may make for the great murder mystery of international finance. Edmond Safra, owner of the Republic National Bank of New York and one of the world's richest men, was murdered Friday in Monte Carlo after two knife-wielding hooded men broke into his penthouse apartment and set a fire after the banker locked himself in a bathroom. Safra and a nanny died in the fire, while his bodyguard was badly injured. The killers have not been apprehended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banker's Killing: A Case of From Russia With Hate? | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...tell, the only reason that Rudenstine has remained silent is that he can make no argument against a living wage that would not be publicly embarassing for the president of the world's richest university. By liberal estimates, implementing a living wage at Harvard would cost the University $10 million annually. This amounts to three-fifths of 1 percent of Harvard's annual budget, and exactly equals the compensation paid the University's top fund manager in 1998. It is impossible for Rudenstine to argue that Harvard cannot afford a living wage. Had he come to our rally...

Author: By Amy C. Offner, | Title: Nothing But Hollow Excuses | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

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