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...there is a light at the end of the tunnel: the high point of the year’s social scene, the revelry known as Harvard-Yale. Hobnob with tweedy alums whose names end in Roman numerals; maybe even try to make it from the tailgate to the stadium. After a week of blacking out, good luck staying awake after 4 p.m. on Saturday...
...should have been able to make a farm in the outback turn a profit. Instead, after losing one of the greatest fortunes in history, the last Nizam retired to Turkey, where, we are told, he lives a modest and anonymous life, and spends his time-quite appropriately-studying Roman ruins...
...That's what its bureaucrats set out to do. In an effort to create an atmosphere that would encourage the world's wealthy to move their assets to Singapore, over the past several years "the government studied Switzerland very closely and created something as good," says Roman Scott, a private-banking expert with Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Among other changes, family-trust laws were amended to make the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next easier?and to offer sanctuary from high estate taxes in the U.S. and Europe. In addition, rules protecting customer confidentiality were strengthened. Divulging...
...Indians and South Koreans achieving millionairedom last year surged a remarkable 19.3% and 21.3%, respectively, while Indonesia and Hong Kong recorded double-digit growth. The wealth of millonaires in the region is expected to grow 6.7% a year through 2010, according to the report, compared with 3.7% for Europe. Roman Scott, a vice president at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Singapore, says the soaring economies of China and India are behind the boom: "If you open up economies for two billion people in 10 years, multiplied by strong market performance and fewer capital controls, you get a phenomenal amount...
...predicting that America will no longer be one nation but more like the Roman Empire--a conglomerate of races and cultures held together by a regime. The country I grew up in was culturally united, even if it was racially divided. We spoke the same language, had the same faith, laughed at the same comedians. We were one nationality. We're ceasing to be that when you have hundreds of thousands of people who want to retain their own culture, their own language, their own loyalty. What do we have in common that makes us fellow Americans? Is it simply...