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Within months of the collapse of communism in 1989, hideous hybrid organizations including among their numbers newly unemployed secret policemen - together with the likes of Olympic wrestlers and weightlifters - seized effective control of former Warsaw Pact states like Bulgaria. What began as muscle-bound gangs, running the streets of Sofia and other cities, quickly graduated into networks that, for example, become the major importers of stolen cars from Western Europe...
...honored. "If it wasn't for the mafia in Russia and elsewhere in the early 1990s, nothing would have moved, nothing would have happened," said Gary Busch, an American businessman who worked in Russia during the turbulent 1990s. "They were essential for the free market." The gangs of Sofia, Moscow and Prague were the midwives of capitalism. In Russia, the new entrepreneurs - or oligarchs, as they were called - could use their guile to seize control of Russia's vast energy and metallurgical sectors, building empires worth billions of dollars, while the living standards of ordinary Russians plummeted...
...reality, even for these bands, is that the real money comes from selling out arena concerts and getting their songs in the next Sofia Coppola movie. The answer becomes, simply, exposure. If they hear it, they will come...
Should celebrities use their stardom to influence voters? -Sofia Canbolat, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsSure. People can listen to a host of influences and still make their own decisions. I'm always interested to hear who the people I respect are voting for. Gloria Steinem wrote this Op-Ed in the New York Times that influenced me toward Senator Hillary Clinton...
...affinity for strong women shows up in her office (the walls are lined with photographs of '60s icons like Sofia Loren dressed in Gucci) and in her choice of collaborators. She asked Madonna to co-host Gucci's Feb. 6 celebration of its new Fifth Avenue flagship, the biggest in the world. The event will unveil a new design for the label's stores, which feature giant windows to let the sun in. Giannini is working to make sure it keeps shining on Gucci...