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...merely draws a salary from Tata Sons. And while hardly poor, he takes personal modesty seriously. Tall, guarded and retaining the outsider's accent he picked up in an earlier life as a trainee architect in the U.S., he is famously private. He lives with his two German shepherds, Tito and Tango, in the same second-floor apartment in Bombay that he has kept for 20 years. He is one floor below his stepmother, and neighbors say they have never known him to throw a party. His one indulgence apart from his dogs he is frequently spotted muddying his pinstripes...
DIED. Hilton Ruiz, 54, classical prodigy turned versatile Latin jazz and bebop pianist who collaborated with Joe Henderson, Tito Puente and Charles Mingus, recorded more than a dozen albums, including Steppin' into Beauty and Enchantment, and saw his elegant, polyrhythmic compositions featured in such films as American Beauty and Crimes and Misdemeanors; after having been found last month with severe head injuries outside a bar in New Orleans' French Quarter; in New Orleans, where he had been working on a project to benefit hurricane victims...
...largest and most dispersed group of all, tried to assume the dominant role, provoking resentment in others. Still, the first Yugoslavia held on until the Nazis and their allies carved it up among themselves during World War II. Yugoslavia was resurrected again after the war by Josip Broz Tito - a Croat - who used communism and his charismatic personality to glue it back together. It was the most liberal of all communist countries, with a vibrant private sector, and it was relatively prosperous. At the time I was born, in the '60s, the living standard in Yugoslavia was about the same...
...bread, "that war is no nearer this year than it was last, and maybe-I say it with the smallest of maybes-it is farther away." In many ways, 1952 might be called the Year of the Generals. The entrenched ones, like Stalin and Franco and Mao and Tito, held their familiar sway. Others came to power; in coups d'etat (Egypt's Naguib and Cuba's Batista), or in honest elections (Greece's Papagos and in the U.S., Eisenhower). The generals held the headlines; so much so that, to the hurried reader, the manner...
...course, Mafia truth always blows away any fiction. Provenzano has become a legendary figure since the arrest in 1993 of his boyhood friend, and then top Mafia boss, Tito Riina, who had launched a bloody war against crusading anti-Mob prosecutors. Some believe Provenzano tipped off the cops to his buddy?s whereabouts in order to take over the worldwide crime syndicate and tone down its high-profile war against the state. With the last known photograph of Provenzano dating back to 1959, authorities began a decade-long hunt for the elusive boss, who they believed had not strayed...