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...Instead, the media tycoon sounded more like a worried father, warning of fiscal hardships, urging his new constituents to tighten their belts and pledging to do the same. It wasn't all gloom and doom; Bloomberg did offer a hopeful note during his 14-minute speech. "We will rebuild, renew, and remain the capital of the free world," he told the gathered crowd. "Throughout our history, New Yorkers have always made the sacrifices to build a better tomorrow - and there will be a better tomorrow...
Boston research metallurgist Kim Bigelow is no Aristotle Onassis, but he has one thing in common with the late Greek tycoon: he owns a private island. Two of them, actually: 16-acre Green Cay and 1-acre Sandy Spit, both surrounded by azure water and coral reefs, about 10 miles east of St. Thomas in the British Virgin Islands. Bigelow, 60, inherited the properties and has decided to sell them for $1.7 million. The only time he and his wife reconsidered, he says, was in the days after Sept. 11, when owning a private escape from the madness seemed more...
...scrappy Taubman--a shopping-mall tycoon who bought the art house in 1983--has denied the charges and asserted that Brooks was responsible for the scheme. He could take the stand this week, when the defense continues its case. Like Brooks, he faces up to three years in prison and fines of $350,000. And if the courtroom scrapping sounds good enough to be on TV, rest assured it soon will be. Sigourney Weaver has already been cast to play Brooks in an upcoming HBO movie...
...Citizen Kane at all is no small wonder in itself. That the film was made by a 24- year old theater phenom, Orson Welles, who had never sat behind a camera in his life, makes it truly miraculous. Welles based his narrative on the life of newspaper tycoon Randolph Hearst, who blacklisted Welles for the rest of Hearst’s natural life. The film’s original print was saved from destruction several times and, at Hearst’s threats, Citizen Kane was banned from all but one movie house in North America. Citizen Kane was nominated...
...accessory to the murder, they had never spent a day in jail. "They're the most notorious, but they're by no means unique," says Andrew Hiransomboon, a nightlife columnist for the Bangkok Post. Other infamous scions include Suksant Kong-udom, son of a senator and casino tycoon, charged with shooting a diplomat's son outside a disco; Poonpol Asavahame, son of a former deputy interior minister, accused of pistol whipping a truck driver and running down a police officer who tried to give him a ticket; and Pattarapong Manasikarn, son of a former Science Minister, charged with shooting...