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Outside of the temples of high finance, Soros was almost unknown until the early 1990s. On Wall Street he is judged the greatest hedge-fund investor of our time. With characteristic candor, he says he "carved myself a place on Mount Rushmore as a money manager." An investment of $100,000 with Soros in 1969 would be worth $300 million today...
This premillennial Woodstock got started 12 years ago when an unknown artist, Larry Harvey, built a wooden statue on a foggy beach near San Francisco and then set it on fire. For Harvey it was a catharsis to heal a broken relationship. For his friends it was a soul-energizing blast, and Harvey decided it should be an annual ritual. He cast a single brilliant rule: no spectators. What he wanted, he said, was to create "a Disneyland in reverse." Everyone had to be a participant and march in the electric-light parade...
...many readers, intriguing book appeared in 1968. Published as a novel, A Fan's Notes excited considerable curiosity about its previously unknown author, Frederick Exley, and its central character, a hopeless drunk and a lunatic rooter for the pro football New York Giants also named Frederick Exley. Who was this guy, so the question went at the time, the accomplished author or the alcoholic burnout he portrays...
Before Tobon began his work, mules who died were usually buried in potter's field, the city's burial ground for the unknown. As a rule they carry false papers, know no one at their destination and live in terrifying isolation. The lure: up to $5,000 a trip. "They are not bad people," says Tobon. "They are just desperate. In the papers of Colombia, the drug lords advertise for and take only good people who are likely to pass through customs without problems. They come because they are poor and have no choice. They are not responsible...
AUGUSTA WATTS, 120 PROOF: Social Security record. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Born in the same year as Mata Hari. VICE: Not a one, say her nurses, but she sometimes has pureed bacon and eggs for breakfast. ODDS: An unknown, but insiders say she could...