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...RESIGNED. FLORENTINO P?REZ, 58, after almost six years as president of Real Madrid, the world's wealthiest soccer club; in Madrid. Although the Spanish team spent more than $300 million signing superstar players like David Beckham, Zin?dine Zidane and Ronaldo, it has failed to win any major championships in nearly three years and has suffered a string of defeats in recent months. "I cannot ever regret having enjoyed the soccer of the world's best players," P?rez said upon announcing his resignation...
...Numbers $328 MILLION Revenue earned by Spanish soccer club Real Madrid in 2004-05, making it the wealthiest team in the world according to Deloitte's Football Money League 8 Consecutive years that British team Manchester United topped the list before being unseated by Real Madrid...
...this kind of reality-based writing that sets Miyabe's novels apart-and that has helped make her one of Japan's wealthiest authors. Readers in English may be less enthused by the translation of Crossfire, which makes Miyabe's prose sound less natural than it is in Japanese. Still, even in translation, it's a powerful and satisfying mystery. Miyabe details her characters' every thought, no matter how cutthroat or compassionate, as they argue with their families, berate themselves, fall in love and earn a living. By the end of the novel, the reader understands just how hard Junko...
...with HIV every 6.4 seconds, the 8 million who die every year because they are too poor to stay alive. And who is proving most effective in figuring out how to eradicate those calamities? In different ways, it is Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of the world's wealthiest charitable foundation, and Bono, the Irish rocker who has made debt reduction sexy...
...perceived as common knowledge should be so wrong. A November study (“Who Bears the Burden” by the Center for Data Analysis) showed, in fact, that 45 percent of all new enlisted recruits, excluding officers who are generally from wealthier families, are from the wealthiest 40 percent. Only 35 percent of new recruits are from the poorest 40 percent and a disproportionately low 15 percent of America’s poorest 20 percent enlisted...