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...golfers, the youngest of whom must be at least 50, who give emphasis to the word senior in the Senior PGA Tour. Seven players over 60 have won a total of eight tournaments, among them Mike Fetchick, who on his 63rd birthday won the Hilton Head Seniors International, making him the oldest winner ever on the pro circuit...
...problem was that Russia's bankers were playing the same game, possibly with loans from the International Monetary Fund. In the mid-'90s Russia's central bank transferred more than a billion dollars of hard currency to an overseas company called FIMACO. After Russia's chief prosecutor leaked word of the suspicious off-shore company, the bank eventually apologized, explaining politely that the money had been hidden to protect precious Russian assets from foreign claims and insisting that no laws had been broken. But Russian Duma Deputies charge that the central bank hid the reserves to lure more cash from...
Passion may be the most overused word in Silicon Valley, but here it's unlikely to refer to romance. While the second-wave emigres may be socially savvy, the enthusiasm they bring to bear on their businesses is narrowly focused. Distractions, including relationships, are largely unwelcome...
...good-looking men worth millions of dollars--aren't dipping into the dating pool. Sabeer Bhatia, 31, the co-founder of Hotmail, made $200 million when he sold his company to Microsoft in 1998. Rather than retire, or even slow down, Bhatia founded another company, called Arzoo (a Hindi word for--what else?--passion). He has five cars, a penthouse apartment in San Francisco and a stream of (unanswered) e-mail proposals owing to his well-documented success. Yet Bhatia says he dates "less often than the average American male," or about once a month. "If you're involved...
...Have you seen the previews for The Minus Man? They had audiences buzzing before The Blair Witch Project when they pictured a young female lifeguard returning late to her job to find two dead people floating in the pool. Word is that the film is just as unpredictable as The Sixth Sense and more edgy than any of the summer spook-a-thons. Our team is hitting the Boston premiere and afterparty this week. We'll give you our report on the movie and the scene in the next issue...