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...point is, it would only take about $9 billion to control the entire long position in oil. That sounds like an enormous amount of money, but some of the major individual players in oil are bigger than the market itself: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddin, of Brunei Shell Petroleum, is worth about $23 billion; Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud is worth about $21 billion; Russian Vagit Alekperov of LUKoil is worth about $13 billion. No, we're not implicating any of these guys in market rigging; in fact the list of billionaires with that kind of swag is long...
...Coogan's signature character, displayed in a decade's worth of Brit comedy series, is Alan Partridge, an unctuously brutal TV host modeled on David Frost. (Eric Idle did Frost first, and better, back on Monty Python's Flying Circus.) If you've never seen Partridge, you know his type from countless American movies and TV shows: a star with a self-confidence as unbreakable as it is unjustified, and who's impervious to the world's opinion...
...inner beauty that few get to see - except for one weekend a year. On Sept. 20 and 21, London holds its annual Open House, when hundreds of the city's most exciting buildings - many usually closed to the public - invite you to step inside (www.openhouse.org.uk). Here are four places worth a peek...
...gifts of Anderson Cooper. A week later she and her husband Scott Roberts were discovered by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, documentarians who had worked for Michael Moore. The resulting movie, Trouble the Water, is an endlessly moving, artlessly magnificent tribute to people the government didn't think worth saving...
...Time, Cavalier and a host of art and film journals, Farber elevated the reps of blue collar directors while snipering critics' darlings like Hitchcock and Welles. (Citizen Kane was "exciting but hammy.") He sold these advanced ideas through the startling sprung rhythm of his prose, packing an essay's worth of insights into a parenthetical aside, leaving the alert reader exhausted and grateful...