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...wouldn't expect the head of Tata group, India's largest conglomerate, to say the rich are boring. But Ratan Tata comes close. Acting rich doesn't interest him. "I've never had the desire to own a yacht, to flaunt," he says. "It's not really [the point]." Nor does the Prada-wearing class excite him as a marketing opportunity. China and India, with their growing ranks of tycoons, should attract multinational businesses not because of the spare million in a few fat wallets, he argues, but because of the spare change in a billion slim ones. "Everyone...
...Charlie and I were called into his office and he sat us down, and the very first question he asked us was how would we like to room with the son of the owner of Bolero,” says Swett. Bolero was the premier private sailing yacht in America, “a 72-foot yawl, which was the finest boat that money could buy.”Swett and Cunningham, both interested in sailing, accepted.Swett says that he remembered his surprise when he first met Brown.“The chauffeur-driven Chrysler drove up to Thayer South...
First thing you notice about a guy: The size of his yacht...
...Patrick's story turned stereotypically Kennedy in other ways. He has battled depression, drug addiction and bad publicity, as in 2000 when he argued with a girlfriend aboard a yacht he had chartered; she got the Coast Guard to take her to shore. He later trashed the boat. The car crash last Thursday at about 2:45 a.m. was the most bizarre incident yet. Capitol police officers, who suspected that Kennedy, 38, was drunk, alleged he was given special treatment: a superior told them not to give a sobriety test but to take Kennedy home. (Acting chief Christopher McGaffin later...
...admitted that he had battled addiction and undergone therapy and taken medication to help treat depression, In March of 2000, he was videotaped shoving a Los Angeles airport security guard, and in August, the Coast Guard intervened when he had an argument with a girlfriend on a rented yacht. Since he became the youngest Kennedy elected to office when he won a seat in the Rhode Island state house at the age of 21, Kennedy has made no secret of the fact that the family legacy can weigh on his generation. In an interview with TIME back in July...