The world's richest man was announced by Forbes magazine this week. Carlos Slim Helu is a native of Mexico and also the world's weathiest billionare. Helu is worth an estimated $53.5 billion dollars and built his fortune in his native homeland. Helu purchased and privatized TelMax, the national...
Becky Wunder of Playboy flashes Vernon Jordan on July 22, 2010. The 75 year old politician attended a party thrown to honor his 75th Birthday at the Four Seasons Restaurant. Fellow party attendees included financier/investor Donald Marron, editor/businessman Steve Forbes, and investor...
Atheism is generating quite a lot of attention these days. Prominent atheists are getting the word out about their views in increasing numbers and generating lots of public debate on the proper place of religion in governments and societies in the modern world. And now more than ever, atheists...
Oprah Winfrey has legions of faithful followers across the country, but they’d do well to keep a careful eye out as they tread the trail that Oprah blazes: the aftermath of her “good works” and “good judgment” is sometimes messy—and even dangerous. Recent news reports have warned of the dangers...
Forbes publishes a yearly list of the world's most expensive cars. As you'd expect from a magazine that centers on investment advice, it's not entirely accurate when it comes to discussing automobiles. Missing from this year's list, for example, is the $800,000 Hennessey Venom and the $550,000...
In the theatre there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time- in the cinema, only one,” as quoted by Orson Welles, the prolific director of the most studied film of all time, Citizen Kane. Within the last century cinema has grown from pioneering silent films into orchestrated musicals, “spaghetti...
Many people have noticed that lately, of the three big Ivy League schools (Princeton, Harvard and Yale), Yale has been ranking a lot lower than Harvard and Princeton. Why would that be? The best answer that we could come up with is that college ranking services are putting more emphasis on...
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
BP weighs Tony Hayward's job as CEO. In a board meeting scheduled for the evening of Monday, July 26, 2010, BP officials will determine "management changes" within the oil company responsible for the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. Speculation abounds that BP will offer Hayward a massive...
Discovery Communications has agreed to almost double the funding commitment to its cable network venture with US television talk show host and celebrity Oprah Winfrey.In the agreement, Winfrey has agreed to increase her on-air commitment to The Oprah Winfrey Network, which is a Los Angeles-based...
