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A: Lately I’ve been swamped with a zillion records. Stuff I like—Chris Rock’s new album Never Scared is hilarious—he does his Michael Jackson skit, et al., and the Sri Lankan/London native M.I.A. whose parents were in the Tamil...
My friend Chris Davis [head of Davis Financial Advisors] told me he was once concerned about how much the U.S. spends on health care as a percentage of GDP. Surely 12% or 13% was unsustainable? He asked Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. "Who knows?" Charlie said. "How much...
Karl Lagerfeld is used to being imitated. "Chanel called it flattery," he shrugs. "For me, it's good because it pushes me to things they can't copy." By Chanel, he means Coco, the founder of the label Lagerfeld has headed for 22 years. "They" are the fashion chains, whose...
Steel companies don't usually help spark political revolutions. But then Ukraine's Kryvorizhstal is no ordinary steel firm. With annual production of about 7 million tons, it is by far Ukraine's biggest steelmaker, accounting for 20% of output, and one of the country's most valuable companies. Last...
Much of the material is dauntingly complex, but Gaines works hard to keep his prose accessible and entertaining--sometimes too hard, as when he writes of Prussia's ruling family, "The Hohenzollerns were a funny bunch," or when, in the midst of explaining Pythagorean numbers and the theory of affections...