Saturday, November 11, 2006

Oil-rich Dubai redraws the atlas (Think and grow rich)

In the early 1960's oil was discovered 75 miles off the coast of the United Arab Emirates transforming the economy of its capital Dubai and its six neighboring federated states.
The super-rich pile their cash into Man Group, despite high-profile hedge fund setbacks such as Amaranth and BlueCrest and May and June's spooked markets.
The French Riviera is the playground for a couple of the funniest con men who ever swindled a pigeon. In "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," the suave Lawrence Jameson (Tom Hewitt) and a vulgar grifter named Freddy Benson (Timothy Gulan) ply their trade among rich women. Catch it through Sunday at the Kentucky Center.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) president has ordered stiff penalties for human trafficking, as the oil-rich Gulf state tries to clean up its human rights record.
Paris, Nov. 10 (Reuters): The economic outlook for the Group of Seven industrial nations has improved, an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report released on Friday showed, but it also pointed to slowing growth in the euro area.
Lawrence Richard "Rich" Campbell, 65, of 196 Mason St., Kennerdell, formerly of Ellwood City, died unexpectedly Thursday morning, Nov. 9, 2006, in his home.
CHAMPAIGN - No Brian Randle, no Rich McBride, no problem.