Emperor with flair for extravagance
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Seven years ago, after Lakshmi Mittal took his fledgling steel group public, he was asked how he could compete in a global industry undergoing huge upheavals.
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Robert Howard looked like an ideal candidate for medical school. His grades were good and his recommendations solid. Plus he had a certain intangible that made him
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Amazing powers mean nothing when you're wearing a cape and your archenemy can't stop snickering about your silly name. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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IF the speculation is right that John Howard&#39;s fourth term will come to be seen as his &quot;Chinese period&quot;, the Prime Minister may seek inspiration from a man he may otherwise spurn emulating: Jacques Chirac.
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He did his best, but Arnold the would-be statesman could not quite shake off Arnie the film star. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, and a 57-strong entourage of business leaders flew into Tokyo earlier this week.
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Who could have guessed that throughout the rise and fall of Rome&#39;s emperors, monarchs and politicians a lowly creature has reigned supreme in the ruins of Trajan&#39;s mighty empire?
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Honest, sincere and a man of integrity - the most common definition for the man whom many call an &#39;accidental politician&#39;.
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A bronze head of Roman Emperor Hadrian will travel to both ends of Hadrian's wall later this year.
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For France, those were the days. The French aren't pining for the return of their 19th-century empire, but the 200th anniversary Thursday of Napoleon Bonaparte's crowning as emperor is a reminder of their country's former glory.
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The king is dead; long live the king. That monarchist continuum has found an echo in contemporary China. In a process of seamless succession, Hu Jin Tao, till now the head of state of China and secretary-general
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Jon Heder is not uber-geek Napoleon Dynamite. He does relate to the triumph-over-your-own-inner-loser tenacity for which Napoleon stands, though.
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Pope Benedict has a thing for old   hats, this time donning a wide-brimmed "saturno" for his weekly   general audience in St Peter's Square on Wednesday.
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So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion being drawn by academics at Britain's University of Newcastle from a Roman denarius coin which depicts the celebrated queen of Egypt as a sharp-nosed, thin-lipped woman with a protruding chin.
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Sydneysider pockets his third title in weeks with ice-cold CALL him Three-Pete. Or Peter Perfect. Or any other soubriquet that can adequately adorn powerful Peter Lonard and his now
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A look at the world's longest-serving leaders, excluding monarchies:
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At a whopping $150 million, his bloated, boring &quot;Alexander&quot; is anything but great. It&#39;s a pathetic tribute to a military genius who by the time of his death at 32 had amassed an empire that stretched across
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John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy buffs have been handed a Presidents' Day present they are sure to savor.