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The path to riches usually starts with a family business. To use private-banker jargon, the Patriarch founds the company (they never say Matriarch) and then passes it to the Next Generation and then maybe to “Gen 3.” Inevitably, the family members start fighting and the business goes under or is sold for a Liquidity Event. [...]

He works on a show called Brothers %26amp; Sisters, but it probably should be called Husbands %26amp; Wives or simply Family. In any case, Ken Olin is happy to be back at work.The former thirtysomething star is executive producer of the second-year drama, which returns from its strike-imposed hiatus with four new episodes starting Sunday [...]

In the Westport Country Playhouse%26#8217;s wry new production of %26#8220;Time of My Life,%26#8221; there%26#8217;s an effusive waiter, a concerned one, a singing one and one so aggressively rude that when he takes patrons%26#8217; coats to the checkroom, he drags them on the floor. They work for a gracious, nostalgic restaurateur. And he, [...]

In a gee-whiz tone, Mr. Walsh, 41, describes a happy home life with loving and supportive parents.%26#8220;My father was quite a character,%26#8221; said Mr. Walsh, who has slight, boyish good looks and difficulty staying still. %26#8220;He was a furniture salesman, but more than that. He could work a room like no one else %26#151; [...]

Now, for the first time, the selling of personal seat licenses is a real possibility in the New York area. Jets and Giants executives are considering using them at the $1.6 billion stadium they are building in New Jersey, which is scheduled to open in 2010. Although any decisions are months away and team [...]

When the sun finally cut through the smoke cloaking Queen St. W. yesterday morning, the Duke family got a clear view of what was left of their family business. Nothing. The fire that started at dawn and tore through almost a full city block of Queen St., between Portland and Bathurst Sts., took a big [...]

By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent SANAA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Ali Abdu, a slim boy of 14, just wants to go home to his family in the Yemeni mountains. His dream of making money in Saudi Arabia ended in a hospital bed. %26quot;First I worked as a goatherd, then in [...]

SANAA (Reuters) - Ali Abdu, a slim boy of 14, just wants to
go home to his family in the Yemeni mountains. His dream of
making money in Saudi Arabia ended in a hospital bed.”First I worked as a goatherd, then in a car-wash for three
months. Then I was hit by a car and spent 29 [...]

The small urn, wreathed in garlands of white flowers, was then taken on a speedboat, surrounded by a flotilla of cameramen and reporters, and its contents scattered into the sea.The vessel was one of dozens containing Gandhi’s cremated remains that were distributed around India in 1948 - denying the Mahatma the traditional Hindu burial he [...]

Nilamben Parikh then poured the contents into the sea, completing a ritual that finally laid India’s secular saint to rest and marked the healing of a generations-old rift among his descendants.The urn was one of dozens containing Gandhi’s cremated remains that were distributed around India after he was shot dead by a Hindu extremist on [...]