The clinic was built by a business tycoon.

Were Berlusconi only a tycoon, such reports would not raise many eyebrows.

In practice, however, such tycoon politicians have their own interests and gratifications to pursue.

Neither the clown nor the tycoon is well suited to being a democratic leader.

Two types of contemporary populist, however, stand out the ultra rich business tycoon and the clown.

A billionaire telecommunications tycoon, Thaksin presided over the trebling of his family s assets in the stock market.

Similarly, even in America, movies and TV shows do not dramatize the lives of great tycoon philanthropists.

When the government goes after a rich oil tycoon like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, few voices are raised in protest.

Neither the clown nor the tycoon is well suited to being a democratic leader. The question is which is worse.

Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, a famous convert to environmentalism, drafted a plan (which he named after himself) to increase America s reliance on renewables.

In the Anglo Saxon media world, Rupert Murdoch, owner of far too many newspapers, TV stations, and movie studios, is a typical populist tycoon.

Big business won't stand up for the oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, singled out by the Kremlin as a political enemy and imprisoned since last year.

NEW YORK When too many Italians voted late last month for either a louche and discredited business tycoon or a comedian, European stock markets plummeted.

Reliance on a self promoting tycoon like Thaksin is not the best way to boost democracy, but nor is reliance on military coups and kingly intervention.

Italy s investigating magistrates have consistently refused to accept the popularity and electoral power of a business tycoon whom they have tried to convict for many years.

In such a state, initiative, especially political initiative, is worse than futile it is a crime, as the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned former oil tycoon, has demonstrated.

In Egypt, Gamal Mubarak will have to counter the widespread perception that his interests are aligned with close allies among the business elite, notably steel tycoon Ahmed el Ezz.

Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a few hundred miles from the border, the series chronicles the rise and fall of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who becomes a methamphetamine tycoon.

The main rumored political reasoning behind the crackdown on the blogging service is a diary of Rakhat Aliyev, the former presidential son in law, media tycoon and boss of the special services.

His opponent is Sebastián Piñera, a tycoon, former senator, and presidential runner up in 2006 who represents the main opposition forces Piñera s moderately conservative Renovación Nacional (RN) and the more rightist Union Democrata Independiente (UDI).

Simultaneously, the Muslim Brotherhood tried to step up their game, and announced that Khairat Al Shater, former deputy supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood and businessman tycoon, is their choice in Egypt's alternating Presidency act.

Similarly, even in America, movies and TV shows do not dramatize the lives of great tycoon philanthropists. Americans, like everyone else, prefer portrayals of business people who are truly evil and in the end receive their just deserts.

Big business won't stand up for the oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, singled out by the Kremlin as a political enemy and imprisoned since last year. Instead, each businessman makes his own deals with the Kremlin to gain relative security.

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