Popular Elsewhere
15:31 UK time, Monday, 31 October 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
, says a popular Times article. The tricks to keeping as much money as possible stretch further than just hiding the wealth. Being the first to file the divorce is key as, if assets are all around the world, it can be filed in the country most sympathetic to the party. And another trick is to go round all the best lawyers first - once one party has been to them the they aren't allowed to represent the other side.
, according to a popular New York Times article. Which is lucky for the writers Jim Collins and Morten Hansen as it would have been a bit difficult to write anything substantial from the findings "some people are lucky", putting nine years of research down the drain. So the lesson they give instead is that people like Bill Gates were lucky but they made the most of their good luck. Bad luck works very differently though; that, they say, can wipe out a business, regardless of its owner's attitude.
Meanwhile USA Today readers flock to read about, reportedly, . It seems to have found quite a normal low-profile woman. Meet Mary Claire Orenic, "50 years young - with a child old enough to drive himself to school and a husband who comes home to make her lunch as she telecommutes to a job that helps the world." Orenic claims her goal was to move to California and play volleyball on the beach which she achieved.
Finally the Daily Mail's most popular story couldn't have asked for a better visual representation of a changed character. . But when he changed his mind, it took 16 months and 25 surgeries to get rid of those tattoos. But that wasn't the hard part - that was finding a donor and, poetically enough, having to approach previous enemies, to do that.
