In Pokot, a connection between the accumulation of wealth and commercialised raiding was more pronounced in the interviews with government officials and experts, while raiders denied that they sell a large portion of the captured livestock.
The connection of the Nobel with wealth can be seen as cheeky, because Murakami is perhaps the only contender for the prize to whom the millions of kronor wouldn't make much difference.
The flaunting of wealth and connections is thus out of fashion -- for the moment.
A new black elite has emerged in South Africa, mostly from the ranks of the liberation movement -- people who were able to use their political pedigree and connections to amass vast amounts of wealth.
Several city officials on Thursday privately expressed near disbelief that any inmate, regardless of wealth or connections, would be allowed to turn a jail complex into a rollicking banquet hall for six hours.
To make a compelling story line, footage of the 2007 pilgrimage is woven into a biography of Ibn Battuta, a religious but brashly overconfident young man of wealth and connections in Tangier who in 1325 set out to make the 3,000-mile 3,000-mileone.
The fact is that it has been his level of wealth, pedigree, connections and, to a degree, gender that have assisted him in many of his antics, giving him advantages and granting him privileges that would have been denied of others who do not fall into this category.
By helping others, you create connections and start the flow of wealth among others.
"The Great Gatsby" is, above all, a novel of conspicuous consumption — not even of appetite but of the ineluctable connection between wealth and spectacle.
He isn't an anglophile writing for a Western audience, nor was he born of wealth or familial connections.
