Yet Best, for all the girls and glamour surrounding him, was a pauper compared to today's multi-millionaires.
INSIDE his hovel of branches and rags, a grizzled pauper called Badshah Kale keeps a precious object.
Most people accept that a dollar is worth more to a pauper than to a plutocrat.
And his bid to turn the armed forces into a political tool has merely imported Venezuela's political conflict to the barracks.In this section From pauper to president: now Lula's struggle really begins Clouds over Quito Desperate causes Contortions on Kyoto ReprintsThe dissident officers do not command troops.
His financial plan: live like a pauper and retire well.
Her strategy was to drown out the campaign of Jerry Brown, a former governor and current attorney-general but a pauper by comparison, with constant and ubiquitous attack ads, forcing him either to spend his money early or to leave her attacks unanswered.Mr Brown chose the second option, hoarding his money, a bit more than $20m, all summer.
Conservative critics see their school system as an overindulged public-sector lobby, not a pauper.
But the issue splits Canadian politicians.In this section From pauper to president: now Lula's struggle really begins Clouds over Quito Desperate causes Contortions on Kyoto ReprintsFor more than two years, the federal energy and environment ministers have been talking with provincial counterparts about how to reduce emissions to meet the Kyoto target (of 6% below 1990 levels).
This would be a wholly unpredicted outcome, which many romantically inclined neutrals, such as Bagehot, would cheer.Though no pauper, the once-great club is much less rich than the league's usual winners.
Mr Kanbur contends that governments should "tax the millionaire in favour of the pauper, however great the millionaire's capacity for happiness relative to the pauper".Sleepy but solventHappiness, of course, makes an appearance in America's founding documents.
"At least there", says one father, "you have a couple of poor kids on scholarships".Even if southern Dallas stays the pauper to Highland Park's prince, the Metroplex will keep on growing.
