There are some crises that never touch the well-heeled.  Money, like flab, insulates them from bruising.  The generally applied laws of a state can be treated as meaningless jottings; the citizenry ignored with class contempt.  But few can blame the world’s sixth wealthiest person, Larry Page, for circumstances that were gifted to him.  An opportunity More

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