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Article: Tycoon Slim, unknown in U.S., wields high power in Mexico
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- February 10, 2008
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MEXICO CITY - The Mexican tycoon who might just be the world's
richest man almost never uses computers. Instead, Carlos Slim
crunches numbers on a spreadsheet he created and has scrawled in a
tattered notebook.
Through this data table, Slim determined that Babe Ruth was the
greatest hitter ever. The obsessive scholar of baseball prefers the
old days. His all-time top 10 includes no player of the past 50
years.
Slim prefers old movies, too, such as "El Cid," about a Spanish
nobleman who became a heroic military leader and shook up society.
In that era, "the good guys were good," Slim explained, "and the bad
guys were bad."
Few alternate between the white and black hats more than Latin ...
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