Businessweek
Nov 2012
The market for Hirst’s work is in a tailspin. Why?
On the trade school’s business model and its founder, a former movie producer named Jerry Sherlock.
On the difficult challenges faced by an auteur in Nigeria’s burgeoning Nollywood film economy.
If the memory of the Twin Towers now belongs to the world, the story of how they have been replaced is entirely of New York: a tale of power, capital, shifting allegiances, and hallowed ground.
In the 1970s, Kelbessa Negewo was a midlevel administrator in Ethiopia’s brutal Red Terror regime. In the 1990s, he was a bellhop in an Atlanta hotel. Then someone he had tortured back home recognized him.
How did a Kentucky entrepreneur, a Louisiana politician, and the vice president of Nigeria end up in one of the biggest scandals to hit America’s black elite in decades?