Letter sent to the Editor of the Financial Times:
Sir,
I take issue with your choice for this year´s person of the year (¨Man of steel with a showman’s flair¨ December 22, 2006).
In the year when Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the world, set up a structure to donate practically all of his wealth, he surely deserved it this year.
Giving this recognition to a person who promised to give up his executive responsabilities in order to do his big deal only to ´change his mind´ once the deal is done, is not cause for recognition. Having paid the highest price for a home in London doesn´t do it for me either.
Let´s give him a royal title, which appears to be what usually happens with billionaires who make London their home, but not Financial Times recognition.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
See article:
Lakshmi Mittal is spending Christmas at his Alpine holiday home in St Moritz to indulge his latest pastime: cross-country skiing. The 56-year-old businessman believes the downhill version of the sport is for “lazy people” and prefers to push himself up hills instead.
Those who know the Indian steel entrepreneur would expect nothing less. Over the past three decades he has assembled, from the ground up, by far the world’s biggest steel business with three times the output of its closest rival. He has become the world’s fifth richest person, with a fortune estimated at $23.5bn by Forbes magazine.
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