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Last Year

Every year, Forbes magazine releases their list of the richest people in the world. This year, Forbes sent a team of workers to carefully analyze the files of more than 1,000 billionaires. This list is a snapshot of the world's richest men as of February 12, 2010. Because of the volatility of the stock market, this list can change quite frequently, and may already be out of date.

Without further delay, here are the world's top 10 richest men as of Feb 12, 2010:

10. Karl Albrecht ($23.5 Billion)

This German visionary entrepreneur founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo. Albrecht is the richest man in his country and the tenth richest man in the world. Even though he made $2 billion dollars in 2009, he fell from his #6 position of last year.

9. Amancio Ortega ($25 Billion)

Ortega is a Spanish fashion designer who has appeared on the top 10 list for a few years running. Last year he was #10, so this represents a slight improvement. He co-founded Inditex Group, and he has lately been busy exporting his Zara stores all over the world.

8. Eike Batista ($27 Billion)

The richest man in Brazil was #61 last year with a net-worth of $7.5 Billion. What a difference a year makes! This college dropout has made his fortune mining iron-ore.

7. Bernard Arnault ($27.5 Billion)

Arnault holds his #7 position from 2009. This French business man owns the world's largest luxury goods empire. Perhaps you've heard of some of his brands like Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior.

6. Lawrence Ellison ($28 Billion)

This American is the founder of Oracle. Even though he is 5.5 billion dollars richer than last year, he slips from the #4 to the #6 position.

5. Lakshmi Mittal ($28.7 Billion)

Originally from India, Mittal inherited his fortune from his family. That doesn't mean he's content to spend it away. He's been growing it at a rapid pace in the steel industry. He jumps from the 8th spot to claim #5.

4. Mukesh Ambani ($29 Billion)

Ambani is another Indian who has been diligently growing his inherited fortune, this time in the petrochemical industry. He increased his fortune by almost $10 billion in 2009, catapulting him from #7 to #4.

3. Warren Buffett ($47 Billion)

Even though he dropped from his #2 position of last year, Buffett gained $10 billion dollars in 2009. He made some pretty big bets on General Electric and Goldman Sachs. As he told his investors: "When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble."

2. Bill Gates ($53 Billion)

Gates has held the #1 spot for 14 of the last 15 years (he briefly lost the position in 2008), but this year he drops to #2 despite increasing his fortune by nearly $13 billion in 2009. This was mostly due to his massive stake in Microsoft, whose stock rose more than 50%.

1. Carlos Slim Helu ($53.5 Billion)

The Mexican telecom investor gained a massive $18.5 billion in 2009 to barely edge out Bill Gates and to become the richest man on the planet. This was largely due to America Movil's great year, in which Carlos holds a 23 billon dollar stake.

The 2010 list had quite a few surprises. Bill Gates lost his normally secure #1 position, and Eike Batista came out of nowhere to make a solid #8 showing. What's in store for next year? Only time will tell, but you might want to keep your eye on Warren Buffett, the richest man in 2008, whose investments from last year still haven't fully matured. Think you've got what it takes to make the list one day? Throw everything you know in the kitchen trash can and come see my free top 10 stocks of 2010.

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The Last Year $10.85 Rated: UNSynopsis: Adaptation of the David Leavitt novel in which a young man agonizes over revealing his homosexuality to his parents, but doesn't realize that his father is also gay and is about to come out of the closet in a way that will destroy his marriage.

Last Year at Marienbad - $34.99 A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a riddle of seduction, a mercurial enigma darting between a present and past which may not even exist, let alone converge. The film stars Giorgio Albertazzi as an unnamed sophisticate attempting to convince a similarly nameless woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they met and were romantically involved a year ago in the same enormous, baroque European hotel. In the end, it hardly matters -- they're not characters so much as pawns anyway. Hypnotically dreamlike, Last Year at Marienbad is a surrealist parody of Hollywood melodrama, a high-fashion romance with a dark, alien underbelly. According to screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet, the movie is a pure construction, without a frame of reference outside of its own existence -- the lives of its characters begin when the lights go down, and conclude when they come back up. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

1791: Mozart's Last Year $11.57 The last month of the year 1791 witnessed what H.C. Robbins Landon calls "the greatest tragedy in the history of music": the premature death of the thirty-five-year-old Mozart. Surrounded by enigma and intrigue, allegations of poisoning, and sexual scandal, this event continues to grip the popular imagination today -- as was demonstrated by the astonishing success of the play and movie Amadeus. Curious and controversial as the circumstances of Mozart's death are, the truth has been obscured by accumulated layers of mythology. Drawing on his unrivaled knowledge of the sources, Professor Landon cuts through fantasy and mystification to present the facts -- including a substantial amount of unpublished information -- and reconstruct the moving story of the last year of Mozart's life. The composition of such works as the Requiem and the operas The Magic Flute and La clemenza di Tito is discussed in detail, and new light is thrown on Mozart's relations with the Freemasons and with Salieri, among others.

Last Year's River $19.48 Set amid the exquisitely rendered landscape of the Rocky Mountains, LAST YEAR'S RIVER is the compelling story of the romance between a young New York debutante, sent off to Wyoming to bear a child, and a cowhand recently returned to the family ranch from the trenches of World War I. In graceful, spare prose, Allen Morris Jones reveals the thoughts of these two unlikely lovers, ultimately unfolding a love story as grand as the American West. With a rare eye for detail, Jones delivers a debut novel infused with an extraordinary sense of history, drama, and the West.

The Last Year of Being Single $3.95 A must-read for any woman hoping to find Mr. Right. Told in a diary format, THE LAST YEAR OF BEING SINGLE documents a year in the life of 29-year-old Sarah Giles as she finds herself torn between two men, and figuring out what she wants from life. To an outsider it would appear that Sarah has found the perfect mate in her boyfriend of five years, Paul. He's handsome, financially secure and can throw a great dinner party--but what outsiders don't know is that Sarah has been in a sexless relationship for four of those years. So when Sarah meets John Wayne (what a name ) and their casual flirty relationship turns to something more intoxicating, things really become complicated. Torn between two men and two marriage proposals, Sarah does everything she can to write her own happy ending....

The Last Year of Being Married $9.99 Breaking up is hard to do A tipsy confession of infidelity during their engagement hadn't been the best start to Sarah's marriage. Blurting it out on their honeymoon wasn't exactly the best timing, either. Still, how could he complain? It had taken Paul O'Brian five years to propose, and even then he'd made only occasional guest appearances in Sarah's bed! Briefly aroused by a luxury holiday, he'd since managed to father their adorable son, now three years old; otherwise the ring on Sarah's finger signified little more than a shrewd purchase. But now Paul had decided it was time to cut their losses. With a divorce. What had happened to them? Weren't they once the perfect couple? Surely her savvy city-guy husband hadn't fallen prey to that humiliating cliché, the seven-year itch…. Thrown into a state of denial, then self-doubt, followed by determination not to go under without a fight, Sarah is catapulted into an unforgettable last year of being married. Outrageously sexy, bitingly witty, uncompromisingly truthful…Sarah pulls no punches as she explodes the myth of happily ever after once and for all.

Last Year At Marienbad $27 Synopsis: Man X meets woman A at a health spa and discusses their past, present or future affair. Format: DVD Color: Black and White Rating: Not Rated Genre: Drama Runtime: 94 Year: 1962 Director: Alain Resnais

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Now Wait for Last Year $13.89 Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader is perpetually on the verge of death. And on top of it all, a new drug has just entered circulationa drug that whips its users back and forth across time. In an attempt to escape his doomed marriage, Dr. Eric Sweetscent is caught up in all of it. But he has questions: is Earth on the right side of the war? Is he supposed to heal Earths leader or keep him sick? And can he change the harrowing future that the drug has shown him? "Now Wait For Last Year" plays with all of these questions in a way that only Philip K. Dick can.

This Time Last Year $6.99 Elizabeth Ash is on the run from her foundering marriage.  With her sidekick, Lynn, she has fled to England for a month, where the cool air is a tonic and adventure may be at hand.   Seeking solitude, Elizabeth's husband, Henry, has holed up in her sister's Vermont summerhouse to begin writing the book he hopes will transform his life.  But Henry is more alone and less isolated than he bargained for: A year earlier his brother-in-law, Fitz, dropped dead in the same house.  Fitz's ghost is everywhere, especially so after Henry inadvertently discovers Fitz's intimate life story stored in the Macintosh in the study.

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Dead Is So Last Year $3.95 Something very strange starts happening in Nightshade the summer that the eldest Giordano sister, Rose, gets a job working at Dr. Franken's research laboratory. People are starting to see double. Doppelgangers of Nightshade residents are popping up all over town. Daisy, Rose and Poppy think it's a coincidence, until the rumors start that their father, who disappeared several years ago, has been spotted in town. Meanwhile, Daisy's beau, Ryan is spending all of his time training for football, and like the other guys on the team, he's grown enormous almost overnight. Samantha Devereux's boyfriend's neck has doubled in size since school ended. Could the football players be resorting to extreme measures to win? Between summer jobs, sugar rushes, and beach parties, the Giordano girls get to the bottom of these mysteries and more.

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Last Year's Songs: Greatest Hits $37.99 Track Listing: 1. Driving One of Your Cars, 2. Another Shape of My Heart, 3. What If, 4. Quietly, 5. Sad Lullaby, 6. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, 7. Hanna Fr?n Arl?v, 8. Alright, 9. Lady Stardust, 10. Sing to Me, 11. Brand New Day, A, 12. Take Me by the Hand, 13. Back to Stoneberry Road, 14. Mary, 15. Sweet Misery, 16. Acceptable Losses, 17. Little Bird, 18. Last Year's Song, 19. Another Shape of My Heart

Last Year At Marienbad (Criterion Collection) $30.01 Rated: NRSynopsis: Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais' epochal visual poem has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. A surreal fever dream, or perhaps a nightmare, Last Year at Marienbad (L'annee derniere a Marienbad), written by the radical master of the New Novel, Alain Robbe-Grillet, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-bedecked chateau they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais' investigation into the nature of memory is disturbing, romantic, and maybe even a ghost story.

Last Year Before Reality by Prophet, Conrad [Paperback] $19.46 Last Year Before Reality is a touching story about the pain and struggles that mothers experience as they attempt to assist their children during their last year of high school and prepare them for the realities of adulthood. The development of close friendships and the deterioration of others, provide for nonstop action. Hope, despair, dreams and disappointments propel the characters through to the last page of the book. The inevitable result is summarized in the last sentence of the book: For some, it was their last year before reality. For others, it was their last year. http: //conradprophet.com Author: Prophet, Conrad Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 252 Publication Date: 2007/04/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 inches