--- Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at rogers.com> wrote: Calling himself the black sheep of his patrician family, Mr. Vollmer has thrown himself into social projects in the barrios that sit close to his family's eclectically decorated hacienda in the Aragua valley, about 47 miles west of Caracas. One program, named "Alcatraz" after the prison, rehabilitates gang members. He recently flew one of them first class to Sarajevo to attend a World Bank conference on social programs.
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Hey, he sounds kind of like Roman Abramovich (though probably with a much less murky past). Abramovich ran Chukotka like one giant daycare center. I don't know how anybody lived there before he came along.
>From orphan to train robber to mega-oligarch to
saviour of the Chukchi -- that's quite a past!
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