As historical figures such as France's Napoleon Bonaparte have shown, interest in fashion goes hand-in-hand with a hunger for power -- often with mixed results.

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Do we really need to see Ravenna's backstory, an explanation for her psychotic hatred of men and her insatiable hunger for beauty and power?

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Motivated by curiosity, boredom, and hunger for a little power, they range from the mildly annoying (such as the Hacking for Girlies group that brought down the New York Times site on the day the Starr Report came out) on up to the criminal "crackers" (such as Vladimir Levin, who allegedly transferred millions of dollars from Citibank's mainframe computers to accounts in Finland and Israel).

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Last year it yielded 21 million tons of low-quality coal that was hauled by rail to power stations slaking the country's desperate hunger for energy.

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