He has an instinct for weaving sturdy narrative fabric out of intersecting plot lines: While Nick keeps the city gawking, his brother, Joey (Jamie Bell), and Joey's girlfriend, Angie (Genesis Rodriguez), are busy breaking into the building across the street, owned by evil real-estate titan David Englander (Ed Harris).

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In the early days of FORBES magazine, which was founded 90 years ago, "network" referred to a chain of radio stations hooked up by wire--and, long before that, to intersecting roads, canals, railways and telegraph lines.

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