On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Oliver Pereira wrote:
Since I've only just heard of these people, I may be getting this wrong, but it seems from what I've been reading that there are two different Safras being discussed here. The chap who died in the fire was Edmond Jacob Safra (August 6, 1931 or 1932 - December 3, 1999), while the chap who bought the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" is his nephew Jacob Safra (born c. 1950), who as far as I can tell is still alive...
Sorry, I meant "c. 1960". The following article, dated March 1, 1998, says that Jacob Safra is "supposed to be in his late 30s".
Oliver
+-------------------------------------------+ | Oliver Pereira | | Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science | | University of Southampton | | omp199@ecs.soton.ac.uk | +-------------------------------------------+