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They share a birth date — sept. 8. both are married to women who excelled as models. And as the sons of Australia's two greatest media moguls, both know what it's like to have money — and to blow large sums of it. And yet ... "I couldn't imagine two more different people," says a Sydney lawyer who's worked closely with Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer over the years. "James has the softness of his mother, but he's extraordinarily numerate and has a bonhomie that he got from his old man. Lachlan is measured, reflective, highly intelligent. There's a...

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