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...sanctioned practices that, taken together, suggest something was very rotten at the heart of French state capitalism. Elf at the time was state-owned, and the most damning evidence to date has come from its erstwhile CEO, Loik Le Floch-Prigent, and two top corporate lieutenants, Alfred Sirven and André Tarallo, the latter dubbed Mr. Africa. They have meticulously described how Elf kept a slush fund, overseen by Sirven, allegedly used to pay bribes via Swiss accounts to African leaders including Savimbi and Gabon President Omar Bongo, as well as to channel money to the two main French political...
...Beaux-Arts and the Villa Médicis. His wealthy Parisian thread-manufacturing family lived in a grand bourgeois neighborhood near the Europe Bridge, famously painted by Gustave Caillebotte. The teenage Cartier-Bresson worked in the studio of society painter Jacques-Emile Blanche, and later studied with Cubist painter André Lhote, honing his geometrically precise eye for composition at the Louvre. By the 1920s, he was hanging out in Montmartre cafés with André Breton and the Surrealists. Breton, he says, "intimidated me. I was very much younger, and he was the Pope." But he was fascinated...
...Hungary's brilliance began to fade. Among the criticisms: the sorry state of the country's troops and matériel, the lack of transparency in the way military contracts were doled out, and Hungary's lukewarm contribution to the war on terror. "We wasted three valuable years," says András Simonyi, Hungary's former ambassador to NATO and its current ambassador to the U.S. "We failed to speed up - much less to achieve - the much-touted reform of our military. Hungary today is not better equipped to contribute to the alliance than it was the day we joined...
...glass signify clairvoyance; eyes nearly closed denote serenity and a transition from one world to another. This artistic lexicon is used throughout the Congo region, encompassing several dozen tribes in the modern nations of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Gabon. The exquisite Musée Jacquemart-André, in the former mansion of 19th century banker Edouard André and his artist wife, Nélie Jacquemart, houses their exceptional collection of furniture, paintings, porcelain and objets d'art. The current temporary show, like the museum, is a small gem, although the title From Caillebotte to Picasso...
...companies will have problems," says David Nisbet, insurance analyst at Merrill Lynch. "If they fall by 30%, it's the regulators who will have the problems." Most regulators aren't waiting idly for that to happen. "Reinforcing control of insurers is the order of the day," says André Laboul, head of the Financial Affairs Division at the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Nations whose insurers have the biggest exposure to the stock market have acted fastest. In Britain, the Financial Services Authority asked the 20 largest life insurers to assess their liabilities on a "realistic basis...