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...more recently, refused to pick up $2,600 in expenses for takeout sushi and pizza ordered by state employees working late during the energy crisis. At the time CalPERS was considering JEDI II, Connell was the only one on the board with an investment banking background. An investment banker for a decade, she had run her own investment banking firm and served as a vice president and director at the Chemical Bank of New York. And she had a lot of questions that the Enron execs pitching the deal didn't seem to want to answer...
...prosecuting team also has Del Ponte, who is one tough lawyer. The Cosa Nostra mobsters that Del Ponte, as Switzerland's attorney general, pursued on money-laundering charges tried to blow her up; the banker gnomes in Zurich whose secrecy she penetrated trembled before her. No matter what stunts Milosevic pulls, says Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, "she is not going to be sidetracked or tripped...
...this same period, I took handwritten notes on perhaps 300 books. Passages I wanted to quote directly were noted along with general notes on the ideas and story lines of each book. Notes on all these sources were then arranged chronologically and kept in dozens of folders in 25 banker's boxes. Immersed in a flood of papers, I began to write the book. After each section and each chapter was completed, I returned the notes to the boxes along with notations for future footnoting. When the manuscript was finished, I went back to all these sources to check...
...this same period, I took handwritten notes on perhaps 300 books. Passages I wanted to quote directly were noted along with general notes on the ideas and story lines of each book. Notes on all these sources were then arranged chronologically and kept in dozens of folders in 25 banker's boxes. Immersed in a flood of papers, I began to write the book. After each section and each chapter was completed, I returned the notes to the boxes along with notations for future footnoting. When the manuscript was finished, I went back to all these sources to check...
...Actually, one feels that this show comes about 35 years late. It should have been done back in the '60s, when the National Gallery bought Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci from Liechtenstein. Leonardo was in his early '20s when he painted this daughter of a rich Florentine banker, circa 1474-78. On the front of the panel you see the familiar face--that pale, egg-smooth, cold teenage mask--a girl soberly dressed in brown, the blue lacing of her bodice neatly echoing the blues of the far sky and the trees and water in the middle distance...