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...with a paradoxical, occasionally self-destructive desire to make what are essentially art movies on huge budgets. Sometimes the results are entrancing (Time Bandits, The Fisher King). Sometimes they are disastrous (Brazil involved him in a famously acrimonious final-cut fight with the studio; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen went insanely over budget). You never know what you will get when he sets forth on one of his excellent adventures...
...meeting two weeks ago with University President Lawrence H. Summers, financial baron Jeffrey Epstein pledged the money to support the work of mathematical biologist Martin A. Nowak, who takes his post at Harvard on July...
...year, and Orange-sponsored Arrows is likely to follow suit, Formula One has to bite the bullet, now. Archive: Schumy the Great THE BOURSE Insolvency, She Wrote Deutsche Bank paid €667 million for a 40.3% share in Axel Springer, Europe's top publisher, once owned by fallen media baron Leo Kirch. The bank then sold 10.4% of the stake to Friede Springer, giving her control. Turning Each Other On The U.K.'s two largest commercial broadcasters, Carlton and Granada, agreed on merger plans to create a new company worth over $4 billion. The deal will face strict regulatory scrutiny...
Ellis is one of two artists with paintings in the New Faculty show. The other is Stuart Baron, who taught at Boston University for many years and served as the Director of the School for Visual Arts there. Baron is teaching “Two Dimensional Artmaking” and an intermediate figure drawing course, “Anatomy and the Figure.” Unlike Ellis’ works, which are far more visually disciplined, Baron’s paintings writhe before the viewer in red, black and the occasional touch of gray. In his two untitled works...
...change of venue" bill that would give the accused wide latitude to request moving a trial to a new jurisdiction if he suspects judges are biased. Is Berlusconi a closet bleeding heart for the plight of the indicted masses? Not likely. Suffice it to say that the conservative media baron-turned-politician empathizes with the accused. The two-and-a-half-year-long trial against Berlusconi and his associates for allegedly bribing Rome judges in the mid-'80s returned to a Milan courtroom last Saturday. As usual, the defendant was not physically present. That doesn't mean he wasn...