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...Dutch fighting the Spanish, the Protestants at war with Catholics. In the arena of art, the focal conflict is the war between the Dutch Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens, the most popular artist of the previous generation and a court painter of the Spanish Habsburgs. A good chunk of this thick, richly illustrated book is about Rubens' background and family; Rembrandt himself is barely mentioned for an entire chapter. Schama compares paintings and history to show the anxious influence at work between Rembrandt and his older, more popular precursor. Rembrandt, Schama says, was the Great Dutch Hope, the painter whom...
...start a company that would probably fail. But this was Jeff, after all, and his parents trusted him and believed in him every moment of his life. In the end, "we talked about it for two minutes," says Jackie Bezos. They ponied up $300,000, a huge chunk of the money they had saved for retirement. "We didn't invest in Amazon," says his mother, "we invested in Jeff." The ROJ--return on Jeff--was substantial. Today, as 6% owners of the company, they're billionaires...
...kilogram, to truck cocaine over the U.S. border and to warehouses in California or Texas. There, Cali cartel employees would reclaim the goods, move them to major retailing hubs like Manhattan and Los Angeles and wholesale them to distributors. The Colombians pocketed a chunk of the wholesale and retail markups. The Mexicans risked their necks for chump change...
...take effect in as little as two months with the benefit of no political haggling. The plan requires all insurance companies and medical providers that receive federal funding (roughly one third of all hospital and doctor visits) to develop practices to avoid medical errors. This is such a huge chunk of the medical industry that experts say it could lead to industry-wide reform. The President also received a pledge from the American Hospital Association to compile data on errors from its 5,000 member hospitals and implement a system to avoid the most common ones. But while this...
...ASSU also oversees Stanford Student Enterprises, which provides on-campus advertising, linen cleaning and other services--in a role similar to Harvard Student Agencies (HSA). The ASSU relies on the enterprises for a large chunk of its funds...