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...CROSSTOWN ARTS...
...creating art playing a game? That is the theme and approach of Megan McNaught's solo exhibition, titled Strategy, at Crosstown Arts: she creates a part of the work and then lets the painting dictate the next move. This is exemplified in her most striking work, a series of paintings in either two or three tones where five-inch by five-inch blocks are arranged in a geometric pattern on the large canvas. You can easily see its strategy-game aspect-the blocks are arrayed rather like the pieces in Tetris. However, the attraction of the texture of the brushstrokes...
...didn't have address numbers for buildings in the targeted area, so agents estimated the location by comparing address number from a parallel street. Compounding the error was the fact that the database the agency was using for a crosscheck hadn't been updated since before the embassy moved crosstown...
...older, Kennedy began taking the 79th Street crosstown bus to school, just like any kid might; he made sure to exit through the bus's front door, while the Secret Service agents who followed him everywhere used the rear one. And the agents were there when Kennedy, Straus and another friend went to their very first rock concert, Bob Dylan and the Band at Madison Square Garden...
Italy is hardly the only place where this is happening. The consolidation wave in banking began on Jan. 15 when Spain's Banco de Santander announced an $11.3 billion merger with crosstown rival Banco Central Hispano. This was followed by the $18 billion bid by Societe Generale, one of France's largest retail banks, with Paribas, the country's leading investment bank. During a sleepy Italian weekend in March, Unicredito, based in Milan, launched a $16 billion bid to buy northern rival Banca Commerciale Italiana, perhaps Italy's most prestigious banking brand. Only a few hours later, San Paulo...