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...mother and Cameroonian father, has been convicted for, among other things, calling Jews "black slave traders"; for claiming that Jews exploit the Holocaust to avoid political criticism in what he called "memorial pornography"; and for slandering a popular French Jewish entertainer with allegations that he'd been a "secret donor of the child-murdering Israeli army." Sentences meted out for his offenses were fines ranging from $4,000 to $62,000, usually as payment to his slander victims...
...aligned simply in a row toward the viewer, barely acknowledging one another. The genre is called a sacra conversazione - sacred conversation - but nobody in this picture seems to be on speaking terms. Less than a decade later, in Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine, Saint Dominic, and a Donor, Titian, by then in charge of his own studio, brought the Virgin into a persuasively rendered meadow that was also a force field of charged glances with the pious men adoring...
...goal of $25,000. He said that this year was the second-most successful showing since the walk’s founding in 2003. “With the economic downturn people were going to hold back, but the reverse happened,” he said. An anonymous donor from Lincoln Sudbury agreed to match two dollars for each dollar students from the high school raised up to $10,000, a gift organizers called “key” to the walk’s success. Over twenty churches, Young Haitians United, members of the local community, and more...
...California Assemblyman Marty Block has also sought government intervention, and in January considered proposing legislation to establish a statewide egg-donor registry. But realizing that such a costly endeavor would have little chance for success given the state's budget woes, Block settled on a more recession-friendly action. In late February, he presented a bill that would require all advertisements promising thousands of dollars to egg donors to carry some fine print. It would inform women that there's not much information on the long-term risks of donating...
...media-business dealmaker on Wall Street. His lifestyle is the envy of many who have watched his career, which also got its start at Lazard Frères - he has the fancy cars, the Fifth Avenue apartment and homes in Westchester and on Martha's Vineyard. A major Democratic donor, Rattner's brains and ambition have propelled him to the top, but he has made enemies along the way. In a now famous New York magazine profile, his onetime Lazard Frères mentor, Felix Rohatyn (Bill Clinton's ambassador to France), accused Rattner of being a social climber averse...