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Waving a Cohiba cigar in his expansive office overlooking downtown Montgomery, Ala., David Bronner talks enthusiastically about his investments: in an airline just reorganized after bankruptcy, a chain of luxury golf resorts and a group of television stations. Is he a gunslinging Sunbelt entrepreneur in the mold of Ted Turner? A hedge-fund manager? A contrarian private-equity investor? Not even close. Bronner, 58, is, in his own words, "a government bureaucrat"--the chief executive of Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), the pension fund for 290,000 state workers and retirees. An unabashed cheerleader for Alabama who is comfortable...
...many of them linked to the Djindjic conspirators, face charges ranging from drug trafficking to murder. The sweep turned up new evidence against Slobodan Milosevic and his wife, Mira, and shed light on dozens of unsolved murders. A special courtroom to handle the cases is being built in downtown Belgrade, complete with secret booths and bullet-proof glass. "Nothing was ever done so well in this country," says Rajko Danilovic, a prominent defense lawyer in Belgrade. Human-rights investigator Natasa Kandic calls the probe, "The first serious attack on the roots of the Milosevic regime...
...installed into their backseats. Since the start of 2003, riders have been subject to these advertisements in hundreds of cabs. While having Isaac Hayes ask me to be concerned with my safety can be considered annoying, it is not nearly as frustrating as being urged to visit a trendy downtown bistro when I’m on my way to the dentist. Mute buttons on the screens can cut the noise, but having cute announcers bouncing around my knees during the ride is not as enjoyable as it might sound...
...have space to accommodate them here. I was able to open the American studio at the Moscow Art Theater three years ago, and add a fifth level to an adjacent building. These are buildings two blocks from the Kremlin. It’s easier to do in downtown Moscow than it is in Cambridge. But we have a crisis, and it’s not a crisis that we’re going to face in a couple years, it’s a crisis we’re facing...
...Dichtel ’05 is far less desolate. Her landscapes, though aesthetically ordinary, are unique to the show in that they still hold hikers, both on the trail and posing, tangled up in trees, or else broad ideas, as in her cityscape of what seems to be downtown Boston, where a polished granite wall bears the inscription “HOLOCAUST.” The word’s horror and history populate the photo with suggestions for further inquiryabout the relation of the Holocaust to modern-day, urban America...