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...private gallery owners with whom Ghia claims to have done business, according to Indian police, is Arnold Lieberman, one of America's foremost dealers in Asian antiquities. When contacted, Lieberman said he had never met Ghia. "I'm a known person [in the industry]," he said (and thus an easy target). Mother-daughter Manhattan dealers Doris and Nancy Wiener were also named by Ghia. Nancy Wiener said she knew nothing about the case or Ghia. According to an art-world source, Ghia's arrest sent shock waves through the business...
Christopher F. Noe, associate principal at Charles River Associates, a Cambridge-based economics consulting firm, says that “first and foremost,” he wants “someone that will be in there with [him] slugging it out.” Although economics is crucial to the work his firm does, this former Harvard Business School (HBS) professor would rather a hard worker with “the ability to think independently and think on your feet.” “I can teach you [the economics we need] in two days...
...Terre, tel: (44-1273) 729051, reputed to be the best vegetarian restaurant in Britain, or the superlative French restaurant, One Paston Place, tel: (44-1273) 606960. And if you can't face catching the last train back to London, you have an array of hotels to choose from. Foremost among these is celebrity-favorite the Pelirocco, tel: (44-1273) 327055?a boutique property where every room is decorated like a debauched, pop-culture fantasy. Ask for Betty Page's Boudoir or the Hip Hop Suite to see what we mean...
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, only about 175 academics and graduate students belong to the Celtic Studies Association of North America, and of those only 40 focus primarily on the field. Many others are first and foremost scholars of history, English literature, linguistics, anthropology or archaeology...
Barbarians alone was enough to earn Coetzee literature's ultimate accolade, but there were many more great novels in his pen, foremost among them Life and Times of Michael K (1983), the first of his two Booker prizewinners, and Foe (1986), the story of an Englishwoman who, stranded on a desert island, struggles desperately to communicate with a black slave whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel is a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe fable, but in its depths I discerned something else entirely, the most profound book ever written about race relations in a society...