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...What better way to show off Bottega's new look? The Art of Shopping American artist Barbara Kruger is credited with paraphrasing Descartes to say: "I shop, therefore I am." The world's favorite pastime is celebrated in the exhibition, "Shopping: a Century of Art and Consumer Culture," at Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle until Dec. 1, then at Tate Liverpool from Dec. 20 to March 23. One of Kruger's pieces, two huge eyes under the legend, you love it, you dream it, you need it, you buy it, you forget it, is too big to fit in the museum...
...timing, in the face of bearish markets and the weakest mergers and acquisitions market in decades. Banks hoping to be bailed out by a quick change in the overall economy look set for disappointment. "There are lots of uncertainties," says Metehan Sen, an analyst at Sal. Oppenheim in Frankfurt. "2003 will also be a very difficult year." Even when the tide turns, German banks will still face the underlying problem that has long dogged them: low profitability. A recent study by U.K. firm PA Consulting, for example, found U.K. banks' return on assets was on average almost five times higher...
...under management for institu-tional, retail and private clients; investment hubs in London and Frankfurt...
...support and far-reaching organization that al-Qaeda's international jihad provides today." The terror cells that are following Bensaïd's example do have that support, and Continental police continue to find evidence that the G.I.A. model remains in force. The December 2000 raid of a Frankfurt cell preparing an attack in Strasbourg, as well as September 2001 sweeps of operatives plotting a suicide attack of the U.S. embassy in Paris, confirmed that the cells involved were self-financing criminal activity, cooperating with other European cells and being guided from London. "Terror attacks like the one in Djerba...
...gave the piece to a friend, who passed it along to others until it landed in the hands of Stephanie Hunziger in Frankfurt, who's been my German agent ever since. She arranged for a production of it--in German--in West Berlin in 1959, on a double bill with Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. The reviews were favorable, word traveled to New York, and in January 1960 some people put it on in New York, where it ran for 311/42 years...