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...conference was attended by about 400 scholars and statesmen from Europe and the United States, including the prime minister himself, the foreign minister, the mayor, and the heir to the throne of Luxembourg...
...meet with his lawyers," says a source familiar with the investor's activities. A large renovated farmhouse on Boesky's 200-acre estate in Westchester County, N.Y., is up for sale for $3 million, but his wife Seema still lives in the main house across the road. As heir to a large real estate fortune, she received more than $70 million from the sale of the Beverly Hills Hotel a year ago. Close associates have denied persistent rumors that the couple is estranged...
Tough words from the heir to the throne, however amateur his status as an architecture critic. And they were all the more jarring to Britons who consider their capital the embodiment of cultural sophistication. Yet the Prince had a point. Architecturally, the capital lost its way after World War - II. Shortsighted planners with paper-thin budgets did compound the devastation of the Blitz. The glories of John Nash's Regency terraces, Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, John Soane's Bank of England and Wren's churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built...
...past two years have seen a boom in alleged ethical lapses at even the bluest of blue-chip firms. New York's Sullivan & Cromwell found itself contesting no fewer than four accusations, notably one by an opposing firm that a partner bribed witnesses while representing the widow of Pharmaceutical Heir J. Seward Johnson in last year's estate battle. New York's Paul, Weiss discovered last year that a young associate, Michael David, had masterminded the "Yuppie Five" insider-trading scandal. Attorneys handling corporate mergers also sometimes get too close to the action. "Twenty years ago, lawyers said to clients...
...including-a-balanced-budge t program. Reaganomics with a bow-tie, Gephardt said. And DuPont, fresh from an endorsement by the wacky but influential Manchester Union-Leader, is the only guy more annoying to listen to than Bruce Babbitt. When he speaks, the preppified former Delaware governor and Napalm-heir sounds like a Kennedy gargling mouthwash...