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...parted in investigation of possible criminal offenses. In two of the more recent high-profile cases, authorities investigated nearly $500 million deposited in 19 banks by former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and an undisclosed sum frozen in nine bank accounts controlled by the Ivory Coast's former leader, Henri Konan Bedie. James Nason, a Swiss Bankers Association official, says that since a new money-laundering law went into effect in April 1998, the number of cases of suspected laundering being reported by banks has jumped from 30 a year to 370 this year...
...very wide ranging course, and covers all places and times, from ancient Egypt to the present, though it concentrates on the western tradition," says Henri Zerner, a professor of fine arts and the course's instructor...
...France truly on a new course? Socialists like Henri Weber, a senator and a respected party theorist, point to the reforms that the Jospin government has already carried out--including a law recognizing unmarried couples and a requirement that parties field equal numbers of male and female political candidates--to argue that evolutionary change is possible. Skeptics say Jospin has merely done the easy stuff while skipping the tough state reforms. And in the back of every mind is the French revolutionary tradition that has proved time and again that leaders who try to ride roughshod over an angry populace...
...mock altarpieces, usually triptychs, whose format signaled the presence of a Big Statement. The most ludicrous of these is by the Belgian artist Leon Frederic, whom the spirit moved to paint, in the 1890s, an enormous three-parter called The Stream, an allegory of the Life-Force (Henri Bergson was a hot philosopher circa 1900) in the form of thousands, thousands, of pink, roly-poly babies cascading down Alpine waterfalls and through a forest glade. This condommaker's nightmare took 10 years to paint (no wonder, with all that dimpled piglet flesh) and was regarded not only as Frederic...
Medwed tells the story of Daisy Lewis, a middle-aged Harvard mom and Star Market ombudsman who has long served as a host family to Harvard's international students. When Daisy's husband, Henry, ends their marriage after changing his name to Henri and taking a fancy to all things French (including the Lewis' latest student), Daisy's comfortable, familiar life is turned upside down. Fear not for poor Daisy, though-less than 24 hours later she has already met a new man, a parasitologist named Truman Wolff. Ironically, Truman's daughter, Phoebe, is dating Daisy's son, Sammy, leading...