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...elaborate French classicist style unique to Central Europe, the rooms feature jewel-colored silk wall coverings specially made by the prestigious Venetian textile manufacturer Lorenzo Rubelli from original patterns found in the state archives in Budapest; intarsia floors by Joseph Danhauser incorporating eight different kinds of wood; charming Angelika Kaufmann medallions released from decades of dust and grime; and, everywhere, sparkling chandeliers copied from the originals where necessary by the Austrian crystal specialist Swarovski. In the Gold Cabinet, the smallest of the staterooms, gilders used a special "Albertina" mix of 23-carat gold plus one-carat silver and copper...
...consumer, getting this combination of performance and styling used to cost at least $50,000--often $100,000 or more for the likes of a high-end Porsche. Comparable vehicles now sell for less than $40,000, a pricing sweet spot that is expanding the market. Says Donald Kaufmann, 52, an insurance agent in Baton Rouge, La., who just bought the new Nissan: "I felt I was getting a lot of car for the dollar." Since Honda introduced its S2000 in 1999, sales of the $35,000 roadster have jumped nearly threefold. Mazda's Miata, introduced in 1989, is still...
...past two years, either by shutting them down and sending whatever money is left back to investors or by merging the assets into other funds. Remember Scudder Growth Opportunity? It has been liquidated. How about Federated Aggressive Growth and Stein Roe International? They have been merged into Federated Kaufmann and Columbia International Stock, respectively. Still to come: the probable disappearance of $1.3 billion worth of growth and international funds from the Berger fund family now that Janus, Berger's corporate cousin, is scheduled to take over the assets...
...judge from the reaction in Switzerland, complying with the demand would be like giving away the Alps. "We won?t allow ourselves to be crushed by the weight of the E.U.," says Hans Kaufmann, a former bank economist and the Swiss member of the parliament spearheading a move to add banking secrecy to the constitution as a fundamental right. The proposal by his Swiss People?s Party is now working its way through parliamentary committees, but already it has won significant support. Two cantons, Zurich and Aargau, have voted to back the initiative, and several other cantons are considering throwing...
...Crimson wrestled without injured junior Reggie Lee, sophomores Brandon Kaufmann and P.J. Jones, who were suffering the after-effects of eating from the Dunster and Mather kitchens. Freshman Jon Mankovich was also sick...