Word: legacyism
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The battle to control RJR Nabisco has pitted some of Wall Street's most powerful investment houses against one another, but the financial muscle behind the bidding is really the legacy of one man: Michael Milken. It is not just that Milken's firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert, is bankrolling the...
Milken's legacy will take years to come fully into focus. "Behind every great fortune there is a great crime," Balzac once said. "Great fortunes are made by solving problems" is the way Milken has preferred to see it. The Government's view should be known in a few weeks...
THE PASTORAL LANDSCAPE, National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. In this joint venture, the National offers "The Legacy of Venice," two centuries of painting from Giorgione (a progenitor of the pastoral genre) to Watteau, while the Phillips, in "The Modern Vision," carries the theme from Constable down...
THE PASTORAL LANDSCAPE, National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. In this joint venture, the National offers "The Legacy of Venice," two centuries of painting from Giorgione (a progenitor of the pastoral genre) to Watteau, while the Phillips, in "The Modern Vision," carries the theme from Constable down...
Nothing in her upbringing as the indulged eldest daughter of a wealthy landholding Sindhi family, or in her education at Harvard and Oxford, prepared her to shoulder her father's legacy so much as the trials she endured after his execution. Jailed or detained for more than five years, and...