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...proclaimed that he intends to become less politically correct as he gets older. He turned 80 last year and is selling better than ever. Earlier this month "Sex and Landscapes," the first commercial sale of Newton's work in two years, opened at the De Pury et Luxembourg Art gallery in Zurich. Even before the opening, some 40 prints sold for $30,000 each. This fall the Mary Boone Gallery in New York will also have a Newton sale, making it the art dealer's first photography offering. At De Pury is some of the usual titillating stuff, but also...
...homemade riders constructed out of steel wheels and ball bearings. There was no clear purpose other than lodging a vague protest against global warming and the melting of glaciers, says Roger Graf, who was administering the Bruno Manser Foundation at the time. And the only media present was a Luxembourg TV station, which showed footage of the attempt without any explanatory commentary. For Graf, that was the last straw. He left the foundation soon after...
Welch says GE's lawyers are considering an appeal to the European Union's Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. That won't save the Honeywell deal--such a case might not be settled for two years. But it would give GE a chance to disprove the allegation that it had a "dominant position" that it was likely to abuse. If that stain remains on the record, GE is going to find it hard to make any significant acquisitions in Europe. Honeywell has a new CEO; when the deal went down, so did Bonsignore. His successor: Larry Bossidy, a longtime...
...July. Just the same, says Cashen smoothly, "Our commitment is qualified. We are prepared to change certain of our regimes provided there is an international level playing field, but we're not going to proceed unless others do." Those others, he says, must include OECD members, particularly Switzerland and Luxembourg...
From its headquarters in the shadow of a former summer residence of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Europe Online is pioneering the delivery mechanisms and the content that will allow Europeans to receive Internet-based interactive entertainment via their PCs and televisions. "Others talk about it, we are doing it," says founder Candace Johnson, 48, who also co-founded Luxembourg's Astra, Europe's leading direct-to-home satellite system...