Word: luxembourger
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...share the spotlight at Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, allowing art lovers to make their own assessment of who was the greater. "Botticelli and Filippino: Passion and Grace in Fifteenth Century Florentine Painting" (through July 11) is the evolution of a smaller show held at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris earlier this year, enriched with 13 more works by Botticelli and a whole new section on Filippino Lippi. Although it's Botticelli's name that draws the crowds, the show marks the return to center stage of his best student. "This show is about the emergence of Filippino...
...nauseam Pie Fight, but like Paris itself, there is something for just about everyone in this three-ring show. There are few real self-portraits in "The Grand Parade," but the lack should be filled by Moi! Self-Portraits in the 20th Century at the Musée du Luxembourg (March 31-July 25), in which 150 artists and photographers take a good look at themselves in dozens of different ways: unsparing closeup (the aging Degas); in duplicate (Dubuffet, with bowler hat); in triplicate (Norman Rockwell, Jacque Henri Lartigue); or, most popular, nude (Suzanne Valadon, Gwen John, Cindy Sherman). Some...
Prosecutors allege that Parmalat created an elaborate house of milk cartons, using opaque subsidiaries (including one called Buconero, which means "black hole") in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg to hide the declining state of its finances. Tanzi has reportedly admitted shifting some $630 million from the company to other businesses but insists some underlings devised the accounting fraud. Former chief financial officer Fausto Tonna has given prosecutors crucial details about the firm's labyrinthine bookkeeping...
...become embroiled in what the sec claims is "one of the largest and most brazen corporate financial frauds in history"? Prosecutors allege that over the past decade Parmalat created an elaborate house of cards, including opaque subsidiaries in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg, to hide the true state of its finances. Tanzi has admitted siphoning off around €500 million from the company to finance other family businesses, but insists that some of his underlings are to blame - they were the ones who devised the accounting fraud, he has told prosecutors, although he accepts ultimate responsibility...
...October, brothers Viorel and Ioan Micula launched National TV, a general-entertainment, digital satellite cable channel that runs American shows and 22 local programs. Viorel oversees the media side of European Drinks Group and has hired seasoned help, including Douglas Fulton, who ran operations in 11 countries for Luxembourg-based SBS Broadcasting. Fulton, who now heads National TV as well as the company's 18 radio stations and three newspapers, will manage next year's launch of a 24-hr. news network and a movie channel. But they must survive a marketplace that has been flooded with local and foreign...