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...wandering aimlessly around. Unfortunately, though, both her anecdotes and her comments, genuine as they are, get tiresome. Too many small, talented beggars and quaint roadside cafes, too many slightly tragic principalities with curious histories litter the pages of this book. The nations and cultures blur into each other: Luxembourg, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra are each different but by the end of the book seem remarkably similar and indistinguishable. After hearing about the Brittons, Sorbs, Wends and Karaim, it becomes difficult to remember which, exactly, was the hea-then tribes near the Czech border of Germany and which were the radical...
There was a large exodus at the end of our freshman year. Jack went off to Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga., and was killed in Luxembourg as an Infantry Second Lieutenant at 19. I stayed on into my sophomore year, trained as an infantry replacement and was wounded in Germany in March...
...display follows a theme of Leonardo da Vinci exhibits throughout the country, following the coattails of Da Vinci's Codex Leceister, the artist's 16th-century manuscript that Bill Gates bought in 1994 for $30.8 million which is currently on display in Paris at the Musee du Luxembourg...
...with stocks pushed through Kott-connected boiler rooms. Felix Oeri, a Swiss financier who is Oxford's biggest stockholder, bought a large block of Hariston stock a few years ago after it was recommended to him by Kott. (Oeri says he's lost money on the stock.) Arabella, a Luxembourg company that is Oxford's second-ranking stockholder, is currently the controlling shareholder of Hariston...
...front men. Authorities weren't fooled. In his native Quebec, for instance, regulators yanked the license of one brokerage, L.J. Forget, citing Kott as the secret mastermind. Dutch authorities came to the same conclusion about First Commerce. Kott-related bucket shops have also been shut down in Britain and Luxembourg. In the U.S., by contrast, by calling himself a consultant, Kott has an ongoing license to work his stock-market alchemy...