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...TIME's photo tribute to Marcel Marceau...
Founded by the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to oppose the 1960s reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the Society became a breakaway movement when four bishops were ordained in 1988 in defiance of Pope John Paul II, and Lefebvre and his four new bishops were promptly excommunicated. The already thorny decision in January to lift the surviving bishops' excommunication became one of the lowest moments in Benedict's papacy when it coincided with a shocking television interview with one of the bishops. Questioned on his views of the Holocaust, British-born Bishop Richard Williamson told a Swedish TV reporter...
...agreed to pay the U.S. a $780 million penalty to absolve itself of criminal fraud charges. It also agreed to release the names of 250 clients whom the U.S. suspects of evading taxes. Two weeks ago, as UBS shares plummeted to a new low, the bank's chief executive Marcel Rohner resigned. All that and the bank recently announced a $17 billion loss, the biggest in Swiss corporate history. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Marcel E. Moran ’11, a Crimson associate editorial editor, is a human evolutionary biology concentrator in Eliot House...
...Nahmad paid about $300,000 for the piece. Although he is sanguine about the market, the dealer, based in Monte Carlo, Monaco, was staggered by Monday's sale, which also netted records for Piet Mondrian (two of the Dutchman's paintings sold for eight-digit figures), Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Klee and James Ensor. "It was the most amazing auction I've ever seen," Nahmad said on the main floor just after the last lot sold. "There are still a lot of rich people in the world, and I think they are anticipating a future inflation. Governments...