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Producer Ismail Merchant of Merchant-Ivory Productions recounted anecdotes from his career for an audience of 100 at the Law School last night...
...series of humorous stories, Merchant described his movie-making career and the growth of his partnership with James Ivory. The two have collaborated on such movies as "Howard's End," "Remains of the Day" and the recently released "Jefferson in Paris...
...Merchant, who received an Oscar nomination for best short film when he was only 21, said he was inspired to go into film-making when he saw "Somebody Up There Likes You," starring Paul Newman during his childhood in Bombay, India...
...year-old British stock trader whose high-stakes gambles caused the collapse of England's oldest merchant bank is nowhere to be found. The Business Times in Singapore reported that Baring Brothers & Co. trader Nicholas William Leeson, who was working for the bank in Singapore, fled the country today, as the bank sought a criminal investigation. Leeson allegedly gambled more than the bank was worth on Tokyo stock futures, losing more than $1 billion when the market fell last week. That forced Baring to declare bankruptcy yesterday and triggered worldwide stock slides today. Baring investors and its U.S. subsidiaries...
...down to $95 for French or U.S. nationals. Foreigners must pay up or leave by Feb. 15. With petitions signed by thousands of unemployed Gabonese who threaten to ``kill and burn'' illegal immigrants, western and central Africans are spending their savings for a ticket home. Said Tankara Ibrahima, a merchant who disembarked at Abidjan to continue overland to Mali: ``They were not nice about the new decision. They did not treat us well...