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Viktor Bout may have started to believe the hype. While negotiating his most recent arms deal, Bout had his associate give the potential buyers a copy of a recent magazine article about him titled "The Merchant of Death" - just so they'd know who they were dealing with. After almost two decades of outfoxing authorities while supplying weapons to the most deadly conflicts around the globe, the former Soviet Air Force pilot let his guard down just as a complex web of international police agencies were closing in on him. The potential buyers said they represented the leftist Colombian rebel...
...paintings are masterpieces, but the two exhibitions give a haunting glimpse of the collecting habits in European bourgeois homes before they were plundered by the Germans. Strolling through the gallery is like entering the drawing room of a wealthy merchant in prewar Vienna, with paintings of dreamy, Italianate landscapes and still lifes of tables piled with feathered game and fruit. You can almost hear the echoes of dinner gossip or a daughter's piano sonata lingering around these forlorn paintings...
...competition) and lingering at the end of lecture trying to work up the courage to approach my newfound love interest. When John announced that he found a banana under his podium, I giggled and felt warm inside. When he spent an hour exploring the sadomasochistic undertones of The Merchant of Venice, I tingled. When he drew explicit sketches of body-parts on the chalkboard...
...trades from them. More than $1 billion in the hole, and with no hope of digging his way out, he skipped off to a Malaysia beach resort with his wife to sip umbrella drinks for a few days before their world caved in. A week later Britain's oldest merchant bank, which had helped finance the Napoleonic wars and the Louisiana Purchase, was done. Leeson was sentenced to 6 1/2 years - though he served just 4 1/2 - in a Singapore prison for fraud...
...Music Hall's success wasn't lost on New York's merchant-entrepreneurs. Today the city is clogged with live entertainment for the holidays: Lincoln Center alone has two offerings - the New York City Ballet's annual production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (which ends Sunday) and the yearly visit of the Big Apple Circus (through Jan. 13). Of the shows that say, "I like New York in Yule," we've chosen three - the newest, the oldest and one in between...