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...only an expatriate could have made, and Steinberg, before anything else, was an expatriate. When dictators in the 1930s ranted about rootless Jews, Steinberg was what they had in mind. Born near Bucharest, Romania, the son of a printer (hence an early fascination with type), he studied architecture in Milan in the early '30s. He never designed a real building, but he was to develop an exquisite sense of architectural convention, of stylistic parody, that shows in the dream skyscrapers and iron galleries of his later cityscapes. In 1941 he made his way to Lisbon and from there...
...even I.Q. It doesn't so much as mention math in the course of two hours. In fact, it often feels more like a treatise on philosophy than mathematics, an exploration of the role that fate and free will play in our lives a sort of Milan Kundera novel put on film...
...even I.Q. It doesn't so much as mention math in the course of two hours. In fact, it often feels more like a treatise on philosophy than mathematics, an exploration of the role that fate and free will play in our lives a sort of Milan Kundera novel put on film...
...flew to Milan, met with his team of sleuths and mapped out a bold maneuver. And then on Saturday, April 10, in a wrenching scene on a Lucerne street, the girls were plucked like flowers from their mother's side. Their secret lives ended as abruptly as they had begun--whisked away by car as their mother screamed for them...
...third reason for bulking up, according to Francesco Giavazzi, a professor at Milan's prestigious Bocconi business school, is that corporate size really does matter in banking, especially since the biggest banks are turning into one-stop service centers. According to Giavazzi, European banks are starting to follow another American model by replacing their traditional business of lending money with such financial services as asset management. "Being good is not good enough in asset management," Giavazzi says. "A bank has to be the best to attract customers, and that requires technology and highly trained personnel, which all cost money...