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Chris Oliveros is about what you would expect for a publisher of literate comic books. Friends refer to him as "self-effacing," "long-suffering," "the quiet type who stands aside." But the founder and owner of Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly is blessed with a sharp eye, a strong sense of what he likes and a commitment to making beautiful, if unconventional, books. For the past 14 years, Oliveros has attracted top cartoonists from Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere to make Drawn & Quarterly the classiest comic publisher in North America...
...academy is the brainchild of Roberto Wirth, a passionate wine buff and owner of the luxe Hassler Villa Medici Hotel above Piazza di Spagna. Over an appropriately bibulous lunch with two friends?the wine writer Hugh Johnson and Steven Spurrier, founder of the Acad?mie du Vin in Paris (now closed) and Tokyo?Wirth realized "that there was nothing of this kind in Italy and it was the perfect moment and the perfect place to carry out such a project." He found the perfect property in the palazzetto, an abandoned four-story private mansion abutting the Spanish Steps with a second...
...green creature with four legs and a pair of wings, she has come down with a case of the Neomites, a common affliction in the mythical online world of Neopia. The Neopian pharmacy sometimes stocks a cure, but it's pricey, costing about 330 Neopoints. What's Chirita's owner, Wendy Mendoza, 10, of Atlanta, to do? One way to rack up the points would be to play any of the 110 free games on Neopets.com trying activities like bumper cars or chemistry for beginners. Then again, Wendy could also score by hunting for secret images in the site...
DIED. HOWARD SOLOMON, 75, former owner of Cafe au Go Go, the basement nightclub in Greenwich Village where the comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested on obscenity charges in 1964; of a heart attack; in Crestline, Calif. Five years after being arrested with Bruce, Solomon sold his club and moved to Florida, where he worked as a real estate developer...
...June have already trumped the $6.6 billion fetched during all of 2003, according to Dealogic. Shares in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco had soared by more than 20% at the end of its debut week, while Italy's state-controlled utility Enel cheered the flotation of its national power-grid owner Terna. And even after a bungled lead-up, investors piled in for a 33% share of Postbank, Germany's largest retail bank, generating €1.55 billion for parent Deutsche Post. Will investors tire? "The cash is there," insists Walter Kemmsies, head of European equity strategy at JPMorgan. "The market for IPOs...