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...complex personalities in the arts, a man reviled and revered in equal measure. "I have got used to wearing a target on my back," he says. Not all the attacks are coming from the outside. In December, Krens and his costly expansion plans got a very public roasting from Peter B. Lewis, the Guggenheim's chairman. "There was a mess about how the finances had been managed at the museum, which had first used yesterday's reserves and then used tomorrow's optimism," said Lewis, a philanthropist who had given the Guggenheim $50 million and chipped in with an additional...
...Department of Justice and the SEC have been investigating Stewart since early January 2002, just days after she sold about $228,000 of ImClone stock. It was a decision she made grudgingly, according to testimony given to the SEC by Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch, Peter Bacanovic, because it meant admitting she was wrong. Bacanovic said he and Stewart had reviewed her entire portfolio in a pre-Christmas session of tax planning and disagreed about what to do with her 3,928 shares of ImClone. "She wanted to hold the stock, and I challenged that by saying, 'The stock...
...vacation in Mexico, and Bacanovic--then off on his own holiday--had just learned that ImClone co-founder Sam Waksal wanted to sell all the ImClone shares in his Merrill Lynch account, worth $4.9 million. Bacanovic called Stewart's assistant and left the message "Peter Bacanovic thinks ImClone is going to start trading downward...
...Chemical and DNA tests, which might help confirm, for example, if any of the mummies are related--and prove that the arm and the mummy belong together--were forbidden by the Egyptian government. "It's very difficult to identify a mummy with a particular person, especially without DNA," says Peter Lacovara, curator of ancient Egyptian art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. "And as for the arm being flexed, a lot can happen when bodies are thrown around the room...
...terror will never end [WORLD, May 26], because waging war is the wrong way to fight terrorists. PETER SCHERER Zurich...