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...belonged to Bondi's aunt, a Viennese art dealer named Lea Bondi Jaray. Shortly before she fled to London in 1938, it was seized from her by a Nazi art dealer; eventually it passed through the hands of the Austrian Gallery and ended up in the collection of Dr. Rudolf Leopold, an ophthalmologist and self-styled art historian and restorer whose Schiele collection is institutionalized today as the Leopold Foundation. Dead City was owned by a relative of Reif's, a Viennese writer-comedian named Fritz Grunbaum. Nazis confiscated it before sending him to die in Dachau. Its passage through...
...Jiang will ring the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange, a publicity event tinged with irony because of the stock market roller coaster this week, precipitated by the Hong Kong market's dramatic decline. Jiang will not be greeted in New York by either New York Mayor Rudolf W. Giuliani or Governor George Pataki...
...notion that disease originates in cells rather than tissues or organs, introduced in the mid-19th century by the German pathologist Rudolf Virchow, brought on just such a radical change in perspective. So too did the germ theory, based on British surgeon Joseph Lister's application of Louis Pasteur's work to prevent wound infections. Each was the result of thousands of meticulous observations made over many years. Virchow's studies were done in a university setting; Lister's in a laboratory that he and his wife set up in the kitchen of their home, where they worked tirelessly until...
Word on the street is that Ruth Messinger, Democratic Mayoral contender, doesn't have a shot against incumbent Republican Mayor Rudolf Giuliani, mainly because of the crime issue (New York is now safer than at any time since 1964), and because the city is reaping the benefits of a strong national economy. Maureen Dowd dubs Giuliani "the happy dictator" in the New York Times, and people crack jokes about how all New Yorkers want is for the trains to run on time...
...With reporting by Jane Knight/Caracas, Elizabeth Love/Santiago and Rudolf ten Hoedt/Quito