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...Cartel The address is 17 Charterhouse Street. Ten times every year, near the open-air stalls of Smithfield Market in central London, about 80 of the diamond world's most powerful men meet here. Each client is led into a second-floor room. Coffee and tea are offered. An attendant comes back with what looks like a yellow-and-black plastic lunchbox. Inside are gem diamonds of all varying types and sizes. There are no negotiations over price, only an implied choice: Take it or leave it. These events are called "sights," and the host is De Beers Consolidated Mines...
...Sons. And while hardly poor, he takes personal modesty seriously. Tall, guarded and retaining the outsider's accent he picked up in an earlier life as a trainee architect in the U.S., he is famously private. He lives with his two German shepherds, Tito and Tango, in the same second-floor apartment in Bombay that he has kept for 20 years. He is one floor below his stepmother, and neighbors say they have never known him to throw a party. His one indulgence apart from his dogs he is frequently spotted muddying his pinstripes as he plays with them...
...afternoon of Feb. 7, hundreds of FAS members flocked to the lavish second-floor Faculty Room of University Hall, its walls decorated with portraits of past University presidents. Some professors privately hoped that Lawrence H. Summers would fade into Harvard history sooner rather than later...
...room three weeks before the students were charged. Spellman wrote in a police report, "I familiarized myself with the layout of the 10 DeWolfe building and the exact location of [the] room." He wrote that on Jan. 6, he detected the scent of marijuana emanating from the students' second-floor window...
...Walleck said that she has detected the scent of marijuana in her second-floor hallway...