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...spacious.” With its gilded staircases, claw-foot bathtubs and predominance of marble, Apley is widely considered to be the cream of the first-year housing—especially by those poor souls residing in the skim milk of first-year housing. Apley’s shell sconces over the water fountains, oaken moldings straight out of Architectural Digest and fireplaces worthy of an English country inn place it more than a few notches above Canaday. Jackson’s also quick to sing the praises of the “really, really tall doorways?...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diamonds in the Rough | 3/13/2003 | See Source »

...system works because, under U.N. rules, Baghdad gets to choose which companies are allowed to buy its oil, and it often selects lesser-known brokers or offshore shell companies. These shady middlemen quickly resell the petroleum to more established oil dealers and companies around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Saddam Inc. | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...virginal looker with a thing for daddy. Never satisfied, Stanton tricks up a house and puts on a minister's outfit, turning himself into a successful "spiritualist." Soon he meets a wealthy industrialist who's "overboard on the spook dodge. He's living on dream street," and willing shell out big bucks to square his conscience with a dead girl. But Stan's downfall comes when he meets Lilith, a comely shrink who's too smart for his cons. Taking him as a lover, she makes him paint her toenails and tortures him with psychobabble. Because it's a "goddamn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down a Dark "Alley" | 3/7/2003 | See Source »

...that, after all, owns Giant and Stop & Shop in the U.S. and 7,000 stores in Europe, including Supersol and Hipersol in Spain and ICA throughout Scandinavia? In some respects, the company is a victim of its own reach. Van der Hoeven, 55, is a tall, heavy-smoking former Shell executive with a commanding manner. When he took over as CEO in 1993, he promptly launched an international acquisition binge that turned the once family-owned firm into a colossus with 35 companies spread over four continents and sales in 2002 the company puts at more than €70 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Ahold of the Problem | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

Wang's plan to leap into the U.S. was simple: buy a small, listed American firm and move his own operations into its corporate shell. He has used such "backdoor listings" at home by buying a mango packer, shifting part of his meter business to it and renaming it Holley Science and Technology. For his U.S. debut, he chose a struggling, NASDAQ-listed California firm called American Champion Entertainment. Its main asset was a kids' TV show, Adventures with Kanga Roddy, about a karate-kicking marsupial. Wang paid $5 million in early 2001 for a controlling interest. Two months later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wang's World | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

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