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...painful lesson: things too good to be true usually aren't. Last week investors learned the hard way about the old-fashioned Ponzi scheme. MMM suddenly collapsed. By week's end thousands of investors swarmed around its Moscow offices, trying to redeem their pieces of paper. Many of the shorn had come from the Moscow Commodity Exchange on the other side of town, where windows were broken before they were told to try their luck at the company headquarters instead. On Saturday that market evaporated when the company folded up shop, and shares that had dropped from a high...
...Jules, who have a young daughter named Sabine. When the threesome meet again, they all comment that nothing and none of them has changed. There is a bitter pang as Truffaut undercuts their statement Everything has changed; Jules no longer smokes and has taken to entomology, Jim has shorn his moustache and seems older, Catherine wears glasses and appears less radiant. Jules informs Jim that things are not going well, that he has not been able to hold Catherine, and that Catherine has run away several times. Jules is determined not to lose Catherine, and so he encourages...
...entourage. "They're going to bring the prisoners out," Chong-yi said Car after car, motorcycle after motorcycle drove past, us. Finally, a tall, open-bed truck drove past, lined on all four sides by helmeted police, equipped with machine guns. A skinny man, hair shorn to the scalp and clothed in a black smock, stood in the front, right behind the truck cab. He wore a sign printed with four characters, around his neck. "Gu Yi Sha Ren--Willfully killed a man," Chong-yi said, "He's going to be executed...
...magnitude of those upcoming events leaves the Harvard Invitational shorn of any real importance...
Maki, 64, may be the most talented modernist practicing anywhere today, and his achievement probably could not be duplicated in any other country. "Modern architecture," Maki notes, "having rejected ornament, leaves an unbearable void if shorn of details and a sense of material, no matter how expressive its forms." Thus the proliferation of unbearable voids in downtowns all over the world, where builders have used modernism to justify cheap, uninteresting materials and shoddy construction detailing. Maki's buildings are extraordinary not just because they are intriguingly conceived but also because they are so meticulously made...