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...more than $50 million for the Fine Violins Fund, aiming to buy as many as 50 old Italian instruments. Leonhard isn't alone in his confidence in the market. Emigrant Bank Fine Art Finance lends large sums of money using violins and cellos as collateral. And former concert violinist Staffan Borseman has established Stradivari Invest to advise big investors on the purchase of top instruments...
...raise AIDS awareness has donated over 500 hours of film footage to Harvard, endowing the University with the largest collection of HIV/AIDS footage in the world. The Swedish-based Face of AIDS Foundation has released its archives to Harvard to increase its accessibility, according to founder and creative director Staffan Hildebrand. “These archives should not be owned, they should be free,” Hildebrand said yesterday. “We want to start to digitize it to make it more available, but we need a partner to do this. So we approached Harvard...
...region produced only $105 million. The organization must operate in a country that has been bombed back to a "preindustrial age," as a U.N. report described the situation. And the world body is caught between the conflicting demands of the allies and Iraq. "We're overwhelmed," says Staffan Bodemar, the chief of mission in Baghdad for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
...week's end, as hunger deepened, relief shipments remained tantalizingly close but still immobilized along the country's borders. "It's like a house that's caught fire," said Staffan de Mistura, director of operations for the United Nations World Food Program. "We see the fire. We have well-trained firemen, and we have water. We hear the screams. But we cannot...
...assumed, would arrive when full employment combined with high productivity to supply mankind with everything it needed, as well as the leisure time to enjoy it. If any problem existed, it would be finding enough to do. But things are not working out that way. So, at least, argues Staffan Burenstam Linder, 38, a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics who has taught at Yale and Columbia. He states his case in The Harried Leisure Class, a book that has already ruffled Swedish composure, and will be published in English this December by the Columbia University Press. "I find...