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...told Wall Street earlier this summer. He had had discussions "with all the people you'd expect" in the pantheon of U.S. finance regarding a possible investment from his fund, he told TIME. Wisely, it turns out, he told all of them no - and then set out on a tour of China to look at direct investments in companies that produce something other than toxic collateralized debt obligations. "There are a lot of other compelling places to look for investments these days," he said...
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley), was an 18th century scandal magnet for having both a swine and a swain--an icy, cheating husband (Ralph Fiennes) and a Whig politician lover (Dominic Cooper). This middling drama is less a history lesson than a tour of sumptuous real estate. The loveliest acreage is Knightley's alabaster back...
...gangly 20-year-old stuffing his face with a day-old cornetto. Giuseppe waved, and the powdered sugar stuck to his puffed cheeks blew into the wind. The chef handed me a double-breasted uniform when I showed up that night for the dinner shift. After a brief tour of the kitchen, he introduced me to the other cooks in the kitchen. There was one person on each station—antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolci—and I was to shadow the chef’s girlfriend Alessandra on sweets. Working 14 hours a day, six days...
...Olmert's aides say he is likely to step down on Sept. 21, after conferring with President Shimon Peres. On tour in the Negev desert while his party voted, Olmert told a group of students, "I decided to resign with pain, not with pleasure, I must say, really with pain." He added, less convincingly, "I have no bitterness, no anger." Olmert was hoping that the primaries race between Livni and Mofaz would be forced into a run-off, giving him a few extra weeks at the helm...
...realize all that I would have been forced to sacrifice along the way. Shawn Johnson—the 16-year-old gymnast who had contributed to my intense retrospection the days before—joined NBC’s program, and I was assigned to take her on a tour of the Great Wall...