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...fund manager, Brian Myerson knew as well as anyone that shares can go up as well as well as down. "He agreed in exchange for having a majority of the assets to assume the risk," Mostyn argued. "It is too late now for him to try and unpick that deal...
...intransigence. The case is a skein of disputed plots and subplots. Lugovoi and one companion - or two, according to some versions - met Litvinenko at a London hotel on Nov. 1. Litvinenko died 22 days later from the invisible toxin apparently swallowed at that meeting. British investigators have tried to unpick the events, linking Lugovoi to a trail of particles shed by the polonium. Lugovoi denies blame, while Russia says its constitution prevents it from handing over a citizen to a foreign power...
Before the abolition of slavery, whites felt superior to blacks. After abolition, they kept right on feeling superior -- for what other race could make such a noble gesture as abolition? When blacks appeared on monuments after abolition, they continued to kneel, looking up at their white liberators. To unpick such stereotypes and "subtexts" -- the prejudicial stories behind the images -- is the purpose of this show...
...These are court art, raised to an intimidating level of egotism: a feudal lord displayed his power and wealth in the costumes of his Nō troupe. Apart from the kind of tie-dyeing used for some kimonos, which took a year to tie and another year to unpick, these robes probably consumed more expert human labor than any other garments in history. The weavers might finish six inches of fabric in a week. The planning of the design, with its innumerable shifts of color and texture, must have required a degree of intelligent concentration unequaled in the history...
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