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...Viktor Kozeny ’87-’89, whose financial exploits in the Czech Republic earned him international notoriety as the “Pirate of Prague,” was indicted last Thursday on charges of stealing $182 million from the clients of an investment firm in New York...
...bottle, fill it with juice, paper the planet with ads. But if you listen to Patricia Turck Paquelier, below, head of the Prestige and Collections International division of L'Oreal in Paris, tell it, creating a fragrance to match the carefully crafted images of designers like Giorgio Armani and Viktor & Rolf is no easy task. After all, designers make clothes for the select few, but a perfume has to appeal to the masses, not to mention the egos of the designers involved...
These are the kind of numbers that get Turck Paquelier's juices flowing. "I am only interested in big things. Not small things. Not niche brands," she says. Which is strange, because it was Turck Paquelier's decision to sign up the small Dutch fashion house of Viktor & Rolf. "They want to be famous," she insists. Certainly a fragrance backed by L'Oreal will help in that regard. But what's in it for L'Oreal? Turck Paquelier and Owen-Jones hope that the Dutch duo will attract inventive managers and researchers to the company. They also want the designers...
...aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska had illegally acquired assets in a major insurance company. Deripaska denies any wrongdoing. This is a separate and complex case, but the fact that Deripaska is related by marriage to the Yeltsin family added to the mood of factionalism run amok. Two key Kremlin officials, Viktor Ivanov and Igor Sechin, have been repeatedly singled out in the Russian press as playing a crucial role in the Khodorkovsky affair. Many observers feel they are a cover for Putin himself. "I don't see these folks as independent actors," says Michael McFaul, a professor at Stanford University...
From the back row of red velvet chairs, the stage looks enormous. If O’Leary was pirouetting with Viktor Plotnikov and Larissa Ponomarenko of the Boston Ballet, she’d be in front of an audience of 3,700 with a 60-piece orchestra playing the strains of the “Nutcracker Suite.” Today, she will tread the boards to take in the entire 4,800 square feet of performance space solo...