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...TOOK OFFICE. VINCENT CHENG, 56, the first ethnic Chinese Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Asia-Pacific arm of HSBC Group, the world's second-largest bank by assets and a symbol of British colonial power; after being named to the position last December; in Hong Kong. Cheng, who grew up in a working-class tenement and suffered from polio as a child, embraced social activism in the early 1970s (he was once arrested while protesting the demolition of a squatter camp) before joining the bank in 1978 and rising rapidly through the ranks. On reporting...
This HBO sitcom, which starts its second season on June 5, follows newly minted Hollywood heartthrob Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), the support staff that works for (and sometimes against) him, and his three hanger-on buddies. Come for the good-natured insider humor. Stay for Jeremy Piven as Vince's quotably bad-natured agent...
...only two of his pieces in the show. One is an early work, Still Life with Pitcher; the other, Street in the Midi, was not acquired by Olivier Senn but by his son Edouard. Hélène Senn-Foulds recalls that when her grandfather was offered a Vincent Van Gogh, he bought it on condition that the gallery retain the painting and let him know as soon as its value had doubled. Senn kept only the pieces he loved. The collector got to know many of the artists whose work he acquired. On one occasion, Monet wrote...
...drop out and move back in with her family, and 2) she had survived the worst part. By the third and fourth years, cadets can take some electives, like international relations and cultural anthropology. The subjects were getting more interesting, especially as the academy raced to meet new demands. Vincent Viola, a '77 West Point grad who on 9/11 was chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange, which stood in the shadow of the Twin Towers, credited his academy training with helping him steer the exchange to a speedy recovery. In gratitude, he donated $2 million in seed money...
Schlitz typically crews for junior captain and 2004 All-American skipper Vincent Porter, and the duo has usually constituted the Crimson’s A-division in spring semester fleet racing...