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...seen him once before that summer of 1999, several months earlier. He had stood 12 feet tall, on a movie screen in San Francisco, taking his unlikely star turn as himself in Wim Wender's documentary about the Buena Vista Social Club, the band that a year earlier had won Segundo a Grammy and generally elevated him and a handful of his compatriots from obscure relics of Cuba's golden age to international superstars, icons of the newly rediscovered grace and warmth behind the iron veil of the Cuban embargo...
...Trichet had been charged with complicity in falsifying accounts to hide losses of then state-owned bank Cr?dit Lyonnais in the early 1990s when he headed the French Treasury. The verdict clears the way for Trichet to become the next president of the European Central Bank after current head Wim Duisenberg steps down in October...
...week-long festival displayed a remarkable variety of emotional and stylistic registers. The opening film, Dazzling, at which both the director Li Xin and producer Sara Chen were present, is a racy, disjointed pastiche in riotous color, set against a pulsating techno soundtrack, with palpable influences as various as Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire and magic realism. According to the director, a member of the up-and-coming Sixth Generation, “In their films, the technique compensates for the lack of compelling, or serious, subject matter.” In fact, technique actually enacts the content...
...aluminum seems to find its most frequent expression as seating. There's an eclectic range of chairs in the Design Museum show, including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair, designs by Charles and Ray Eames, and Philippe Starck's pale green barstool made for German film director Wim Wenders' house. The most eye-catching is Australian Marc Newson's Lockheed Lounge, a sensuous plastic shape covered with riveted aluminum panels. The metal has even worked its way into fashion. Spanish design iconoclast Paco Rabanne made a 1968 minidress from aluminum rectangles held together with wire loops...
...Wim Borgdorff, managing partner of fund investments at Amsterdam's NIB Capital Private Equity, which has j11.5 billion to invest in private equity partnerships, says bringing in outside business people to salvage portfolios is part of a general restructuring of the VC industry in Europe. "Venture capital needs to rethink its business model," Borgdorff says. Smaller VC firms are already testing new models. London's Ariadne Capital, for example, acts as a sales agent for its companies, taking a slice of the revenues as they are created, rather than waiting for an exit strategy - like an initial public offering...