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...Guggenheim Museum in Rio de Janeiro; opponents are questioning the mayor's power to authorize the project. The world just isn't smiling on expansionist Americans these days, and Krens has become known as one of the most complex personalities in the arts, a man reviled and revered in equal measure. "I have got used to wearing a target on my back," he says. Not all the attacks are coming from the outside. In December, Krens and his costly expansion plans got a very public roasting from Peter B. Lewis, the Guggenheim's chairman. "There was a mess about...
...helped him in math class, and the game has provided a refreshing way for her and Nick to spend time with each other. "Usually there's a hierarchy in our relationship. I'm the parent; he's the son," she says. "When we're playing pool, we're both equal. Sometimes he even teaches me things...
...Pinault insist that the timing of these transactions is purely coincidental, and that he's not experiencing any financial difficulty. Nonetheless, his cash-raising flurry is the buzz of Paris, where the 66-year-old is a larger-than-life figure who is feared, admired and criticized in equal measure. He is one of the 10 richest people in France, whose wealth at its peak in 2000 was estimated by Forbes at $7.8 billion. (Forbes today thinks he's worth $5 billion less than that). A wily Breton who built his business empire from humble beginnings in the timber industry...
...open to discussing some form of temporary truce, at least to the extent that this was necessary to avoid being blamed on the Palestinian street and in the wider Arab world for the failure of a peace plan, it can plainly see that the success of the "roadmap" would equal its own destruction. Hamas's decision to break off talks, then, is hardly unexpected - the fact that it came so soon after Wednesday's summit, however, is a sign that the Islamists have determined that there is very little enthusiasm or support among ordinary Palestinians for the efforts of Prime...
...their April book party, the women, all sporting pins with the image of a female and male graduate connected by an equal sign, buzzed about the book and the recent appointment of Elena Kagan as dean of Harvard Law School...