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...with democracy. But the democracy passed all sorts of crazy laws to protect the monarchy. That's why we left. Anyway, on Wednesday PRINCE WILLIAM exits minor-hood and turns 18, and the restrictions that protect him from being hounded by the media become as irrelevant as granddad Prince Philip. So, perhaps to prevent a feeding frenzy, the royal family offered up several official photos of the studly Prince doing all sorts of normal things--cooking, working on a computer, playing water polo--in hopes that his life will be spared from press intrusion. Good luck, dude...
...would yell at me and say, 'You can't do that.'" Nobody says no to Gehry anymore, certainly not since the triumph three years ago of his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. His hurtling design there was certified at once as "the most important building of our time" by Philip Johnson, the very gray eminence of American architects. It may also be the most purely delightful. With its improbable towers tilting against themselves and its titanium sheathing in full refulgent glow, it brings on a question that the world has not enjoyed asking itself since the first moon landings...
Confused? Well, there is a germ of reason amidst all this dizzying dealmaking: As a result of the RJR-NGH merger, NGH manages to consolidate any pending lawsuits under the umbrella (and considerable legal expertise) of RJR. Meanwhile, analysts theorize, Philip Morris will move quickly to spin off its tobacco holdings...
Tobacco giants Philip Morris and R. J. Reynolds unveiled a deal Sunday that would make any street-corner sleight-of-hand practitioner proud. Philip Morris will supplement its already prodigious Kraft Foods properties by buying Nabisco Holdings, producer of national treasures like Oreos and Ritz crackers, for $14.9 billion. Once that transaction is completed, Nabisco Group Holdings (the parent company of Nabisco Holdings), will be acquired by the R. J. Reynolds tobacco company - the same company Nabisco Group divested itself of just one year ago - for $9.8 billion...
Sunday's RJR-Philip Morris machinations are only the latest round in the companies' ongoing attempts to isolate risky tobacco holdings. Faced with an increasingly unfriendly American marketplace, the corporations are scrambling to protect the stock market performance of non-controversial products (such as like Kraft mayonnaise and macaroni and cheese) from from the legal and legislative vagaries affecting the domestic tobacco market...