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...career, he (and partner Denise Scott Brown) behaved just enough. The new wing can speak the decorous language of the old museum: the facade is the same limestone block; the galleries, naturally lit John Soane-ish spaces. But the design is also quietly irreverent: pilasters, above, pile up on one another like so much extruded Play-Doh, and the Tuscan columns inside are impossibly faux...
...career, he (and partner Denise Scott Brown) behaved just enough. The new wing can speak the decorous language of the old museum: the facade is the same limestone block; the galleries, naturally lit John Soane-ish spaces. But the design is also quietly irreverent: pilasters, above, pile up on one another like so much extruded Play-Doh, and the Tuscan columns inside are impossibly faux...
...result, the senior Maxwell was able to pile debt upon debt with no one, apparently, the wiser. His purchase of a British investment fund, First Tokyo Index Trust, illustrates how Maxwell used financial sleight of hand and guile to finance deals. Through Headington Investments, a finance company under his control, Maxwell borrowed $100 million from Swiss Bank Corp. last summer to buy the entire First Tokyo portfolio. Maxwell was supposed to turn over the portfolio to Swiss Bank in October as collateral for the loan. But Maxwell did not repay the loan, nor did he deliver the securities as promised...
...family (and I assume for most Jewish families), Chanukah centers around food. The whole holiday comes down to some candles, a few spinning tops, some cookies and a whole pile of potato latkes. We have a Chanukah party for the greater Lancaster Jewish community every year (about 12 Jewish people and 40 Christians show up). My mom and I spend days baking for the party...
...important goal [of federal policy] is to provide an economic ladder up," he said. "That ladder must reach down to the very bottom of the pile so that everyone has a chance to grab that bottom rung...