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...overran the city after the brutal siege of 1453. And while its people were experts at using soft power - Constantinople managed cordial relations with Muslim neighbors throughout most of its history - they also knew the terror of being a target. It was the price, familiar to many in the post-9/11 world, of living in a wealthy metropolis...
...Happened?” yet the stories fall short of entertaining once translated to the screen. “What Just Happened?” chronicles two weeks in the life of Hollywood producer Ben (Robert De Niro) as he deals with his two ex-wives, three children, the post-production of what is sure to be an audience-offending flop, and an obstinate Bruce Willis (as a parody of himself) who refuses to shave his revolting, overgrown beard for an upcoming movie. As if having De Niro and Willis wasn’t enough star power, Sean Penn appears...
...Heading the cast is Peter Mandelson, the co-architect of New Labour, recalled by Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the start of October from his post as E.U. Trade Commissioner, and installed in the House of Lords as Baron Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool to serve as Business Secretary. Sharing top billing is George Osborne, the Conservative Party's azure-blooded Shadow Chancellor, a cherub-cheeked 37-year-old son of a Baronet. Their interactions with each other and with Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the eponymous banking dynasty, and Rothschild's friend and business associate Oleg Deripaska, a reclusive oligarch...
...multi-entry visa to the U.S. was revoked by the State Department in 2006. Mandelson and Deripaska have known each other for several years. Although invited to Corfu by his close friend Rothschild, Mandelson stayed on the oligarch's yacht because Rothschild's villa was full. In his E.U. post, Mandelson was theoretically in a position to assist the Russian's business interests. He angrily denied any impropriety in an interview with the BBC. "There has been innuendo in the newspapers that I gave favors or I gave benefits as Trade Commissioner to individuals because of my personal friendship with...
...time to display the very important advances made in sculpture in the 1960s and ’70s,” says Molesworth. “The Pulitzer gift contains eight pieces from that period in our history so it radically changes our ability to tell the story of post-World War II art.” These sculptures include works by Donald Judd and Richard Serra, as well as other significant contemporary figures...