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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
decorators and artisans who have worked on his houses must have a great deal of discipline. From painstakingly stripping layers of paint to uncover a wall's original 19th-century hue, to removing years of grime from neglected crystal... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
ice-cream fountain boasts a marble counter, and customers eat 100 percent buffalo burgers in a walnut-paneled dining room hung with original oil paintings by Western artists. In another part of the store, there are 1,400 historical photos... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
by the end of 2014 (and a complete pullout by 2016) paint a less-than-rosy picture at best and something quite a bit darker at worst. But Khoja remains optimistic despite, or maybe because of, all he’s seen while helping build Roshan.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Home: Winter Harbor, Maine “I don’t consider myself retired,” says Bill Holden. “I’m just working in a different realm without the day-to-day performance requirements.” The author of three novels (with a fourth to come in 2005), Holden is also a self-taught artist who... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
33-year-old Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land) is making his name on: It presents Armstrong, typically portrayed as a postage-stamp hero, as a complex man who staked a nation’s place on the moon—and in history—at enormous personal cost. “The... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
public, very global moment began quite simply and humbly, in Depression-era Nebraska. BW: I was born in this little town of Geneva where my family had a paint mill, they had a business there. It went bankrupt during the Depression. I was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
What he wanted to emphasize to me was that this had not been a case of fraud, but an honest error by the company. I am paraphrasing here, of course, but the Dean painted quite a vivid picture for me: “I had shown [the protagonist] the... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
compelling story or parable, I hope to capture the students’ hearts, their attention. I want to pull them into the experience by painting a picture to which they can relate. When I teach a case like “C&S Grocers,” a story about the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
out enough or you had too much sun—what sort of picture has it painted of you? Grana: I'm often wrong in terms of my expectations of—of my perception of myself versus the reality of myself. One is the example I just mentioned—the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
facility across the road. Noxious fumes emanated from a second-floor manufacturing business and drifted into iTrust’s third-floor offices, reached only by walking up a winding staircase, framed by walls with peeling paint and cobwebs.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
have to make sure you are a museum with a shop, not a shop with a bunch of paintings around it" — the reality is that the more dollars a museum brings in, the more it is able to spend on its collections, buildings, and educational... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
that and to use it to help other people. Now, technically, both of those stories could be true. So which one should I live by? One story paints me as a victim, right? The "poor me" story. But the second story, the better story, is a Jedi... View Details