Spencer T Tucker/N.Y.C. Mayor’s Office via flickr Giorgos Kaminis, right, the mayor of Athens, met with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg at City Hall on Wednesday. Could Michael R. Bloomberg save Athens? That thought was in the air as Athens’s mayor, Giorgos Kaminis, spent an hour at City Hall on Wednesday with Mayor Bloomberg’s head of…
Matthew Cianfrani One of the most exciting installations in New York City the week of the Frieze Art Fair can be found not on Randall’s Island but in Chelsea, in the basement of the Hôtel Americano. There, the German artist Tobias Rehberger has constructed Bar Oppenheimer, a facsimile of his favorite Frankfurt watering hole, which…
The penalty? $189,225. Put another way, that’s how much Google made every two minutes last year, or roughly 0.002 percent of its $10.7 billion in net profit. It is the latest example of regulators’ meager arsenal of fines and punishments for corporations in the wrong. Academics, activists and even regulators themselves say fines that are…
WUM, CAMEROON — The ongoing French military intervention in Mali has not only saved the defenseless West African nation from almost certain complete occupation by marauding foreign terrorists and jihadists, it has also rekindled a debate on the risks and costs of Africa’s dependence on international charity for survival. With many developed countries facing both…
But the explosions at the Boston Marathon have already raised a chilling and perhaps unanswerable question for organizers of other major road races: how to better police events that can include tens of thousands of runners and millions of spectators spread across miles of roads. It is all but impossible to control every corner of…
But the explosions at the Boston Marathon have already raised a chilling and perhaps unanswerable question for organizers of other major road races: How to better police events that can include tens of thousands of runners and millions of spectators spread across miles of roads? The reality is that it is all but impossible to…
Investigators in Boston are still sifting through evidence to determine who set the bombs that killed three people and injured dozens more Monday. But the explosions at the Boston Marathon have already raised a chilling and perhaps unanswerable question for organizers of other major road races: How to better police events that can include tens…
Investigators in Boston are still sifting through evidence to determine who set the bombs that killed three people and injured dozens more Monday. But the explosions at the Boston Marathon have already raised a chilling and perhaps unanswerable question for organizers of other major road races: How to better police events that can include tens…
The rule limits bonus payments at one year##Q##s base salary, or double that if a large majority of a bank##Q##s shareholders agrees. It will come into force next year and will also apply to European units of foreign banks and the employees of EU banks working overseas — in New York, for example. Lawmakers in…
A 1970s table and chairs from the Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen flea market and custom de Gournay silver leaf wallpaper (with details added by a friend) adorn the dining area. See the interactive slide show It’s fitting that a jeweler should live in a gem, and the Paris home of Marie-Hélène de Taillac, a…