OXFORD ON THE HUDSON.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 08-JAN-07

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The name of Robert Rosenkranz, the businessman and philanthropist, is not universally recognized, even on Park Avenue. "I know a variety of Rosen-kranz-es--which one is he?" asked Robert Albertson, a principal at Sandler O'Neill, as he mingled at a reception at the Asia Society and Museum the other evening.

This Rosenkranz was picking up the tab for the reception, and also for the formal debate that followed it in the society's theatre, on the proposition "Hollywood has fuelled anti-Americanism abroad." Rosenkranz, who is reminiscent, in his build, wardrobe, and winter tan, of Michael Bloomberg in his pre-populist incarnation, is the chairman...

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