In Texas, where the brothers were based, they and their wives gave $20 million to help build the Dallas performing arts center.
"Do we have our own method?" Jean-Pierre Dardenne said, chuckling over the telephone from Liège, the decaying industrial town in eastern Belgium where the brothers are based.
The case against Jackson and the Bridgeman brothers was based on the testimony of a 12-year old boy, Ed Vernon, who claimed that he witnessed the murder in broad daylight on a public street in front of a neighborhood deli, and could positively identify all three defendants.
The philosophy of the "blood brothers" is based on a combination of ideas derived from satanic literature, religious texts, paganism, the popular art and fortuities the sign that they say universe keeps throwing to them about the existence of forces that created it.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's brother, is based in Kandahar.
Lucci Auto Props, a business he owned with his brother, was based in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Joelle had spent a couple of years over here, and Maguire's brother is based in London.
Embedded in the opening titles of the film, like a calcified trilobite, is the statement that "O Brother" is based on "The Odyssey" of Homer.
Aminat said the accusations against her brother are based on flimsy evidence — that he knew people who'd gone to Syria — which is not uncommon in Russia's North Caucasus.
Mr. Fuld has said publicly that all his statements about Lehman Brothers' condition were based on the best information he had available at the time.
