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While working as a secretary at Harvard Business School, she picked up a manager, an agent, and continued street performing: the “boot camp for musicians,” according to Passim’s Smith...
...Boarding. Continental Airlines has rolled out paperless boarding passes at New York's La Guardia Airport. Passengers with smartphones can get an encrypted electronic boarding pass sent to their device, which a TSA agent reads using a handheld scanner. (You'll still need your old school ID to pass through.) The program is already in use by Continental passengers in Houston, Washington, D.C., Newark, Boston, Austin, San Antonio and Cleveland. Likewise, for Northwest passengers in Indianapolis and Delta fliers at La Guardia. Alaska Airlines is piloting the program at Seattle-Tacoma Airport...
...brother, Ari, is a high-powered Hollywood agent and the basis for Jeremy Piven's character in the HBO series Entourage, Ari Gold. Emmanuel himself was the basis for the character played by Bradley Whitford in The West Wing: Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman...
...benefactor—a member of the Buffet family who donates $40,000 a year—has been alienated by Spare Change’s partnership with the Boston-based Whats Up magazine. The future looks precarious, to say the least. The role Spare Change plays as an agent for empowering the homeless gives it value beyond that of economic improvement, jobs, or profit. Its value is cultural. Articles in a recent issue highlighted the effect of the credit crisis on soup kitchens and non-profit organizations, explained referenda on the ballot yesterday, and offered a heroin addict?...
There was more bad news for the embattled government of Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Monday, when a Miami court convicted a Venezuelan secret agent of attempting to cover up an alleged illegal donation to her 2007 election campaign by Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chávez. Justice Minister Anibal Fernández accused Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Antonini Wilson, a Key Biscayne resident who collaborated with the FBI to secure the conviction of his former associate Frank Duran in Miami yesterday, of "being paid to say what he says." But that's unlikely...