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...Free: The Nina Simone Story Nina Simone; RCA Legacy; out now In 1956 a nightclub boss told the Juilliard pianist he'd hire her if she'd also sing. Smart idea. As this must-buy-now four-disc career set proves, Simone's reedy, dramatic alto made her a peerless interpreter of Gershwin, Brel, Dylan, the Bee Gees and herself (the scathing Mississippi Goddam). Warning: Contents are emotionally draining. Also life-enhancing...
Kashkari is part of a little-known boarding party Paulson brought to Washington two years ago. It included Kashkari's boss, Anthony Ryan, 45, the acting Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, who's been in charge of keeping track of all the new debt taxpayers have assumed recently, including open-ended loans to financial institutions and companies. They joined Kashkari's counterpart at the Office of Financial Institutions, David Nason, 38, who has been overseeing the titanic nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the broad new program insuring money-market funds announced Sept...
...YORK At Hugo Boss's Fifth Avenue flagship, this Boss Selection tie ($125) is the choice of Wall Streeters...
...showing most improvement, on a continent notorious for tyrants and bloodshed, was human rights. "Obscured by many of the headlines of the past few months, the real story coming out of Africa is that governance performance across a large majority of African countries is improving," said Ibrahim, the billionaire boss of Celtel, a pan-African mobile phone giant, at a press conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Ibrahim inaugurated his foundation last year to promote good governance in Africa...
...attorney a few years ago. As a younger attorney, the lawyer had been Susan; now he was Thomas. He told Schilt that after he transitioned from female to male, another lawyer mistakenly believed that Susan had been fired and replaced by Thomas. The other lawyer commended the firm's boss for the replacement. He said Susan had been incompetent; "the new guy," he added, was "just delightful." (Later, Ben Barres, an FTM neurobiology professor at Stanford, told The Wall Street Journal of a similar experience. An attendee at one of his lectures leaned over to a colleague and said...