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...Chicago. "We have this theory that between Indians, it's more like two degrees of separation rather than the usual six." So firms show up at desi events and subtly introduce the message: We're a part of your community too. Wells Fargo sponsored a Bollywood concert in Cupertino, Calif., in June, setting up a table in the lobby and dispensing brochures touting its new money-transfer service to India, an initiative aimed at stealing business from Western Union. "It's not just about advertising," says Michelle Scales, director of the diverse growth segment at Wells Fargo. "It's about...
ROYA FOULADI -- Santa Ana, Calif...
...They married while he was still in school, but when she tried to get a job, no law firm would hire her, except as a secretary, although she had finished third in her class--two spots below classmate William Rehnquist. She eventually got a job in the San Mateo, Calif., county attorney's office by offering to start out working for free. Years later, she expressed the view that being the court's first woman didn't make much difference on its rulings. "A wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same decision...
DIED. JOHN FIEDLER, 80, and PAUL WINCHELL, 82, voice-over specialists who delighted young fans of the animated Winnie the Pooh films as two of Pooh's best pals, the ever anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, N.J., and Moorpark, Calif., respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played Mr. Peterson, the browbeaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show, and Winchell, a popular ventriloquist, coined Tigger's trademark sign...
...Democratic proposal, the College Opportunity for All Act 2005—cosponsored by Reps. George Miller, D-Calif., and Dale Kildee, D-Mich.—would allow students to lock in loans at a fixed percentage when interests rates are low or borrow at a variable rate capped at 6.8 percent during periods of higher interest...