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...appears to be cracking in Hollywood's long, cold winter of picket lines, shuttered productions and canceled award shows. As early as this week, the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike for three months, may be presented with a new contract. With two key industry events fast approaching - the Academy Awards and TV pilot season - the writers and the studios have had plenty of incentive to return to the negotiating table and get past the rancor that doomed the early talks. Thanks to a deal hammered out by directors, they have also had a road...
...those who don't recall, Leeson was 27 years old, living in Singapore, and trading futures contracts based on the Nikkei stock index and Japanese government bonds when he got into trouble in the mid-'90s. He was anything but one of the investment banking "Masters of the Universe" made famous by Tom Wolfe in the 1980s. He was a relatively ordinary young professional on an obscure trading desk, who bet the wrong way on the Nikkei's direction; then he doubled down, trying to recoup the firm's money, and lost again. At one point in early...
...vote that reflected divisions among Cambridge residents, the city’s School Committee narrowly approved a contract extension for Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, an administrator known equally for boosting test scores and a brusque management style that has alienated colleagues and parents alike...
...disappointed in Mayor Simmons’ vote,” said Luc D. Schuster, a committee member who voted against the contract extension. “She had been a vocal opponent of the superintendent in years past as a city councilor...
Negotiations about the length of the contract extension—which is not yet known but could run up to three years past its current expiration in August 2008—will likely begin in early February...