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Since the release of the band’s first major album, 2004’s “Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts,” M83 has filled venues from New York to San Francisco with an ever-growing fan base. Building off of the shoegazing rock tradition of My Bloody Valentine and a childhood obsession with Sonic Youth, Gonzalez says he always hoped to create music that challenged and intrigued...
...alarms, authorities evacuated more than 70,000 people from the area and kept them away for 3 months. The result: the mountain continued to sputter smoke and cough volumes of ash for a while, but it never blew. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Christine Gorman/New York and Charles Pelton/San Francisco...
Investment bankers are seldom hired for their ability to spike a volleyball, run a marathon or slam-dunk a basketball. But anyone applying for a job at San Francisco's Montgomery Securities might be well advised to show up in a track suit. Reason: Thomas Weisel, the company's senior partner, likes athletes on his team. He firmly believes they have an edge when it comes to crunching numbers and corporate rivals. His 300 employees, many of whom are devoted joggers, also include former top competitors in skiing, tennis, basketball and volleyball. Weisel's draft choices have proved...
Weisel, a Milwaukee native whose father played professional hockey while studying to be a surgeon, won several national speed-skating titles as a teenager. After studying economics at Stanford and earning his Harvard M.B.A., he helped form one San Francisco brokerage firm in 1967 and quit four years later to start the forerunner of Montgomery with three colleagues. By 1979 the tenacious Weisel had taken command of the firm...
...Ruzicka first visited Afghanistan as a representative of the San Francisco-based human rights group Global Exchange. She began lobbying for the victims of U.S. bombing who she said deserved compensation. Fiercely anti-war, she was savvy enough to understand that she probably couldn't stop conflicts but that she could help their victims. On one memorable occasion in Kabul, in early 2002, she organized a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy, arriving with a father and his daughter, the only survivors of a recent U.S. bombing raid that had left 18 family members dead...