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...private dining room in Manhattan's timelessly tony 21 Club is packed with more than 60 CEOs, corporate presidents and managing partners. They represent a cross section of mostly midsize New York City-area businesses. There's a biotech exec from Manhattan, an aerospace guy from Long Island, the head of a jewelry firm in New Jersey, a manufacturer of architectural lighting--all of them members of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), an international fraternity of business leaders who have won their corner offices by age 45. This group of BlackBerry-wielding overachievers has filled every seat to hear from...
...democracy and freedom in Cuba and merging those ideas with the arts,” Counter said. Garcia’s family fled Cuba when he was 5 years old, just two years after Fidel Castro came to power. The actor’s emotional attachment to the island was obvious at the reception following the screening. “I would change everything about who I am to live in a free Cuba,” he told the crowd, holding back tears. In an introduction to the screening, Garcia called “The Lost City...
...were absolutely groundbreaking. Of his highly influential and landmark “Noble Savage” collection , he told The New York Times on August 3, 1993 that it was for a man “daydreaming about cashing in his Gucci loafers for a lean-to on Easter Island...
...Anne of Green Gables novels, set in Prince Edward Island, the titular character is constantly engaged in back-and-forth bickering with her classmate and rival, Gilbert Blythe. When PEI visited the Bright Hockey Center for an exhibition contest yesterday, it was a similarly give-and-take affair, as Harvard’s freshmen powered the Crimson to a 6-3 victory. “I thought both teams battled very hard,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “I give PEI a lot of credit—they really stuck with...
...American-style integrity-management review of their pipeline, because they want to adopt the same standards that we have here," says Schutt. Green concerns are also a strong motivator to protect pipelines, as was the case with a recently completed project in Russian-owned Sakhalin Island, which "is a huge environmental reserve with a lot of beautiful wildlife," he says...