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...bunch of numbers and letters, the American movie rating system sure has a way of inviting controversy. On Nov. 1, it turns 40 years old. Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Joan Graves, Chairman of the Classification and Ratings Administration, spoke to TIME about ratings history, drugs in movies, and the unfairly maligned...
...income of the average American household. Top bankers could receive as much as $1 million. Even a bond trader just out of business school could see his or her bank account enriched by as much as $170,000 this Christmas. "The firms have had an extremely difficult year," says Joan Zimmerman, a Wall Street career coach. "But they can't afford to lose talent either...
...close the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center in December, and in the spring CHA reduced the number of its sites that provide midwifery services. “What do you say about a public health entity that starts its cutbacks on women and the elderly?” said Joan D. Hill, a retired Harvard employee and one of the dozens of senior citizens who filled the audience during the meeting. Mark R. Finucane, a health science advisor who has been working with CHA said the Alliance would try to maintain its commitment to underprivileged populations by preserving the most...
...works—worth nearly $200 million, according to the New York Times—include works by Pablo Picasso, sculptor Constantin Brâncusi, surrealist painter Joan Miró and 22 other artists, and together with the $45 million, mark the largest gift in the Museum’s history...
...nominee has won Sarasota County, set on one of the most affluent and conservative strips of Florida's Gulf Coast, since Franklin Roosevelt did in 1944. It's home to loyal Republicans like Katherine Harris, who oversaw Florida's controversial 2000 presidential vote recount. But in 2008, women like Joan Smith Geyer may decide Sarasota's outcome. Geyer, 62, is among a growing number of Sarasota Republicans voting for Barack Obama. A big reason, she says, is that John McCain hasn't proved to be the GOP moderate that Floridians thought their moderate GOP governor, Charlie Crist, was endorsing during...