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...Venezuela by a string of brand-name employers--until the economy soured, and he was dispatched to the street. The Harvard M.B.A. hit the job market with confidence this spring, but after months of rejection, he decided on what he calls "guerrilla tactics." Ruppen, 45, milled around a midtown Manhattan sidewalk in shirtsleeves, spectacles and a sandwich board with 20 other jobless executives last week. Standing firm amid the lunch-break crush, he shouted, "We want work...
...needs new? Of the 16 musicals now playing in midtown Manhattan theaters, three are set in the 1920s ("Cabaret," "Chicago, "Thoroughly Modern Millie"), three in the 1930s ("42nd Street," "Oklahoma!", "The Boys from Syracuse"), and three, mon Dieu!, in 18th or 19th century France ("Beauty and the Beast," "Les Mis?rables," "The Phantom of the Opera"). Broadway tourists can visit ancient Egypt ("Aida) or Fairy Tale Land ("Into the Woods"). But it's tough to find either a musical that takes place in the here and now - "Urinetown" is a city of the future that looks like Pittsburgh in the Depression...
...meeting that followed, at the attorney general's Manhattan office, between Spitzer and Charles Prince, the new head of Citi's subsidiary Salomon Smith Barney, marked the beginning of what is shaping up as a far-reaching peace treaty. Spitzer, who used a $100 million settlement with Merrill Lynch to reform stock research on Wall Street, wants a similar and more expensive pact with Citigroup to address systemic abuses in the way lucrative initial public offerings (IPOs) of stock have been showered on CEOs who sent investment-banking business to Citi. Spitzer is still digging for dirt, so any deal...
...ugly business that Spitzer, the ambitious New York State attorney general, has been finding in his probe of the financial behemoth. Within days a high-level session followed, and even Spitzer was impressed with Weill's sense of urgency. The meeting that followed, at the attorney general's Manhattan office, between Spitzer and Charles Prince, the new head of Citi's subsidiary Salomon Smith Barney, marked the beginning of what is shaping up as a far-reaching peace treaty. Spitzer, who used a $100 million settlement with Merrill Lynch to reform stock research on Wall Street, wants a similar...
...Abraham, directed him to "cut my Covenant in your flesh." Some biblical commentators suggest that the circumcision was meant as much as a reminder to the Lord as to the Israelites, a kind of divine Post-it not to extirpate these people. My thought as we rolled eastward across Manhattan was, There must be easier ways...