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Perhaps the feeling of family that used to be felt at the firm formerly nicknamed "Mother Merrill" is the strongest at Deutsche Bank. The German financial-services firm has hired more than a dozen Merrill Lynch bankers, including brothers David, Eric and Seth Heaton. Eric Heaton used to be the treasurer of Merrill Lynch. Many of the other bankers that Deutsche hired were in Merrill's financial-institutions group, which provided underwriting and mergers-and-acquisition advice to other banks and asset-management and insurance firms...
Despite the scholarly bent of “Frame by Frame,” a few families were in attendance. Cambridge mother Alix Kepner had taken her nine year-old daughter Gemma to see the exhibition. “We’re big Pixar fans,” explained Kepner when asked about what had brought them to the Carpenter Center. Talking about her favorite film, “Going Up,” Gemma said, “I liked the script.” When her mother commented that the film in question did not feature...
...supposed to hang out with germy little kids - and my sense of justice was so aggrieved that six months later, in the middle of July, I invited all my playground friends over for a party. It would have all come off beautifully, had I not neglected to tell my mother...
...Growing up in Midland, Texas, Green was always the odd kid, the strange child on the margins picked last for kickball. According to court records, he was an unwanted child, something his mother did not hesitate to tell him. She called him "demon spawn," and constantly compared him unfavorably to his brother, Doug, who was three years older. Working nights at a bar, she largely let her children fend for themselves. Doug was, not surprisingly, unable to cope with the responsibility of being a surrogate parent from as young as age seven or eight. He subjected Steven and their little...
...Green's long estranged parents divorced when he was 8, and he lived with his mother until she kicked him out of the house at age 14. Green bounced around various family members' homes for the next few years. Desperate for attention, he did win a few friends in high school by being the class clown. After dropping out of high school in the 10th grade, however, trouble followed him wherever he went. Smoking cigarettes, drinking booze, and walking around with marijuana are fairly common activities for teenagers, but Green managed to get caught, arrested, and convicted for each...