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...where he was awarded master’s and doctorate degrees.El-Erian worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for nearly 15 years before leading the emerging markets research outfit at investment bank Salomon Smith Barney in London. In 1999, he moved to PIMCO, a leading bond manager in Newport Beach, Calif. with a strong emerging markets business.During the Brazilian financial crisis of 2002, El-Erian bucked conventional wisdom in contending that the country would improve its financial state and avoid defaulting on its loans, Heller recalled. He was proven right, leading to a big payoff for PIMCO?...
...well as functional concerns. The serving areas were entirely redesigned in the style of the Houses—Mather’s retains the feel of modern architecture while Dunster’s was designed to “look like someone’s mansion down in Newport, R.I.,” Snyder said...
When Dylan went electric, the folkies reacted as if they had been electrocuted. In the documentary, Seeger still seethes at the memory of Dylan's set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. "I said, 'Goddammit, it's terrible,'" he recalls. "'If I had an ax, I'd chop the mike cable right now.'" Some old fans felt the same. In those days the second half of a Dylan concert, when he worked in front of a small band (later known as the Band), was frequently punctuated by audience cries of "Traitor!" and "Judas...
FREED. ROY HALLUMS, 57, U.S. contractor, formerly of Newport Beach, Calif., kidnapped at gunpoint last November while working for a Saudi catering company that provided food to the Iraqi army and last seen publicly in January in a video, pleading for his life; by U.S. forces, acting on a tip from a recent detainee, in a raid on an Iraqi farmhouse, where he had been held, bound and gagged; near Baghdad...
...death. Without a living will as proof of Schiavo's desires and in light of her parents' willingness to take full responsibility for her, should the life-or-death decision have been left to a husband who had moved on and started a new family? Bonnie O'Neil Newport Beach, California...