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...After law school, clerked for a U.S. Court of Appeals judge who had been appointed by Ronald Reagan, according to the New York Daily News. She was later employed by a private law firm, where she spent time working on behalf of client Philip Morris. Altria, as Philip Morris is now called, donated $17,000 to Gillibrand's 2008 campaign. During the Clinton Administration, Gillibrand worked as a lawyer for the Department of Housing and Urban Development under Andrew Cuomo. She later returned to private practice, working for the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner...
...some psychologists have questioned the link between unconscious racist attitudes and real-world discrimination. In an Op-Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal in 2005, Philip Tetlock, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and Amy Wax, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, mocked the notion that "we are all racists at heart," claiming that "no research demonstrates that, after subtracting the influence of residual old-fashioned prejudice, split-second reactions in the laboratory predict real-world decisions...
...these were not normal circumstances. And Philip W. Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, is no Steven P. Jobs...
...from the lower body, it turns out, is very different from abdominal fat. What the difference is, exactly, has yet to be discovered. That kind of finding would have “enormous implications” for the understanding of obesity and diabetes and for the pharmaceutical industry, said Philip Gorden, the former director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Those who aren’t fortunate enough to be callipygian, however, can’t do much. “It’s very hard for people to control their fat distribution...
...Philip Shalala, head of marketing at the Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas, says his hotel is having its best December yet - up 6%, year over year. Some of that may be due to creative marketing: the hotel had a holiday party for the city, offering two hours of free wine and beer. "It keeps up the energy of the place," says Shalala, "and it's good for employee morale." People who came in for drinks stayed to eat and gamble; that night the hotel beat its forecast take...