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...firms will go out of business. There's less agreement about the survivors. Will they land back atop the financial heap and continue to steer a big part of the U.S. (and the global) economy? Will the top students at the top business schools still pine for PE jobs? Or was the PE boom just an artifact of a three-decade debt bubble that will be deflating for years...
...Houston at 2:46 a.m. Two minutes later, Kirby was flying 600 ft. above dense forest at 122 m.p.h., near the spot where the first pilot aborted. Kirby lost radio contact with the hospital in Houston. His helicopter dropped suddenly, to 100 ft. Its rotor sliced into thick pine trees. The cabin smashed into three pieces and landed upside down, drenched in jet fuel. Kirby, the patient and two medical crew members died. (See a story about water landings...
Perhaps it’s comforting to know that Christmas traditions can survive through political and economic turmoil; in fact, every time you guzzle an eggnog-peppermint-gingerbread-pine-tree-flavored latte, commend yourself for remembering Jesus and the meaning of Christmas during these difficult, distracting times. That’s just what Starbucks wants...
...know] what’s going on in North Korea,” she said, beginning her story of starvation and torture by her own government. “Instead of going to school, me and my siblings had to go up to the mountain and remove branches from pine trees in order to eat them,” said Jo, whose father was accused of treachery and thrown into jail, along with his pregnant wife, by the North Korean government because of his ties to South Korea. Won Myong Hong, a Harvard Business School student originally slated to speak...
...Paul Gauguin? And then there’s Paul Gauguin himself, who is known for his attempt to escape European civilization in search a pre-civilization good life in Tahiti. There is the sadly romantic story of the dwarfen Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who would frequent the Moulin Rouge to pine after the beautiful, tall dancer Jane Avril.But Daniel Kehlmann, the author of the novel, “Me & Kaminski,” disputes whether one can reduce an artist’s life to such stories. Kehlmann embarks on an ambitious project to chronicle the process of creating...