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...With regard to his graphic art, which will be on view in the Square through June 10 as part of The Ringo Starr Fine Art Show, Starr said, “Personally, I would like to paint like Rembrandt, but that’s just not a talent God gave...
...explicit; its lyrics ("Now that it's raining more than ever/ Know that we'll still have each other/ You can stand under my umbrella") owe more to Doris Day than Madonna. But Rihanna, a Barbadian ex--beauty queen who just released her third album, has a special talent for vocal innuendo. She toys with the word umbrella--or, as Rihanna would put it, um-ba-rella, ella, ella--as if she's taking it for a ride on a water bed. It's hard to believe there will be a sexier song this summer...
...years, some seek alternative avenues to build their families. With each adoption costing up to $30,000 and often demanding mounds of paperwork and weeks of travel, workers are asking their employers for help. They're getting it, mainly from companies in competitive industries hungry to attract and keep talent. Google, JPMorgan Chase, Abbott Laboratories, Avon and Motorola have all added adoption assistance to their buffet of benefits. In 1990, only 12% of 1,000 companies surveyed by Hewitt Associates offered financial assistance for adoption. By 2006, 45% of companies did. Rita Sorensen, executive director of the Dave Thomas Foundation...
...real world, he’s set on making it in the film industry. This year’s graduating class has enjoyed four years full of Ravishankara’s creative works. Beginning with the band “Action Man” that performed at the freshman talent show four years ago, he’s played in two bands, penned three comic strips, directed 12 episodes of the campus-soap Ivory Tower, and shot 16 movies. “I just like doing these projects. I can’t ever really pin down one thing...
...storytelling as a means for bringing the struggles of the world into the living rooms of America,” said Sarah B. Sewell, the Director of the KSG’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. “And that is a rare and valuable talent in American journalism today.” The two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist joined the New York Times in 1984 as an economics reporter and has since drawn accolades for his correspondence from places as far flung as Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Beijing and Tokyo. Kristof...