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From March 13-22, more than 1,800 acts will descend upon Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest, one of the largest music, film and arts festivals in America. From seasoned veterans like PJ Harvey to unknown bands hoping to make it big, the weeklong festival is a mecca for hipster PBR-drinking music nuts. But amid all the unwashed dye jobs and American Apparel outfits will be Margaret Cho, the stand-up comedian who will appear at SXSW - as a musician? Cho talked to TIME about her sudden career switch. (See pictures from South by Southwest...
...essence of my scheme was that I represented to clients and prospective clients who wished to open investment advisory and individual trading accounts with me that I would invest their money in shares of common stock, options and other securities of large well-known corporations, and upon request, would return to them their profits and principal. Those representations were false because for many years up and until I was arrested on December 11, 2008, I never invested those funds in the securities, as I had promised. Instead, those funds were deposited in a bank account at Chase Manhattan Bank. When...
...words could have broken the stillness and saved me humiliation. He finally motioned for the crowd to rise—but that just left them standing there, in a dithering hush, with nothing to ogle but my everlasting journey down the longest aisle the Lord has ever wrought upon his people (no offense to Him).By the time I’d passed the Negro section, I think the color of my cheeks had ebbed to a mere tomato. But by the time I squeezed into our usual pew at the front, my blood was frothing: couldn?...
...Congress but had also co-authored Title IX, the landmark amendment that banned gender discrimination in federally-funded education and sports programs. “It was a great way to look at history differently through the eyes of an Asian-American woman,” Bassford says. Drawing upon hundreds of photos and newspaper clippings from Mink’s relatives and from Library of Congress archives, Bassford traced a life of struggle and perseverance. When Mink was elected in 1965 to the U.S. House of Representatives, one headline read, “Pert and Pretty Patsy Mink...
...financial crisis on the University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Allan M. Brandt said the school has no plans to cut funding for any of its programs. Brandt said, however, that GSAS administrators have made modest modifications to the school’s administrative budget upon the request of Michael D. Smith, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Smith has asked all departments for 10 to 15 percent budget cuts in order to meet the more than $100 million shortfall across FAS in the next fiscal year. “This is an exercise that...