How Weinstein, Hedge Funds Outsmarted JPMorgan - CNBC.com

How Weinstein, Hedge Funds Outsmarted JPMorgan
CNBC.com
In the London Whale, these traders saw a rich opportunity, and they seized it with both hands. That, after all, is the way hedge funds roll. His cool calculus has made Mr. Weinstein a very rich man: he is in talks to buy the Fifth Avenue co-op of a ...

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New London can't find land to sell - TheDay.com

New London can't find land to sell
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By Kathleen Edgecomb New London - The city owns 121 properties within its borders, from the sprawling 50-acre Ocean Beach Park to a narrow strip of vacant land practically under the Gold Star Memorial Bridge. It has hundreds of acres of parks, ...

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From Overbrook dreamer to Broadway mogul - Philadelphia Inquirer

From Overbrook dreamer to Broadway mogul
Philadelphia Inquirer
With plays like "Streetcar," Stephen C. Byrd aims to bring more black actors, and audiences, to the theater. By Howard Shapiro Stephen Byrd has become Broadway's only African American lead producer. It was Peter Pan who long ago captured a little guy ...

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Popular Baby Names 2011: Sophia, Jacob New Number One Names - Huffington Post

Popular Baby Names 2011: Sophia, Jacob New Number One Names
Huffington Post
Though Sophia has been on the US Top 1000 every year since the beginning of recorded baby name history in 1880, the year the American government began keeping statistics on infant names, it nearly fell off that list in 1956 before beginning a new ...

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Summer Fun Guide: Museums - STLtoday.com

Summer Fun Guide: Museums
STLtoday.com
"We're communicating with the stars." Rizzo and friends Paul Duiker, from Springfield, Ill., left, and Melissa Ellison, from Chatham, Ill., came to Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville on Sunday, March 20, 2011 to observe the spring equinox.

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The World's 50 Best Restaurant List Is Tosh Says Drew Smith - Manchester Confidential


Manchester Confidential
The World's 50 Best Restaurant List Is Tosh Says Drew Smith
Manchester Confidential
I queued for 30 minutes outside the First Avenue outlet last week and to be honest it was not worth waiting any longer. I am not being critical but to include a noodle bar alongside a three star Michelin Parisian restaurant is a joke.

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Banking: Back to the wall - Financial Times


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Banking: Back to the wall
Financial Times
That moment of confrontation at a conference last year showed something of the star appeal of Mr Dimon, something of his uncompromising nature in arguing that some regulations are crimping credit and something, his critics say, of his hubris.

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The Chelski power show: Forget the flowers, the most exotic display is the ... - Daily Mail


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The Chelski power show: Forget the flowers, the most exotic display is the ...
Daily Mail
She was a star guest at the post-Gala Cartier dinner held in a marquee at Battersea Power Station at an estimated cost to the jeweller of more than £1 million. Dinner for 400, flower arrangements the height of houses and avenues of pretty boys in ...

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The Rolling Stones on Saturday Night Live? And no doubt No Doubt is back - Pasadena Star-News

The Rolling Stones on Saturday Night Live? And no doubt No Doubt is back
Pasadena Star-News
The concert stars songwriters Burt Bacharach, Brasil '66 leader Sergio Mendes, California Sound leader JD Souther (The Eagles' "Heartache Tonight," "Best of My Love" and "New Kid in Town"), Kenny "Babyface" Edmunds, Billy Steinberg (Cyndi Lauper's ...

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Promising Promises and Falling Out Of The Sky: Conversations With Jon ... - Huffington Post (blog)

Promising Promises and Falling Out Of The Sky: Conversations With Jon ...
Huffington Post (blog)
MR: Nice, the star of the video is the tree. JM: Right. But it was the most fun I've ever had doing a music video, for sure. MR: Signing with a new label and coming from working the latest project independently, in retrospect, what were some of the ...

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