On the Democratic side, undecideds rule the day; SoS Elaine Marshall does have the lead, beating former state Sen. Cal Cunningham 29-12 (with 5 for Kenneth Lewis and 2 for Marcus Williams). The only subgroup where Cunningham has the edge so far is voters under 30. On the Republican side...
Historian Frederick Lewis Allen, who would go on to write the definitive history of the 1920s in his bestselling Only Yesterday (1931), offered some tongue-in-cheek advice on how the average American could contribute to renewed economic prosperity. An excerpt: Howard Brubaker also finished the ...
Wilkinson and his second wife Mary had no children, she being about forty at the time of their marriage. However, he had a series of mistresses, some of whom were his servants. He also had a regular mistress, Ann Lewis, by whom he had three children when in his seventies. After his ...
The opening of two new theaters at Rockefeller Center no doubt brightened a few souls at the start of 1933, but art and architecture criticLewis Mumfordwasn’t particularly dazzled by the “watered-down” modernism of the buildings’ much-ballyhooed decor. Jan. 7, 1933 cover byRea Irvin, in...
Several major investors and proxy advisory firms, including Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), Glass, Lewis & Co., the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), and the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), are urging Tesl...
Follow Goldman Sachs Beyond London, Tory Mayor Tells City Giants; Interview: Andy Street hails new finance hub in West Midlands; Former John Lewis boss criticizes the beleaguered retailer Sabah Meddings – Bloomberg Shortly after we arrive at Andy Street’s office, he insists on bundling in...
Banks Want a Break From the FDIC; Also Bed Bath & Beyond stock, AT1 changes, AT1 CDS, Michael Lewis’s SBF book and Sweetgreen’s salad robots. Matt Levine – Bloomberg One solution to this crisis would be that, if the bonds magically went back to being worth 100 cents on the dollar...
John Lewis, John McCain, King's Quest, Louie, Luddites, Lyft, malicious bullshitting, Marc Maron, Marquette, Marxism, Mean Girls, mental health, Metroid, Michael Brown, military-industrial complex, misogyny, Missouri, NCAA, Nintendo, Nnedi Okorafor, now we see the violence inherent in the syst...
Leo Lewis – Financial Times On the first full day of trading after the great Tohoku quake of 2011, recalls a browbeaten fund manager, the office was shuddering with aftershocks. The world’s largest nuclear plant, in Fukushima, was in meltdown and an explosion had blown its roof off. ...
Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Simon Lewis and Maytaal Angel – Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting Israeli leaders on Friday to push for humanitarian pauses in the Gaza war as Israeli troops surrounded the Palestinian enclave’s biggest city, the focus of its drive to wipe out ...