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Merkel-Hollande Meeting Yields Greece Growth Signal - Bloomberg
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:33 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
Requests for measures to bolster growth will be“considered” and the European Union may also “approach Greece with proposals,” Merkel said late yesterday at a joint press conference with Hollande during his first official visit to Berlin. “Greece ca …
Elizabeth Warren: Dimon should quit N.Y. Fed
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 11:29 AM EDT (Politico)
Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on Monday called on JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to resign from the New York Federal Reserve Board as a "public acknowledgment that he is in a position of trust." "I'd like to see some real accountability here. I'd like to …
Amsterdam Tries to Change Culture With 'Repair Cafes'
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 4:37 PM EDT (The New York Times)
An unemployed man, a retired pharmacist and an upholsterer took their stations, behind tables covered in red gingham. Screwdrivers and sewing machines stood at the ready. Coffee, tea and cookies circulated. Hilij Held, a neighbor, wheeled in a zebra-striped suitcase and extract …
Economic Democracy, Not Austerity or Keynesian "Growth" | Professor Richard D. Wolff
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 3:46 PM EDT (http://rdwolff.com)
Recent defeats of Dutch, Greek and French governing parties show rising opposition to their austerity policies. Across Europe and North America, similar oppositions mount. Bailing out large financial and other corporations with borrowed money has been the almost universal g …
Over 200,000 to lose unemployment benefits in US this weekend
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 3:24 PM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)
This weekend, more than 200,000 unemployed workers in eight US states will be abruptly cut off from extended federal unemployment benefits, the result of an agreement between President Barack Obama and the Republican Party earlier this year. Many of these workers will be …
Two Sassoons, Vidal and Siegfried
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 2:55 PM EDT (New Yorker)
The old Sephardic surname “Sassoon” was shared by two Englishmen who had little in common other than their good looks, their military valor, their love of sport, their glory in separate spheres, and their longevity. For me, however, they had a meaningful rela …
Vidal Sassoon, Hairdresser and Trendsetter, Dies at 84
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 2:39 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Vidal Sassoon, whose mother had a premonition that he would become a hairdresser and steered him to an apprenticeship in a London shop when he was 14, setting him on the path that led to his changing the way women wore and cared for their hair, died on Wednesday at his home …
Amid mass unemployment, corporate profits surge
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 3:10 PM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)
Amid deepening poverty and unemployment for masses of American working people, the largest US corporations once again posted record profits last year. Fortune magazine released its ranking of the 500 biggest US corporations Monday, which showed that they received a record- …
Nicole Kidman And Clive Owen Star In HBO Films' 'Hemingway & Gellhorn', A Film By Philip Kaufman
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 2:29 PM EDT (Zap2it.com)
1936: Ernest Hemingway [Clive Owen] falls under the spell of the beautiful novelist and assured magazine writer Martha Gellhorn [Nicole Kidman] when he first meets her in Sloppy Joe’s, a bar in Key West, Fla.
Campaigner to survive on £1 per day to help global poverty
Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 2:15 AM EDT ()
A campaigner from Hendon is preparing to survive on £1 per day to help tackle global poverty. Lara Smallman, 25, of Mayfield Gardens is being sponsored to cut her spending on food and drink from Monday, May 7 to Friday, May 11 as part of Global Poverty Project’s Li …
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