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Review: 'This Will Have Been' takes the temperature of the '80s
CHICAGO — For art museums interested in contemporary American art, the 1980s have been a bit of a blind spot. Individual artists who emerged in those rambunctious years have not been in short supply in their galleries, through retrospectives and...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Fine Artists, Radio, Artists, Museums
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Facebook's Saverin: 'No hard feelings' toward Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook's foreign co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, finally addressed publicly the rift between himself and Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, saying there were "no hard feelings" between the two. Saverin, 30, one of the social network giant's...
Tags: Culture, The Social Network (movie) , Singapore, Mark Zuckerberg, Arts and Culture
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Euro strengthens; European stocks erase gains
The euro strengthened Monday, rebounding from a four-day losing streak, as polls showed Greece's pro-bailout parties have gained ground. European stocks erased gains, Spanish bonds declined and yields on German two-year notes fell to a record low.
The...Tags: Russia, Politics, National Government, Market and Exchange, Europe
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Amazon in danger as Brazil moves forward with bill, critics say
SAO PAULO, Brazil — The Brazilian government is pressing forward with controversial legislation that critics say will lead to widespread destruction of the Amazon rain forest. After months of heated discussion, President Dilma Rousseff on Monday...
Tags: Politics, Laws, Environmental Politics, Natural Resources, Forestry and Timber
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Retail roundup: Prada, Asos, CVS free gas promotion
--Facing an uncertain U.S. economy and a flailing Europe, Italian fashion house Prada is planning to open 260 stores in the next three years to capture consumers in emerging markets who are hungry for luxury goods, a report says. The Milan company, which...
Tags: E-Commerce Industry, Walmart, Companies and Corporations, Prada, Miu Miu
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Brazil's historically poor northeast finally gets its boom
RECIFE, Brazil — The Brazilian state of Pernambuco was once known for its vast plains of parched dirt and roving bandits called cangacos, who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor.
For later generations, escaping the widespread poverty of the...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Dilma Rousseff, Science and Technology, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Arts and Culture
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Grant will fund five reporting positions at L.A. Times
Readers' Representative JournalThe Times will add five reporters, including one in Brazil, after receiving a $1-million grant from the Ford Foundation. An article by Times media reporter James Rainey has the details: The Los Angeles Times will use a $1-million grant from...... -
Two senators want to stop Facebook's Saverin from dodging taxes
WASHINGTON — Eduardo Saverin fled Brazil as a boy and lived the American dream by helping found Facebook Inc. Now two U.S. senators want to make sure he never sets foot in the U.S. again unless he pays tens of millions of dollars in taxes he will...
Tags: Singapore, Mark Zuckerberg, Charles Schumer, Justice System, Internal Revenue Service
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Los Angeles Times receives $1-million grant from Ford Foundation
The Los Angeles Times will use a $1-million grant from the Ford Foundation to expand its coverage of key beats, including immigration and ethnic communities in Southern California, the southwest U.S. border and the emerging economic powerhouse of Brazil....
Tags: Newspapers, Prisons, Immigration, Media Industry, Journalism
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'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Semi-final shake-ups and breakdowns
Show TrackerWe’re down to the semi-finals, ballroom fans. Four remaining couples are jockeying for a position in the “Dancing With the Stars” Season 14 finale and a shot at the coveted Mirrorball trophy.... -
Retail roundup: Madewell road trip, Kohl's, Macy's mercado
--Madewell, the younger, more relaxed division of retailer J. Crew Group Inc., is going mobile this spring. Think less smartphone and more road trip. The brand, formally a work wear manufacturer in Massachusetts before getting rescued by J. Crew, is...
Tags: Macy's, Inc., Kohl's
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For an Olympic volleyball hopeful, the dream may be fading
Twelfth in a series of occasional stories. No one, Jonathan Winder says, has told him anything specific. So he continues to show up for practice at the U.S. national volleyball team's facility in Anaheim every morning, still holding out hope he'll be...
Tags: Olympic Games, Heart Disease, University of California, Irvine, Trinidad and Tobago, Volleyball
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