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Straddling the worlds of high finance and community activism
In 1972, Jim Reynolds was less than two months shy of graduating from Chicago Vocational High School, with plans of becoming a television repairman. Raised in Englewood on the city's South Side, he had been studying the trade for two years when his...
Tags: Banking, Chicago Loop, Rahm Emanuel, Northwestern University, Bonds
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MOCA's Deitch to New York Post: LACMA takeover still an option
Is Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art all-in when it comes to its own independence? The question arises from a recent comment by museum director Jeffrey Deitch in the New York Post. MOCA this week announced the launch of "MOCA Independence,...
Tags: University of Florida, Museums, Arts, Arts and Culture, Artists
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Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president
With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Teaching and Learning, Students, Meningitis, Bill Clinton
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Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club. His books include “The Big Rewind” and “My Year of Flops.” He also collaborated on “Weird Al: The Book.” He has written for the Wall Street Journal,...Tags: Trudie Styler, Northwestern University, Fine Artists, PBS (tv network), Justice and Rights
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Research cites parallels of debt and depression
Does your debt nag at you and make you miserable? A researcher has now put a number to the emotions. He has quantified just how much debt drags some people down. Lawrence Berger, a University of Wisconsin at Madison associate professor of social work,...Tags: Debt Market, Career and Workplace, Employee Benefits, Loans, Credit and Debt
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Chamber orchestra presents 'The Virtuoso Orchestra' concerts
The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra will present a concert titled "The Virtuoso Orchestra" at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, at the First Congregational Church of Charlevoix and at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 10, at the First Presbyterian Church of Harbor...Tags: Music, Lakes and Ponds, Culture, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Nowadays, Valentine's Day is less sweet — and peanut-free
The rules for 7-year-old Riley Krieger's Valentine's Day party recently arrived from school: Bring one valentine addressed to each child on the list attached. Make a heart-covered shoe box on your own time or just bring a bag. Any treats for the class...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Peanuts, Education, Weight
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Mid-America Alfalfa Expo & Conference set for Feb. 5-6
COZAD, Neb.-Winter survival following a drought and how to best manage through that situation will be one of the key topics discussed by Dr. Dan Undersander at the Mid-America Alfalfa Expo & Conference to be held Feb. 5-6 in Kearney, Neb. “We'll piece...Tags: Auction Service, Droughts, Natural Disasters
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Gerda Lerner dies at 92; pioneered field of women's history
Gerda Lerner spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi prison in Vienna and feared that birthday would be her last. Her jailers meant to starve her, but her cellmates — two gentile women imprisoned for their anti-fascist views — shared their rations...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Chicago Tribune, Religion and Belief, Vienna (Austria), Columbia University
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Remarkable Woman: Kay Alden Nelson
Kay Alden Nelson's big break into daytime television sounds like a plot out of one of her soap opera scripts. "I was doing a dissertation for my Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on how daytime television serials can be used as mediators...
Tags: The Bold and the Beautiful (tv program) , Writers Guild of America, Streeterville, Primetime Emmy Awards, Another World (tv program)
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Setting an online example in educating women
The United States is leading a revolution in higher education. With the advent of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, U.S. universities will be increasingly exporting hundreds of college-level classes every year to the rest of the world. The...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania, Education, Minority Groups, Science
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Business People - Dec. 23
Susquehanna Bank Susquehanna Bank announces the following new employees: Darren T. Basore joined the company as vice president, commercial relationship manager in the Central Maryland Region, centered in Hagerstown. He will be responsible for...Tags: Banking, Religion and Belief, Services and Shopping, Real Estate, Christianity
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