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Cultural Revamp in Montreal
Montreal may be better known for snow than style, but two new openings are indicative of the city’s transformation into a serious cultural contender.
HISTORICAL NOTES: The Pumpkin Papers
More than a quarter-century after the glaring headlines, former State Department Official Alger Hiss finally found the answer last week to a much disputed mystery in one of the most celebrated spy cases of the cold war era.
In Peru, the Daughter Who Would Be President Too
Keiko Fujimori is running for President of Peru under a shadow that will never dissipate: her father. He is at once an important reason for the viability of her candidacy as well as a cautionary tale, the lessons of which she must insist she has learned.
UPS’ Road to Recovery
“It looks like this recession is finally over,” declared Scott Davis, CEO of UPS, earlier this month while announcing 2009 earnings that were better than expected for the world’s largest package carrier.
Books: View from the Big House
FALCONER by JOHN CHEEVER 211 pages. Knopf
How We Get Addicted
I was driving up the Massachusetts Turnpike one evening last February when I knocked over a bottle of water.
The Press: The Strikebreaker
At 70, he is plagued with eye cataracts, and his office is the cluttered corner of a Zionsville, Ind. farmhouse, which he claims was once used as a chicken roost.
Shell shake-up to shed 5,000 jobs
Royal Dutch Shell said on Thursday that a total of 5,000 staff would be leaving the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas group as part of a restructuring begun earlier this year.
Goldman Sachs profits crush estimates
Goldman Sachs reported on Thursday that it had nearly quadrupled its profits in the third quarter compared with a year ago, driven by a jump in trading revenues and strong returns on its own corporate investments. Meanwhile, Citigroup defied expectations of a third-quarter loss, reporting profits of $101m on the strength of its customer deposits