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…n charges of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls at his Palm Beach mansion, the 64-year-old politically-connected money manager faces the possibility that the agreement could be thrown out. In court papers filed this month, attorneys representing two of the 30 young women pr...

…alls him—is probably asking for help with his role as British trade envoy, or whatever his strange title is. Because if one thing’s for sure: When it comes to international business, Jeffrey knows what he’s talking about far more than “Andy” does. Which is why Leon Black, Mort Zu...

…Royal Academy. That London’s most august art institution should find itself flyering outside a tent in Regent’s Park is one measure of the extent to which the capital’s art scene now triangulates itself around Frieze. There are others. The National Gallery’s new exhibition of wo...

DEK: In the upcoming sequel to Oliver Stone’s groundbreaking film, Gordon Gekko gets out of jail and back to business. Peggy Siegal takes us behind the scenes where she got herself on camera along with a few of her famous friends. Nice work if you can get it. In 1987, right afte...

…ial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends. My skills are not in investment strategy, and, as everyone who knows Jeffrey knows, his are not in fashion and design. We frequently discuss world trends as each of us sees them.” By the time Epstein met Wexner, th...

…will follow in the United States. Think-Tank Funding Different US think tanks have different funding models. At least one type (Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, or FFRDCs) is funded entirely by the US government, while several others accept some US government...

parlor and quickly realize that the big boss’s methods duplicate effort. I do it my way, finish in one hour instead of eight, and spend the rest of the time reading kung-fu magazines and practicing karate kicks outside. I am fired in a record three days, left with the parting com...

…ved to be like a capitalist short-circuit. It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable enough to spend money on. The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die. I hadn’t exercised my throwing-out muscles...

…tures exceed its receipts over a particular period of time. e Structural Deficit = The portion of the e Cash Flow (ex. One-Time Items)* _— budget deficit that results from a ‘Cash in’ minus ‘cash out’ excluding fundamental imbalance in government expenditures that are one-time...

…ever going to become a national spokesperson, to say nothing of a Washington official? Sellars, however, happens to be one of the most persuasive and inspirational public figures we have. He exhibits a bottomless empathy and spirituality with broad reach. Yes, some of his produc...

CIO WM Global Investment Office CIO monthly video www.ubs.com/cio-video For smartphone users: scan the code with an app like "scan" UBS CIO Monthly Extended November 2012 Published 25 October 2012 This report has been prepared by UBS AG. Please see important disclaimers and disc...

operation. Both times, it was an operation that we, the ones who have to do it, knew could succeed. An operation on which the fate of three Israeli pilots depends. One of whom we know personally, and have worked with. Now, again, with no real reason, you’ve stopped us. I see this...

…of Communist Party cadres who joined and supported its rise decades ago. Several years ago, I found myself settled into one of them for an afternoon tea with Huang Hua, one of the great modern Chinese foreign policy figures - and a member of that early revolutionary generation. H...

12.3 The Value of an Explicit Goal System 209 12.3 The Value of an Explicit Goal System One of the subtle issues confronted in the quest to design ethical AGIs is how closely one wants to emulate human ethical judgment and behavior. Here one confronts the brute fact that, even...

…ostalgia weekend that I and six guys I grew up spent at the Concord Hotel in the Catskill Mountains, where we once had gone to summer camp or worked as waiters. The guys played one-on-one basketball and horse (even those who hated hoop as kids). We told jokes so old you could giv...