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Wal-Mart, Gap skirt the issue

2013-05-17 00:00:00

If the horrific garment factory collapse last month in Bangladesh has any silver lining, it is the response from more than 30 of the world's leading apparel companies — including Benetton, PVH, Abercrombie & Fitch, H&M, Inditex (Zara), Marks &...

Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation

2013-05-11 18:10:00

Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...

Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next

2013-05-11 10:00:00

NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...

Herbert Blau dies at 87; theater director helped shape CalArts

2013-05-09 22:48:00

Herbert Blau, an influential theater director, theorist and scholar who helped shape CalArts during its early years, died at his home in Seattle on May 3, his 87th birthday. He had cancer, according to the Seattle Times. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born...

'The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films' takes in strays

2013-05-08 16:00:00

Lost works, home movies, industrial films, abandoned technologies and other assorted cinematic ephemera all fall under the umbrella of miscellany known as "orphan film." The strange mix of the odd and slightly sad gets its own festival at the Linwood Dunn...

Peter Sagal's 'Constitution USA' hits the road with humor

2013-05-07 07:00:00

NEW YORK — If someone told you of a barnstorming TV host who interviewed people around the country about a given subject, you'd say it sounds like a lot of the road-trip reality series that have proliferated on cable TV. But what if that host...

Steve Van Zandt, Grammy Museum team to put rock in the classroom

2013-04-26 12:14:00

The Grammy Museum is partnering with E Street Band member Steve Van Zandt’s Rock and Roll Forever Foundation to promote the use of pop music in junior high and high school classrooms across the country starting this fall. “Rock and Roll:...

With NPR's 'Wait Wait,' eggheads at the multiplex

2013-05-03 16:56:00

NEW YORK -- At about 8 p.m. Thursday night, as moviegoers around the country were lining up to see “Iron Man 3,”an assuredly smaller group was gathering at 600 North American theaters for the live-cinema simulcast of the popular NPR game...

Colleges as country clubs

2013-04-21 00:00:00

My daughter is a junior in high school, so I've spent part of this spring making that upper-middle-class pilgrimage known as "the college tour." But as we were led across sweeping lawns by tour guides walking backward, I found myself thinking less about...

Wealth of nearly all Americans fell after the recession

2013-04-23 19:23:00

WASHINGTON — The richest 7% of American families saw their average wealth soar 28% from 2009 to 2011, while the remaining households lost 4% of their net worth over the same period, according to a new report. The analysis of Census Bureau data...

School meal standards may help students maintain weight

2013-04-11 05:00:00

Researchers have found an association between stricter school meal standards and the weight of students, especially those from low-income families. States that require more nutritious school lunches than the federal government mandated were compared...

Facebook gets more in your face

2013-04-04 17:02:00

It's hard not to detect a whiff of desperation in Facebook's new please-don't-go interface, which is determined to keep people within the social network as long as it can. Facebook Home is intended to dominate Android smartphones, making Facebook your...

Sally Smith of Petoskey (left), representing the Bay View Woman's Council, presents a $1,000 check to Petoskey High School senior Zoey Reager, daughter of Nicole Belmonte and Wyndham Reager of Petoskey.

2013-05-17 06:52:00

Rosenberg, who attended but did not graduate from New York University, founded a wholesale wine and spirits business in 1941. Hartley & Parker remains a family business based in Connecticut.

2013-05-11 17:30:26

Corbin J. Morris has joined the Chicago office of Quarles & Brady LLP as an associate in the Tax-Exempt Organizations and Corporate Services Practice Groups. Morris has a B.A. in linguistics and LL.M. in taxation from New York University and a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

2013-05-10 00:00:00