Sodexo: Solid results for Fiscal 2014
· *Financial objectives for the year achieved:*· Organic growth in revenues of +2.3%· Operating income up by +10.7% excluding currency effects and exceptional costs; operating margin improving 0.5% to...
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Stealing from the Best
The outpouring of responses I received for my piece about Gene and the upcoming stage production of An American in Paris prompted me to think about creativity and influences and the question -- from...
View ArticleBooks of the Year: NS friends and contributors choose their favourite reading...
Including: Hilary Mantel, Rowan Williams, Grayson Perry, Alan Johnson, A S Byatt, Geoff Dyer, Alex Salmond, Kate Fox, William Boyd and Dave Eggers. ** ** Signs and wonders: Paul Nash's Landscape of...
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The Top 100 Albums Of Clash's Lifetime: 90-81
Another 10 greats from our 100-issue history… Clash is counting down its top albums of the last 10 years, to mark both the magazine’s 10^th anniversary and its 100^th issue, coming soon. *For numbers...
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Countdown To Missed Opportunity For EU Economy
By Paul Taylor PARIS (Reuters) - The countdown has begun to what threatens to be a missed opportunity to revive Europe's stalled economy. When European Union leaders meet on Dec. 18-19 under new...
View ArticleWomen in Business Q&A: Kathy Calvin, President and Chief Executive Officer of...
Kathy Calvin is President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Foundation. Her career has spanned work in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. She is a passionate advocate for...
View ArticleMuseum Selfie-ishness
Recently, at the Museum of Modern Art with my niece, I found something unexpected blocking my favorite Van Gogh: a young woman standing with her back six inches away from the canvas, taking a "selfie."...
View ArticleMessi, Aguero steal the spotlight
*It was a day meant for Argentine footballers as two of the top players from the South American nation powered their respective clubs to victories in the group stage of the UEFAChampions League on...
View ArticleAustralia Government Out Of Step With New Climate Momentum
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who rose to power in large part by opposing a tax on greenhouse gas emissions, is finding his country isolated like never before on...
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Frank Ocean Shares Hint of New Song, Plus Lyrics
Photo by Erez Avissar Frank Ocean has shared a snippet of a new song on his tumblr, with no word yet as to whether it will appear on his forthcoming album. He's also shared some lyrics. Listen to...
View ArticleGloria Allred Suit Pits Floyd Mayweather's First Amendment Rights vs....
Does a legal system that recognizes a right to an abortion in the Constitution's penumbras no longer see free speech protections in the document under bright light? Floyd Mayweather says that he...
View ArticleI was lamenting the loss of my library libido – then I visited the...
Will Self On Location. Illustration by Jackson Rees I usually become sexually aroused in libraries – no, really, I do. Moreover, I’m fairly certain I am not alone, and that plenty of others respond to...
View ArticleLas Vegas and the Global Casino We Call Wall Street
*Anywhere But Here * *Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com* [The following Rebecca Solnit piece is slightly adapted from photographer Michael Light’s new book, Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain, and appears...
View ArticleThe Long Game vs. Today's Global Challenges
This post is adapted from remarks made at Yale University on December 1, 2014. This is not the welcome I get when I walk into the UN Security Council. I should come here more often. It is, it's...
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Top 400 Players of the Young College Basketball Season
Miami joins powers Duke and Kentucky as the only schools with more than two Top 100 players in the early Value Add rankings, which appear here first and then will be updated on the...
View Article10 Unavoidable Trends At Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 (NSFW)
This weekend the art world overload known as Art Basel Miami Beach is in full swing. So far, this year's edition of the international art fair has been quite the crowd pleaser. Gallerist Sean Kelly...
View ArticleMilitary Advanced Education Magazine Releases Annual Guide to Colleges and...
Measures Best Practices in Military and Veteran Education Rockville, Maryland (PRWEB) December 08, 2014 Military Advanced Education’s 2015 Guide to Colleges & Universities is now available in print...
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I've Made About 90 Feature Films, but These Are the Ones I'm Proudest Of
*Editor's note:* For the release of Kirk Douglas' new book, Life Could Be Verse: Reflections on Love, Loss, and What Really Matters, HuffPost Entertainment asked the decorated actor to recall some of...
View ArticleWhy Run A Writers' Conference?
For the last five summers, I've attended the Jackson Hole Writers Conference in Jackson, Wyoming. Besides the beautiful setting, I always enjoy the conference enormously -- it's a great opportunity to...
View Article79 Oscar-Eligible Songs: An Opinionated Guide to an Awesome Year for Movie Music
When it comes to cultural impact, mega-sales and drama, this year’s Best Original Song category at the Academy Awards is going to have an awfully difficult time competing with last year’s category. The...
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