Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs “willfully violated” federal law by holding weekly “huddles” through which there was at least the potential for the firm’s analysts to offer Goldman’s own traders and favored clients a preview of the firm’s investment research, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday. Read full article > >

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Goldman fined $22M for ‘willfully’ violating law on information-sharing, SEC says

It was heavy. That went for both the rumble and the message that came from the Verizon Center stage Sunday night when Bruce Springsteen delivered three hours of rock-and-roll in his signature blend of romantic, redemptive and reflective. Springsteen and his supersized E Street Band know how to preside over a party, and although Sunday’s show had its share of arms-around-your-buddy, beers-in-the-air moments, the bad times were clearly more on the Boss’s mind than the good ones. Read full article > >

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Bruce Springsteen brings darkness and depth to the party at Verizon Center

The BBC’s Stephanie McGovern takes a tour of Google’s Tech Campus in Old Street, London.

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VIDEO: A tour of Google Campus in London

Outnumbered by the hawkish and better-known American Israel Public Affairs Committee, some 700 members of J Street reminded their Congress members that the Jewish vote is not monolithic.

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J Street, Pro-Israel but Against Iran Strike, Takes Its Message to Washington

There are two pockets of freelance movers at the 90th and 103rd Street subway stops on Roosevelt Avenue, and they don’t mix.

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In Jackson Heights, Movers Defend Their Turf

Is the V-bomb the new F-bomb? And if so, can we declare a moratorium? In the new comedy “ 21 Jump Street ,” opening Friday, leading men Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill deliver four jokes featuring the word “vagina.” But they’re running a close second to Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott and their co-stars in “ Friends With Kids ,” an uneven, fitfully funny romantic comedy in which the word is uttered no fewer than five times, a fusillade that grows more grating with every gynecologically themed zinger. By the time Scott’s character invokes Kegel exercises, a simple, clinically precise word has migrated from taboo to refreshing frankness to cliche to pseudo-enlightened insult. Read full article > >

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Is the V-bomb the new F-bomb? Can we limit jokes naming female anatomy?

I t’s “the restaurant in the old Anita’s building” to those who have lived in Vienna a long time, while to the rest of us it’s just the tiny, terrific Maple Ave Restaurant . The nine-table place, painted a chocolate brown and plunked precariously near the street between a car wash and an auto repair shop, reminds me of a magician’s hat: rather unassuming, until the illusionist yanks out some startlingly big surprise. Read full article > >

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Dining review: Maple Ave Restaurant in Vienna

I t’s “the restaurant in the old Anita’s building” to those who have lived in Vienna a long time, while to the rest of us it’s just the tiny, terrific Maple Ave Restaurant . The nine-table place, painted a chocolate brown and plunked precariously near the street between a car wash and an auto repair shop, reminds me of a magician’s hat: rather unassuming, until the illusionist yanks out some startlingly big surprise. Read full article > >

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Dining review: Maple Ave Restaurant in Vienna

Residents of 69th Street near Lexington Avenue are mobilizing against a plan to add subway entrances there, saying their blocks are just too pretty for such a thing.

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Upper East Side Residents Protest Proposed Subway Entrances

Residents of 69th Street near Lexington Avenue are mobilizing against a plan to add subway entrances there, saying their blocks are just too pretty for such a thing.

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Upper East Side Residents Protest Proposed Subway Entrances

The killing of Ramarley Graham, 18, by an officer from a Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit has raised troubling questions about training and tactics.

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Prosecutors, lacking hard proof, dismissed charges against 14 Occupy Wall Street protesters who were charged in a Brooklyn Bridge demonstration in October.

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Occupy Wall Street Protesters March Away With Their Freedom

In recent years, many top universities have tried to guide their students into careers other than finance. In 2008, Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard University, went so far as to give a speech to graduating seniors asking them to stand fast against Wall Street’s “all but irresistible recruiting juggernaut.” Tufts University is paying the student loans of graduates who go into public service. Read full article > >

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Wall Street steps in when Ivy League fails

Even as the economy turns up, the public’s view of Wall Street has continued to sour. Among the country’s most prominent corporations, big banks’ reputations have fallen the fastest over the past year, according to an annual survey by Harris Interactive that tracks consumer perceptions. Read full article > >

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Wall Street’s less reputable, auto giants more so

In a Wall Street universe full of marquee stocks, lesser known entities are the stars of the rally so far this year.

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Small-Cap Stocks Take Center Stage