Mr. Whitman, the American-born owner of Shakespeare & Company in Paris, believed that “the book business is the business of life.”

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George Whitman, Paris Bookseller and Cultural Beacon, Is Dead at 98

D.C. Council member Marion Barry is driving legislation to give ex-offenders legal safeguards against employment discrimination, a proposal that unnerves some in the business community and several activists covered by similar protections. Hoping to jump-start a proposal that has floated for a decade, Barry (D-Ward has been reaching out to council colleagues to gauge interest in adding people charged with a crime to the city’s Human Rights Act. Read full article > >

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Marion Barry seeks anti-bias protection for those with ‘past arrests and convictions’

How can I be an artist at heart, someone who celebrates the human form, and be in the business of changing it? I thought for a long time that a plastic surgeon’s job was to make you look better. A plastic surgeon’s job is to make you feel better. The only way I can make you feel better is by making you look like you think you look. My first year at Georgetown , an NIH psychologist presented a study on plastic [surgery]. She found that people with the most confidence are those whose body image, what they see in the mirror, is very close to their self-image — what they see when they close their eyes at night. If I can achieve an approximation of these two things, then I’m going to make you feel better, and making you look better is secondary. Women want to control their own destiny — that’s all. The last thing they want is another man telling them how to look. Read full article > >

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First Person Singular: Ayman Hakki, 58, plastic surgeon, CEO, Luxxery

“It’s just like planning a dinner,” Adm. Grace Hopper, a computer science pioneer, explained to “Cosmopolitan” readers in a 1967 story. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ready when you need it.” Pot roast or computer programming — both, Cosmo told its readers, could be women’s work. I first came across a mention of that article earlier this summer, when I was working in recruiting at a software company. I had just spent the past year trying to get more undergraduate women to apply for our summer internship program. I kept seeing reports that the number of women majoring in computer science was growing. It was about 25 percent at certain elite institutions, such as Harvard, MIT and Carnegie Mellon. (Little to no increase has been observed at other universities.) That seemed like good news for people in my field — the business of getting a diverse and talented group of people to design software. But it wasn’t exactly a triumphant rise. It’s just a slow climb back to where things used to be. Read full article > >

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When computer programming was ‘women’s work’

As far as explosive developments in the world of technology go, Google’s $12.5 billion deal for Motorola’s Mobility business is tantamount to detonating a nuclear bomb . . . a big one. Ownership of that company will hand Google substantial businesses that it has previously flirted with but never committed to. Notably, the business of producing and selling its own hardware for smartphones and tablets, and the not-insignificant side business of manufacturing and designing TV set-top boxes used by cable providers. Read full article > >

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Google plan to buy Motorola Mobility an explosive development in tech world

You don’t have to condone athletes’ steroid use to suggest that preventing is the business of the leagues, not the government.

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Barry Bonds probably lied about steroids, but is proving that worth federal dollars?

Some would-be designers are trying to break into the business before they are even in high school.

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The Kiddie Couturiers

Thom Hartmann reports on the business lobbyists who are demanding that Rep. Darrell Issa

The outgoing boss of the business body CBI accuses the coalition of failing to explain its vision for economic growth in the UK.

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CBI boss: Coalition lacks vision

Courting the business community, President Obama issued an order aiming to reduce regulatory burdens.

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The Caucus: Obama Orders Review of Business Regulations

William Daley, a member of an influential political family, has been a fixture in Washington politics and in the business community.

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How will new staff chief alter WH?

The chancellor and the business secretary will meet the heads of the biggest UK banks later in a bid to restrain them from paying big bonuses.

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Ministers set to meet bank chiefs

Chocolate firm Cadbury’s new owner Kraft Foods says it will move part of the business to Zurich in a move likely to cut its UK tax bill.

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Key Cadbury jobs moved to Zurich

Travel guide and listings magazine publisher Time Out is selling a 50% stake in the business to help fund its digital expansion.

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Time Out company sells 50% stake

What the business community needs is a simple tax code from Congress.

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Strangling innovation and job creation with red tape