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How the Dallas Mavericks CEO Took on Toxic Culture
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Cynthia “Cynt” Marshall was hired by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to take over as its CEO in 2018, becoming the first Black woman to ever head up an NBA team. In her new book You’ve Been Chosen she details the unlikely things for which she has been chosen, from a difficult and abusive childhood to a full scholarship at University of California, Berkeley, to an executive suite at AT&T.
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How to make the big Jamo cocktail
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How to Talk to Your Teen Son About Consent, and Drunk Sex, and Assault
Talking with a good friend the other day about all the recent attention regarding sexual assault on college campuses—much of itbravely brought to light by coeds who have come forward to tell their stories—we quickly got around to an angle that cuts close to home: What would we tell our teenage sons, who themselves will go off to school in the next few years?
At one point, my friend held up her iPhone and, half in jest, clicked the video button.
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James Norton, Omari Douglas Lead A Little Life West End Adaptation
A new stage adaptation of “A Little Life,” one of the most heartrending stories of modern literature, is finally coming to the West End, with starring roles for James Norton and “It’s a Sin” star Omari Douglas.
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Lagos Govt converts general hospital to eye centre to enhance Nigerian eye care
Abayomi said this during the 4th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Africa Retina Society on Thursday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event was themed, “Upscaling Retinal Services in a Resource-Constrained Economy.” Abayomi said the centre would provide world-class diagnostic, medical, surgical and ophthalmic services in Lagos and Nigeria. He stressed that the state would prioritise eye health, noting that the state was working on developing screening capacity of all its primary healthcare facilities to detect eye diseases early.
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Little Women Review: A New Generation Gets Their Adaptation
If you’re looking for something to collect—and you have a lot of room on your bookshelves—consider vintage editions of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women that have been inscribed as gifts, from mothers to daughters, from aunts to nieces—but also, sometimes to little men. I have a 1949 edition addressed, on the title page, “To lovely Gail, from one who loves her. Nenie.” And although I don’t own it, I have also seen one inscribed simply, in a neat but sloping hand, “Gordon from mother, Christmas 1916”—a remembrance from an era when the word love wasn’t used within families as freely as it is today, but often flowed nonetheless.
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Meredith Vieira, 2015 Commencement Speech: Boston University
Meredith Vieira is a journalist and TV host. Meredith Vieira gave this commencement speech at Boston University + READ ARTICLE [video id=ILvXQw25 ] Members of the Class of 2015, parents, President Brown, trustees, honored guests, faculty, friends…
I find it so fitting that Boston University started out as a school of theology because today parents are saying, “Thank you God. We thought this day might never come.” After years of hard work and sacrifice, they sit here behind you clutching their tissues while beaming with pride.
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Milestones, Feb. 3, 1975 | TIME
Married. Zsa Zsa Gabor, 55, sometime actress and talk-show queen; and Jack Ryan, 48, Los Angeles millionaire who, as head of Mattel Inc.’s research division, supervised the development of the Barbie doll. The couple were wed in a civil ceremony at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas; he for the second time, she for the sixth. Said the white-gowned Mrs. Ryan: “If this doesn’t work, I shoot myself.” Died. Kay Summersby Morgan, 66, General Dwight Eisenhower’s secretary, chauffeur and confidante during World War II; of cancer; in Southampton, N.
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Musicians Born on August 25
August 25 Calendar 1758 Franz Teyber, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1810) 1880 Robert E. Stolz, Austrian composer and conductor, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1975) 1887 (Olav) Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer, pianist, polyglot, and rosarian, born in Stavanger, Norway (d. 1952) 1891 Alberto Savinio [Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico], Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), born in Athens, Greece (d. 1952) 1891 Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, Basque priest, organist and religious music composer, born in Yurre, Viscaya, Spain (d.
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