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En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 10:30:54 AM EST
The Sartorialist: The picture of style -- latimes.com
... Schuman's 4-year-old photo blog, the Sartorialist (thesartorialist.blogspot.com), has become a daily habit for thousands of devotees, making it consistently rank among the 50 most popular blogs in the world. By artfully spotlighting men and women who dress themselves with uncommon panache, the blog offers its passionate followers a quick hit of style as regular as the sunrise.

"The Sartorialist is the first thing on the Web to set up meaningful competition to the fashion magazines," said Peter Jones, a New York-based fine art photographer, dealer and collector.

Schuman greeted fans in Los Angeles in October at signings of his recently published book, "The Sartorialist," a collection of more than 500 pictures of the creative, stunning, amusing, sublime and occasionally ridiculously stylish people who have appeared on his blog. Ernest Duarte, a 51-year-old design engineer from Orange County who purchased the $175 hardcover limited-edition and stood in line to meet Schuman at Barneys in Beverly Hills, summed up the revolutionary element of the photographer's work: "The pictures aren't just about what's expensive. They celebrate what the individual brings to their look."


En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 11:13:01 AM EST
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Dear Lucy: My boss has cuckolded me. Should I resign? (FT.com, November 4, 2009)
My wife, who works at the same company as me, has for some months been conducting an illicit affair with our chief executive. She has decided to leave me and to resign her position in order to move in with him.


En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 12:36:43 PM EST
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Mark Palios, chief executive of the Football Association, and Sven-Göran Eriksson, the England manager, had affairs with Faria Alam, secretary to the executive director. Mr Palios resigned. Ms Alam lost an unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination claim


"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 03:29:20 AM EST
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Aviva boss defended over affair

The chairman of Aviva has said an affair between the insurance group's chief executive and a married colleague did not breach company rules.

Aviva released a statement after a relationship between Andrew Moss and human affairs director Deirdre Moffatt was revealed by the Times newspaper.

Mr Moss and Ms Moffatt, now known as Deirdre Galvin, are now separated from their spouses and living together.

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Like many large firms, Aviva has a company policy forbidding long-term relationships between members of staff where one reports directly to the other.

According to the Times, Mr Moss and Ms Galvin began the affair several months ago, when Ms Galvin, who is married to Aviva's European HR director, was seconded to Mr Moss's office on a company project. At the time, she reported directly to him daily.



In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 04:58:38 AM EST
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I guess they are technically right. The relationship was a fling so it was not "long-time" and then she quit her job...

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 05:24:03 AM EST
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Wash Times Editor: I Was Forced To Attend A Moon Church Mass Wedding  TPM  (H/T Brad DeLong)


Washington Times editorial page editor Richard Miniter is filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the paper today, alleging discrimination based on age, disability, and religion -- being forced to attend a Unification Church mass wedding -- and he will ask the government to enjoin the Times' assets, his lawyer tells TPM. The development adds to an already daunting mess of problems at the newspaper, whose top executives were fired last week, and whose executive editor resigned.

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A former Wall Street Journal editorial page writer and author of multiple books, Miniter was hired as editorial page editor and vice president of opinion at the Times in March. The article announcing his hire described it as "the latest of a series of dramatic moves to boost the newspaper's global impact."

Besides the mass wedding charge, Klayman alleges Miniter and other employees who were over 40 were victims of age discrimination. Finally, he claims Miniter was forced to work when he was having severe heart problems. During a health scare earlier this year, Miniter was brought out of the newsroom on a stretcher, newsroom sources say.

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All of these allegations will be included in the EEOC complaint, Klayman says. He adds that there is a dispute over Miniter's employment status at the paper, and the paper is improperly continuing to use his name on its masthead.


I know things must have looked bad with "Rupert the Pirate" taking over the WSJ, but sometimes, when it looks like things can't get any worse, THEY DO! Talk about going from the frying pan to the fire.  Miniter must have felt as though he had stumbled into the plot of one of those '60s Startrek episodes in which a character or characters gets transported to the court of some cosmic tinpot despot, just before the transporter goes on the fritz. Well, at least he volunteered for the mission.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 10:25:58 PM EST
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The comment thread at TPM is hilarious.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 10:31:10 PM EST
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