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article start Curtis James Jackson III, the rapper better known as 50 Cent, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. In court papers filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Hartford, Conn., Mr. Jackson reported assets and debts each in the range of $10 million to $50 million. The attorney listed on the bankruptcy petition…
However this story ends (and we have no idea what the next few hours will bring), Sunday 12 July will go down as a landmark moment in European history — alongside Rome in 1957, Maastricht in 1992 and Cannes in 2011. For the first time, the leaders of the 19-member euro area officially discussed plans for the…
The absence of a deal would, in our view, begin the path to Grexit. In that case, the press conference will probably be dominated by the ECB’s role in handling the situation. On the ECB’s specific role in a Grexit scenario, Mr Draghi said this week that if no deal is struck this weekend, the…
©EPA Greece on Monday caved in to an ultimatum from Germany and its other creditors and agreed to rush through long-resisted economic reforms in just three days in a desperate bid to secure a €82bn-€86bn rescue and stay in the eurozone. Worn down by a 17-hour eurozone leaders’ summit that capped a weekend of talks, Greek premier…
Interim CEO Ellen Pao is out at Reddit, and while the departure has reportedly been characterized as amicable, the weeks leading up to this moment have been anything but that. Pao has been the subject of vitriol from an angry coalition of Reddit users who have relentlessly mocked and denigrated her, often using sexist, viscious…
article start Reddit, one of the most highly trafficked websites in the world, is replacing its interim chief executive, Ellen Pao, ending an eight-month tenure that was enmeshed in controversy. Ms. Pao is resigning and being replaced by co-founder and former chief, Steve Huffman, the company said. He will rejoin Reddit’s other co-founder, Alexis Ohanian,…
GQ.com’s redesigned home page AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 GQ.com is getting a new look this year, and that includes making sure the site’s ads are ones people will look at. Ahead of a larger redesign that will debut in the fall, GQ is rolling out some tweaks to its site, including a revamped…
Photo: photo illustration. Photo: PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/Getty Images Like, have you ever noticed that women apologize too much? Sorry, but just humor me for a second here. What if, um, how we’re speaking is actually part of what’s undermining us in the workplace, in politics, and anywhere in the public sphere where we want to be…
In this Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Gan Golan of Los Angeles, dressed as the “Master of Degrees,” holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt during Occupy DC activities in (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Getting an advanced degree doesn’t come cheap, which is why graduate students carry nearly half of all student debt. But it turns out that a…
When the story of the Teens is set down in stone, the section on how people lived will include plenty of shudder-worthy chapter headings: crop-tops, selfie sticks, sharing plates small and large. But the portion on housing in the 2010s will have just two factors: stacked and elevated. The “Jengaform” look of recovery-era multifamily architecture…