Month: October 2019

SERIES NCIS The team investigates a Marine corporal (guest star Camryn Grimes) who may have killed her neighbor while under a hypnotherapist’s treatment for insomnia. Meanwhile, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) makes a connection with his new neighbors after one of their kids accidentally sends a baseball crashing through his window. Laura San Giacomo, Jack Fisher and […]

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“Give me,” Pablo Neruda beseeched the gods of metaphor in a 1961 poem, “the secret wine kept in each syllable” — the help to conjure images of our oceans receding into myth. Thirty-five years later, Argentine-born American composer Osvaldo Golijov turned “Oceana” into a wine-drunk cantata. On Sunday night, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, conducted […]

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Las Vegas taxicabs will be required to charge flat-rate fares between McCarran International Airport and resorts on the Strip, starting Jan. 1. The fares are calculated by the ride (not the number of passengers) and aren’t subject to surge pricing. The Nevada Taxicab Authority, the agency that regulates taxis in Las Vegas and the surrounding […]

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Ford Motor Co.’s Jim Hackett and Wall Street analysts started this year frustrated with one another. Sure, the automaker had been underperforming, but the chief executive appealed for time to show he was fixing things. He assured them the redesigned Explorer SUV that would be rolling out months later would be a proof point. But […]

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When the economist Uwe Reinhardt died unexpectedly in November 2017, his colleagues and followers lamented the silencing of one of the most penetrating, objective and effective voices in the healthcare debate. They didn’t know the half of it. With the posthumous publication this month of his final work, a book entitled “Priced Out: The Economic […]

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SoftBank Group Corp. is taking control of WeWork, part of a rescue financing plan that will see founder Adam Neumann depart from the company’s board, according to people familiar with the matter. Neumann is expected to sell about $1 billion of stock to the Japanese investment firm as part of the deal, said the people, […]

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