Portuguese Prime Minister Socrates quits

Portuguese Prime Minister Socrates quits
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates kept his word and resigned after parliament rejected an austerity plan aimed at reducing the country’s debt, according to media reports late Wednesday. Portugal reportedly faces about 4.23 billion euros, about $ 6 billion, in debt payments next month with only about 4 billion euros in cash reserves on hand. Socrates said he …
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Conducting Crowds to the Beat of His Grandparents
Michael Tilson Thomas’s grandmom had trunks in her basement. A lot of our grandmothers had stuff stacked away. But our grandmoms were not Bessie Thomashefsky. “When I used to go visit my grandmother at her apartment in Hollywood, she had trunks in her basement and that was a special treat,” said Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony and artistic director of Miami Beach’s …
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