08/25/2008
Classical Music (The New Yorker)
LIKE FAMILY Is Leonard Bernstein really gone? No other musician left his artistic and personal imprint on America the way Lenny did, but he belongs to New York first and foremost. He would have been ninety this year, and Carnegie Hall is celebrating, big time. The festivities kick off with . . .
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08/25/2008
LITTLE FEAT & FRIENDS: JOIN THE BAND in Stores Tomorrow! (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Forty years into an iconic career that has produced dozens of timeless rock classics and generations of admiring musical peers, Little Feat is set to revisit the pop charts with the release tomorrow of LITTLE FEAT AND FRIENDS: JOIN THE BAND. Executive-produced by Jimmy Buffett, JOIN THE BAND finds the original members of Little Feat re-recording their classic songs such as "Fat Man in the ...
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08/22/2008
When Workers Don't Do The Right Thing (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
You're eating lunch at a restaurant when you overhear two colleagues loudly discussing privileged, confidential information about a client. In response to this action, do you: a) do nothing, b) confront them and explain why it's wrong to publicly disclose it, or c) notify HR?
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08/22/2008
When Workers Don't Do The Right Thing (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance)
You're eating lunch at a restaurant when you overhear two colleagues loudly discussing privileged, confidential information about a client. In...
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08/23/2008
Stanford Business magazine (Stanford GSB)
Alumnus Douglas Brown describes his experience cleaning up a state agency after a few bad apples spoiled the barrel. Research by Ernesto Dal Bo shows corruption sidetracks workers from jobs that could help a coun try's economy grow.
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08/16/2008
Create a strong ethical culture by setting a tone at the top (Express India)
Even though reported instances of most frauds have showed a considerable drop, one cannot say that economic crime in India has reduced or that companies have been successful at combating fraud.
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08/19/2008
The end of the goys (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
There is a once-again-popular practice among some Christians of celebrating Passover. I wrote about this two years, and in discussing a Christian Seder, I included this paragraph :
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08/12/2008
You Don't Know Me (All About Jazz)
When George Cables sat at a bright red Steinway at the Society for Ethical Culture during the 2008 JVC Jazz Festival this past June and played his first notes of the evening, it was immediately clear that his recent illnesses, surgeries and convalescence had not blunted his enviable skills.
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08/15/2008
Selectmen laud ethics package (The Brookfield Journal)
The Board of Selectmen praised an ad-hoc committee that assembled an ethics reform package that was unanimously approved this week with provisions that will require greater financial disclosure and defines the cost of gifts that can be accepted by municipal volunteers and employees.
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08/08/2008
Jill Newman Productions Presents Eight Concerts in August/September (All About Jazz)
NEW YORK - Following two successful concerts at New York's JVC Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall and the New York Society for Ethical Culture, Jill Newman Productions presents a diverse line-up of exciting music at the Kennedy Center, Highline Ballroom, The Blue Note and Hammerstein Ballroom.
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