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Forget the old boy’s club. Groups like the Brazen Hussies, Power Bitches and SLUTS -- aka Successful Ladies Under Tremendous Stress -- are where today’s hot deals are being brokered and they’re strictly girls-only.
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While filming “The African Queen” in Uganda and what was then called the Belgian Congo, Katharine Hepburn battled soldier ants, got chased by elephants and handled Humphrey Bogart’s toupee.
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Guy G. Rutherfurd, former managing partner of one of New York City’s oldest law firms whose lineage included a colonial governor of New York, a U.S. vice president and the mistress of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has died. He was 96.
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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP advised Verizon Communications Inc., which said it will buy Hughes Telematics Inc. for $612 million in cash, vaulting the telephone company deeper into the automotive-technology market.
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Floyd Patterson was a champion truant, a youthful burglar, a juvenile delinquent’s juvenile delinquent.
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For Denis Oleinikov, the breaking point came last September when policemen trashed his company’s offices in Kiev.
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Sargent Shriver , who married into the Kennedy family and became the founding director of the Peace Corps, the unexpected 1972 Democratic nominee for vice president and a lifelong champion of humanitarian causes, died yesterday. He was 95.
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Laura Dupuy Lasserre was six years old when her father, a union representative, was arrested and tortured by a government intent on suppressing opponents demanding democracy and rights. He was held for four years.
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For my money, Katharine Hepburn was America’s finest actress. But America’s finest clothes horse?
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President Barack Obama eulogized civil rights activist Dorothy Height as a woman whose life’s work helped “change the country for the better.”
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