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Here are our thoughts on this season’s inadvertent (and possibly advertent) snubs, delightful (or mystifying) surprises and other notable anomalies. A melancholy morning for ‘Vanya.’Television stars are considered good box office but not always good Tony bait. This year’s crop, including Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Strong, Steve Carell and William Jackson Harper, complicates that wisdom. Spreading all that love helped take the show to Number One with a Bullet — the most nominated play in Broadway history. On the other hand, the superb ensemble casts of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” and “Illinoise” were skunked.

Persons: “, ‘ Vanya, ’, Tony, Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Strong, Steve Carell, William Jackson Harper, Paulson, Carell, Harper, Uncle Vanya, ”, Chekhov, David Adjmi’s, Tom Pecinka, Sarah Pidgeon, Juliana Canfield, Will Brill, Eli Gelb, Illinoise Organizations: Broadway, Lincoln Center Theater

☆ College tour season is about to kick off. Here are 10 tips from college tour guides to have a successful campus visit.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-20 | by ( Pamela Brill | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

To make the most of your visit, Business Insider spoke with college students and tour guides. Here are the dos and don'ts of college tours from student guides. Related storiesStudents can comfortably ask questions without a parent present and compare notes afterward. But some topics are off-limits, so don't ask your tour guide about their SAT scores, ACT scores, or what they wrote about in their essay. Your tour may be over, but you can still learn other ways to immerse yourself in college life.

Persons: —, Skyler Kawecki, Emily Bone, Henry Millar, College of William & Mary, Nathan Weisbrod, Halle, Julian Jacklin, Lorenzo Mars, Thomas Elias, it's, Connor Gee, Emily Balda Organizations: Service, Business, Sarah Lawrence College, Fairleigh Dickinson, Fairleigh Dickinson University, College of William &, Wesleyan University, Bucknell University, Reed College, Pepperdine University, University of Scranton, University of Mississippi, Seton Hall University Locations: New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut, Oregon, California, Pennsylvania

☆ Tackling the tax gap: IRS cracks down on wealthy
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailTackling the tax gap: IRS cracks down on wealthyNatasha Sarin, Yale Law School and Yale School of Management professor and former Treasury Department official, and Alex Brill, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow and former House Ways and Means Committee policy director and chief economist, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss the IRS' plans for 'dozens of new audits' of corporate jet usage as part of its increased scrutiny of large corporations, complex partnerships and top earners, the best ways to tackle the tax gap, and more.

Persons: Natasha, Alex Brill Organizations: Yale Law School, Yale School of Management, Treasury Department, American Enterprise Institute senior

Mary Weiss, the lead singer of the 1960s pop group the Shangri-Las, whose hits included “Leader of the Pack,” has died. Miriam Linna, founder of Weiss' label, Norton Records, said Sunday that Weiss died Friday in Palm Springs, California. The Shangri-Las, formed in the New York City borough of Queens, were made up of two pairs of sisters: Weiss and her sister Elizabeth “Betty” Weiss, along with twins Marguerite “Marge” Ganser and Mary Ann Ganser. She made her solo debut with the 2007 album “Dangerous Game.”“I didn't even sing along the car radio,” Weiss told Rolling Stone in 2007 about her post-Shangri-Las years. People can take advantage of you in your youth,” Weiss told New York magazine.

Persons: Mary Weiss, ”, Miriam Linna, Weiss, Stone, Elizabeth “ Betty ” Weiss, Marguerite “ Marge ” Ganser, Mary Ann Ganser, Artie Ripp, Aerosmith, George “ Shadow ” Morton, Morton, ” Weiss, Rolling Stone Organizations: “, Norton Records, New, Sutra, Billboard, Red Bird Records, Brill, didn't, Roll Hall of Fame, New York Locations: Palm Springs , California, New York City, Queens, San Francisco

☆ Investors can get a 5% yield with this corporate bond fund
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

There's income to be found these days in corporate bonds, and the Invesco Corporate Bond fund is one place to look. The actively managed fund invests mostly in U.S. corporate bonds, a majority of which are investment grade. That's because the fund also has a small portion of high-yield corporate debt holdings. Some 74% of the holdings are in U.S. corporate bonds, as of June 30. For example, Netflix and Occidental Petroleum had high-yield bonds that were upgraded this year, he said.

Persons: Matt Brill, Brill, ACCBX, He's, Morningstar, Thomas Murphy Organizations: SEC, North, ING Investment Management, Netflix, Occidental Petroleum Locations: North America, U.S

☆ Opinion | Should Trump’s Jan. 6 Trial Be Televised?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Let the World See the Jan. 6 Trial,” by Steven Brill (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 7):If you put a live camera in the courtroom with Donald Trump, you will give him exactly what he wants. The trial will very quickly spin out of control, and that is exactly what Mr. Trump wants. You will never convince Mr. Trump’s die-hards that he got a fair trial. Conduct a normal untelevised trial and prepare for violence if Mr. Trump is convicted. The pending trial of Donald Trump on charges related to the 2020 election will be, far and away, the most important court proceeding of our lifetimes.

Persons: Steven Brill, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump’s, Bruce Higgins Organizations: Bruce Higgins San Diego

☆ Steve Brill: The Trump Trials Should Be Televised - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Steven Brill | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The only issue that Americans on all sides of our vast political divide seem to agree on is that we cannot agree on anything. Even basic facts have become matters of opinion. But polls indicate that about one-fifth of all Americans believe the microchip conspiracy theory to be true or are unsure whether it is true. It is a fact that Hunter Biden’s laptop was real, not part of a Russian disinformation campaign. In the work I do looking at the reliability of online news and information, I can see that the erosion of trust in basic facts is largely the result of too many people getting their news from social media platforms.

Persons: Bill Gates, Hunter Organizations: New York Times

[1/2] The "1200 building" at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the crime scene where the 2018 shootings took place, is seen in Parkland, Florida, U.S. August 4, 2022. Scot Peterson, the school resource officer on duty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, 2018, was armed but never went inside the building as the shooting unfolded, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office and surveillance video. Friday's re-enactment is part of a civil case against Peterson in which victims' families and survivors are seeking unspecified damages. In June, Peterson was acquitted by a Florida jury of criminal charges of child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury connected the shooting. It has remained largely unaltered since the 2018 shooting, with bloodstains and bullet holes still visible.

Persons: Marjory Stoneman, Amy Beth Bennett, Scot Peterson, Peterson, Friday's, Michael Piper, Piper, David Brill, Carol, Lisa Phillips, Phillips, Nikolas Cruz, Julia Harte, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Broward County Sheriff's Office, Broward, Broward County Public, Thomson Locations: Parkland , Florida, U.S, Florida, Broward County, Broward

☆ ‘Uncle Vanya’ Review: Confidences by Candlelight
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Laura Collins-Hughes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Leaning close in the flickering candlelight, Sonya and the man who makes her stomach flutter share a sneaky midnight snack. He is Astrov, her houseguest, and he is frankly a bit of a mess — drinks too much, is in fact drunk at the moment. He is also endearingly odd and smart and sweet, an eco-nerd physician who’s sending her some incredibly mixed signals. So is Sonya’s Uncle Vanya, whose play this is meant to be. Doomed to receive nothing better from Yelena, the professor’s wife, than a pathetic kiss on the forehead, Vanya doesn’t even have a woman to love him.

Persons: Sonya, We’re, ”, sotto, Laura, Uncle Vanya, Chekhov, Jack Serio, “, ” Sonya, Astrov, Will Brill, Maisel, Yelena, Bill Irwin, Vanya doesn’t Organizations: Marin Locations: Flatiron, Manhattan, Marin Ireland, Oklahoma

☆ SIGN UP NOW — For a Better Future: Bridging Culture, Business, and Climate
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Business Insider | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Today's business leaders are embracing circularity to better engage in sustainability and climate action. Leaders in climate justice advocacy, business, and fashion will discuss the future of sustainable practices inside and outside the business world. On April 18, 2023, Insider is hosting "For a Better Future: Bridging Culture, Business, and Climate," a free virtual event at noon ET featuring speakers from Deloitte and Junk Kouture. Insider's virtual event, "For a Better Future: Bridging Culture, Business, and Climate," presented by Deloitte, takes place on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at noon ET. This multi-session virtual conference will focus on how empowerment and circularity inspire climate action beyond the world of business.

☆ Boomers Greed Ruined Economy for Gen Z, Millennials
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Alex Yablon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

The boomers' economy is brittle, stingy, and built on undersupply. While inflation may be cooling a bit, future prosperity for millennials, Gen Zers, and beyond depends on reversing this economywide bottleneck created by boomers. Boomers shrank the labor force they need nowThe baby boomers ensured the labor market of the generations after them would be inadequate in a few major ways. The boomer ethos on housing, which views homes not as places to live but as financial assets, is mirrored in the rest of the economy boomers made. They make loans, investment, and housing more expensive — putting the economy on a diet instead of growing the pie.

☆ Biden billionaire tax policy is not desirable for U.S. economy, says Alex Brill
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBiden billionaire tax policy is not desirable for U.S. economy, says Alex BrillStephanie Kelton, Stony Brook University professor of economics & policy, and Alex Brill, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss how it's possible to create a wealth tax, how to avoid double taxation and more.

☆ U.S. composer Burt Bacharach dies at age 94
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Bill Trott | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Bacharach and David had 30 Top-40 hits in the '60s alone. I'd hear his melodies and I'd hear lyrics. I'd hear rhymes, I'd hear thoughts and I'd hear it almost immediately." Bacharach and David scored the Neil Simon Broadway musical "Promises, Promises," which won them two Tonys and a Grammy. While star performers made his songs hits, Bacharach said he also enjoyed performing himself and making a personal connection with smaller audiences.

☆ Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Bacharach was both an innovator and throwback, and his career seemed to run parallel to the rock era. He was an eight-time Grammy winner, a prize-winning Broadway composer for "Promises, Promises" and a three-time Oscar winner. Fellow songwriter Sammy Cahn liked to joke that the smiling, wavy-haired Bacharach was the first composer he ever knew who didn't look like a dentist. Bacharach was essentially a pop composer, but his songs became hits for country artists (Marty Robbins), rhythm and blues performers (Chuck Jackson), soul (Franklin, Luther Vandross) and synth-pop (Naked Eyes). He's everybody's composer ... Burt Bacharach!"

The phased rollout of its “EU data boundary” will apply to all of its core cloud services – Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power BI platform. Big businesses have become increasingly anxious about the international flow of customer data since the EU introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, which protects user privacy. "The first phase will be customer data. And then as we move into the next phases, we will be moving logging data, service data and other kind of data into the boundary," she said. Microsoft has previously said it would challenge government requests for customer data, and that it would financially compensate any customer whose data it shared in breach of GDPR.

☆ Ex-'socialite heiressblogger' Emily Brill is back — and she's terrorizing the pet industry
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Emily Brill might be the most hated woman in the pet industry. Now, Brill — the preppy blond daughter of the media magnate Steven Brill — is reinventing herself as the founder of the dog-centric publication The Canine Review. Courtesy of Emily Brill Show less One reader even threatened to cancel their subscription because of the so-called bird-massacre photo shoot. Courtesy of Emily Brill Show less Brill says the photos reassure readers that "I'm not a stereotypical sort of Manhattan, head-up-my-ass, agenda, PETA person." It isn't a bad start, but "she's got a long way to go to make it really thrive," Steven Brill told Insider.

☆ In major setback for Trump, appeals court ends special master's review of seized Mar-a-Lago records
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Zoë Richards | Daniel Barnes | Zoë Richards Is The Evening Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A federal appeals court Thursday ruled that a judge’s order appointing a special master to review documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort should be dismissed. "Accordingly, we agree with the government that the district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction, and that dismissal of the entire proceeding is required." In a separate order, the panel said its order will take effect in seven days, barring any intervention by the Supreme Court. Trump could appeal Thursday's ruling and request that the appeals court order be put on hold. Two of the three judges on the appeals court panel -- Britt Grant and Andrew Brasher -- were appointed by Trump.

This time round, Charles III hosted the first state visit of his reign and welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the UK. The South African state visit was Charles’s first big diplomatic test. But this week, the prominence of the Prince and Princess of Wales during the state visit indicated that the couple have been elevated into crucial central roles. PHOTOS OF THE WEEKHere’s a few of our favorite shots from the first state visit King Charles hosted as monarch. Stefan Rousseau/WPA Pool/Getty ImagesThe state visit also allowed UK PM Rishi Sunak the opportunity to welcome Ramaphosa to 10 Downing Street for a bilateral meeting.

☆ TikTok’s search engine repeatedly delivers misinformation to its majority-young user base, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Emma Tucker | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

TikTok, whose users are predominantly teenagers and young adults, “repeatedly delivered videos containing false claims in the first 20 results, often within the first five,” the report states. “Google, by comparison, provided higher-quality and less-polarizing results, with far less misinformation.”A Google spokesperson declined to comment on the report when contacted by CNN. For example, a search for the question “Was the 2020 election stolen?” yielded six videos that contained false claims in the first 20 results, NewsGuard found. In response to the NewsGuard report, a TikTok spokesperson told CNN that its community guidelines “make clear that we do not allow harmful misinformation, including medical misinformation, and we will remove it from the platform. If I had kids of TikTok age, I would certainly want to know what they’re using as a search engine,” Brill said.

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