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☆ I was personal assistant to the billionaire founder of a secretive Wall Street firm. This is how I landed a meeting with him, from 10 personal reference calls to a 'Devil Wears Prada' interview moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Carrie Sun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

She has written a memoir about working for a secretive and wildly prestigious Wall Street hedge fund. Recruiters are one of the main gatekeepers for the hedge fund and private equity industries. I hadn't — but I had heard of Argon, a hedge fund that had long and widely been seen as financial royalty. A leading financial publication had called Carbon the world's hottest hedge fund. Another had named it one of the world's top-performing large hedge funds, ranking it among other hedge fund titans and their flagships, like Ray Dalio's Pure Alpha II and Ken Griffin's Citadel.

Persons: —, Carrie Sun, Sun, Beowulf Sheehan Yuna, Carrie, Yuna, Chang's, Meijer, Peter, Boone Prescott, He's, Peter glanced, Boone, Jen, you'd, Ruth, Maya, Warren Buffett, Ray, Ken Griffin's, Griffin, Anne Hathaway, Chanel Organizations: Service, MIT, New, Boone, Samsung, Ann Arbor ., College, Carbon, NYU, Alpha, Penguin Press Locations: China, Michigan, Jersey City, Kansas, Midtown, receptionists, Manhattan, Ann Arbor, United States, New York, New Jersey, Anhui, Barneys, Madison, America, Boone, Missouri

☆ I moved from Brooklyn to Iceland 7 years ago. It may be tiny, but it's cheaper and I feel safer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-06 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Jewells Chambers relocated from Brooklyn to Iceland in 2016 and says it's cheaper and safer. AdvertisementThis as-told-to article is based on a conversation with Jewells Chambers, who relocated from Brooklyn to Iceland in 2016 and produces the podcast "All Things Iceland." Compared to Brooklyn, Reykjavik is nothing. When I go back to New York, I'm like a kid in a candy store. I think this was a great decision and I feel really secure and like I was meant to be here.

Persons: Jewells Chambers, Chambers, —, Grace Dean, I've, it's, they've, –, that's, would've Organizations: Service, Costco, Foods, Facebook Locations: Brooklyn, Iceland, Reykjavik, New York, York, London

☆ China names Song Kai as new chairman of CFA
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BEIJING, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Song Kai was named as the new chairman of the Chinese Football Association (CFA)，China's state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday, amid a spike in anti-corruption investigations into the soccer body. Song works as the director of Liaoning province's Sports Bureau, according to state media Global Times. Sun Wen, Yuan Yongqing, Yang Xu and Xu Jiren were named CFA vice presidents, Xinhua reported. China's top prosecutor said last week it had ordered the arrest of former CFA vice chairman Du Zhaocai, who was suspected of accepting bribes, state media previously reported. read moreOver a dozen officials working in the football sector have been placed under investigation since November last year, state media reported last week.

Persons: Kai, Sun Wen, Yuan Yongqing, Yang Xu, Xu Jiren, China's, Du Zhaocai, CFA Chen, Ella Cao, Liz Lee, Peter Rutherford Organizations: Chinese Football Association, Xinhua, Liaoning province's Sports, Global Times, CFA, Thomson Locations: BEIJING, Liaoning

☆ Djokovic, Swiatek advance before China's Zhang shocks Ruud at US Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/7] Aug 30, 2023; Flushing, NY, USA; Novak Djokovic of Serbia hits to Bernabe Zapata Miralles of Spain on day three of the 2023 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. But while results followed the form book for much of the day at the year's final Grand Slam, shocks sprung up as the sun went down. Earlier, Swiss young gun Dominic Stricker delivered a shock by grinding out a 7-5 6-7(2) 6-7(5) 7-6(6) 6-3 win over Greek seventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas for his first top-10 win. Djokovic remains on course for a fourth U.S. Open title that would pull him level with Margaret Court's record haul of 24 Grand Slams. Sixth seed Gauff warmed up the home crowd early when the teenager beat Mirra Andreeva 6-3 6-3, before handing the baton to the U.S. men.

Persons: Novak Djokovic, Bernabe Zapata Miralles, USTA Billie Jean King, Robert Deutsch, Iga Swiatek, Casper Ruud, Petra Kvitova, Billie Jean King, Coco Gauff, Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe, Zhang Zhizhen, Ruud, Caroline Wozniacki, Dominic Stricker, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Djokovic, Arthur Ashe, Spain's Bernabe Zapata Miralles, Margaret Court's, Swiatek, Daria Saville, Wozniacki, you'd, Mirra, Andy Roddick, Fritz, Tiafoe, Austrian Sebastian Ofner, Peru's Juan Pablo Varillas, Tommy Paul, American Ben Shelton, Dominic Thiem, Thiem, Amy Tennery, Toby Davis, Peter Rutherford Organizations: Serbia, USTA Billie, USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, U.S, Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, COVID, Flushing, U.S ., Austrian, Thomson Locations: Flushing , NY, USA, Spain, Swiss, Flushing Meadows, U.S, Russian, American, New York

☆ This Is What Europe’s Migrant Crisis Looks Like - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Sally Hayden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In the Tunisian port city of Sfax this month, I sat with a group of men in a sandy, windswept park. The men, who were Darfuris, explained that they had escaped what they called a new genocide in Sudan. There are dozens — maybe hundreds — of Sudanese currently staying in that park in Sfax, and thousands across the city. Last week, 41 people were reported to have died after a shipwreck off the Italian coast. This is what a crisis of human rights, ethics and, above all, global inequality looks like.

Persons: Lampedusa — Locations: Tunisian, Sfax, Sudan, Sudanese, Lampedusa, Europe, Italy, Greece

☆ The world's longest-living people prioritize this Japanese 'secret' for 'a long and happy life': How you can too
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Gravitating towards the activities that spark this state of "flow" can lead you to your "ikigai," which is "the happiness of always being busy," say Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, authors of Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life. Many of the world's longest-lived people find their ikigai and prioritize it nearly every day of their lives. "There is no magic recipe for finding happiness, for living according to your ikigai," wrote García and Miralles. "But one key ingredient is the ability to reach this state of flow and, through this state, to have an 'optimal experience.'" Thankfully, there's a framework that you can follow to achieve a state of flow.

Persons: Francesc Miralles, Hayao Miyazaki, Miyazaki Organizations: Ghibli Locations: Japan

BELEN, Turkey—As the sun went down Tuesday over Girne Street, dozens of people, their hands and arms limned with ghostly gray dust, silently combed the wreckage of flattened apartment blocks. Ismail Parlak and his wife dug through the rubble looking for Mr. Parlak’s mother, entombed, they said, somewhere under six stories of collapsed concrete and contorted metal.

LONDON — Her tenure as Britain’s prime minister began in the early days of fall, but it didn’t even last until winter. The plan was criticized not only by the opposing Labour Party, but also President Joe Biden and the International Monetary Fund. Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng and British Prime Minister Liz Truss attend the annual Conservative Party conference on Oct. 2. Truss told Parliament on Wednesday, “I am a fighter, not a quitter,” after repeatedly being told she was unfit for office by opposition lawmakers. Under an expedited process, leadership challengers must win the support of 100 fellow Conservative Party lawmakers (out of a total of 357) by Monday afternoon.

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