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Though Peter Luger’s in Rap Genius’s home base of Williamsburg is considered the best steakhouse in New York
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Henri de Castries descends from the House of Castries, a French noble family granted nobility at the turn of the 16th century. The family’s crest is shown below.
His full name is actually Henri de La Croix de Castries, 5th Comte de Castries. Castries is the Chairman and CEO of French global investment AXA, a global conglomerate of businesses focusing on insurance (life, health, etc). Henri spends his weekends in a castle in Anjou, located in the lower Loire Valley of western France.
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One of the good guys – an early Rap Genius contributor and co-founder of Creative Commons, Professor Lessig leads the charge on internet freedom and corruption-free democracy from his perch at Harvard Law School
Lessig taught Maboo torts at Stanford Law School
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Henry Kissinger served as Secretary of State and National Security Adviser during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Under Nixon, he oversaw the secret bombing of Cambodia that killed an estimated 40,000 Cambodian combatants and civilians. Oh, and he probably killed Pablo Neruda, too
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Jeff Bezos is the Seattle-based founder of Amazon.com. He is known to have libertarian political beliefs – he is staunchly anti-union and fought hard to avoid sales tax for online purchases until conceding in 2013
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For the first time ever, the full list of attendees of the super-secretive Bilderberg Group’s annual meeting has been published. whose secretive meeting style (press presence in the meetings are disallowed) has given rise to the paranoid conspiracy theory that they are the Illuminati of 21st century. The 2013 meeting is being held at the Grove Hotel in the UK (pictured below).
Notice that none of these people are actors or rappers, or people you think are influential.
The key topics for discussion this year include:
• Can the US and Europe grow faster and create jobs?
• Jobs, entitlement and debt
• How big data is changing almost everything
• Nationalism and populism
• US foreign policy
• Africa’s challenges
• Cyber warfare and proliferation of asymmetric threats
• Major trends in medical research
• Online education: promise and impacts
• Politics of the European Union
• Developments in the Middle East
• Current affairs
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In fairness to Starbucks, many cities such as New York have banned smoking not only indoors but in outdoor public places. Los Angeles has banned smoking on outdoor restaurant patios. And 35 states have laws in effect that require 100% smoke-free nonhospitality workplaces, restaurants or bars. In all, 79.4% of the country’s population is covered by local and state laws banning smoking.
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As of September 8, 2012, there were 12,937 Starbucks stores in the United States
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Statement from Starbucks announcing their ban of cigarette smoking, even on outdoor patios!
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Ibragim Todashev’s father, Abdul-Baki Todashev, said his son had six gunshot wounds to his torso and one to the back of his head
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