Cultures and Groups

Traders get up to speed (Chicago Sun-Times)

20 Jul 2008

Options traders and market makers thrive on a fast-paced, even glamorous image. It turns out they do their work on fuddy-duddy computer systems.

Rock god Plant finds new roots (The Tennessean)

20 Jul 2008

While Alison Krauss performed before her hometown crowd at Sommet Center on Saturday night, it was also a homecoming of sorts for her British singing partner, Robert Plant.

Immigration pulls McCain two ways (The News & Observer)

20 Jul 2008

At a recent John McCain town hall meeting in Bucks County, Pa., a woman began her question to the Republican presidential candidate with a complaint: "Why, as an American, do I have to push a button to speak English?"