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...tool for assessing the safety of financial institutions. But the result has been to create a system in which getting a rating of a particular level is equivalent to "a regulatory license - a key that unlocks the markets," says Frank Partnoy, a law professor at the University of San Diego. In 1975, the SEC, in an effort to better define who was a legitimate rater of bonds, designated certain firms "nationally recognized statistical rating organizations" (NRSROs). Today, if you are a bank or a pension fund or an insurance company you have a firm grasp of the safety of your...
...Blues. Members of JetBlue's TrueBlue loyalty program can earn a free trip from Boston to any destination, if they fly two round-trips between Boston and Denver, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco or Seattle. Register here before booking, then buy your tickets online. Take two round-trip flights before May 31 and the third ticket is yours to fly anywhere JetBlue goes by Dec. 15 (except on certain blackout dates...
...theatrical arts through new interpretations of conventional plays. Two, increase diversity in the theatrical arts, and three, explore what it means to have an ethnic and/or cultural identity.”MORE LIKE ‘COMPETITIVE CASTING’Wong, who graduated from the theater department of San Francisco’s School of the Arts High School, has had concerns about the lack of an Asian American presence on stage. In the fall of his freshman and sophomore years, Wong auditioned through Common Casting, a selection process implemented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), which offers every...
...years when his drawings and animated films made him a favorite of the art-festival circuit and he began designing opera productions in Europe and the U.S. But the sober-minded man we meet in "William Kentridge: Five Themes," a survey of his work that just opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and will travel to seven cities, seems especially pertinent these days. The question at the center of so much of his work--What do you do when the world breaks your heart?--is one that a lot of people are asking themselves lately...
...opera based on the Gogol story about a Russian bureaucrat who awakens one morning to discover that his nose has left his body and begun to pursue its own career up the social hierarchy--that the Metropolitan Opera in New York City will mount next year. The San Francisco show, which was organized by Mark Rosenthal, a curator at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla., climaxes with a multiscreen gallery of films connected to that production. The nose climbs a ladder in silhouette (and tumbles down); a Cossack dances. On another screen are abject snippets from...