Clay Risen

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Marina von Neumann Whitman Dies at 90; Carved Path for Women in Economics

2 weeks ago | rethinking65.com | Clay Risen

Marina von Neumann Whitman, an expert in international trade who in 1972 became the first woman to be appointed to the White House Council of Economic Advisers and who later was one of the few women to join the executive leadership at General Motors, died May 20 in Concord, Massachusetts. She was 90. Her son, Malcolm Whitman, said her death, in a hospital, was from complications of pneumonia.
Marina von Neumann Whitman dies at 90; carved path for women in economics

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Clay Risen

Marina von Neumann Whitman, an expert in international trade who in 1972 became the first woman to be appointed to the White House Council of Economic Advisers and who later was one of the few women to join the executive leadership at General Motors, died May 20 in Concord. She was 90. Her son, Malcolm Whitman, said her death, in a hospital, was from complications of pneumonia.
International Trade Expert Was 90

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Clay Risen

She was the first woman to serve on the White House Council of Economic Advisers. At General Motors, she became one of the highest-ranking women in corporate America. Marina von Neumann Whitman, an expert in international trade who in 1972 became the first woman to be appointed to the White House Council of Economic Advisers and who later was one of the few women to join the executive leadership at General Motors, died on May 20 in Concord, Mass. She was 90.
Alf Clausen, Who Gave 'The Simpsons' Its Musical Identity, Dies at 84

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Clay Risen

He created the music for hundreds of episodes over 27 seasons, spanning jazz, rock, blues and musicals. He won two Emmys and was nominated for 28 more. Alf Clausen, a composer and arranger whose songs, interludes and closing credits for hundreds of episodes of "The Simpsons" were so central to the animated sitcom's success that its creator, Matt Groening, often called him the show's "secret weapon," died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.
Zelensky Is Expected in Berlin as Merz Steps Forward as Key Backer of Ukraine

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Clay Risen |Christopher Schuetze

A likely focus of talks between the two leaders will be military aid and whether Germany will provide Ukraine with the Taurus cruise missile. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is expected to travel to Berlin on Wednesday in his first visit to Germany since Chancellor Friedrich Merz took office earlier this month. The visit comes at a crucial moment in the German-Ukrainian relationship.
Knife attack at train station in Hamburg, Germany, wounds at least 17

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Christopher Schuetze |Clay Risen |Eve Sampson

At least 17 people were injured in a knife attack at the central train station in the German city of Hamburg on Friday evening, according to the local fire department. Four of the victims are in critical condition, a spokesperson from the fire department said, adding that all the victims had been hospitalized. Hamburg police said they believed that a 39-year-old woman had acted alone in carrying out the attack, but the investigation was ongoing.
Knife Attack at Train Station in Hamburg, Germany, Wounds at Least 17

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Eve Sampson |Christopher Schuetze |Clay Risen

Four of the victims are in critical condition. The police say they believe a 39-year-old woman carried out the attack, for which no motive has yet been given. At least 17 people were injured in a knife attack at the central train station in the German city of Hamburg on Friday evening, according to the local fire department. Four of the victims are in critical condition, a spokesperson from the fire department said, adding that all the victims were hospitalized.
At an Uncertain Moment for Germany, Suddenly Boring Doesn't Look So Bad

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Clay Risen

Bielefeld dispatchThe small city of Bielefeld was once the butt of jokes for its blandness. Now it embodies the kind of stability Germans long for. The main shopping street in Bielefeld, Germany, this week. Credit... Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times Bielefeld, Germany, a modest city of 338,000 people, is in every way typical of a well-off German town, with an opera house, a castle and a tidy historic district.
At an Uncertain Moment for Germany, Suddenly Boring Doesn’t Look So Bad

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Clay Risen

1 day agoI have a friend who insists that had Status Quo hailed from Düsseldorf rather than Catford, they would nowadays be as critically revered as Can, Faust, Neu! and those other hallowed Teutonic pioneers of unyielding rhythm from the 1970s. Maybe so. Very probably not. Canned Heat and ZZ Top seem more …
an AfD-Led Opposition

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Clay Risen

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in the polls. Ever since the German Parliament building reopened in Berlin in 1999, its second-largest meeting room has been occupied by what had often been Germany's second-largest party, the Social Democrats. Even the room's name, the Otto Wels Hall, bears the party's imprint: Wels led the Social Democrats from 1919 until the Nazis drove him to exile.