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August 2023

3 Aug

Sharing Speech: On Translation as Conversation

A MEMORY. I’m fast asleep in the primary room I’ve rented in Mexico City. I’m 23. I’ve been gathering my mettle after my first cataclysmic break-up, newly wading into the tide pools of hedonism and the shells that may slice your feet there. I’ve been comforted by the presence, secured by probability on the web, of a delicate roommate and his great galumphing pewter-colored dog, Pechuga (“chicken breast,” if you have to know). I’m jolted awake before dawn by a thunderous noise, the floorboards shuddering. Mexico City is a seismic zone and I’ll soon make the acquaintance of several earthquakes, but that is something else, I discover after I stumble off the bed and over to the window: it’s a...
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3 Aug

Debra Perelman Out as CEO of Revlon – WWD

The Perelmans’ control over beauty company Revlon Group is not any more. Not long after her father Ronald Perelman was pushed out, Debra Perelman is stepping down from her role as president and chief executive officer and as a member of the board. She's going to function an adviser to the corporate, whose brands include namesake Revlon, Elizabeth Arden and Almay, for a transitional period. Elizabeth A. Smith has been appointed interim CEO. Smith was brought in as executive chair of the Revlon board of directors in May and continued in that role because it emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Perelman said: “It has been an honor to guide the talented and dedicated Revlon team over the past five years, and I'm grateful...
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