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"From: Gregory Brown To: undisclosed-recipients:; [email protected] Subject: Greg Brown's Weekend Reading and Other Things.... 12/29/2013 Date: Sun"

"Gregory Brown Chairman & CEO GlobalCast Pane's. LLC"

"But among the Democrats, President Obama is the one who comes closest to the style of bebop called the Cool."

"And again like Reed, I thought of John F. Kennedy as our first Cool President"

"As someone who like Ishmael Reed grew up wanting to be cool, I took a special interest in Reed's New York Times piece"

"I hope that you have enjoyed this week's offerings... Luciano Pavarotti & Frank Sinatra"

"I hope that you have enjoyed this week's offerings... Luciano Pavarotti & Frank Sinatra"

"the patriarch of the A&E cable television blockbuster... Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson"

"recent comments in GQ Magazine from an interview with the patriarch of the A&E cable television blockbuster"

"I am a fan of Chris Matthews and a frequent viewer of his show Hardball on MSNBC"

"the to-week book tour for Tip and The Gipper: When Politics Worked, my story of political coming of age"

"working in the bands of Lucky Millinder, Dizzy Gillespie and others"

"earning a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst... and later taught there"

"he settled in New York, where he worked with Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley"

"Through U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, helped negotiate a peaceful split in 2011."

"the President's Administration has negotiated a settlement with Syria that resulted in the Assad regime getting rid of their chemical weapons stockpil"

"I recently ran across this article in The Washington Post by Brad Plumer"

"American Airlines and US Airways merged, and a solar-powered airplane hopscotched across the U.S."

"creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (now headed by Richard Cordray) to crack down on abusive lending products and companies."

"In 2009, injected $62 billion in federal money (on top of $13.4 billion in loans from the Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler"

"In 2009, injected $62 billion in federal money (on top of $13.4 billion in loans from the Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler"

"He received a bachelor's and a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and taught both there and at Borough of Manhattan Community College"

"In 2010 he was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts."

"Nominated and obtained confirmation for Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman to serve, in 2009"

"Nominated and obtained confirmation for ... Elena Kagan, the fourth woman to serve, in 2010."

"In coordination with Michelle Obama, signed Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010"

"convinced oil company to agree in 2010 to a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill"

"statute of limitations on such suits ran out 3.8o days after the alleged discrimination occurred... in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tim & Rubber Co."

"Signed with Russia (2010) and won ratification in Congress (2011) of treaty that limits each country to 1,55o strategic warheads"

"Robert Schmidt, a specialist in corn genetics who is SGB's chief scientist"

"Jim Rekoske, vice president for renewable energy and chemicals at Honeywell"

"Finistere Ventures, a San Diego venture capital firm that has invested in SGB"

"Arama Kukutai, managing director at Finistere Ventures"

"a consortium that includes Airbus, BP and the Inter-American Development Bank to sign a deal with the company to plant 75,000 acres of jatropha in Bra"

"JetBio, aims to develop sources of biofuel for the airline industry... sign a deal with the company to plant 75,000 acres of jatropha in Brazil"

"in November SGB signed a deal with the Yulex Corporation to use its molecular breeding technology to increase the yields of guayule"

"Kirk Haney, SGB's chief executive, went into the living room of his San Diego home"

"Eric Mathur, SGB's chief technologist"

"forcing Mr. Haney and a team of top plant geneticists he had recruited from the University of California at San Diego"

"having succeeded Pope Benedict XVI on March 13, 2013"

"The Huffington Post did a retrospective article by Alana Horowitz on Pope Francis"

"A new CNN poll released Tuesday found that 88% of American Catholics view Pope Francis favorably"

"House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan defied the Tea Party wing of his party"

"Janet Yellen is lined up to run the Federal Reserve, the world's most powerful central bank"

"General Motors named Mary Barra to be its next chief executive officer"

"Kathleen Taylor was named the next chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada"

"Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg published Lean In"

"Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve surprised almost everyone on Sept. 18"