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fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Billionaire Mark Cuban once ran a Ponzi scheme from his dorm room: 'That's how I paid for my junior year of college' | Fortune

Mark Cuban used early entrepreneurial and sometimes shady schemes, including a chain-letter Ponzi, with persistent hustling to fund college and launch his business career.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Intimate and intriguing, Patti Smith's memoir offers new revelations

Patti Smith traces a working-class childhood to a revived artistic career after widowhood, emphasizing memory, kindness, and relationships with Mapplethorpe and Fred 'Sonic' Smith.
fromwww.fourfourtwo.com
2 months ago

'She had an incredible influence on me, and it's like anything else in life: sometimes, sadly, you really don't appreciate it until it's gone' Ally McCoist tells FourFourTwo the four people he admires most

My mother and father came from working-class environments, and we were a working-class family. My father constantly worked night shifts, and at weekends he took the team I played for. My mother was always around, and also worked two or three jobs just to look after my sister and me. She had a work ethic to look after a family and do the very best for us, like all mothers have, he went on.
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fromJezebel
3 months ago

'Everyone's Seen My Tits' Is a Cheeky Title for a Memoir About Gender and Sexual Trauma

Keeley Hazell rose to fame as a Page 3 model and reflects on class, feminism, objectification, and agency while confronting criticism of topless modeling.
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