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The brain drain of big Wall Street is a drag on America’s economy rising finance industry now draws big bucks and top talent, but its performance is no better
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u in 2014, the economy began shaking but finished strong.
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NEW YORK — The thing Deborah Jackson remembers from her first interviews at Goldman Sachs is the slogan. It was stamped on the glass
doors of the offices in the investment bank’s headquarters just off Wall Street, the lure of the place in two words, eight syllables: “Uncommon
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capability.” Jackson joined Goldman in 1980, fresh from business school and steeped in the workings of government and finance. She found crackerjack colleagues and more business than she could handle. She worked in municipal finance,
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Capital puts up fight, falls
Clinton P. Anderson once headed state’s WPA program. TRAIL DUST, A-8
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Cousins caught in Christmas burglary By chris Quintana The New Mexican
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Vivid memories
Friday offered another chapter in the “close, but no cigar” saga for the Jaguars in the Stu Clark tourney. SPORTS, B-1
‘aggressive’ abuse of kids sets group apart, U.N. official says BAGHDAD — Before war convulsed his hometown in Syria, Usaid Barho played soccer, loved Jackie Chan movies and adored the beautiful Lebanese pop singer Nancy Ajram. He dreamed of attending college and becoming a doctor. His life, to say the least, took a detour. On a recent evening in Baghdad, Usaid, who is 14, approached the gate of a Shiite mosque, unzipped his jacket to show a vest of explosives, and surrendered himself to the guards. “They seduced us to join the caliphate,” he said several days later in an interview with The New York Times at a secret Iraqi intelligence site where he is being held. Usaid described how he had been recruited by the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State from a mosque in his hometown, Manbij, near Aleppo. He said he joined the group willingly because “I believed in Islam.” “They planted the idea in me that Shiites are infidels and we had to kill them,” he said in the interview, which took place in the presence of an Iraqi intel-
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Gerry Cole of Santa Fe is shown at his home earlier this month. Cole has been living with a heart transplant for 21 years. Luis sánchez saturno/the new Mexican
Transplant patient suffered setbacks but is grateful for gift that allowed him to have family and a rewarding career By anne constable The New Mexican
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ince 1993, Gerry Cole, a Santa Fe lawyer, has been living with the heart of a handsome, red-haired 16-year-old from Shelbyville, Tenn., who had died in a one-car accident near his hometown. Cole, 71, is not the world’s longest surviving heart transplant patient. Some have lived more than 34 years. But he has endured a mind-boggling number of surgeries, including hip replacements and a kidney transplant, always with a sense of gratitude
for the fulfilling life he’s lived despite numerous setbacks. His wife, Kathie, says simply that “he has more to do.” “I’ve been very, very fortunate,” Cole said recently. “I had a rewarding career, made contributions. I have a family I don’t deserve. I’m one fortunate guy.” Soon after his transplant, Cole wrote to the parents of his donor, promising that “every day y of my new life, I will remember your gift and try to be worthy off your courage and generosity.” He said he felt “free of the constant fear I have had to
The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office says deputies nabbed two cousins in the act of a Christmas Day burglary in Nambé. Matthew Matthew Gomez, 24, Gomez and Ashley Roybal, 27, both of Santa Fe, were arrested Thursday while deputies were responding to a call about a burglary in process on Rancho las Lagunas in the Nambé area, according to the sheriff’s office. The arrest followed Ashley several reports in the Roybal city and county about holiday burglaries. A spokeswoman with the Santa Fe Police Department said about a halfdozen burglaries were reported in the city Wednesday and Thursday, and a spokesman with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said five people reported burglaries to that agency during the holidays. According to deputies’ reports, Gomez said he and his cousin, Roybal, had “planned to go and break into residences
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Holiday stormss are bad news for drivers but joy for skiers ski mountains report more than 8 inches of new powder By staci Matlock The New Mexican
From left, Luc Hatier-Riess, 12, Jasper RassmusonFlint and Luc’s twin brother, Sebastian, enjoy an afternoon of sledding at Patrick Smith Park after a storm rolled through Friday. Jane PhiLLiPs/the new Mexican
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Storm systems Thursday night and Friday dropped more than 8 inches of snow in north-central New Mexico just in time for weekend skiers, snowboarders and sledders. The storms wreaked havoc on New Mexico roads, creating dangerous driving conditions on Interstate 25 between Santa Fe and Las Vegas, N.M., while making some roads near Raton impassable Friday morning, according to the state Transportation Department’s website, nmroads.com. Roads were expected to ice over again as night fell. Temperatures were 10 to 20 degrees below normal during the day and were expected to remain colder than
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usual Saturday, though snow flurries were expected to be light, according to the National Weather Service. Icy roads contributed to a half-dozen minor traffic accidents in Santa Fe on Friday morning, but no injuries were reported by city police. The city of Santa Fe’s Streets and Drainage Maintenance Division had crews on standby Thursday night and called in the first shift of workers at about 11 p.m., Director David Catanach said Friday. Each shift has about nine snowplow drivers who clean the main routes first, such as Cerrillos Road and St. Francis Drive, Catanach said. “A lot of those are [the state Department of Transportation’s responsibility], but a lot of times they can’t get to them, so we have to get to them because their priorities are
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Santa Fe Desert Chorale: Winter Festival “endings & Beginnings” concert series performed by a-cappella pop and jazz group Voasis, 4 and 8 p.m., María Benítez Cabaret, The Lodge at santa Fe, 750 N. st. Francis Drive, advance tickets available online at desertchorale.org, daily encores through wednesday. More events in calendar, a-2 and fridays in Pasatiempo
Obituaries Donelia Roybal, 80, Chili, Dec. 15 Paula couchman, 40, santa Fe, Dec. 18 Herman P. ortiz, 84, santa Fe, Dec. 23
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