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This list of "helpful" "tips" for female employees was reportedly distributed to the entire HR department at Citibank. After the jump, we add some of our own ideas for how silly ladies fail to get ahead. More »
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It had to happen: Gloria Allred has taken on the case of Deborahlee Lorenzana, a perfect storm of a discrimination lawsuit and seemingly unending publicity. More »
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• Daul Kim's boyfriend was the first to find the body of the 20-year-old Korean model, artist, and writer, who died by asphyxiation. Police believe Kim's death was a suicide. Her agency has confirmed that her mother is en route to Paris. [AP]

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• Barack Obama made it official with Tim Geithner today, announcing that he will nominate Geither to the Treasury Department. Former Treasury Secretary Larry "Math Is Hard For Girls" Summers is headed to the top of the White House Economic Council and Berkeley economics professor Christina Romer will head the Council of Economic Advisers. Betcha she does math pretty well. [NY Times]
• Former Joe Biden aide Ted Kaufman has been appointed to fill Biden's Senate seat for two years, at which point everyone in the state assumes he'll quietly step down and let the currently-deployed Beau Biden run for it. [Associated Press]
• Susan Rice, who most people thought was about to get dicked over when it leaked that Jim Jones will head the National Security Council, is actually in the running to be our Ambassador to the U.N. [Washington Independent]
• Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack swears he's not in the running to be Secretary of Agriculture. [Washington Post]

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If you're anything like me, the financial state of the U.S. terrifies you, but in an amorphous way. You try to read numerous newspaper articles about Lehman and Merrill Lynch and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but it's like reading Don Quixote with seventh grade Spanish: a certain grasp of the vocabulary is missing. We decided to ask a Wall Street woman to explain just what the sam hell is going on. This financial female wanted to remain anonymous, so we're going to call her Katharine Parker after Sigourney Weaver's moderately duplicitous but whip smart financial analyst in Working Girl. We ask our expert about what happened with Lehman, whether cutting interest rates is helpful, and if it's time to take our savings out of Citibank and shove it under our mattresses. Our Q&A with Katharine, after the jump. More »
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