Too many landmark bars had been closing of late: the Algonquin Hotel shuttered its Oak Room, and Elaine's closed last year.
On the other, aware that our globalized little earth has come very close of late to complete financial meltdown and is still hovering near the brink, noting that there are drawbacks when mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, perhaps even glimpsing that shared institutions are essential to any society, people clamor in moments of crisis for the reviled state to step in and save them.
They haven't done well in this genre, with only the Dodge Neon coming close of late but still being far too coarse in the handling and engine departments to be considered part of this crew.
Last month, a US drone strike killed Bilal al-Berjawi, a close associate of late al-Qaida operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, who directed the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200 people.
We've enjoyed these kind of borderline sing-a-longs as closing tracks as of late, and somehow audiences seem to look past the potential cheese when exhaustion and euphoria are in their sights.
Now the startup of the same name has closed its latest round of funding to fuel its growth.
Also of note: Microsoft's $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn closed late in the fiscal second quarter.
Navarro, of Los Angeles, closed within 14-11 late in the third round, but then Thomas dominated the final 2 minutes.
The arrest closed the latest chapter of a tragic drama that began early Sunday morning on a street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
DFJ Growth, the DFJ investment practice that focuses on later-stage investments in technology startups, has closed its latest fund of $470 million.
