Novartis Pharmaceuticals tops DiversityInc’s annual Top 50 list for second year

For the second year in a row, Novartis Pharmaceuticals has taken the top spot in DiversityInc’s annual ranking of some of world’s top corporations for its commitment to equality in hiring, promotion and a host of other metrics. The top five also include (by rank) Kaiser Permanente, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EY (Ernest & Young) and Sodexo (French-based…

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Selma

dvd of the week The events in Selma, Ala., a town with a majority of black residents only 2 percent of whom could vote, helped force the Voting Rights Act into existence. One of 2014’s best films, Selma is about how that happened. Director Ana DuVernay’s work on Selma is tremendous, and it announces a…

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Penny Dreadful

dvr this Showtime, Sunday, May 3, 10 p.m. The season premiere of the postmodern horror drama introduces a new big bad: witches, led by mystic Evelyn Poole (Helen McCrory). She becomes the nemesis of our heroine, the disturbed medium Vanessa Ives (Eva Green), who I think is the most exciting character on television right now….

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