Leslie

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Gabriel Rueda was a waiter at Craig’s restaurant in West Hollywood when he sued Pacquiao in 2016, claiming he was owed a finder’s fee of $8.6 million for connecting the boxer’s trainer Freddie Roach with then-CBS president Leslie Moonves to arrange the 2015 fight with Mayweather.

From Los Angeles Times

Though it might seem like professional credibility comes from maintaining control, it sometimes also comes from letting go, writes Harvard Business School professor Leslie John.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Moyer-Nocchi scolds Eliza Leslie, the seminal 19th-century American cookbook writer, for making macaroni rather than cheese the top layer in a recipe “To Dress Macaroni”—“a regrettable innovation that made for bony macaroni”—without observing that Leslie obviates the problem: She directs you to “cover the dish.”

From The Wall Street Journal

She is survived by her son Sascha Smith and his daughter Naomi Smith; son Dimitri Smith, his wife Molly Smith and their daughter Charlie Smith; her brother Tom Marantos and his partner Rafael Lopez; her sisters Lisa and Alexis Marantos; and her best friends, who were like family, Leslie Marshall and Theresa Samuelsen.

From Los Angeles Times

Leslie Yazel has worked as a journalist for more than 30 years, most recently as the programming strategy editor in The Wall Street Journal newsroom and prior to that as deputy editor of the Personal Journal lifestyle section.

From The Wall Street Journal