from her to you, by lisa.lisa at flickr Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on 173rd St. in Manhattan, a robbery/assault on 13th St. in Brooklyn, and an aircraft emergency at JFK airport in Queens. Barnard at Columbia has a new incoming president, snagged from Harvard Business School. Don't miss the Super Bowl sitting in your local precinct's drunk tank. Get your Super Brawling out of the way early the next time someone......

The former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, former deputy secretary of state under Reagan, and Pataki contributor John C. Whitehead will resign from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the World Trade Center rebuilding organization, today. Whitehead was placed in the role of LMDC chairman by Pataki four years ago, and has had a lot of troubles, given the issues with WTC leaseholder Larry Silverstein, government officials, government agencies and victims' families all squabbling. Whitehead said, "This......

The fifth "amazing bestest yet ever most ridiculous [insert other stupid and/or hyperbolic descriptor here]" season of the Apprentice premiered last night, and boy, do the contestants get dumber and dumber! Maybe not totally dumber, because Lord knows what Gothamist would be doing if we had to work with other people handpicked by Donald Trump and Mark Burnett, but you'd think that people who apply to be on the show would have seen previous episodes......

Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio, YC Media, authors, The Girl's Guide To Starting Your Own Business...

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HarperCollins has paid Jack Welch, former GE CEO, $4 million to write a how-to business manual. Welch's fiancee, Suzy Wetlaufer, former editor of The Harvard Business Review, who looks like Tina Fey's older sister, will help him write it. HarperCollins told the Times, "Young people grow up today wanting to be a policeman, a fireman, a C.E.O. Jack can teach to all of that." Here are some things both Jack AND Suzy can teach young......

Though Gothamist is not the exact target, we couldn't resist commenting about self-help meets chick-flick-plotline, Find a Husband After 35 Using What I Learned in Harvard Business School, which was featured in the Post this weekend. Author Rachel Greenwald applies marketing tactics, like direct mail and telemarketing, to dating, for the greatest efficiencies: - Make Thanksgiving cards asking friends to hook you up - Take criticism from pals to revamp your appearance - Embark on......