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The Carlyle Group buys Getty Images for $3.3 billion
The Carlyle Group and the management of Getty Images said Wednesday they had formed a partnership to buy Getty Images, Inc. from Hellman & Friedman for $3.3 billion. The deal foresees the private investment group Carlyle acquiring a controlling stake in Getty Images while Getty Images co-founder and chairman Mark Getty and the Getty family will “roll substantially all of their…
Republicans’ ‘scary’ immigrant photo depicts Mexicans in Mexico, photographer reveals
A photograph that has appeared in two high-profile Republican campaign commercials, used in both cases to depict what some have called “scary” illegal immigrants, is actually a photo taken in Mexico, depicting three Mexican farmers whose crops were destroyed, a British photojournalist has revealed. And he isn’t exactly happy to…
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