<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="798996" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joel-Klein">Joel Klein</keyword>, a top exec at health insurer Oscar, has joined vape company <keyword id="7020799" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Juul">Juul</keyword>'s board of directors.</li><li>Juul has come under fire in the past for helping to spark a youth <keyword id="1744074" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Vaping">vaping</keyword> epidemic.</li><li>The company said Klein would help it deliver on its commitment to stop underage vaping.</li></ul><p>Joel Klein, a top executive at health insurer <keyword id="3184855" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oscar-Health">Oscar Health</keyword>, has joined the board of directors of Juul Labs, an <keyword id="491563" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="E-cigarette">e-cigarette</keyword> company that's landed itself in hot water over the years for allegedly marketing its products to school kids.</p><p>Klein is the <a href="https://www.hioscar.com/about/team/joel-klein">chief policy and strategy officer</a> at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oscar-health-ipo-key-takeaways-form-its-s-1-2021-2">Oscar, which went public earlier this month</a> in an IPO that valued the company at $8.6 billion. He previously spent eight years as the chancellor of New York City public schools under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Politico first <a href="https://www.politico.com/politicoinfluence/">reported</a> Klein's appointment. </p><div type="image" title="joel klein, former nyc school chancellor" height="531" width="708" msid="81554294" hostid="261"></div><p>"I believe the company must continue to play a critical role in reducing the devastating harm caused by smoking," Klein said in a statement emailed to Insider. "To accomplish that paramount goal, Juul Labs must, first and foremost, continue preventing underage use of its products."</p><p>Oscar declined to comment on Klein's appointment.</p><p>Juul has come under fire for playing a role in creating <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-teens-minors-young-people-use-juul-data-2018-10">a youth vaping epidemic. </a></p><p>In 2019, a House subcommittee held hearings that revealed <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/juul-congress-e-cigs-target-teens-students-testimony-2019-7">Juul had marketed its addictive vapes to children</a> and teenagers, and paid schools and summer camps to give presentations to students. The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fda-calls-out-juul-altria-e-cigs-reneging-promises-teen-vaping-2019-2?inline-read-more">US Food and Drug Administration</a> and a group of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-juul-ecigarettes-investigation/juul-under-scrutiny-by-39-state-attorneys-general-idUSKBN20J2JL">39 state attorneys general have also investigated</a> the company's marketing practices.</p><p>Juul has since halted all advertising and stopped selling fruit-flavored vapes that kids liked. In an email to employees, Juul CEO K.C. Crosthwaite said Klein would help hold the company accountable as it works to combat underage vape use. </p><p style="font-weight: 400;">"As our company continues our efforts to combat underage usage, invest in science and research, and execute against our product road map for adult smokers, Joel and the entire board will help ensure that we deliver on our mission," he wrote.</p>

A top exec at upstart health insurer Oscar just joined the board of vape company Juul

Joel Klein On The Bloomberg Administration Legacy

Joel Klein On Education Issues In The NYC Mayoral Election

<p><keyword id="798996" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joel-Klein">Joel Klein</keyword>, the <keyword id="72226" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-York-City">New York City</keyword> schools chancellor from 2002 through 2010, and current CEO of digital <keyword id="6355445" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Education">education</keyword> startup <a href="http://www.amplify.com/company">Amplify</a>, tells us about the most successful, the least successful, and the most surprising policies by the Bloomberg administration. <strong>Click for sound</strong>.</p>
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The Most Surprising Moves By The Bloomberg Administration, According To Former Schools Chancellor Joel Klein 

<p> <keyword id="798996" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joel-Klein">Joel Klein</keyword>, the chancellor of the <keyword id="6355838" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-York">New York</keyword> City schools from 2002 through 2010, and current CEO of <keyword id="6355445" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Education">education</keyword> startup <a href="http://www.amplify.com/company">Amplify</a>, talks about the current New York City mayor race between <keyword id="1710611" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bill-de-Blasio">Bill de Blasio</keyword> and <keyword id="1770033" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Lhota">Joe Lhota</keyword>. <strong>Click for sound</strong>.</p>
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The Education Issues In The Mayoral Race That Have The Former NYC Schools Chancellor Worried

<ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Lamar Johnson spoke about "The Last of Us" episode 5 in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. </strong></li><li><strong>Johnson, 28, said his character Henry "instantly regrets" what he did to his brother, Sam.</strong></li></ul><p>"<a href="https://www.insider.com/the-last-of-us-review-2023-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Last of Us</a>" star Lamar Johnson offered insights into his character Henry's thoughts following the <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-last-of-us-episode-5-details-missed-2023-2#there-is-one-small-nod-to-ish-on-episode-five-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gut-wrenching twists in episode five</a>. </p><p>The latest episode of the HBO Max series introduces audiences to Henry (Johnson), and his younger brother Sam (Keivonn Montreal Woodard), who ambushed Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) in the previous episode.</p><div type="image" title="Henry played by Lamar Johnson in &quot;The Last of Us.&quot;" height="1083" width="1444" msid="97830061" hostid="261" sizebytes="32338"></div><p>After becoming acquainted, the four decide to travel to Wyoming together. However, the plan stalls when Sam becomes infected and attacks Ellie – who's immune to the infection – in the middle of the night. The event leads to Henry shooting Sam, then fatally shooting himself. </p><p>"It was a split decision and I had to shoot him," Johnson, 28, told <a href="https://www.etonline.com/the-last-of-us-star-lamar-johnson-on-episode-5s-heartbreaking-end-exclusive-198979" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Entertainment Tonight's</a> "The Last of Us" podcast, "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7eqe8SKBRrK1OCDyd9sGrO">The Last of Pods,"</a> published Saturday.</p><p>"But as soon as Henry shoots Sam, there's a wash of emotions that go over him. But I think, ultimately, if I was gonna say one word, just, shock. He's shocked. As soon as he shoots him, he instantly regrets it and is in shock. He even asks, 'What did I do?' He's just in shock."</p><p>Some fans, including Ginx Esport TV's Ashleigh Klein, noted on Twitter that the series <a href="https://twitter.com/ashleigh_RPG/status/1624447982140592128" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed Henry's dialogue in the scene</a>, with him asking, "What did I do" instead of placing blame on Joel. </p><p>Johnson then reflected on his character's decision to take his own life. </p><p>"I like to believe that Henry is a God-fearing man and he saw that Sam had passed and he wanted to join his brother," Johnson told the outlet.</p><div type="image" title="Keivonn Montreal Woodard played Sam in &quot;The Last of Us.&quot;" height="1093" width="1458" msid="97830063" hostid="261" sizebytes="27512"></div><p>Johnson added that "Sam is Henry's will to live" and "he is his purpose."</p><p>"He would not be able to stomach living in this world, as harsh it is as it is, without Sam – especially after all of his efforts, after all that they've both been through: losing both their parents and just having one another," Johnson told ET. "It was just a tough thing for Henry to have to stomach. He definitely would've been very depressed. It would've been on his mind. It would've eaten him away, would've eaten him alive." </p><div type="image" title="bella ramsey and pedro pascal in the last of us as ellie and joel. they're sitting on a carpeted floor, in front of a small camp light." height="1280" width="1706" msid="97830065" hostid="261" sizebytes="72560"></div><p>Fans of "The Last of Us" are likely <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-last-of-us-changed-bill-frank-story-2023-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">still reeling from the emotional events of episode four</a>, which starred Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett. Insider's Kirsten Acuna reported that the series expanded on the source material by giving a poignant glimpse into the pair's romantic relationship as opposed to the video game, which only implied a relationship.</p><p>Unlike episode five, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CoUz9NTLaho/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which aired two days early on Friday</a> due to Super Bowl LVII, episode six will premiere on February 19 on HBO Max. </p>

'The Last of Us' star Lamar Johnson says his character Henry 'would not have been able to stomach' a world without his brother Sam

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5ce2f8f7021b4c79800b5dd5-2400/img2687.jpg" border="0" alt="north bay road miami" data-mce-source="Katie Warren/Business Insider" /><p class="source"><span>Katie Warren/Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">The home comes with an infinity pool and a pool house.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>North Bay Road, a residential street in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/miami-beach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miami Beach</a>, is a hot spot for millionaires and <a href="https://www.curbed.com/2015/11/10/9901858/miami-beach-spec-mansions-north-bay-road" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrities buying waterfront estates.</a></li><li>Luxury real-estate agent Nelson Gonzalez calls it "the Park Avenue of Miami Beach" for its prestige and elite clientele.</li><li>I toured a 12-bedroom, <a href="http://www.nelsongonzalez.com/miami-beach-mls-listing/A10530876.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$29.5 million mansion on North Bay Road</a> that comes with an infinity pool and a pool house, and it seems to offer much more bang for your buck than some similarly priced homes I've toured in New York City.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul><p> </p><p>It's been called "<a href="https://www.miamicondoinvestments.com/north-bay-road-homes-n-bay-rd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Millionaires' Row</a>" and "<a href="https://www.curbed.com/2015/11/10/9901858/miami-beach-spec-mansions-north-bay-road" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the celeb-heavy Miami street</a> that wants to be Rodeo Drive."</p><p>North Bay Road is a residential street in Miami Beach that's become a hot spot for millionaires and celebrities buying waterfront estates. Luxury real-estate agent Nelson Gonzalez, who calls it "the Park Avenue of Miami Beach," has sold homes on the road to the likes of Cher and Billy Joel. </p><p><a href="https://www.curbed.com/2015/11/10/9901858/miami-beach-spec-mansions-north-bay-road"></a><a href="https://miami.curbed.com/2014/12/19/10009600/matt-damon-got-15375-million-for-his-north-bay-rd-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Actor Matt Damon</a>, singers Phil Collins, Shakira, Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez, designers Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, and Hollywood director Michael Bay are all known to have <a href="https://www.curbed.com/2015/11/10/9901858/miami-beach-spec-mansions-north-bay-road" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bought homes on North Bay Road,</a> according to Curbed.</p><p>I recently got an exclusive tour of a $29.5 million mansion on North Bay Road from Gonzalez, the listing agent. The 12-bedroom waterfront home comes with an infinity pool and a pool house.</p><p>Here's what it looks like. </p>

I toured a $29.5 million mansion on 'the Park Avenue of Miami Beach,' a glitzy waterfront street that's home to Hollywood stars and professional athletes. Look inside the 12-bedroom home.

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12485356" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ron-klain" source="Orion">Ron Klain</keyword> guided the late Justice <keyword id="11964183" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ruth-bader-ginsburg" source="Orion">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</keyword> to her <keyword id="11893011" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="supreme-court" source="Orion">Supreme Court</keyword> confirmation in 1993.</li><li><strong>Clinton-era records detail Klain's "courtesy calls" and confirmation hearing prep.</strong></li></ul><p>In the internal White House memo, Ron Klain offered a brief but unsparing assessment of US senators.</p><p>Sen. <keyword id="12189843" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="patrick-leahy" source="Orion">Patrick Leahy</keyword>, a Vermont Democrat, "can be prickly if ignored, and he has been ignored."</p><p>Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, "can be difficult and stubborn."</p><p>The year was 1993, and as a young White House lawyer in the heat of Washington's early summer, Klain was taking the Senate's temperature on a federal judge from New England, <keyword id="11964180" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stephen-breyer" source="Orion">Stephen Breyer</keyword>, who was poised to become then-President Bill Clinton's first Supreme Court nominee.</p><p>Of then-Sen. <keyword id="99719" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="joe-biden" source="Orion">Joe Biden</keyword>, Klain wrote, "He is going to get back to me today with his final answer, but he was positive."</p><p>He added: "If we can lock down Biden, we would have the Committee leadership on board."</p><div type="image" title="Klain Biden on board" height="818" width="1090" msid="89513089" hostid="261"></div><p>But prospects for Breyer, then a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, dimmed when <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> broke of his <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-06-13-1993164001-story.html">failure to pay</a> Social Security taxes for a part-time housekeeper. Klain's memo — subject line: "Hill consultations regarding Breyer &amp; Social Security problem" — suggested there was still hope for Breyer. </p><p>Ultimately, there was not. In July, Clinton instead nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was confirmed with Klain guiding her through the Senate process. Clinton would return to Breyer a year later when a second Supreme Court seat opened.</p><p>Nearly 30 years later, the "Social Security problem" memo and other Clinton-era White House records offer insights into how Klain might approach the process of replacing Breyer, who announced last month that he plans to retire. </p><p>Biden pledged on the campaign trail to name the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, and in Klain, he has a White House chief of staff with deep expertise in the Senate confirmation process.</p><p>The Clinton-era records portray Klain as a precocious young White House lawyer with an eagerness to jump into the politicking that comes with a Supreme Court confirmation fight. A former Supreme Court clerk, Klain joined the Clinton White House after serving as chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he drew from that experience to spill on Biden and other members who continue to serve on the panel to this day.</p><p>In one memo to Clinton's chief congressional liaison, Howard Paster, Klain said he expected Biden — then the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee — to question Ginsburg about freedom of speech, the "right to die," and her views on a legal precedent for courts to give deference to federal agencies in developing regulations.</p><p>A June 1993 memo identifies Klain and fellow White House lawyer Joel Klein as volunteers to "do the questioning" in mock hearings. Under the heading "courtesy calls," the memo notes that Klain "reported that RBG has seen all of the senators on the Judiciary Committee" except Sen. Arlen Specter, who died in 2012. Another memo mentioned that Klain planned to review video of past Senate confirmation hearings to " identify particular exchanges in several of the hearings that should particularly be·brought to the Judge's attention." </p><div type="image" title="Klain volunteer doc" height="696" width="928" msid="89513090" hostid="261"></div><p>"Because he came out of the Senate, he understood what the landmines were and what answers would blow up in her face," said Neil Eggleston, who served as White House counsel in the Obama administration and, years earlier, worked in the Clinton White House counsel's office. "If there are murderboards — and there always are — he'll do that and go through the hot-button questions. I would expect him to be involved in that sort of moot court prep session."</p><h2><strong><div type="image" title="Grassley Leahy Feinstein" height="3261" width="4348" msid="89513091" hostid="261"></div></strong></h2><h2><strong>Familiar faces</strong></h2><p>In one 1993 memo, Klain highlighted a half-dozen "major areas of focus" in the confirmation hearings. Among them: the death penalty, gay rights, "labor/consumer/antitrust," and Ginsburg's membership and involvement in the American Civil Liberties Union.</p><p>But Klain would go into deeper, senator-by-senator detail — including on three senators who continue to serve today and are poised to vote on Biden's Supreme Court nominee.</p><p>From Grassley, he anticipated a question about whether Ginsburg was a judicial "activist."</p><p>From Leahy, he expected questions about reproductive rights and the Freedom of Information Act, a federal <keyword id="11899820" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="law" source="Orion">law</keyword> designed to make government records available to the public.</p><p>In the memo on Breyer's "Social Security problem," Klain described Sen. Dianne Feinstein as "very skittish on the social security issue generally." The memo was addressed to then-White House counsel Bernie Nussbaum, who declined to comment.</p><p>Klain's subsequent memo about likely lines of questioning characterized the California Democrat as a "hard-liner on immigration issues" and a supporter of gay rights and the death penalty. </p><p>That 1993 memo also said Feinstein "will try to establish that RBG is a moderate; she is concerned about ACLU ties and wants Ginsburg to distance herself."</p><div type="image" title="Klain prickly stubborn" height="809" width="1079" msid="89513092" hostid="261"></div><p>Klain based that memo on Ginsburg's courtesy calls with the senators, along with "our subsequent contacts with staff and senators, and prior Judiciary [Committee] hearings."</p><p>Now in 2022, Leahy, Grassley, and Feinstein remain on the Senate Judiciary Committee. On Thursday, Leahy was among the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee who met with Biden at the White House.</p><p>Outside the White House, Leahy <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?517892-1/senate-democrats-supreme-court-nominees">noted</a> that he has voted on many Supreme Court justices in his nearly five-decade Senate career. But, he said, "This is the historic one."</p><p>In an interview with NBC, Biden said he is vetting "about four" candidates for the coming Supreme Court nomination. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-ketanji-brown-jackson-stephen-breyer-supreme-court-newest-justice-2022-1">Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson</a>, California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, and Judge J. Michelle Childs are considered leading contenders.</p><p>Feinstein was the only Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee who did not attend Thursday's meeting at the White House.</p><p>Ahead of the meeting, Leahy, Feinstein, and Grassley told Insider they could not recall Klain's his approach to shepherding Ginsburg through the confirmation process 30 years ago.</p><p>Asked by Insider about Klain's role, Grassley told Insider, "I have no recollection, except for voting for her."</p><p>The Iowa Republican — who met last week with Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin to discuss the Supreme Court appointment process — declined to share what criteria should be used to vet the next justice. </p><p>"I reserve comment until there's a nominee," Grassley told Insider.</p><p>Leahy said he didn't recall interacting much with Klain in Ginsburg's confirmation process.</p><p>Feinstein said, "Oh, I don't remember," when asked about her recollection of Klain in Ginsburg's confirmation process.</p><h2><strong><div type="image" title="Doug Jones" height="683" width="910" msid="89513094" hostid="261"></div></strong></h2><h2><strong>'Sherpa' Doug Jones and other advisors</strong></h2><p>Klain was just shy of 32 years old when he guided Ginsburg through her Supreme Court confirmation process. While he possessed Senate experience and Supreme Court familiarity, his prominent role at that relatively young age reflected Democrats' decidedly thin bullpen on judicial appointments.</p><p>Prior to Clinton, after all, Republicans had held the White House for 12 years. Before that, President Jimmy Carter <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/package/supremecourt/SCOTUS_trivia.htm#:~:text=Most%20Recent%20President%20Who%20Lacked,the%20opportunity%20to%20do%20so.">served his full term</a> without filling a Supreme Court seat. President Lyndon Johnson — in 1967, with the confirmation of Justice Thurgood Marshall — was the last Democrat to successfully secure a Supreme Court appointee. </p><p>The Clinton-era memos show that the White House reached out to corporate law firms for assistance in Ginsburg's confirmation process. One firm, Covington &amp; Burling, was "preparing a review of the pattern of questions" at other confirmation hearings, including Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's. A team of lawyers at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale, and Dorr was "doing a detailed analysis" of Ginsburg's "written and spoken work outside of the court."</p><p>It is unclear whether the Biden White House will similarly turn to large law firms at a time when his administration is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-judge-diversity-professional-resume-career-nominee-2021-4">eschewing</a> corporate lawyers for judicial appointments.</p><p>And times have certainly changed for Democrats. The team now advising Biden brings years of experience with judicial appointments and is reporting to White House counsel Dana Remus, a former law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who worked in the Obama White House and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-biden-election-lawyers-decision-november-lawsuits-2020-9">served</a> as Biden's 2020 campaign general counsel.</p><p>"I can't recall an administration in history that's had this many principals and senior officials who've been so intimately involved in judicial nominations," said Andy Wright, a former Obama White House lawyer who served on the Biden-Harris transition. "Dana Remus clerked on the Supreme Court. The president was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. The vice president was a member of the Judiciary Committee and the attorney general of our most populous state. The chief of staff was the chief counsel to the Judiciary Committee, and the list goes on ... These are very seasoned professionals in this process."</p><p>The group of advisors also includes Paige Herwig, a former Obama White House and Senate lawyer who once worked for Demand Justice, a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/justice-stephen-breyer-retire-decision-biden-senate-democrats-confirmation-midterms-2022-1">courts-focused progressive group</a> that pressured Breyer to retire. </p><p>Biden also announced last week that former US Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat whom he considered for attorney general, would <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doug-jones-sherpa-biden-supreme-court-nominee-senate-confirmation-hearings-2022-2">serve</a> as the "sherpa" for his Supreme Court nominee. Jones, who <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alabama-senate-race-doug-jones-vs-tommy-tuberville-polls-fundraising-2020-8">lost</a> in the 2020 election to now-Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/tommy-tuberville">Tommy Tuberville</a>, is now <a href="https://www.arentfox.com/attorneys/doug-jones">counsel</a> at the law firm Arent Fox and a <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/people/jones-doug/">distinguished senior fellow</a> at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.</p><p>Other outside advisors include Ben LaBolt, a former Obama White House communications aide who served as national press secretary for Obama's reelection campaign; and Minyon Moore, a principal at the Dewey Square Group who served in the Clinton White House.</p><p>As chief of staff, Klain is expected to have a strong voice in Biden's selection of a nominee. But, with his broader responsibilities, he's almost sure to take a more hands-off approach to the confirmation process.</p><p>"He's now the chief of staff to the president. He's not a chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. So he has obviously a vast array of responsibilities and demands on this time he has to manage along with a Supreme Court nomination process," said Jeff Peck, who served as the Senate Judiciary Committee's staff director when Klain was chief counsel.</p><p>Under him, Peck said, "you have, really, the most superlative, experienced team you've ever had."</p><p><em>Robin Bravender contributed to this article</em></p>

RBG nomination records reveal Ron Klain's playbook for putting a Black woman on the Supreme Court

<ul class="summary-list"><li><span>This is an excerpt from a story delivered exclusively to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Pro subscribers. </span></li><li><span>To receive the full story plus other insights each morning, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/digital-health?IR=T&amp;itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=content_marketing&amp;itm_campaign=briefing_post&amp;itm_content=top_text&amp;itm_term=bundle_subscription_text_link-oscar-health-moves-into-medicare-advantage-market-2019-7">click here.</a></span></li></ul><p>Oscar Health, a $3.2 billion health insurtech we pegged as a <a href="https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS9wb3N0L3RvcC01LXN0YXJ0dXBzLXRvLXdhdGNoLWhlYWx0aC1pbnN1cmFuY2UtMjAxOC02/5d233c18f730436f2414784fBa02e49fe" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS9wb3N0L3RvcC01LXN0YXJ0dXBzLXRvLXdhdGNoLWhlYWx0aC1pbnN1cmFuY2UtMjAxOC02/5d233c18f730436f2414784fBa02e49fe&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563621052871000&amp;usg=AFQjCNErWTBz2KU9wRcPXLnSV4eRkAZ4GA">startup to watch</a> last year, announced it will <a href="https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS9vc2Nhci1oZWFsdGgtbWVkaWNhcmUtYWR2YW50YWdlLXBsYW5zLWZvci0yMDIwLWhvdXN0b24tbmV3LXlvcmstMjAxOS03/5d233c18f730436f2414784fBb2828574" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS9vc2Nhci1oZWFsdGgtbWVkaWNhcmUtYWR2YW50YWdlLXBsYW5zLWZvci0yMDIwLWhvdXN0b24tbmV3LXlvcmstMjAxOS03/5d233c18f730436f2414784fBb2828574&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563621052871000&amp;usg=AFQjCNENrBbAPH8exuaDDiWsfwraMzObig">launch </a>Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in New York City and Houston beginning next year - and its strategy provides some valuable insight regarding how new entrants could approach the MA market. Oscar will partner with Bronx-based health system Montefiore in New York, and with a mix of physician groups and individual hospitals in Houston. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right no-rightrail"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d31d9a4a209d302d4672cd0-2325/oscar health enrollment.png" border="0" alt="Oscar Health Enrollment" data-mce-source="Business Insider Intelligence" /></div></div></div></p><p>The insurtech's plan is to experiment and find out which of the two competing approaches works best. "These are pretty much the competing models you have in Medicare Advantage, so we'll test them both," Oscar CEO Mario Schlosser said in a recent interview.</p><p><strong>Here's a breakdown of Oscar's two-pronged Medicare Advantage strategy:</strong></p><ul><li>Oscar's Montefiore partnership in New York is in line with its existing "narrow network" plans - but the approach could alienate Medicare-age patients. Oscar's membership more than <a href="https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS9wb3N0L3N0YXJ0dXBvc2NhcmhlYWx0aGltcGFzc2U/5d233c18f730436f2414784fB3bced681" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS9wb3N0L3N0YXJ0dXBvc2NhcmhlYWx0aGltcGFzc2U/5d233c18f730436f2414784fB3bced681&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563621052871000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFi6M4CKn394Btv09tHrJe5N13fDQ">doubled</a>from around 100,000 in 2017 to 257,000 in 2018 - which it achieved despite shifting to narrow network plans, in which Oscar usually partners with a single, high-quality health system in a city. "We believe that we don't need to have every doctor, every hospital. You need to have good doctors, and good hospitals that will attract people," Oscar's Chief Policy and Strategy officer Joel Klein <a href="https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubW9kZXJuaGVhbHRoY2FyZS5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS8yMDE4MDIwNi9ORVdTLzE4MDIwOTkzOC9vc2Nhci1oZWFsdGgtZHJpdmVzLW1lbWJlcnNoaXAtZ3Jvd3RoLXRocm91Z2gtbmFycm93LW5ldHdvcmstc3RyYXRlZ3k/5d233c18f730436f2414784fBb4944518" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubW9kZXJuaGVhbHRoY2FyZS5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS8yMDE4MDIwNi9ORVdTLzE4MDIwOTkzOC9vc2Nhci1oZWFsdGgtZHJpdmVzLW1lbWJlcnNoaXAtZ3Jvd3RoLXRocm91Z2gtbmFycm93LW5ldHdvcmstc3RyYXRlZ3k/5d233c18f730436f2414784fBb4944518&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563621052871000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFfqDUK8bzuR9hOJ0ArWisVpmmlYQ">told</a>Modern Healthcare in 2018. However, an especially narrow network - in which New York City members are only fully covered at Montefiore - may turn off potential elderly clients who are used to the security of traditional Medicare, which is accepted by <a href="https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGVhbHRoY2FyZS5jb20vaW5mby9tZWRpY2FyZS9kby1hbGwtZG9jdG9ycy1hY2NlcHQtbWVkaWNhcmU/5d233c18f730436f2414784fB85452a01" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGVhbHRoY2FyZS5jb20vaW5mby9tZWRpY2FyZS9kby1hbGwtZG9jdG9ycy1hY2NlcHQtbWVkaWNhcmU/5d233c18f730436f2414784fB85452a01&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563621052871000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEH-yj_M86Z_OXxWwgzBoFVr6jK9Q">93%</a> of primary care physicians.</li><li>While its approach in Houston gives members access to more care options - it could be more expensive to run. Prior to February 2017, Oscar essentially rented its provider network from insurer MagnaCare, and outsourced its payment processes. The primary reason Oscar ditched wide coverage networks in favor of narrow network health plans in 2017 was to control costs. And despite moving payments in-house and signing its own deals with providers, managing a wider partner base for Oscar's MA launch in Houston will likely cost more than its exclusive deal with Montefiore in New York. </li></ul><p><strong>The bigger picture:<span></span></strong> Getting into the MA market as a startup is difficult and costly, so moving in slowly could pay off for Oscar if it can devise a way to attract patients, while keeping costs low.</p><p>Oscar is smart to plot its course into the MA market carefully: Big insurers dominate the space and patients are more costly than those on traditional Medicare. Oscar needs to pump up its membership after its growth greatly decelerated from 2018's explosive 170% year-over-year (YoY) increase to an 8% YoY uptick in 2019, which we've touched on as a cause of <a href="https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS9wb3N0L3N0YXJ0dXBvc2NhcmhlYWx0aGltcGFzc2U/5d233c18f730436f2414784fC3bced681" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS9wb3N0L3N0YXJ0dXBvc2NhcmhlYWx0aGltcGFzc2U/5d233c18f730436f2414784fC3bced681&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563621052871000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFB1of7LOeQQJ7sjCyc7eohQ059FA">concern</a>.</p><p>But three major US insurers control nearly <a href="https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubW9kZXJuaGVhbHRoY2FyZS5jb20vaW5zdXJhbmNlL2hlYWx0aC1pbnN1cmVycy1taWdyYXRpbmctbWVkaWNhcmUtbWVkaWNhaWQ/5d233c18f730436f2414784fB9e14514c" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubW9kZXJuaGVhbHRoY2FyZS5jb20vaW5zdXJhbmNlL2hlYWx0aC1pbnN1cmVycy1taWdyYXRpbmctbWVkaWNhcmUtbWVkaWNhaWQ/5d233c18f730436f2414784fB9e14514c&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563621052871000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGUijQVugw4AF117GKAAfRMJcpYXg">70%</a> of the MA market, leaving little room for startups like Oscar to muscle their way in. Furthermore, MA patients pose a huge risk for a lean insurtech like Oscar, which found its stride by offsetting high deductibles with low-cost primary care visits and free telemedicine: MA members have higher rates of social and clinical risk factors than traditional Medicare enrollees - such as poverty, mental illness, and substance abuse - resulting in higher costs for payers, <a href="https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly9nby5hdmFsZXJlLmNvbS9hY3Rvbi9hdHRhY2htZW50LzEyOTA5L2YtNjllMzI1MzItY2UxNy00MmM4LTg3YmMtOGI5NWUxMmUyNThhLzEvLS8tLy0vLS9CTUFfRHVhbHNfSVNQT1JfMjAxOS5wZGY_bmM9MQ/5d233c18f730436f2414784fB616d0776" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly9nby5hdmFsZXJlLmNvbS9hY3Rvbi9hdHRhY2htZW50LzEyOTA5L2YtNjllMzI1MzItY2UxNy00MmM4LTg3YmMtOGI5NWUxMmUyNThhLzEvLS8tLy0vLS9CTUFfRHVhbHNfSVNQT1JfMjAxOS5wZGY_bmM9MQ/5d233c18f730436f2414784fB616d0776&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563621052872000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF2xoH7HufgfMOM0xuWSQYawzxB3Q">per</a> a recent Avalere Health study.</p><p>It makes sense for Oscar to take time to understand how to manage the higher claims costs associated with courting an older, higher-risk demographic, which could help it accelerate faster than other MA entrants - <a href="https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS9wb3N0L3RoZS1tZWRpY2FyZS1hZHZhbnRhZ2UtbWFya2V0LWlzLWJvb21pbmcteWV0LW9ubHktMy1vZi1lbnRyYW50cy1oYXZlLXNlZW4taGlnaC1tZW1iZXItZ3Jvd3RoLWhlcmVzLXdoeS0yMDE5LTU/5d233c18f730436f2414784fB41c229a3" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://e.businessinsider.com/click/17533278.3262/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS9wb3N0L3RoZS1tZWRpY2FyZS1hZHZhbnRhZ2UtbWFya2V0LWlzLWJvb21pbmcteWV0LW9ubHktMy1vZi1lbnRyYW50cy1oYXZlLXNlZW4taGlnaC1tZW1iZXItZ3Jvd3RoLWhlcmVzLXdoeS0yMDE5LTU/5d233c18f730436f2414784fB41c229a3&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563621052872000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEW6Q6oCt3ihzarQ1dpUuVXt4nSWw">fewer than 3%</a> of which achieved growth of 10,000 or more members in the past five years.</p><p><em><strong>Interested in getting the full story? 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Here's how Oscar Health plans to move into the Medicare Advantage market

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<p>Amplify, a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amplify-ceo-joel-klein-talks-digital-learning-and-education-technology-2013-11">technology education company led by former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein</a>, is currently testing its all-tablet-based teaching and learning program in classrooms across the country.</p>
<p>Instead of lugging textbooks or looking at the blackboard, each student has a tablet, running <a href="http://www.amplify.com/">Amplify</a>'s software, which allows him or her to view related course materials and send instant feedback to the teacher's tablet.</p>
<p>Watch above a demo of three cool teaching features of this experimental tablet software that could be the future of digital <keyword id="6355445" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Education">education</keyword>.</p>
<p><em>Produced by Amanda Macias. Additional camera by Will Wei.</em></p>

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<p><div class="image-container click-to-enlarge" style="width:618px"><div class="image"><a title_source="NASA" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/51252935eab8ea6934000005-960/curioisty%20rover.jpg"><span class="click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/51252935eab8ea6934000005-946-710/curioisty%20rover.jpg?maxX=618" border="0" alt="Curiosity rover" width="618" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;" /></a></div><p class="source"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/telecon/index.html">NASA</a></p></div></p>
<p class="p1">A couple of weeks ago, <keyword id="6360409" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="NASA">NASA</keyword>'s Curiosity rover used the drill on her robotic arm for the first time to drill into a Martian rock and collect a powered sample from the inside of that rock. </p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The rock, called "John Klein," was chosen because it was flat and stable for drilling. It also showed signs, like white veins, that water once flowed through it.  </span></p>
<p class="p1">The image above was released by NASA today and shows the powdered sample sitting in the rover's scoop. This confirms that the drilling was successful.  </p>
<p class="p1">There's about a tablespoon of material sitting in the scoop. The scoop is a little less than two inches wide.</p>
<p><div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/51253b91eab8ea035d00001f-943-707/curiosity-drilling.jpg" border="0" alt="Curiosity Drilling" width="400" /></div><p class="source">NASA</p><p class="caption">Here's the first drilling hole on <keyword id="47638" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mars">Mars</keyword> in which a sample was collected. A shallower hole, used as test, sits to the right. </p></div></p>
<p class="p1">What's interesting is that the scoop sample has a white-ish, gray color, not the typical orange-red color that we associate with Mars.  </p>
<p class="p1">We've seen evidence of this before when the Curiosity <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/curiosity-uses-dust-removal-tool-for-the-first-time-2013-1">used a wire-bristled tool to brush dust off a patch of rock</a>. Everything is covered in red dust, but once underneath it's actually more gray.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">"When things turn orange it's because there is a rusting process that oxidizes iron in rock," Joel Hurowitz, Curiosity's sampling system scientist, said in a press conference Wednesday, Feb 20. </p>
<p class="p1">Because these rocks are not orange it means that they may have not gone through this process. In turn, they may provide some indication of what iron was doing before the later oxidation process, explains Hurowitz.  </p>
<p class="p1">We'll know more about the actual chemistry of the sample once Curiosity does some real analysis with her sophisticated set of tools. That's the next step.  </p>
<p class="p1">The sample will be sieved and then portions of the sample will be passed straight to the <span>Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument and then to the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument.   </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span>Stay tuned.  </span></p>

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Writer Anand Giridharadas brutally criticized corporate board members at a conference, asking them 'where were you' on the climate crisis, the opioid epidemic, and widening inequality

<p class="p1"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d46da811a8463e69c3-1200-811/elvispresley_marshutz_stanley-1.jpg" border="0" alt="ElvisPresley_Marshutz_Stanley" /><p class="source"><span>Roger Marshutz/Courtesy of Estee Stanley</span></p><p class="caption">"The King" Elvis Presley is regarded as one of the most significant culture icons of the 20th century. To this day, he is the best-selling solo artist in the history of recorded music.</p></div><p></p></div></div>What exactly do we mean when we call someone "cool?" Most would struggle to describe it, but just about everyone knows "cool" when they see it. It is a distinctly American invention that finds its roots in African-American culture, Jazz, and the multitude of icons that the American fame machine has produced. </p>
<p class="p1">A new exhibition and book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Cool-Joel-Dinerstein/dp/3791353497">"American Cool,"</a> currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., traces the origins of "cool." It also includes a look at the 100 "coolest" Americans of all time.</p>
<p class="p1">To decide who made the list, curators Frank H. Goodyear III, the co-director of the Bowndown College Museum of Art, and Joel Dinerstein, the director of the American Studies program at Tulane University, engaged in a vigorous debate based on four criteria. </p>
<p class="p1"><span>Dinerstein explained to PBS Newshour: </span>"First <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/kerouac-cobain-and-the-photos-that-define-american-cool/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=pbsofficial&amp;utm_campaign=newshour">an originality of artistic vision as established through a signature style</a>, which is to say their artistic vision cannot be separate from their personality. Second, that in a given historical moment, they were perceived as a cultural rebel. Third, that they have high profile recognition. Fourth, that they have a recognized cultural legacy."</p>
<p class="p1">While the usual suspects are featured, including James Dean, Jimi Hendrix, and Hunter S. Thompson, there are many less obvious faces on the "cool" list as well. All are, however, what Dinerstein calls,<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">"the successful rebels of American culture."</span></p>
<p class="p1">The National Portrait Gallery shared a selection of the portraits with us here, but you <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Cool-Joel-Dinerstein/dp/3791353497">can see the entire collection in the book</a> or <a href="http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/cool/">at the gallery until September 7th</a>.</p>
<h3>Long Island-native Walt Whitman was a poet, essayist, and journalist, best known for his seminal poetry collection "Leaves of Grass" (1855), which was criticized for its overt sexuality.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d569bedd557f3e69be-1200-1794/waltwhitman_hollyer_npg_82_25-1.jpg" border="0" alt="WaltWhitman_Hollyer_NPG_82_25" /><p class="source"><span>Samuel Hollyer/Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery</span></p><p class="caption">Walt Whitman</p></div><p></p></div></div>Frederick Douglass was an African-American orator, writer, statesman, and activist. After escaping from slavery in 1838, Douglass wrote a landmark autobiography of his experience and became a leader of the abolitionist movement.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d46bb3f7034e3e69c4-1200-1407/frederickdouglass_unid_npg_74_75-1.jpg" border="0" alt="FrederickDouglass_unid_NPG_74_75" /><p class="source"><span>National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution;</span></p><p class="caption">Frederick Douglass, 1856.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. At the time of his death from alcoholism at 28, Beiderbecke was little known outside of the jazz community. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d46bb3f7094e3e69bf-1200-2017/beiderbeckebix-1.jpg" border="0" alt="beiderbeckeBIX" /><p class="source"><span>Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University</span></p><p class="caption">Bix Beiderbecke, 1920.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Nicknamed "the Empress of the Blues," Bessie Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often considered the greatest singer of the era.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d4ecad0408353e69bc-1200-1612/bessiesmith_vanvechten_npg_91_108-1.jpg" border="0" alt="BessieSmith_VanVechten_NPG_91_108" /><p class="source"><span>Carl Van Vechten Trust/Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery</span></p><p class="caption">Bessie Smith, 1936.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Billie Holiday was a jazz singer and songwriter, whose style was inspired by jazz instrumentalists. She worked with many of the titans of early jazz, including Count Basie, Artie Shaw,  and Louis Armstrong.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d4ecad04c2313e69bc-1200-885/billieholliday_willoughby_npg_97_96-1.jpg" border="0" alt="BillieHolliday_Willoughby_NPG_97_96" /><p class="source"><span>Bob Willoughby</span></p><p class="caption">Billie Holiday, 1951.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Though born in Britain, Audrey Hepburn made her mark on American culture as a film, TV, and Broadway icon during Hollywood's "Golden Age," with the films "Breakfast At Tiffany's" (1961) and "My Fair Lady" (1964).<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d4eab8ea01083e69be-1200-1542/audreyhepburn_halsman_npg_95_96-1.jpg" border="0" alt="AudreyHepburn_Halsman_NPG_95_96" /><p class="source"><span>Philippe Halsman Archive</span></p><p class="caption">Audrey Hepburn, 1955.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Hailing from Hoboken, New Jersey, Frank Sinatra was one of the most influential and best-selling entertainers of all time.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d469bedde1793e69be-1200-822/franksinatra_leonard_rutgers-1.jpg" border="0" alt="FrankSinatra_Leonard_Rutgers" /><p class="source"><span>Herman Leonard Photography LLC</span></p><p class="caption">Frank Sinatra, 1956.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Humphrey Bogart was named in 1999 by the American Film Institute as the greatest male star in the history of film. He appeared in such iconic movies as "Casablanca" (1942), "The Big Sleep" (1946), "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), and "Sabrina" (1954).<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d4ecad0446263e69c7-1200-1505/humphreybogart_halsman_npg_85_11-1.jpg" border="0" alt="HumphreyBogart_Halsman_NPG_85_11" /><p class="source"><span>© Philippe Halsman Archive</span></p><p class="caption">Humphrey Bogart, 1944.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Lauren Bacall is a film and stage actress most famous during Hollywood's "Golden Age." She often appeared alongside Humphrey Bogart and was a mainstay in the film noir genre, often playing the "femme fatale" role.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d46bb3f707583e69be-1200-1732/laurenbacall_eisenstaedt_timelife-1.jpg" border="0" alt="LaurenBacall_Eisenstaedt_TimeLife" /><p class="source"><span>Alfred Eisenstaedt. Courtesy of the Time Life Collection.</span></p><p class="caption">Lauren Bacall, 1949.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Considered by many to be the greatest actor of all time, Marlon Brando achieved acclaim for playing the role of Stanley Kowalski in the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) and later for his roles in "On The Waterfront" (1954), "The Godfather" (1972), and "Apocalypse Now" (1979).<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d569bedd5b753e69cf-1200-1536/marlonbrando_halsman_npg_98_38-1.jpg" border="0" alt="MarlonBrando_Halsman_NPG_98_38" /><p class="source"><span>Philippe Halsman Archive</span></p><p class="caption">Marlon Brando, 1950.</p></div><p></p></div></div>James Dean is best known as an icon of teen disillusionment, which he exhibited prominently in the film "Rebel Without A Cause" (1955). He died in a car accident at 24.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d469bedd877e3e69bc-1200-986/jamesdean_schatt_npg_91_209-1.jpg" border="0" alt="JamesDean_Schatt_NPG_91_209" /><p class="source"><span>Roy Schatt</span></p><p class="caption">James Dean, 1954.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Mississippi-born Muddy Waters is considered the "father of modern Chicago blues" and is credited with influencing some of the biggest acts of the 1960s and 1970s, including The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d4ecad04e72e3e69bc-1200-1673/muddywaters_stewart_rutgers-1.jpg" border="0" alt="MuddyWaters_Stewart_Rutgers" /><p class="source"><span>Charles H. Stewart/National Portrait Gallery</span></p><p class="caption">Muddy Waters, 1960.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Miles Davis was a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Davis revolutionized jazz in  the '50s, '60s, and '70s, pioneering the jazz fusion, jazz-rock, and jazz-funk genres.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d4eab8eac7013e69c1-1200-1714/milesdavis_avakian-1.jpg" border="0" alt="MilesDavis_Avakian" /><p class="source"><span>© Aram Avakian</span></p><p class="caption">Miles Davis, 1955.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Actor Steve McQueen has been called "the King of Cool" for his anti-hero persona and his many popular iconic movies, such as "The Great Escape" (1963) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968).<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d46bb3f7b1543e69be-1200-794/stevemcqueen_claxton_faheyklein-1.jpg" border="0" alt="SteveMcQueen_Claxton_FaheyKlein" /><p class="source"><span>William Claxton Estate, courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles</span></p><p class="caption">Steve McQueen, 1962.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Hailing from Seattle, Washington, Jimi Hendrix was called "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music," by the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d46da811a04b3e69bc-1200-1709/jimihendrix_mccartney_npg_96_26_publicity-ok.jpg" border="0" alt="JimiHendrix_McCartney_NPG_96_26_publicity ok" /><p class="source"><span>Paul McCartney/Photographer Linda McCartney</span></p><p class="caption">Jimi Hendrix, 1967.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Joan Didion is a writer and essayist best known for her documentation of the tumultuous American culture in the 1960s.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d4eab8ea150c3e69be-1200-864/joandidion_wasser_npg_2012_35-1.jpg" border="0" alt="JoanDidion_Wasser_NPG_2012_35" /><p class="source"><span>Julian Wasser/Courtesy of Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica</span></p><p class="caption">Joan Didion, 1970.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist that first achieved recognition as a graffiti artist on the Lower East Side during the late 1970s. He died of a heroin overdose at 27.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d4eab8ea2e053e69c2-1200-1318/basquiat_kasterine_npg_2011_24-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Basquiat_Kasterine_NPG_2011_24" /><p class="source"><span>Dmitri Kasterine</span></p><p class="caption">Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1986</p></div><p></p></div></div>Scottish-born David Byrne is a founding member of American new wave band Talking Heads, one of the most popular and influential bands of the 1980s.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d46da8117f493e69be-1200-870/davidbyrne_resnick_npg_2011_106-1.jpg" border="0" alt="DavidByrne_Resnick_NPG_2011_106" /><p class="source"><span>Marcia Resnick</span></p><p class="caption">David Byrne, 1981.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Debbie Harry is a singer-songwriter, most famous for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d4eab8eaab0b3e69be-1200-1219/debbieharry_mapplethorpe-1.jpg" border="0" alt="DebbieHarry_Mapplethorpe" /><p class="source"><span>Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation/Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution National Portriat Gallery.</span></p><p class="caption">Deborah Harry, 1978.</p></div><p></p></div></div>One of the most influential pop stars of the last 30 years, Madonnna broke through in the early '80s with her debut single "Everybody" and later with "Like A Virgin."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d469bedd757a3e69bc-1200-1802/madonna_simon-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Madonna_Simon" /><p class="source"><span>Copyright Kate Simon</span></p><p class="caption">Madonna, 1983.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Kurt Cobain was the lead singer and guitarist of grunge band Nirvana. Cobain struggled with heroin addiction and depression through much of his life, eventually committing suicide at 27 in 1994.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d46bb3f7ba533e69c4-1200-1579/kurtcobain_seliger-_npg_2013_68.jpg" border="0" alt="KurtCobain_Seliger _NPG_2013_68" /><p class="source"><span>Mark Seliger</span></p><p class="caption">Kurt Cobain, 1993.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Tony "The Birdman" Hawk is a former professional skateboarder, widely considered to be one of the most influential pioneers of skateboarding. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d56da81167493e69be-1200-1201/tonyhawk_schoeller_npg_2010_37.jpg" border="0" alt="TonyHawk_Schoeller_NPG_2010_37" /><p class="source"><span>Martin Schoeller/Courtesy of the Artist and Hasted Kraeutler, NYC</span></p><p class="caption">Tony Hawk, 1999.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro has appeared in numerous cult films including "The Usual Suspects" (1995), "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" (1998), "Snatch" (2000), and "Sin City" (2005).<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/536cf5d46bb3f79f573e69c2-1200-1505/beneciodeltoro_bird_npg_2012_32-1.jpg" border="0" alt="BenecioDelToro_Bird_NPG_2012_32" /><p class="source"><span>Cass Bird</span></p><p class="caption">Benecio del Toro, 2008.</p></div><p></p></div></div></h3>

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