If you had women on the boards in those companies you would not have had the kind of payouts. | | | | Don Taylor and William Holden in one of the greatest war movies ever, "Stalag 17," directed by Billy Wilder. 1953.
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 | The Paris Review |
| They did or said something awful, and made something great. They are monster geniuses, and I don’t know what to do about them. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The mogul used money from his brother and elaborate legal agreements to hide allegations of predation for decades. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| In April, around 100 employees of the Worldwide Leader in Sports were laid off. Since leaving the mothership, some have found new work, new homes, and new careers—while others are still searching for their next chapter. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Donald Trump's supporters now have what they want: a president who embodies the rage they feel, while reassuring them that hatred is justifiable. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Things aren’t great if you’re a department store. | | |
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 | The Takeout |
| On November 26, 1863, the United States celebrated its first official Thanksgiving. Aside from the small matter of the Civil War, the Union had a lot to be grateful for. Business was good. The nation's boundaries and population were growing. Relations were peaceful with every foreign power except the Confederate States of America. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| The federal authorities have made it clear this is an ongoing investigation - will they dig in on agents too? The answer could reverberate through every level of the basketball world. | | |
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 | RentHop |
| A practice widely considered unethical (and illegal in most states), price gouging is when sellers take advantage of a disaster situation to excessively raise prices on essential goods like food, fuel, and shelter. Concern across communities about this problem is especially heightened after the past several months of storms, forest fires, and other disasters. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| How a 21st century Detroit navigates the dangers of regeneration is a particularly poignant question on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit race riots. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Conservatives have a breathtaking plan for Trump to pack the courts | | |
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 | Reason.com |
| Promises "we're going to see an explosion in the kinds of connectivity and the depth of that connectivity" like never before. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Dear FCC Chairman Ajit Pai: As you recently announced, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under your leadership, soon will release rules to dismantle your agency's existing "net neutrality" protections under Title II of the Communications Act, which shield the public from anti-consumer behaviors of the giant cable companies that provide high-speed internet to most people. | | |
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 | Hodinkee |
| In the 1980s, the quartz revolution swerved from technology to fashion-first. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| The trivia app has become a sensation on the app store and a darling for media prognosticators. Its CEO threatened to fire its star host for talking to us about salad. | | |
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| Bloomberg |
| The evidence so far is that corporations won't be much affected and consumers could even benefit. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| Earlier this month, journalist James Bridle launched a wide-reaching debate on the "industrialized nightmare production" of YouTube Kids videos. These weren't overtly violent, sexual, or scatological videos, but they felt viscerally wrong . | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| One of the biggest stars in Hollywood opens up about the evolution of her career and feelings about celebrity, the phone hack that left her feeling "gang-banged by the f---ing planet" and her work with Darren Aronofsky on the most grueling and controversial movie of her career ("I kind of made it and broke it"). | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| “When you make private settlements, it doesn’t warn the next woman or the next person going into that situation.” | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The long read: In the dying days of the battle of Mosul, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad followed Iraqi soldiers during the last push against Isis. But following their victory, a new wave of savagery was unleashed | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Still riding the wave of Nirvana-mania that grunge-ified all facets of pop culture in the early '90s, Nirvana's label DGC compiled Incesticide, full of rare singles, B-sides, demos, and other ephemera from the band. | | |
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 | The Fader |
| Despite shock successes from Dua Lipa, Cardi B, and Camila Cabello, 2017 was a record low for women in the singles charts. We asked industry experts why. | | |
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