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Business Day

‘Wow’: Stunned TV Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Aug 16th 2017

President Trump’s fiery news conference left many on cable news networks searching for ways to describe what they had just seen, and partisan lines blurred in the process.

Donald Trump is just as bad as he was.

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U.S.

Hope Hicks Will Be Trump’s Interim Communications Director

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MAGGIE HABERMAN | Aug 16th 2017

The longtime aide will temporarily fill the spot left by Anthony Scaramucci and help the president find a replacement, an administration official said.

Trump speaks for himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicks

3

Magazine

Down the Breitbart Hole

By WIL S. HYLTON | Aug 16th 2017

Steve Bannon once said it was the platform for the alt-right. Its current editors disagree. Is the incendiary media company at the nerve center of Donald Trump’s America simply provocative — or dangerous?

Breitbart news is realizing that Trump is destructive to their constituency.

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Opinion

Our House Divided

By ROSS DOUTHAT | Aug 16th 2017

Is there a path from the Trump era to civil war?

I was trying to ignore political action during Richard Nixon's first term.

Ross Douthat is seeing things again.


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Sports

Tiger Woods Had 5 Drugs in His System After Arrest, Police Report Says

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Aug 16th 2017

Woods had the active ingredient for marijuana, two painkillers and two sleep drugs in his system when he was arrested in May in Florida, according to the report.

We can hope this is the end of this season's Tiger stories.

6

Well

How Exercise Could Help You Learn a New Language

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS | Aug 16th 2017

Working out during a language class amplifies an adult’s ability to memorize, retain and understand new vocabulary.

Interesting.

7

Arts

Jimmy Kimmel Wants to Remove Trump From Office — and Make Him King

By GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO | Aug 16th 2017

Mr. Kimmel pitched a plan he said he thought the president’s supporters might get behind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_%281660%29

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Opinion

10 Things My Chronic Illness Taught My Children

By PAULA M. FITZGIBBONS | Aug 16th 2017

I worried that my rheumatoid arthritis would harm them. Instead, it has helped them grow.

Growing also hurts.

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Opinion

Why Are American Liberals So Afraid of Russia?

By IVAN KRASTEV | Aug 16th 2017

Because it reminds them of the United States.

Ivan Krastev does not know the politics of the United States.
It is the far right that fears the Soviet Union.

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Fashion & Style

The Great Crystal Boom of 2017

By CAROLINE TELL | Aug 15th 2017

How did crystals go from a New Age curiosity to ubiquitous accessory in the luxury wellness world?

The fashionable pursuit of "wellness" is a craze.
Stones as jewels are an ancient tradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery

Let us talk about the stone and setting.