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N.Y. / Region
Ex-Albany Insider Is Expected to Tell All, if He Can Be Believed
“He has lied to his employer, he has lied to the I.R.S. and he’s even lied to the defendants.” But you can believe Todd Howe, prosecutors say.The prosecution should not depend on Todd Howe.
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Magazine
What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death
Nothing reveals the curious disposability of consumer technology more than this feeble, aging device."As my iPad has aged, I’ve started to notice it more, not because I’m growing fonder, but because I’m getting frustrated: by the fact that it won’t do what it ought to or even what it used to. But what I find most frustrating of all is the gradual disappearance of all options other than buying a new iPad. I understand the reasons for this. I understand the concept of “planned obsolescence” less as a conspiracy than as the unfortunate but universal prerogative of dominant, profit-driven companies that make their money from selling hardware."
A device murdered by competition between sales forces.
"Roadkill on the fashion highway."
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Sports
Four of the World’s Best Olympians, as You’ve Never Seen Them Before
Meet four Olympic athletes, and see them frozen mid-action in augmented reality — as if they were in your living room.The stop action and slow motion are required for the unskilled viewer.
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U.S.
Many Say He’s the Least Qualified Lawyer Ever to Lead a Guantánamo Case. He Agrees.
Lt. Alaric Piette knows he is unfit to be Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri’s only lawyer. But leaving his client with no one, he says, would be worse.I am left with the idea that Republicans would rather kill than think.
"Believe in your very bowels; you may be mistaken."
Oliver Cromwell
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World
No Suspects in Killing of Eccentric American, a Kenyan Wildlife Expert
Esmond Bradley Martin, an American in his 70s, was stabbed to death in his Nairobi home. Police officials and friends are searching for answers.He is dead of a stab wound to the neck.
He traveled and resided in Nairobi.
His occupation was knowing the bloody teeth trade and reporting on it with the goal of suppression.
I know no more than that.
I would expect that he was assassinated by the ivory trade.
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Business Day
Starboard Value Criticizes Mellanox for Stock Sales
The activist hedge fund says corporate insiders showed a lack of faith in the chip maker by selling more of the company’s shares than they bought.Insider trading.
Pump and dump is classic stock trading.
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Books
The Sex Toy Shops That Switched On a Feminist Revolution
Peggy Orenstein reviews “Buzz” and “Vibrator Nation,” two new books about the history and significance of sex toys.Trivial and titillating. Call it soft core porn.
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Magazine
Should I Tell on My Cheating Classmates?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when your friends at school cheat on a test and more.The worst part of cheating is it doesn't work.
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Business Day
Lululemon’s Chief Executive Resigns Over Behavior
Laurent Potdevin, who joined the yoga pants maker in 2014, stepped down because of behavior that fell short of its standards of conduct, the company said.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
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U.S.
Gowdy Emerges as Key Challenger to Trump on G.O.P. Russia Memo
Representative Trey Gowdy’s words matter to Republicans, so when he said the Russia memo did not absolve President Trump, it undercut the White House.Toss this piece of fiction out.
The investigation of Trump continues.
The political fight continues.
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