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Books
Inside the List
Tom Wolfe, whose new book about the evolution of language is No. 14 on the hardcover nonfiction list, says picking fights is “a lot better than not being noticed at all.”A verbal fight will get one read.
There are two different fields considered as one in the Tom Wolfe thesis: speech and language.
Speech is biological and subject to biological evolution.
The human population has about the same capability to generate and perceive audio.
Language is cultural. Children learn it and improvise with it. Language is in constant flux. Its protean coating displays our cultural differences.
Benignity must be maintained.
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U.S.
Chicago’s Plan to Toughen Oversight of Police Is Under Fire
Naturally.
The power structure is shifting.
Change is welcomed and resisted by different groups.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey
This week’s properties are five-bedroom homes in Lloyd Neck, N.Y., and Little Silver, N.J.I do not want to run a commune or even a foster home or a house party.
Ideally home is an hermitage as found in St. Petersburg.
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U.S.
20 Marines Face Discipline After Muslim Recruit’s Death Is Ruled a Suicide
The Marine Corps said trainers faced possible legal or administrative action over recurrent abuse at the camp in South Carolina where the recruit died.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrRcNio9fmM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Price_Glory%3F_(1926_film)
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U.S.
Health Care Providers Scramble to Meet New Disaster Readiness Rule
The new requirements seek to help medical facilities better provide care during emergencies, including severe weather, pandemics and terrorist attacks.Managers tend to think of logistics as their profit center.
This rule changes logistical management.
Suppliers will have to adjust the stability of perishables
If they cannot, new suppliers must be found.
New thinking among managers costs the managers.
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Opinion
Ending Apple’s Offshore Tax Dodge
Readers say a tax avoidance scheme used by many large corporations is unfair to small businesses and average taxpayers.The tax code is built by fallible people with the advice of consultants of complex
loyalties.
Some of the cleverest people spend careers modeling the enormous volume of patches
that is the code in search of advantage. It is no wonder that advantage is found and sold to the highest bidder.
Taxation is a game played between masters for side bets. Some of the side bets are the economies of nations. Hire the best advice that can be afforded and follow it.
The advisors income is contingency dependent.
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The Upshot
Why Taxing Fairly Means Not Taxing Inheritances
The estate tax is a popular tool to fight income inequality, but it violates the simple principle that similar people should have similar tax burdens.The inheritance tax does not burden the people who earned the money.
It burdens the heirs.
Gregory Mankiw is reasoning speciously.
He is also ignoring the graduation of the inheritance tax.
This argument is a political spiel in support of an hereditary elite.
Andrew Carneigi did not approve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_Wealth
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U.S.
Virginia Officials Request U.S. Inquiry After Inmate Deaths in Jail
A 60-year old man died in Hamptons Road Regional Jail in August, the second inmate to die there in nearly a year. Top state officials want an investigation.If prisoners are in jail they awaiting trial and are presumed innocent.
The authorities must provide non-punitive care.
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U.S.
7 Police Officers to Be Charged in Bay Area Sex Scandal
A California prosecutor said criminal charges would be filed after a monthslong investigation into allegations of officers having sex with a teenage prostitute.The prosecution is doing its job.
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N.Y. / Region
Toronto’s Transit Advice for New York: Give Streetcars Their Own Lanes
The de Blasio administration is looking to the Canadian city for lessons as it pushes forward on a streetcar line linking Brooklyn and Queens.The automobile won the battle for the streets in New York.
Many thanks to Robert Moses.
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Opinion
Elizabeth Warren: What Apple Teaches Us About Taxes
Thanks to Europe, the door is now open for Congress to do something smart here.Elizabeth Warren is admirable.
I happen to disagree with her and the supreme court on corporate governance.
A corporation is a fictitious person. It should not be wealthy. It is profitable or not.
Profits belong to the share holders who are, ultimately, persons in receipt of income.
Where and how these persons pay taxes is a problem for the sovereign entities supported by those taxes.
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N.Y. / Region
Conviction Thrown Out for Ex-Rutgers Student in Tyler Clementi Case
A New Jersey court ordered a new trial for Dharun Ravi, who was convicted in 2012 after spying on his roommate, Mr. Clementi, while he had sex with another man. Mr. Clementi later committed suicide.The facts are established.
The new trial will be a bench trial.
The judge will decide the matters of law.
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N.Y. / Region
How the Novelist Megan Abbott Spends Her Sundays
“You Will Know Me,” the latest book by Ms. Abbott, is set in the cutthroat world of girls’ gymnastics. Her Sundays are more relaxed than her thriller novels.Structure is destroyed by my slow pace of execution.
Things simply do not get done in an hour.
Often they do not get done.
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Magazine
How to Track an Animal
Catching is not the point. Keep looking.Things can be learned from the carcass.
It is more fun to know the live animal.
Some animals leave more trace than others.
Seeing is learned.
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U.S.
Video: Obama on ‘Terrifying’ Threat of Climate Change
In an exclusive interview on his legacy, President Obama speaks to The Times’s Mark Landler and Coral Davenport on climate change while visiting Marine Corps Base Hawaii.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/us/politics/obama-climate-change.html
Coal must remain in the ground.
The government then must rescue the people who mine it and their dependents.
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Opinion
Diversity Training for Students
Are colleges going overboard in their efforts to teach students not to offend? And is anti-Semitism getting short shrift?There is always fashionable noise.
It changes the shape of the culture.
The Hebrew orthodox refuse to change.
The resulting friction must be dealt with by all parties.
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World
Passengers Trapped Overnight in Cable Cars in Alps Are Finally Rescued
All 110 people left hanging 12,500 feet in the Mont Blanc massif near Chamonix, France — including 33 who were stranded until morning — were safely evacuated.Panic among the safety people. The passengers all survived.
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Health
Hepatitis A Outbreak Linked to Strawberries at Smoothie Chain
About 89 people have been sickened, many of them customers of Tropical Smoothie Cafe outlets in Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia or West Virginia.Cheap labor.
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U.S.
With Nod to Flint Crisis, Senate Weighs a $9 Billion Water Infrastructure Bill
The measure includes $280 million to address the crisis over contaminated drinking water in Flint and funding to combat the algae problem in southeastern Florida.This congress refuses to spend new money.
Vote.
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