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Business Day
From Michael Lewis, a Portrait of the Men Who Shaped ‘Moneyball’
The best-selling author studied the work of two psychologists and chronicled their unusual partnership of ideas in the book “The Undoing Project.”https://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Project-Friendship-Changed-Minds/dp/0393254593/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480959894&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Undoing+Project
I will get the book from the library. I do want to read it.
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U.S.
Ben Carson Lived in Public Housing, but Critics Worry Over How He Will Lead It
Experts in urban areas admire Mr. Carson’s medical clout but are concerned about his lack of experience in government.Ben Carson is a technocrat.
He may make an acceptable H.U.D. chief.
He will have a lot of learning to do in a short time.
There will be damage done while he is learning.
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Arts
‘Saturday Night Live’ and Trump Spar Once Again
The show criticized Donald J. Trump’s use of Twitter; he responded with a tweet.Sad rather than funny. I can't raise a chuckle.
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman
A better student of reality than I.
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U.S.
Bowe Bergdahl, Facing Desertion Trial, Asks Obama for Pardon
Lawyers for Sergeant Bergdahl are concerned he would not get a fair trial under President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has called him a “no-good traitor.”I did not need this evidence of the innocence of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
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Opinion
Save the Pacific Bluefin Tuna
The apex predator is being fished for its delicious flesh so relentlessly that it is being pushed to the brink of extinction.Protect the fish. Limit fishing.
It must be done if the Pacific Bluefin Tuna is to survive.
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U.S.
Dylann Roof to Represent Himself at Trial in Charleston Church Shootings
A federal judge called the request by Mr. Roof “strategically unwise,” but allowed him to have lawyers present as backup.Dylann Roof's choice is suicidal.
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Opinion
How to Help Working People
If Donald Trump, as president, acts in the interests of the people who voted for him, the labor reforms of the Obama era will be safe.Liberal democracy is not safe.
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Will California Ever Let Sierra Nevada Forests Burn?
In the Sierra Nevada, California’s main forest fire problem lies in not letting forests burn.The no burn policy has been locked in by development.
The Sierra Nevada forests will burn destructively.
They will not burn naturally.
Those forests nolonger exist.
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N.Y. / Region
Cross Takes Its Place, Temporarily, Atop Shrine at World Trade Center
It will be replaced with a permanent cross when the St. Nicholas National Shrine, in Lower Manhattan, opens in the first half of 2018.This is not a newsworthy event.
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N.Y. / Region
Citi Bike Under Pressure to Expand to Low-Income Neighborhoods
The bike-share program is making efforts to serve all New Yorkers, but officials say the system might not reach all boroughs unless the city helps pay for it.Citi Bike should fulfill its contractual obligation.
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U.S.
Dylann Roof Wants His Lawyers Back to Begin Trial
In a written request, Mr. Roof, accused of killing nine blacks in a South Carolina church, asked to represent himself again in the sentencing phase.Dylann Roof is not learning fast enough.
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World
India’s Police Investigating Rape Accusation by American Tourist
A woman says a group of men assaulted her in April at a five-star hotel where she was staying as part of a package tour.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Cops
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Opinion
At War Over the Right Kind of Peace
I was kidnapped by Colombia’s Marxist guerrillas and held for six and a half years. Here is how the country can move forward.Point taken.
Ending the fighting is the first step toward stability.
https://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Project-Friendship-Changed-Minds/dp/0393254593/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480959894&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Undoing+Project
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Opinion
Video: Pickle
A couple builds an unlikely menagerie of obese chickens, paraplegic possums, and bodyless fish.I will not do it to you.
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World
Lufthansa Joins Germany’s List of Companies in Distress
A strike by pilots at the airline has caused travel problems in Europe and threatened to damage Germany’s longstanding cooperation between management and labor.Fiction does not significantly control reality.
Germany has been selling a lie about industrial policy.
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Opinion
Mother Nature Is Brought to You By ...
Advertising and intrusive marketing is invading once-sacred spaces like public parks and churches. How to resist the tide of commercialization.The rest of the country is devoted to sales.
There is an exception for billboards.
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Business Day
Johnson & Johnson Must Pay 6 Implant Patients $1 Billion
A federal jury found that metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants were defectively designed, and that the company did not warn consumers of the risks.Knowing bad design is fraud.
Opinion
Fake Cowboys and Real Indians
As Western standoffs go, the Bundy brothers episode featured comic book cowboys. But for the Standing Rock Sioux, a pipeline is an existential threat.Yes.
Movies
For Critics’ Prizes, ‘La La Land’ Leads a Three-Way Race
“Manchester by the Sea” and “Moonlight” are making strong showings, too. But the industry awards will be the real indicators.I may see the winner.
U.S.
Maine Adopts Ranked-Choice Voting. What Is It, and How Will It Work?
Maine will become the first state to use the method, which allows voters to list candidates in order of preference.Lazy voters.
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