Saturday, December 23, 2017

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U.S.

Ford Apologizes for Sexual Harassment at Chicago Factories

The company’s chief executive released an apology two days after a New York Times article detailed decades of misconduct.

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

https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/ford-workers-strike-1933/

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Opinion

Why Do I Give on the Subway?

Are we looking for God’s blessing? Or just a reason not to feel guilty?

I have grown callus with street beggars. 

3
Food

Onions Without the Tears

A new sweet red onion has less pungency than the average allium.

I value the pungency.
I miss it in the yellow onion of commerce.

4
Food

Salmon Fit for a Czar

Petrossian’s triple-smoked salmon is a decadent way to ring in the New Year.

I buy nova when I can.

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Food

A Pull-Apart Bread Worth Sharing (Even if You Don’t Want to)

Monkey bread is perfect for a family or holiday brunch: It keeps people together at the table, gathered around a sticky, crunchy, rich treat.

I have eaten it longer than I have made it.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019111-sticky-bun-monkey-bread

6
Reader Center

Readers React to Glenn Thrush’s Punishment; We Respond

A Times editor sheds more light on how the newsroom investigation reached its conclusion about the reporter Glenn Thrush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAGKpoVFbmw

7
Well

The Weekly Health Quiz: Ice Cream, Tea and Families

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.

6of7

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Opinion

Should We Forgive the Men Who Assaulted Us?

A prescription for restorative justice.

One may forgive or receive recompense. An attempt can be made to make victims whole.
One to one it can work.
Here in the #me too system people are dealing with mob rule.
The "many on one" witch hunt has no off switch.

Individual forgiveness makes no difference.

A rebirth of privacy may work.
Cities have been a shelter of anonymity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ym8ECF5vkE&list=PL0077B6FD745A038F


Well

Christmas in the I.C.U.

There’s an illusion that if you want something enough, even something as fantastical as avoiding death, you might just get it.

There are only small mercies to be found in the I.C.U.

A Mercy hospital is an Hospice.

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Business Day

How to Resist Office Gift-Fund Pressure

What to do when the boss “suggests” that you chip in for pricey gifts to colleagues whose performance never impressed you in the first place.

There is no war like an old religious war.
Individuals can make peace.  Sects never do.
Leaders can command peace.
Smiles will be seen.  The difference between a smile and a grimace
is small.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grimace


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1
Well

Should You Shower in the Morning, or at Night? Yes.

Night showers may be leisurely and relaxing, but our writer was surprised to learn that morning showers — or even two showers a day — may be better.

Shower often.

2
Opinion

Tax-Cut Santa Is Coming to Town

He likes it when you’re naughty, as long as you’re already rich.

Paul Krugman has a clear view of the economy.
Opinion

Fifty Shades of Orange

Maybe Republicans like submitting to Trump.

Yuck.
Climate

E.P.A. Officials, Disheartened by Agency’s Direction, Are Leaving in Droves

Among the departures are nearly 200 biologists, chemists and toxicologists, draining the agency of scientific expertise needed to address pollution threats.

Trump is doing things.
The wrong things.
Business Day

Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead.

Steelworkers thought they would see a new dawn for their industry. But the president’s pledge to do something has actually done more harm than good.

Yes
U.S.

Dispute Over Political Strategy Erupts Inside the White House

A meeting involving President Trump and his top advisers devolved into a heated exchange between his former campaign adviser and the White House political director.

Heads will roll.
Fashion & Style

Meghan Markle’s Sheer Top Was a Sneaky Statement for a Royal Portrait

Is a seemingly transparent top appropriate for a royal engagement photograph? The destuffing of the House of Windsor has reached a new stage.

Conditions are reverting to normal.
U.S.

When Will the New Tax Plan Kick In?

Most of the Republican tax plan will take effect in January, but taxpayers will not see every change immediately.

As quickly as the rules can be published.
Opinion

Forget the Strategy Paper. Watch What He Does.

President Trump’s first security strategy statement says many of the right things, but the administration’s actions tell a different story.

Trump is a realestate salesman.
Lies are his stock in trade.
U.S.

In Signing Sweeping Tax Bill, Trump Questions Whether He is Getting Enough Credit

President Trump signed the most significant overhaul of the American tax system in three decades, hastily adding the ceremony after media reports questioned whether he would sign it before Christmas.

Balooning the national debt is Trump's signal accomplishment.

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