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Business Day
Bill and Melinda Gates Tackle ‘Tough Questions’ and Trump
In their annual update for the Gates Foundation, they say that they remain optimistic about the world’s progress, but that President Trump’s policies could hurt their efforts.The Gates are following Andrew Carnegie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_Wealth
They should buy the "Out of print" copyrights.
The works should be available on line.
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N.Y. / Region
Lawmaker Scolded by City Council Over Harass Claim
The City Council ethics committee ordered a Bronx lawmaker to undergo sensitivity training after an incident with a female staffer.The city council can do better.
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World
U.S. and Russia Revive Cold-War Game of Provocative Street Names
Moscow takes up a proposal to change the name of an alley near the U.S. Embassy to 1 North American Dead End, after Washington renames a block for a slain Russian dissident.A silly game that should not be played.
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U.S.
Trump Threatens New Trade Penalties, but It Could Be a Hard Bargain
The president said the United States would announce a “reciprocal tax” on unfair trading partners, but one White House adviser said nothing had been formalized.Trade wars do not encourage growth.
Send union organizers to china.
We can scholarship labor organizers.
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Magazine
Do I Have to Spring for My Kid to Go to an Elite College?
The magazine’s Ethicist column on a parent’s duty to weigh the benefit of college against the cost and what is owed to a fixer in a war-torn country.You have to spring for college. Graduate school is another problem.
Frank Lloyd Wright was fired for stealing clients by Louis Sullivan.
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Times Insider
Maggie Haberman on Her Hardest Interview and Predictions for 2018
The Times’s White House correspondent recently caught up with Jennifer Steinhauer, a colleague and onetime competitor, to discuss the art of interviewing, the Trump effect and more.
"What is the best advice you have gotten from a fellow journalist over the years?
My
editor Gregg Birnbaum at The New York Post was once cautioning me that I
was overthinking a complaint from a subject on a story. “Their problems
are not our problems” was what he said. I think about that a lot."
"I have listened to tapes of myself interviewing people and mostly I try
to be better at directing the conversation. Trump in particular is
really hard because he filibusters. I’ve learned over time when to jump
in and when to let the person just go."
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Theater
Review: ‘Returning to Reims’ and Those European Working-Class Blues
In this play directed by Thomas Ostermeier and starring Nina Hoss, a French philosopher ponders the move to the right in blue-collar France.It may be art.
It is inaccessible to me.
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Sports
On Paul Pierce’s Night, LeBron James Steals the Show
The Celtics had a postgame ceremony planned for their former All-Star player, but a blowout win for the Cavaliers made the night far less celebratory.https://nytimes.stats.com/wcbk/schedules.asp?team=0129
#1 Connecticut Huskies (25-0)
| 2/4 | vs. Cincinnati | 1:00 PM ET | ESPN3 | W 106 - 65 |
| 2/7 | at UCF | 7:00 PM ET | ESPN3 | W 55 - 37 |
| 2/10 | vs. Wichita State | 1:00 PM ET | ESPN3 | W 124 - 43 |
| 2/12 | vs.
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Louisville |
7:00 PM ET | ESPN2 | W 69 - 58 |
| 2/18 | vs. Temple | 2:00 PM ET | CBSS | |
| 2/21 | at Tulane | 8:00 PM ET | ESPN3 | |
| 2/24 | at Southern Methodist | 6:00 PM ET | ESPN3 | |
| 2/26 | vs.
22
South Florida |
7:00 PM ET | ESPN2 |
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Books
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.Examinations of the stage machinery.
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Books
Why Did Christianity Prevail?
Bart D. Ehrman’s “The Triumph of Christianity” looks at how a new religion conquered the Roman Empire.http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-hemingway-law-of-motion-gradually.html
The why is blindingly obvious
like the way banks create money.
Banks lend credit which is money to the borrower.
"Ehrman, summarizing the argument of the social historian Ramsay MacMullen, imagines a crowd of 100 pagans watching a persuasive Christian debate an equally persuasive adherent of the healing god Asclepius: “What happens to the overall relationship of (inclusive) paganism and (exclusive) Christianity? … Paganism has lost 50 worshipers and gained no one, whereas Christianity has gained 50 worshipers and lost no one.” Thus, Christian believers go from roughly 1,000 in A.D. 60, to 40,000 in A.D. 150, to 2.5 million in A.D. 300. Ehrman allows that these raw numbers may look “incredible. But in fact they are simply the result of an exponential curve.” At a certain point, math took over. (Mormonism, which has been around less than 200 years, has seen comparable rates of growth.)"
For subversion to triumph it must provide advantages to the converted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion#Subverting_cultural_hegemony
Religions deal in social support.
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