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☆ Opinion: ‘Baby Reindeer’ is a hard-to-watch hit. I hope this will be its legacy
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Jane Carr | Opinion Sara Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —This essay contains some spoilers for “Baby Reindeer.”The Netflix hit “Baby Reindeer” has taken the world by storm with its nuanced, painfully honest portrayal of one man’s experience of stalking and abuse. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “nearly a quarter of men reported some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime. “There is a hidden epidemic of sexual violence within the queer community that is rarely visible in the media. A man some viewers mistakenly identified as the older television writer in “Baby Reindeer” has gone to the police after receiving threatening messages on social media. Whatever the legacy of “Baby Reindeer” may be, it stands as one of the boldest and most forthright explorations of male victims of stalking and sexual assault.

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☆ How to spot a corporate psychopath and avoid hiring a candidate with sociopathy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Corporate psychopaths are drawn to powerful institutions and good at climbing a corporate ladder. Corporate psychopaths are drawn to positions of power, and may be in your field. He gave a presentation about his most recent research, which posthumously diagnosed Bernie Madoff as a corporate psychopath, this week at the Chelmsford Science Festival. Basically, if you see someone act "totally ruthless in determination to accrue money and power and control," they might be a corporate psychopath, Boddy said. Am Psycho ProductionsBoddy said that issuing more stringent hiring practices could be enough to weed out corporate psychopath candidates in the future.

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☆ How a Trump arrest would play out: Yes, he'll be fingerprinted. No, he probably won't be handcuffed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Laura Italiano | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Trump is likely to be fingerprinted, swabbed for the state DNA database, and photographed for his mugshot. Trump has been indicted in the Manhattan district attorney's five-year investigation into his personal and business finances, Insider reported Thursday, but he'll be treated like any defendant moving forward — with many key exceptions. "That's called 'walking it through,'" explains Diana Florence, a former white-collar crime prosecutor for the Manhattan district attorney's office. That's what typically happens in white-collar indictments, said Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former chief assistant with the Manhattan district attorney's office. But even if Trump does need to surrender in person, Secret Service would likely give the perp walk a hard pass.

☆ Here's how a Trump indictment would play out: Yes, he'll be fingerprinted. No, he probably won't be handcuffed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Here are predictions for how this historic event would roll out, courtesy of some of Manhattan's top defense lawyers, former high-ranking prosecutors, and a retired Secret Service special agent. "They can tell the foreperson come back two weeks from Wednesday, or something," to sign the revised indictment, Florence said. There can always be a leak, of course, somewhere between indictment and arraignment, which is the court proceeding where Trump would plead not guilty. But even if Trump does need to surrender in person, Secret Service would likely give the perp walk a hard pass. "That walk is not going to happen," said Pickle, the former Secret Service special agent.

☆ Britney Spears said fans 'went too far' when they called the police to visit her home after she deactivated her Instagram
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Kieran Press-Reynolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Britney Spears called out fans for urging police to visit her after she took down her Instagram. Spears has deactivated her popular Instagram account multiple times before. Spears said she believed the police went to her house because of "prank phone calls" that went "a little too far." As of writing this story on Thursday, Spears' account still remains deactivated. The singer has deactivated her account multiple times before, which has not previously incited widespread panic among her fans.

☆ Psychos in the C-Suite
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University. Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.

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