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☆ By striking down affirmative action, the Supreme Court put forth a dangerous and false ideal of 'colorblindness'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Trisha Gopal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Sotomayor and Thomas are both the likely beneficiaries of affirmative action. A student at Harvard University at a rally in support of keeping affirmative action policies outside the Supreme Court on October 31, 2022. A young boy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995 as students and families protested to keep affirmative action policies. In a statement following the ruling, former president Barack Obama wrote, "Like any policy, affirmative action wasn't perfect. Roberts accused the colleges' affirmative action programs of "employ[ing] race in a negative manner" without any "meaningful end points."

Persons: Sotomayor, —, Clarence Thomas, Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, colorblindness, Colorblindness, Howard Schultz, Tomi Lahren, Plessy, Ferguson, John Marshall Harlan, Antonin Scalia, Justice Roberts, Harlan's, David Butow, Roberts, Barack Obama, Michelle, haven't, Evelyn Hockstein, Michelle Obama, Katherine Phillips, Phillips Organizations: Supreme, Service, Harvard University, University of North, Latina, Yale Law School, Starbucks, Washington Post, Getty, Black, Seattle School District, University of California, Harvard, UCLA, UC, REUTERS, Princeton, Scientific, Columbia Business Locations: Berkeley, University of North Carolina, California, Idaho

☆ Opinion | Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal and Donald Trump’s Defense
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The false statements on his application for a gun also would not prompt criminal prosecution absent evidence of violent behavior. Far from getting favored treatment, Hunter Biden was prosecuted solely because he is his father’s son. To the Editor:I have some questions for congressional Republicans who complain that Hunter Biden got a “sweetheart deal” because he escaped prosecution on a felony gun charge and received only probation on a tax charge. And is it also your position that anyone who fails to file taxes on time or commits tax fraud should have to serve time? If so, will you publicly state that position at campaign rallies?

Persons: Marshall H, “ Hunter Biden, Roger Stone, Hunter Biden, Ursula Bentele Organizations: Brooklyn Law School, National Rifle Locations: Tanick Minneapolis, Deal, York

☆ ‘Bridesmaids’ Star Chris O’Dowd Wants to Know Why His Fridge Has Wi-Fi
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Marshall Heyman | Photographs Melissa Golden For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ON MATTERS of style, Chris O’Dowd is more guy-next-door than Mr. Hollywood. Though based in Los Angeles, the Irish actor, 43, only shops once every two years and lacks a skin-care regimen. “Whatever is there.” Don’t expect him to jump on hot fitness trends. His big break came in 2006 via quirky British comedy “The IT Crowd” (now on Netflix ). Since, he’s brought offbeat charm to such movies as “Bridesmaids,” “Molly’s Game” and “St.

California banking regulators on March 10 closed Silicon Valley Bank in the largest U.S. bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis. Kurt Gwynne, an attorney for the FDIC as receiver for Silicon Valley Bank, disputed at Tuesday's hearing that regulators had done anything improper. Destroyed SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) logo is seen in this illustration taken March 13, 2023. Glenn said he was prepared to allow SVB Financial to use up to $100 million for investment activity. Silicon Valley Bank was SVB Financial's largest asset, accounting for more than $15.5 billion of SVB Financial's $19.7 billion in total assets.

☆ US senators have unveiled a new bipartisan bill to crack down on crypto money laundering
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

US Senators are cracking down on money laundering via cryptocurrency in a new bill on Wednesday. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Roger Marshall proposed the bill titled "Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2022." The bill, titled "Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2022," could amp up know-your-customer (KYC) requirements in an effort to deter bad actors in the nascent space. If it becomes a law, wallet providers, cryptocurrency miners, validators, and mixers could be classified as money service businesses. Warren, who has been a long-time outspoken critic of digital assets, says that she wants the industry to comply with the same money laundering rules as traditional financial institutions.

☆ Mark Cuban cold-called the Dallas Mavericks' CEO to get her to take the job
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Finally returning his messages eventually led to her appointment as CEO of the Dallas Mavericks, Cuban's NBA team. "I honestly didn't know who Mark Cuban was," Marshall told the Dallas Observer in 2018. Marshall told Fortune in October of her thinking at the time. Since the two were initially strangers, their first phone call simply involved "getting to know a little about each other," Marshall told Yahoo Finance. Cuban laid out the issues facing the Mavericks' workplace on the phone, Marshall said.

☆ Anne Hathaway on Mary Magdalene and her Gift to Jared Leto
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Marshall Heyman | Photographs Yana Yatsuk For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LATELY, actor Anne Hathaway has been listening to Harry Styles. “I did as much research as I could. I like homework. I like asking questions,” said the Academy Award winner and “WeCrashed” star. “I have a hungry mind.”

☆ Seeking nominations for the leading talent managers and agents helping athletes build careers as creators
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Colin Salao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Insider is compiling a list of the top managers and agents helping athletes build careers as creators. Nominees can include manager or agents of professional or amateur athletes. Many of these athletes are driven by the behind-the-scenes work of their talent managers and agents, similar to the role of Maverick Carter and Rich Paul in driving the off-court success of LeBron James. These agents and managers negotiate media opportunities for athletes and work on brand building through sponsorship deals and live events. We're putting together our inaugural list of the leading talent managers and agents in this space, and want to hear from you about who's wielding the most innovative deals and top clients.

☆ 2 Denver firefighters declared a living woman dead without assessing her
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Two Denver firefighters were suspended without pay after they declared a woman dead when she was actually alive, officials said. One of the firefighters, Lt. Patrick Lopez, was also demoted over the June 24 incident, the city's Department of Public Safety said in an order of disciplinary action. The order says that an officer went into the home, came out and said the woman had bluish-purple discoloration on the skin, fluid leaking from her body and smelled like she was decomposing. Lopez, according to the order, said the officer told firefighters they did not need to go inside the home because the woman was "obviously dead." An investigation determined that Lopez likely lied about the officer telling firefighters not to go into the home.

☆ Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynt Marshall said the first time Mark Cuban called to offer her the job, she thought it was her kids asking for money and handed the phone to her husband
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Cynt Marshall said when Mark Cuban called to offer her the job of Mavericks CEO, she thought it was one of her kids asking for money. Marshall has been CEO of the Mavericks since 2018 and is the first black female CEO in the NBA. Marshall has been CEO of the Dallas Mavericks, which is owned by Mark Cuban, since 2018. She is the first black female CEO in NBA history. "First of all, when Mark Cuban called me - okay, don't judge me - I didn't know Mark Cuban," she said.

☆ Alzheimer's disease, retirement 'pacts,' and serving until you're 104 years old: Inside the federal judiciary's reckoning with age
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | Camila Dechalus | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

She was nearly two decades older than the median age — 68 — for all federal judges, according to an Insider analysis. More than a century later, in the 1920s, future Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes argued for a mandatory retirement age. In 1954, the Senate passed a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment that'd require retirement at age 75 for federal judges. A recent poll by Insider and Morning Consult found that 71% of 2,210 respondents said the federal judiciary should have a mandatory retirement age. For Scheindlin, the former federal judge in Manhattan, Weinstein was an example of an older judge who was "terrific to his last day."

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