DIRS.INFO top alerts submit data jurnalism about API
login
Top related persons:
Top related locs:
Top related orgs:

Search resuls for: "reflexively"


11 mentions found


☆ How the West enabled Sudan’s warring generals
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Eliza Mackintosh Jennifer Hansler | Eliza Mackintosh | Jennifer Hansler | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +13 min
CNN —The violence that has exploded in Sudan as the country’s two top generals grapple for power has unfolded at a terrifying, breakneck speed. Hemedti uses this discourse as a bloody shirt to maintain his influence and military forces for future use,” Fareid said. Marwan Ali/APFrom a subclan of the Mahariya Rizeigat tribe, nomadic people that herded camels in Darfur, Hemedti got his start as a commander of the Janjaweed. Unlike Sudan’s former dictator, Hemedti has not faced charges from the International Criminal Court. The general’s shared sense of impunity was underlined in October 2021, when they staged a coup, arresting Hamdok and his cabinet.
☆ The Nordstrom dynasty: How wealthy heirs are still running the iconic American department store more than 100 years after it was founded on $13,000 in gold
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Just a tremendous young man," his father, Bruce, told The Times in 2019. His brother, Erik, said at the time that he would often reflexively think to ask Blake for advice. "Something will come up and I'll have this thought in my head like, 'Oh, Blake's better at that,' or 'That's Blake's strength,'" Erik said. Erik and Blake Nordstrom. Getty ImagesSource: The New York Times
☆ Black rappers call out double standard of using hip-hop lyrics as evidence in rapper Young Thug’s criminal trial
  + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Safia Samee Ali | Safia Samee Ali Is A Reporter For Nbc News Digital | Based In Chicago. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +11 min
Authorities had no physical evidence or weapon that linked Phipps to the shooting, and the then 22-year-old had no criminal record. Through her research Kubrin has found bias against rap music and artists, she said, adding that much of that bias is racialized. That means using lyrics from rap music, a historically Black genre, can infect jurors with anti-Black racism regardless of whether the defendant himself is Black, she said. Defending the practiceFulton County prosecutor Fani Willis, whose office is trying the case against Young Thug and other YSL members, has defended using music lyrics in trials. Gavin Newsom signed the Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act, which made it the first state to restrict the use of rap lyrics as evidence in state court.
☆ Why Apple may finally be embracing touchscreen laptops
  + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported Apple engineers are developing a touchscreen for the MacBook Pro with an expected launch date of 2025, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. While it’s unclear if the touchscreen laptop will see the light of day, introducing the product could accomplish two important things for Apple: adapting to shifting consumer expectations and supercharging sales for its Mac product line. Apple has previously kept the touchscreen away from its Mac lineup to prevent it from cannibalizing iPad sales. Now, however, Apple could use a Mac touchscreen to incentivize consumers to upgrade their computers and keep Mac sales momentum growing. When asked at a conference last fall if Apple will add a touchscreen to Macs, Federighi responded: “Who’s to say?”
☆ 6 top M&A bankers lay out their dealmaking playbook for 2023 — from getting around a sagging bond market to dealing with skeptical shareholders
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Carter Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
"We're certainly telling clients to plan for longer timelines between signing an announcement and when a transaction closes," RBC's Sperduto said. Bankers noted the figure was on pace with the average amount of deals done in the five years preceding the pandemic. "There is still significant desire from both corporates and financial sponsors to transact," Gary Posternack, co-head of global M&A at Barclays, told Insider. But in 2023, bankers see more transactions receiving greater scrutiny from stakeholders. Vito Sperduto, the co-head of global M&A at RBC Capital Markets.
☆ Republicans who questioned the 2020 results are bringing back an old norm: Admitting defeat
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Seitz-Wald-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
WASHINGTON — The losers of this year’s midterm elections are winning praise for doing something that would be entirely unremarkable in another era — admitting defeat. Of course, dozens of Republican candidates who questioned the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s election won on Tuesday and will end up in Congress, including Ohio’s J.D. This year, Trump helped Cox defeat a well-connected moderate in the GOP primary to run for governor of Maryland. “I will pray for them and their new role for all of us.”Most losing Republican candidates followed scripts more like Cox’s than Trump’s. Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon initially said Tuesday night that she wanted to see more results before admitting defeat.
☆ Supreme Court's conservative majority seems open to eliminating affirmative action in university admissions process: 'Why do you have these boxes?'
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
The Supreme Court heard two high-profile challenges to race-conscious university admissions processes. The court's conservatives appeared open to ending race as a factor in university admissions. Thomas, the second Black person to ever serve on the bench, has long been critical of race-conscious admissions policies. They cannot adopt race-conscious admissions and sit back reflexively and let that play out forever into the future," Prelogar said. "At present, it's not possible to achieve that diversity without race-conscious admissions, including at the nation's service academies."
☆ Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View
  + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( David Wallace-Wells | Photographs Devin Oktar Yalkin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +53 min
Beyond Catastrophe A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View By David Wallace-WellsYou can never really see the future, only imagine it, then try to make sense of the new world when it arrives. (A United Nations report released this week ahead of the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, confirmed that range.) A little lower is possible, with much more concerted action; a little higher, too, with slower action and bad climate luck. There were climate-change skeptics in some very conspicuous positions of global power. New emissions peaks are expected both this year and next, which means that more damage is being done to the future climate of the planet right now than at any previous point in history.
☆ I was a 'screenager' addicted to my smartphone. So my friends and I ditched them and founded the Luddite Club.
  + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Lola Shub | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
That's why a bunch of my friends and I started the Luddite Club. The Luddite Club began in 2021, led by my friend Logan. The three of us felt like a group, and that's when the Luddite Club was officially born. We have a rule to never take out your phone, even your flip phone, in the company of others. We're hoping to create mini "take a book, leave a book" libraries around Prospect Park in Brooklyn, with signs painted by the Luddite Club.
☆ Suspicious packages, white powdery substances, and a 'swatting': Inside the threats federal judges are facing across the country
  + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +16 min
The US Marshals Service has been responding to a remarkable rise in threats against federal judges. At least three times this year, the federal court in Washington, DC, received suspicious packages. Arriving just months apart, the packages sent to DC's federal courthouse served as reminders of threats judges are increasingly facing across the country. Lawmakers have blamed Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, for blocking legislation to help protect federal judges. Greg Nash/AP ImagesCongressional solutionsCongress has approved additional funding for bolstering the security of federal judges.
☆ 'America's Got Talent,' U.S. Open and Emmys fete Arab women. FInally.
  + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Ahmed Twaij | Ahmed Twaij Is A Freelance Journalist | Filmmaker | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
Witnessing Arab women flourish on the small screen, showcasing their talents and breaking through the presumption that they are oppressed is widely significant. That is not to say Arab women live in a utopia in the Middle East. The implication is that these Arab women have no depth to their character other than their attire. Just as common are images of Arab women living as concubines in harems waiting to please men. But the achievements of the past week should help to break down the stereotypes surrounding Arab women and inspire them to dream big.
<< prev 1 next >>
Total: 11