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☆ Brave Dames and Melancholy Detectives
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Sarah Weinman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But Isaacs had never deliberately written a mystery series character until 2019’s “Takes One to Know One,” which introduced the former F.B.I. agent and occasional translator Corie Schottland Geller. Corie returns in BAD BAD SEYMOUR BROWN (Atlantic Monthly Press, 400 pp., $28), fully adjusted to life in her suburban Long IslandMcMansion with her handsome judge husband and daughter. license, and because of the pandemic, her parents have fled Queens and moved in, too. And like other Isaacs characters, Corie Geller is wonderful company for the reader.

☆ When a Margaret Cho DVD Was Like Precious Contraband to Atsuko Okatsuka
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Juan A. Ramírez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

To me, humor is the unexpected thought that comes through. Atsuko’s work is observational, but it’s delivered through misdirection. It’s rare, in comedy, certainly, but in entertainment in general, to find somebody with a unique point of view that blends so seamlessly into what they do as an artist. And that hair. Nobody in the history of comedy has had better hair.

☆ I'm an Amazon employee who's worked remotely since 2021. Now that we're returning to the office soon, I worry I'll lose the productivity and work-life balance I perfected during the pandemic.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Amazon will require that employees return to the office at least three days a week starting in May. One employee who has worked remotely worries what will happen if her military family has to move somewhere without an office site. In one job interview, I was told, "Oh, you're a military spouse, you're going to be gone soon; we need somebody permanent." I joined Amazon in 2021, and they've let me work fully remotely as a military spouse; I haven't gone into the office once. I can flex my schedule for doctor's appointments or if a global partner I'm working with needs something.

Feb 9 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday sanctioned Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) and its law firm, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for “delay, misdirection and frivolous arguments” in a data privacy lawsuit over the company’s sharing of user information with third-parties. Representatives for Gibson Dunn and Facebook did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Los Angeles-founded Gibson Dunn has represented the company in numerous matters. The court had ordered Facebook to turn over data it had collected on the plaintiffs in the case, regardless of whether it had been shared. The case is IN RE: Facebook, INC. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No.

☆ Facebook, Gibson Dunn sanction order is light on dollars, heavy on message
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Alison Frankel | Thomson Reuters | Alison Frankel Has Covered High-Stakes Commercial Litigation As A Columnist For Reuters Since A Dartmouth College Graduate | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

CompaniesCompanies Law firms Meta Platforms Inc FollowFeb 10 (Reuters) - To Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) and its lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, $925,000 isn't a whole lot of money. Chhabria, as you've probably heard, ordered Facebook and its lawyers to pay that sum to plaintiffs' lawyers as recompense for their bad-faith litigation tactics. "Does anyone really think that Facebook was planning on taking this case to trial?" This is, by far, the most likely explanation for Facebook and Gibson Dunn’s conduct." Facebook and its lawyers fell into their roles with ease, and then they took things way too far.”Gibson Dunn and Meta both declined to provide a statement on Chhabria’s order.

☆ We Still Don’t Know the Truth About Covid
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Jamie Metzl | Matt Pottinger | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

More than three years after the start of the global pandemic there has yet to be a comprehensive forensic investigation into its origins. With more than a million Americans dead from Covid-19, and an estimated 15 million dead worldwide, that’s inexcusable. Congress should hold hearings to establish a bipartisan Covid-19 commission along the lines of the 9/11 commission. Some believe the novel coronavirus probably escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan. Others maintain the virus first jumped to people from caged animals at a Wuhan seafood market.

☆ Investors bet the Fed doom loop they've been trapped in will end in the week ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Michael Santoli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Next week is Groundhog Day, not to mention the 30 th anniversary of the theatrical release of "Groundhog Day." The ensuing market retreat culminated in the October low at more than a 25% decline from the S & P's record high. Inflation is decidedly in retreat, fourth-quarter GDP was slow-ish but solidly positive, Fed officials did nothing to push back against market expectations for a quarter-point bump in rates next week. But none of the interim S & P 500 rallies in that period made it as far above the 200-day moving average as the index currently is. Yet even with obligatory macro scares and market switchbacks along the way, it doesn't mean investors necessarily remain stuck in the same old doom loop.

☆ Jim Cramer credits strong earnings from Tesla and United Rentals for helping lift the market
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer said that Thursday's rally is thanks to a batch of strong company earnings. "I've said over and over again that during earnings season, what matters is companies and the CEOs with the smarts to direct them," he said. Cramer said that contrary to what many might believe, the economic data didn't drive the trading session's rallies. We're in earnings season, for heaven's sake," he said, adding, "Stocks did well today because many of them delivered good numbers." If you watched the individual companies, these moves would be a lot less surprising," Cramer said.

Friday’s release of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from his four years in the White House and two years prior is an important and long overdue public service. It also would have been a warning shot to any future presidents who may want to keep their tax returns private. ), chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, asked the agency for information related to Trump’s tax returns. Ultimately, though, it’s on House Democrats that the Trump tax documents release on Friday were so limited. So they couched their court case as looking into the effectiveness of mandatory IRS audits of tax returns of all sitting presidents.

☆ Venture capitalists’ pain could be humanity’s gain
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Pete Sweeney | Thomson Reuters | Asia Economics Editor Pete Sweeney Joined Reuters Breakingviews In Hong Kong In September Previously He Served As Reuters' Chief Correspondent For China Economy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A record $630 billion poured into venture capital investments that year. Now, as interest rate hikes tear into alternative assets, money going into innovation is being reallocated. Global VC funding fell to $329 billion in the nine months to September 2022, per a report from CBInsights, down 27% year-on-year. The liquidity crunch exposed governance flaws, dumb ideas and solutions looking for problems: metaverses, non-fungible images of bored apes, flying cars. Designing microscopic robots to fight disease and biochemical computers to outperform silicon chips entails higher upfront costs and longer commercialisation cycles than the consumer app plays many Silicon Valley backers are accustomed to.

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☆ ‘Next at the Kennedy Center: A Joni Mitchell Songbook’ Review: Tribute to Her Jazz-Folk Fusion
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Like a bouquet of gilded lilies, “A Joni Mitchell Songbook” offers a tribute to Ms. Mitchell as well as a bit of misdirection. The subject, now 79 years old, does not appear, which is hardly a shock, but neither is the show a songbook in the customary sense. He is on hand to conduct the National Symphony Orchestra and several guests putting their own vocal spin on the songs. It makes for one lush hour of Mitchell. Ms. Mitchell, once upon a time the ethereal blond poster-girl of folkies, was never easy to mimic, thanks largely to her open guitar tunings and singular soprano; and once she became a Charles Mingus acolyte she morphed into a sui generis jazzman.

Barrack, 75, is charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent, obstruction of justice and making false statements to the FBI. Prosecutors allege he used his decades-long friendship with Trump to “illegally provide” government officials from the UAE with access to — and information about — the president and top officials. Jackson told jurors that the government’s claim of overwhelming evidence against Barrack was “a joke,” and that there was “nothing nefarious” about his client’s dealings with Emirati officials. Jackson further argued the government had no direct evidence that Barrack had struck a deal with the UAE. Grimes' attorney, Abbe Lowell, disputed that his client was an unregistered foreign agent, saying he did what his boss Barrack told him to do, not what UAE officials requested.

☆ Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities over the $44 billion Twitter deal, the company said in a court filing
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities, Twitter said in a court filing. On October 6, Twitter requested that Musk's team hand over any correspondence with federal authorities. In a letter addressed to Judge Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick on October 6, Twitter requested the court compel Musk's team to hand over any correspondence with federal authorities. The company did not specify in the letter the exact focus of the investigation, or which federal authorities were conducting them. After Musk revived his $44 billion bid for Twitter, McCormick gave the Tesla CEO until October 28 to close the deal.

☆ Jim Cramer says 3 factors foreshadowed Thursday’s market comeback
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Thursday said that there were three indicators during Thursday's trading session that suggested the initial market sell-off would fizzle out. Stocks made a stunning reversal on Thursday after the market fought off a hotter-than-expected consumer price index report to snap a six-day losing streak. Anything above plus 4% indicates the market is overbought, while anything below minus 5% indicates the market is oversold. That means traders weren't spooked and is usually a sign the market is dealing with a "misdirection play," according to Cramer. "The people who are still left in this miserable, horrible, no-good market aren't going to dump stocks over something they already knew — that the consumer price index is too hot.

☆ Elon Musk is under federal investigation over his Twitter deal, Twitter claims
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN Business —Federal authorities are investigating Elon Musk in connection with his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the social media platform said in a court filing Thursday. Twitter’s filing merely said authorities are looking into Musk’s “conduct” linked to the deal. Twitter sued Musk to complete the acquisition, accusing the billionaire of using bots as a pretext to exit a deal that he developed buyer’s remorse over following a market decline. “Twitter’s executives are under federal investigation,” Spiro said in a statement to CNN. “Twitter did not ask Zatko to torch his own documents, much less demand that he do so,” Twitter’s filing read.

☆ Mini to Maestro, Part 2: Intermediate Solving
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Jackie Frere | Isaac Aronow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The themes become more complex, the clues get trickier, and you might find yourself going, “Huh?” more times that you might be comfortable with. That, in combination with the new clue types we’re about to show you, is part of what raises the difficulty level of Wednesday and Thursday puzzles. One devious type of clue to look out for is the question-mark clue. For example, if you see a question mark in the clue “Web site?” you can assume that some wordplay will be involved. Another difficult clue type can be seen inside quotes.

☆ Mini to Maestro, Part 3: Advanced Puzzles
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Jackie Frere | Isaac Aronow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The name is self-explanatory: It’s a grid with no theme answers. Because of the added space, themeless puzzles are afforded more room for fresher answers, which moves the needle toward their being naturally harder to solve. Sam Ezersky, a digital puzzles editor, said, “We save our fireworks for Friday and Saturday, if you will.”The other factor is that in themed puzzles, the construction is limited by the theme itself. You can use the skills you’ve already learned from the puzzles you solved earlier in the week to help you solve a themeless. “Light” has appeared in New York Times Crosswords 22 times since 1993, according to XWordInfo.com, an online database of New York Times Crossword puzzles.

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