SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Perfect Store” or “All Sales Final,” the two-part series finale of “Superstore,” which aired March 25 on NBC. Arguably the most convincing fib that corporations sell their employees is that the workplace is a family in which everyone will look out for each other…
Late Monday, Politico reported that Senator Lisa Murkowski, one of a handful of Republicans in the chamber who can be counted on in close confirmation votes, nixed the Biden administration’s desired nominee for deputy secretary of the Interior Department. The nominee, Elizabeth Klein, the deputy director of the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at the New York University…
Author of the article: David Staples • Edmonton Journal Leon Draisaitl #29 of the Edmonton Oilers is congratulated by his teammate Connor McDavid #97 after scoring his second goal of the game against the Chicago Blackhawks during the second period in Game 3 of the Western Conference Qualification Round at Rogers Place on August 05,…
There are three shows and movies coming to Netflix this week that have caught my eye. First up is Bad Trip, which is a hidden-camera prank comedy starring Eric Andre and Tiffany Haddish. I never get tired of watching Eric Andre freak people out, so this one’s definitely in my queue. DOTA: Dragon’s Blood is…
Joyanti Sen, an 82-year-old women’s rights activist in south Kolkata, remembers what she calls the last five “dreadful years” of the Left Front rule in West Bengal. “If the first five years were their best, the last five were a total disaster,” she says about the Left reign that lasted from 1977 to 2011, adding…
Last year’s Arkle heroine Put The Kettle On beat the boys again in the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham. A surprise winner at the Festival 12 months ago, Henry de Bromhead’s mare had stretched her unbeaten record at the track to three on her first start of the current campaign in November. But…
Eating more takeout lately? Me too. I’m trying to support my local restaurants as much as I can while social distancing, and takeout is a delicious, convenient, and efficient way to do that. Not to mention the much-needed break from cooking! However, my environmental guilt definitely creeps in every time I pick up the plastic…
8.58pm GMT20:58 Actually, here’s one more comment from Unigestion’s Cross Asset Solutions team. They say investors found what they needed in this FOMC meeting: improvement in fundamentals and no early signs of tapering in liquidity injections. The Fed has made it clear that it sees the improvement that all investors are seeing and responding to.…
Pity the newly rich, who are struggling with where to put their millions. According to a recent analysis cited by The New York Times, about 7,000 millionaires will emerge from the latest round of Silicon Valley initial public offerings, which includes companies like Airbnb, Snowflake, and Palantir, and they’re not sure how to spend it…
Wala Lang I received a message after my article last week hit the streets. On collectors feeling rich while tracking auction results, Jayson Ong texted, “It’s really very joyful to compute for the present estimated value of our collection but it’s also very hard for us to let go of pieces we really like kaya…
