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Editor’s Note: This article is one of the top 10 Leadership stories of 2015. See the full list here. I have a love-hate relationship with food. I love it; it generally hates me. Matter of fact, I love food so much that until a few years ago, I was extremely overweight. So overweight that…
PALO ALTO, Calif. — It could have been mistaken for any other late afternoon in the expectant days before graduation. Seniors shuttled four years of possessions from the Kappa Alpha fraternity into waiting U-Hauls that would carry them away from Stanford for the last time. But the students weren’t talking just about commencement, or summer,…
Not a thief, just a regular excited Apple store employee Earlier this year, three individuals stole a total of 67 iPhones from an Upper West Side Apple store. Last week, 19 more iPhones were snatched from a SoHo store. How could these criminals possibly infiltrate the impenetrable security of a retail store run by certifiable…
Years ago, over many beers in a D.C. bar, a congressional aide colorfully described the House of Representatives, where he worked. It’s “435 heads up 435 asses,” he said. Sidebar R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party » I thought of that person yesterday, while reading the analyses of Hillary Clinton’s victories…
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky is shown in this this June 27, 2011 file photo. (Jason Doiy/The Recorder via AP) ( Jason Doiy ) PALO ALTO — At least 10 prospective jurors who oppose Judge Aaron Persky’s decision to spare former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner prison for a sex crime refused this…
Mike Coppola / Getty Images ID: 8851184 An independent filmmaker has filed a federal lawsuit against Beyoncé and several studios for allegedly lifting images from his short film to use in the viral trailer for Lemonade. Matthew Fulks, a filmmaker who also works as the creative director of a TV station in Louisville, Kentucky, claims…
One Republican senator’s opposition to Donald Trump is so strong, she cannot rule out the possibility that she ultimately goes for Hillary Clinton instead. Maine Senator Susan Collins spoke with The New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza and trashed her party’s nominee for his racially-charged attacks on a Hispanic judge and his “poorly-thought-out policy plan about banning…
Guests Jill Stein2016 presidential candidate for the Green Party. She was the Green Party’s 2012 presidential nominee. This is viewer supported news Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein takes aim at the presumptive nominees of both major parties, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. “Trump says very scary things—deporting immigrants, massive militarism and ignoring the climate….
EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lawrence is attaching herself to Adam McKay’s drama about medical company Theranos and its 32-year-old founder Elizabeth Holmes. Theranos is the blood-testing startup that once had Silicon Valley investors salivating over its commercial potential with a $9 billion valuation as recently as two years ago. Founded in 2003 by Holmes, Theranos claimed to have revolutionized blood…
Photo Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn on Tuesday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Look, we don’t want to write about every presidential campaign tweet that teeters on the brink of the absurd and holds the fun-house mirror to each and every American to reveal the political Frankentheater that the entire electorate has collaborated to create,…