A new HBO film shows how Jerry Sandusky revealed flaws in Joe Paterno that no one, least of all the coach himself, knew were thereJoe Paterno coached football at Pennsylvania State University for 62 years, 46 of them as head coach, winning 409 games (a major college record) and two national...
Month: April 2018
Help! I think I’m turning into Ben Affleck | Hadley Freeman
I saw a photo of Ben Affleck at the beach, tattoo of a phoenix on his back, towel positioned to hide his belly in front, and I thought, oh Ben. I feel you, manAs a miserable, disaffected, self-loathing teenager in the 1990s, my celebrity alter ego was Winona Ryder, who made adolescent misery,...
Trump’s enemy is not your friend: why we shouldn’t defend Amazon | Thomas Frank
Why must we choose between the worst president of our lifetimes and one of the most rapacious corporate enterprises in the country?President Trump last week resumed his campaign of critical tweets about the online retailer Amazon, which he accuses of paying too little in taxes and of getting too...
Facebook suspends data firm hired by Vote Leave over alleged Cambridge Analytica ties
AggregateIQ, which played a pivotal role in the Brexit campaign, suspended after reports it may have improperly obtained user data AggregateIQ: the obscure Canadian tech firm and the Brexit data riddleFacebook has suspended the Canadian data firm with which the official Vote Leave campaign spent...
Ireland Referendum Set on Constitutional Amendment Allowing Abortion
On Wednesday, Ireland's Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government announced that he had set May 25 as the date for a referendum on a proposed amendment to Ireland's Constitution. The amendment (full text) will allow Ireland's Parliament (Oireachtis) to enact laws permitting abortion. ...
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