My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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via David Rubenstein
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos was Worried ‘House of Cards’ Risk Could Get Him Fired
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Southwest Minnesota State University
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The current crisis brings a strong sense of déjà vu: the chants, the teach-ins, the nonnegotiable demands, the self-conscious building of separate communities, the revolutionary costumes, the embrace of oppressed identities by elite students, the tactic of escalating to incite a reaction that mobilizes a critical mass of students. It’s as if campus-protest politics has been stuck in an era of prolonged stagnation since the late 1960s.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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via Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson observes that the left is addicted to drama in a manner that brings to mind what Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord — the French foreign minister after the French Revolution — once said about the French monarchy: “They have forgotten nothing and they’ve learned nothing.”
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Western New Mexico University
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via Psychology Simplified
Those Who LOVE Cleaning Their Home
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via David Rubenstein
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell discusses the process picking the city where the Super Bowl will be held and if it could ever be held outside the United States.
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Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Campus Life at Carnegie Mellon University
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Platform companies have themselves hired economists to help conceptualize and manage the economies they’ve created. Google, Airbnb, Uber and Amazon have aggressively recruited professors and researchers to help understand what, exactly, they have on their hands, and how to expand, regulate and exploit it.
~ John Herrman
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