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#1 The 2008 financial crisis was a result of many financial manipulations that ordinary people did not understand, and in which they played no part. It cost millions of Americans their livelihoods and their homes and bankrupted many businesses.
#2 Americans' well-justified anger is affecting our political discourse, and it is important to understand the why and the what...
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Get the Summary of Dan & Elliot Kirschner Rather's What Unites Us in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In a collection of original essays, the venerated television journalist, Dan Rather, celebrates our shared values and what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like. Writing about the institutions that sustain us, such as public libraries, public schools,...
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#1 In 1956, the Chinese-speaking students took over their middle schools in Singapore. The colonial authorities dissolved the students' union and arrested its leaders, saying the organization had been infiltrated by communists. In protest, thousands of teenagers flooded onto their school grounds.
#2 Lee Kuan Yew, the leader of Singapore, had a very different approach to dealing with...
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#1 The story of Martin Shkreli is a prime example of how not to make money. He started his own hedge fund, betting that the stock prices of certain biotech companies would drop. But instead of using his knowledge to help people, he used it to help himself and his investors make money.
#2 Martin Shkreli is a good example of how people who don't follow the norms of society...
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Addictions to iPhones, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol and sex are taking over our lives. Our most casual daily habits can quickly become obsessions that move beyond our control. Damian Thompson, who has himself struggled with a range of addictions, argues that human desire is in the process of being reshaped. Shunning the concept of addiction as disease, he shows how manufacturers are producing substances like iPads, muffins and computer games that...
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#1 The first American member of this family, Joseph Dulles, fled Ireland in 1778 to escape anti-Protestant repression, made his way to South Carolina, and became a prosperous, slave-owning planter. His family was pious and inclined to the clergy.
#2 The Dulles family was extremely religious, and their sons were raised that way. They attended three church services every Sunday, and...
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"Why Smart People Do Stupid Things: Revised and Updated" follows the original publication by more than seven years. We worried and fretted then particularly about the stupidity exhibited by two of our recent presidents. Of course, we worried about ourselves and the host of other intelligent people who behaved out of character at one time or another. Today, rather than seeing improvement, we see a worsening of the condition in which obviously intelligent...
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#1 Police will lie to you. Do not talk to them. If you do, you are waiving your Fifth Amendment rights. I'm not talking about the innocent mistake of saying yes to a request from law enforcement when you really didn't mean to. I'm talking about the deliberate execution of a Fifth Amendment right by accident. If you are in the back seat of your car, and law enforcement...
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#1 Rosie was going to be bringing a very important man to Cottisbourne. She was bringing a major-general, no less! She was sure he wouldn't be scared of ghosts.
#2 Nancy went ghost hunting, and she was excited to see what she would find. She was driving to London, and she was accompanied by a smile from Rosie.
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#1 The courtroom was solemn, and the judges' attention was focused on the suffering stories they heard. They were not theatrical, and their conduct was natural.
#2 The trial was not a show trial, and Judge Landau, who presided over it, did his best to prevent it from becoming one. The proceedings happened on a stage before an audience, with the usher's marvelous shout...
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#1 The DeploraBall was a party and a media spectacle. It was a mix of both fans and media crews. Fairbanks was dressed not for the people in the room but for the fans at home.
#2 The DeploraBall was an independent pre-inauguration party hosted by and for the internet trolls and ultranationalists who had memed Donald Trump into the White House. The event took place at...
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#1 On June 30, 1939, a major art auction took place at the Grand Hotel National in the Swiss resort town of Lucerne. The objects had been exhibited for some weeks before in Zurich and Lucerne, and a large international group of buyers had gathered.
#2 The auction of German art was a disaster. It did not bring in nearly as much money as was hoped, and the museums did...
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#1 There are many faces of London, depending on whom it is speaking to. For tourists, there is the pageantry and ceremony of the Changing of the Guards, which is for the tourists. For locals, there are the suburbs with their semi-detached houses, hedges, no-through-roads, and parks.
#2 The second place to go with this story is to look back at 2 Woodberry Grove and ask why Pompolo,...
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#1 The first step in any training is to identify the mission you will train for. Be sure it is something you can actually accomplish. Otherwise, you will get into trouble. Your chances of failure increase exponentially.
#2 Law enforcement must put the public first, since that is their job. They must train and equip themselves toward this objective.
#3 The sheepdog mentality...
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#1 I had a father who was strict, but also warm and loving. He instilled in me the difference between right and wrong at a young age, and had the courage to stand up for it. I didn't need any other moral compass.
#2 I was always independent, and I didn't care how long the journey took. I was elated when I saw the sea, and decided that if my parents didn't come back,...
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Le silence peut-il favoriser la rencontre entre deux individus ? L'originalité de cet ouvrage réside dans l'exploration de ce paradoxe. Il met en contraste le phénomène social du silence, déterminé par les codes du théâtre de la vie, et l'expérience phénoménale de celui-ci, vécue au plus intime de soi.
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#1 The result of the civil unrest in Watts in 1965 was the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which in a report released in 1967 largely blamed White racism and indifference for the despair plaguing African Americans.
#2 Following passage of the Voting Rights Act, federal examiners swept into Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia, where they...
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Get the Summary of William Strauss and Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning in 20-minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five-hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras, or "turnings",...
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#1 The executioner is clad in all black, face covered by a balaclava. He stands behind the condemned, right hand gripping his shoulder, left fist clutching a long steel-bladed knife. Both men know that a video crew is recording every word and movement.
#2 The footage, taken on a hill outside what might be the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, will be downloaded and...
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