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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“The general consensus is that Sears is a sinking ship, and we, the associates, are in the engine room bailing out water,” an anonymous Sears associate told
HuffPost.
CHATTER FODDER
The beheading of war reporter James Foley by an Islamic State militant shocked and disgusted the world this week. But rather than fixate on the graphic video posted online of the murder, Foley’s family and journalists around the globe
remembered his courage and
dedication to on-the-ground reporting in the Middle East.
Amid the tumult in Ferguson, Missouri, where clashes have broken out between law enforcement and protesters since the August 9 killing of an unarmed teenager by a police officer, there is hope. The local farmer’s market in the St. Louis suburb has
proven to be an oasis of calm, where people are selling shirts and treats celebrating their love of the place.
A fascinating column in the
Financial Times this week dissected a great tragedy in the late summer of 1914. No, it didn’t happen in Europe’s deadly trenches as the First World War began. It happened in a Cincinatti zoo. It was the extinction of the passenger pigeon, a species that once numbered in the billions and was destroyed by humanity.
Starbucks’ scheduling policy is coming under more fire. A week after the New York Times profiled a worker struggling to balance home life with her erratic, back-to-back shifts at the coffee chain, more
workers have come forward to share stories of their woes.
Netflix just
released its first-ever animated series, “BoJack Horseman.” The comedy follows a talking horse navigating the harsh reality of Hollywood fame after a public fall from grace. It’s available now.
As banana giant Chiquita secures plans to flee to Ireland to avoid U.S. taxes, a new study has shown that the arguments for the move -- called a “tax inversion” -- don’t
really hold up . Most of the large companies who say they will save money for shareholders by repatriating in low-tax countries are actually just gaming the tax system, the paper said.
LISTENING BOOTH
What can we learn from this robot hitchhiking across Canada? [
BBC]
Kurdish fighters aren’t terrorists [
Bloomberg View]
Why isn’t everyone rioting? [
Slate’s Political Gabfest]
Is infidelity still a third rail for TV? [
Slate’s The Gist Anti-war Israeli couple is isolated [
PRI’s The World]
Assault rifles in Compton schools is “sickening” [
BBC]
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