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Hedge Fund Billionaire Extracts Billions More to Retire
Bridgewater’s founder, Ray Dalio, retired last year after months of negotiations that guaranteed him a gigantic exit package.
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Relentless Nostalgia Is Numbing Our Brains
I never thought I’d be sentimental for Budweiser’s “Whassup?” commercials. But after this year’s woefully derivative slate of Super Bowl…
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Reputation Meets Reality in the Champions League
The Premier League’s financial might should allow it to dominate Europe’s top soccer competition. So why hasn’t that happened?
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Studies Show How Cupid Isn’t Fair
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even intertidal gonochoric prosobranchs do it. And human beings definitely do it. “It” is…
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Big Shots Behaving Badly
UNSCRIPTED: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy, by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams…
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The Relentless Attack on Trans People Is an Attack on All of Us
Over the past year, we have seen a sweeping and ferocious attack on the rights and dignity of transgender people…
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Going From Me to We Is the Hardest Part of Love
Growing up, my family never had much patience for “we liked it” people, those couples who use the royal “we”…
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Bob Orben, One-Man Gag Factory and Speechwriter, Dies at 95
He wrote tens of thousands of jokes in his career. Among those who told them were Dick Gregory, Jack Paar,…
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What’s a Japanese Mobster to Do in Retirement? Join a Softball Team.
The members of the Ryuyukai have done nearly 100 years of hard time. Now they’re just looking to stay out…
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Simone Forti’s Experiments Transcribing Bodies in Motion
Best known for her work as a choreographer, the artist is the subject of a wide-ranging show at MOCA in…