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| Considering the Obamas' Evolution in the Cultural Imagination On a sunless morning last month, online chatter was especially restless. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC had just unveiled new presidential portraits and reactions, on Twitter and across group texts, spilled over into a fervor. The artists Kehinde Wiley, known for his august ...
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| Hailu Mergia: the Ethiopian jazz legend who jams in his taxi By "this far", he means his new album – his first in more than 30 years. Mergia slides the CD of Lala Belu into his cab's stereo and presses play on some of his most incandescent and exploratory music. As we drive past faceless strip malls, warm, brushing chords and accordion fill the air, Ethiopian ...
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| UK house prices fall as incomes squeeze in slowing economy UK house prices fell unexpectedly in February for the first time in six months, as the squeeze on household incomes and weaker economic backdrop weighed on the property market, according to the mortgage lender Nationwide. The average price of a home fell by 0.3% last month to £210,402, following ...
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| Mercury at Its Best, and More Can't-Miss Sky Events in March Planet-hunters are in luck this month, as multiple "wandering stars" take the stage for a beautiful celestial ballet. Mercury, the innermost planet, even promises to put on a spectacular evening appearance with its best show of the year, while Earth's lunar dance partner closes out the month with the final ...
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| Trump's corruption deserves to be a central issue in the 2018 midterms Trump's exploitation of loopholes in American conflict of interest law, after all, is a policy issue. And with the economy doing fine and America's low-key drone wars not directly impacting most voters, it's clear that for better or worse the central political issue in American politics is Trump himself. This is, on ...
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| Best Buy is closing all 250 of its mobile stores in the US Best Buy has announced it will shut all 250 of its small mobile stores across the US by May 31st. The stores reportedly contributed only a little over 1 percent to the company's overall revenue. The closures won't affect Best Buy's mobile stores in Canada, and the company will continue to sell mobile ...
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| Sky Will Bundle Netflix in New Package Netflix has already been integrated into the offerings of several traditional pay-TV operators in Europe as part of a deal with Liberty Global, including with Virgin Media in Britain. Netflix will be integrated into the Sky service in Britain and Ireland later this year and then in Italy and Germany later in 2018.
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| Deloitte in $150m settlement over mortgage broker collapse The US Department of Justice has wrung a $150m settlement from Deloitte, the world's biggest professional services firm, over its alleged failure to detect a long-running fraud at a former mortgage broker. The settlement, announced on Wednesday, relates to Deloitte's role in the 2009 collapse of Taylor, ...
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