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Idiot CEOs Are Changing the World

According to Forbes Magazine, Elon Musk, CEO of the electric car manufacturer Tesla, is the world’s richest man with a net worth of over $250 billion. A recent 688-page biography of Musk by Walter Isaacson hit No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In her review of the book, Harvard historian Jill Lepore writes, “The book upholds a core conviction of many executives: Sometimes to get (stuff) done you have to be a (jerk).” There’s little doubt about Musk being a jerk. In the book, Isaacson reports, “(Musk) didn’t have the emotional receptors that produce everyday ...

The Time Has Finally Come To Stop Appeasing Terrorist Iran

The 2020s are starting to look like the 1930s, as I wrote in the wake of Hamas’ unprecedentedly vicious attack on Israel. Nations that embody, imperfectly but creditably in any historical perspective, representative politics, rule of law, and respect for human rights — Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan — have been under attack or threat of attack from nations whose leaders scorn those arrangements, and the United States has scrambled to protect them. Historians have called their counterpart attacking powers of the 1930s revisionists. Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and militaristic Japan ...

Swift Still Queen, But ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Opens Strong

NEW YORK (AP) — In a movie match-up almost as unlikely as “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” Martin Scorsese took on Taylor Swift in cinemas over the weekend. And while the box office belonged for a second time to “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” got off to a strong start in Apple Studios’ first major theatrical gambit. After a record-breaking opening weekend of $92.8 million, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” took in an estimated $31 million over the weekend from 3,855 locations, according to AMC Theaters. In an unconventional deal, ...

Rushdie Calls For Defense Of Freedom Of Expression As He Gets German Award

BERLIN (AP) — Author Salman Rushdie called Sunday for the unconditional defense of freedom of expression as he received a prestigious German prize that recognizes his literary work and his resolve in the face of constant danger. The British-American author decried the current age as a time when freedom of expression is under attack by all sides, including from authoritarian and populist voices, according to the German news agency dpa. He made his remarks during a ceremony in St. Paul’s Church in Frankfurt, where he was honored with the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for ...

Six Killed In Russian Rocket Strike On Kharkiv Mail Depot

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say six people have died in a missile strike on a mail depot in the eastern city of Kharkiv. A further 17 people were wounded in the blast, which is believed to have been caused by a Russian S-300 rocket late Saturday, the Kharkiv governor said on social media. Meanwhile, officials in southern Ukraine said Sunday the Russian military had used a record number of aerial bombs over the country’s Kherson region. A spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s Operational Command South said that 36 missiles had been recorded over the area in ...

WVU Displayed Character In Loss To Oklahoma State

This was supposed to be about West Virginia’s character. No less, no more. It was nine days after Houston had ripped the Mountaineers heart out and the football world was waiting to see how they would respond. It wasn’t about winning and losing a game. It was about winning and losing as a person, each and every one of them. It was, too, about a team, an organization. They lost the game, yes, 48-34, but they won respect. They could have quit coming into the game but didn’t. They could have quit after throwing an early interception. They could have quit when they ran into ...