2014年12月15日 星期一

2014-12-16 U.S. Spotlight


Week 15 Start 'Em and Sit 'Em   
CBSSports.com
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State Aid Formula Said to Hurt in a District Where Most Go to Yeshivas   
New York Times
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — A monitor chosen by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently accused the East Ramapo school board in Rockland County, which is dominated by Orthodox Jews who send their children to private yeshivas, of systematically starving the ...


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Businessweek
   
Now at the Sands Casino: An Iranian Hacker in Every Server   
Businessweek
Most gamblers were still asleep, and the gondoliers had yet to pole their way down the ersatz canal in front of the Venetian casino on the Las Vegas Strip. But early on the chilly morning of Feb. 10, just above the casino floor, the offices of the world's largest ...


   


Human Events
   
Cromnibus: a winter festival of unrestrained spending   
Human Events
As they had a habit of saying throughout the interstellar empire of “Dune,” the spice must flow. Money is once more flowing out of Congress to all manner of follies and outrages, thanks to an omnibus spending bill that funds everything except Homeland ...


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Dodd-Frank Damaged in the Budget Bill   
New York Times
On Wall Street, 2010 was the year of “Obama rage,” in which financial tycoons went ballistic over the president's suggestion that some bankers helped cause the financial crisis. They were also, of course, angry about the Dodd-Frank financial reform, which ...


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Future of Sony's Amy Pascal questioned after hacked email revelations   
Los Angeles Times
Sony Pictures Entertainment co-Chairman Amy Pascal, one of the most powerful executives in Hollywood, has come under intensifying pressure after the release of confidential emails in which she made racially insensitive remarks about President Obama.

   


Breitbart News
   
The Sexodus, Part 2: Dishonest Feminist Panics Leave Male Sexuality In Crisis   
Breitbart News
Sexual dysfunction is not unique to the twenty-first century—nor, certainly, to the West. Japan's "herbivores"—men who shun sex and prefer saving money and going on long walks to riding motorcycles and flirting with girls—have been well documented and ...


   


New York Times
   
Israel's Gas Offers Lifeline for Peace   
New York Times
THE TAMAR PLATFORM, Israel — Alarms rang out across the Tamar natural gas platform off the coast of Israel. The Israeli navy had detected smoky signs that a rocket might have been fired by Hamas from the shores of Gaza. As a voice over the loudspeaker ...


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Congress Is About to Block the Feds from Cracking Down on Medical Marijuana   
VICE
On the eve of the deadline to pass spending legislation that will avoid another government shutdown debacle, Congress appears poised to send a bill to President Obama that would ban the Department of Justice from meddling with state medical marijuana ...


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PBS NewsHour
   
Why has public support for gun control decreased?   
PBS NewsHour
Two years after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School -- and for the first time in more than 20 years -- a majority of Americans support gun rights over gun control. Judy Woodruff talks to Carroll Doherty of the Pew Research Center and Joseph de ...


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