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Oscar Isaac Is Ruining My Life

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This is a cautionary tale. A month ago, I was a carefree, happy young woman. I had a loving family and wonderful friends. Like the rest of the world, I was looking forward with giddy anticipation to The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the Star Wars saga. Wanting to shield myself from potential spoilers, […]

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Here comes Faraday Future's new electric car

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Faraday Future is about to officially pull the wraps off of its new electric car ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The startup first landed on the auto industry’s radar last year, when the company opened an office in Southern California, and started hiring a bevy of auto and tech industry talent […]

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5 LinkedIn Mistakes That You Can Fix in 5 Minutes!

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Are you ready to enhance your digital footprint as a professional? LinkedIn is the best tool for individuals who want to maximize their career impact. Since LinkedIn is the #1 business social networking tool, it’s important that you put the energy and effort into spending your time wisely on LinkedIn. Do you have limited time? […]

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The Coming College Divestiture

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Thirty years ago, William J. Bennett became Ronald Reagan’s second Secretary of Education. He succeeded Terrell Bell, whose major accomplishment was issuing the landmark 1983 report, A Nation At Risk, which decried “a rising tide of mediocrity” in the nation’s elementary and secondary schools. Though a fundamentally decent man, Bell was not a reformer. Reagan […]

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Changing Your Job – Is it Worth it?

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A few years ago I hit a fork in my career road. Should I continue working in an organization where I felt undervalued and underappreciated – or leave and start over again? It was a gut-wrenching decision. For months, I went into work every day with a knot in my stomach. Most of us have […]

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Kanye West's audition for American Idol is amazing

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Kanye West is always full of surprises. During the San Francisco auditions for Fox’s hit show “American Idol” a few months back, the hip-hop mogul surprised the judges and stopped in for his very own tryout. “We were in San Francisco, and they said, ‘We’ve got a contestant that’s just going to jump into the […]

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US Stocks Slide on Worries About China's Slowing Economy

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U.S. stock prices fell sharply Monday, with major stock indexes closing down by around 1.6 percent in the first full trading day of 2016. The selloff was sparked by a series of disappointing reports on Chinese manufacturing, and the impact of increased geopolitical tensions on oil prices. But while some analysts say the Chinese slowdown […]

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Smith & Wesson, Sturm Ruger Rise Amid Market Turmoil

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In a day plagued with devastating losses across the board, two gunmakers bucked the rest of the market to turn in healthy gains. The security and safety industry group, to which gunmakers belong, cracked into the top half of industry groups in the last month. The 32-member group doesn’t necessarily scream with strength; only six […]

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Beware the political rise of the world's tech titans

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Influential power-players and companies from the tech world are increasingly dipping their toes into the world of politics. And that’s one of the biggest geopolitical risks going into 2016, argue Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer and Cliff Kupchan in their annual list of top risks. “There’s much to be celebrated in the increasing power of the […]