Lawsons 1907 novel, Friday, the thirteenth, a businessman takes advantage of the superstition (迷信) and creates a Wall Street panic on the day. The book was the likely inspiration for a number of scientific examinations of stock market returns on Fridays that fell on the 13th day of the ...
We've lost a legendary humorist: Bob Elliott has died at the age of 92. He and Ray Goulding worked in radio, on television and on Broadway. TheNew York Timesnoted that their deadpan, sometimes surreal, humor made them "godfathers of a wide swath of alternative comedy," fromSecond City T...
No... I wish people would know the reality better. But still, the media and the way people talk here is less harsh than the discourse that I was used to from Israel. I'd in no way say that theNew York Timesis perfect, but it was still, during the Gaza war, much more left than...