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Weekend Words: Competition
There was much talk of competition in the news this week, as tech companies poach each other's talent and workplace culture turns brutal inside Amazon and across the business landscape.
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Weekend Words: Currency
China weakened its currency, the renminbi, several days in a row this week, raising fears that the country’s massive economy may be in deep trouble.
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Weekend Words: Box
In Hyperallergic this week, Allison Meier reported on a house (“the Hemnet House, or “House of Clicks,”) that was designed via 200 million clicks from 2 million visitors to a Swedish real estate website.
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Weekend Words: Fire
Today is the 91st birthday of James Baldwin (1924-1987), whose enduring works include Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953); Notes of a Native Son (1955); Giovanni's Room (1956); and The Fire Next Time (1963).
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Weekend Words: Cheat
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that hackers have threatened to expose the identities of thousands of users at the adultery website Ashley Madison, whose slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair” — a breach that “could be disastrous for one whose business model is based on complete confidentially.”
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Weekend Words: Pope
Last Sunday, Pope Francis wound up his eight-day, three-country tour of Latin America —home to the world’s largest Catholic population — where he called unfettered capitalism “the dung of the devil.”
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Weekend Words: Down
This week: the Chinese stock market fell way down, the New York Stock Exchange computer systems went down for nearly four hours, and South Carolina took down the Confederate flag.
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Weekend Words: Bank
"The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks." —Valerie Solanis
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Weekend Words: Blue
The Guardian reported this week that Queen Elizabeth appeared “unimpressed by a painting given to her by the German president, Joachim Gauck.”
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Weekend Words: Change
Last week, the world lost Ornette Coleman, whose 1959 releases The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century marked the advent of free jazz and changed the face of music forever.
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Weekend Words: Wreck
“Contemporary art’s job is to wreck what came before.” John Waters, from his commencement speech at the Rhode Island School of Design last weekend.
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Weekend Words: Shark
Today is Damien Hirst’s 50th birthday.