The White House Is Circumventing Its Own Ethics Rules
New Yorker
In dieting it might be OK to cheat here and there, but the same principle is not usually applied to ethics. Yet it is in the Trump Administration, it seems. It has already granted appointees an unusually high number of waivers to its ethics rules. Those rules might, as President Trump claims, be tougher than the ones President Obama set for his staff. But with 12 waivers granted already, and another two dozen on the way, does that even matter? Elite High Schools Plot to Undermine College Admissions
National Review
August in Boston: when the best and brightest high school valedictorians step onto Harvard's lawn as freshmen. But if elite private prep schools have their way, the valedictorian wouldn't exist as such. They're pushing for high-school transcripts that forgo comparable grades in favor of squishier assessments of "flexibility, agility, and adaptability." As college admissions go, this is not unprecedented. But it also might not be very egalitarian. The Bounty Hunter of Wall Street
New York Times Magazine
Express Scripts, the big pharmacy benefit manager, is Andrew Left's latest target, but far from his first. Part gambler and part showman, Left hovers just this side of legality, sniffing out overvalued stocks and then short-selling them - borrowing to buy high, then returning the shares to the lender at a lower price, pocketing a profit. The bad news for Express Scripts: He's rarely wrong about a company's prospects. And he's always loud. The New Dark Web Source for Opium: China
Wall Street Journal
The job of New York City's narcotics police is getting tougher because gangs increasingly turn to the internet for a host of activities: recruitment, theft and especially drugs. As a result, although the drug trade has long been international, online Chinese suppliers are now gaining market share in New York and other cities. The 47-Year Mystery of a Murder Victim's Many Identities
New York Times
She was buried in a potter's field in 1970, a woman with no name. Or rather, as an investigation has found, one with numerous aliases. Forty-seven years later, the story of Evelyn Moore has emerged. She was born into rural southern poverty and made her way alone to the 1960s Harlem of limousines, guns, stolen cars and heroin. She adopted new identities along the way, and embraced a bisexuality not often seen in that era. All told, a life of surprising breadth for its length: no more than 30 years. Some Call It Chevaline; Others, Horse Meat. And It May Be Back.
The Atlantic
The White House has proposed lifting restrictions on the sale of wild American mustangs to horse meat dealers who supply Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses. Behind the plan lies a well-marbled, but troubled, history. Regulation of the darker, coarser and cheaper meat is minimal, and its resemblance to beef makes it easy to sneak into sausages and ground meat. Would you enjoy some chevaline, as its supporters have rebranded it? |
