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For What It’s Worth Edition - Thu, Dec 12 2019

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danielrubin Senior Editor, Investigations @phillyinquirer. Ex-Berlin bureau chief, columnist. @Penn adjunct for 10 years. https://danielrubinphl.wordpress.com
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'After graduating I posted a resume online. I did not receive any responses until I removed [the school's name] from my resume.'
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Betsy DeVos Overruled Education Dept. Findings On Defrauded Student Borrowers
NPR.org – Cory Turner – Dec 11

Audio will be available later today. Documents obtained by NPR shed new light on a bitter fight between defrauded student borrowers and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. These borrowers — more than 200,000 of them — say some…

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Biden signals to aides that he would serve only a single term
POLITICO – Ryan Lizza – Dec 11, 5:06 AM

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. | Win McNamee/Getty Images Former Vice President Joe Biden's top advisers and prominent Democrats outside the Biden campaign have recently revived a long-running debate whether Biden should publicly…

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Weinstein and His Accusers Reach Tentative $25 Million Deal
The New York Times – Megan Twohey – Dec 11, 11:23 AM

After two years of legal wrangling, Harvey Weinstein and the board of his bankrupt film studio have reached a tentative $25 million settlement agreement with dozens of his alleged sexual misconduct victims, a deal that would not require the…

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This Is What Racism Looks Like in the Banking Industry
The New York Times – Emily Flitter – Dec 11, 2:00 AM

Jimmy Kennedy earned $13 million during his nine-year career as a player in the National Football League. He was the kind of person most banks would be happy to have as a client. But when Mr. Kennedy tried to become a “private client”…

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Most Philly charter schools failed to test water for lead -- and city gave them a pass
WHYY – Ryan Briggs – Dec 11, 8:00 AM

Two years after Philadelphia officials pledged to crack down on lead in drinking water at school buildings, most city charter schools still haven't tested for the dangerous neurotoxin. The lapse was not caught until now because the city agencies…

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Watch for great investigative journalism this month
Quartz – John Keefe – Dec 10, 3:00 AM

Here's a secret: Some of the year's best investigative journalism will drop this month. I'm not saying I know of a forthcoming, bombshell report 😏, but I do know that if you want your print or audio story considered for the 2020 Pulitzer…

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How The Post unearthed The Afghanistan Papers
The Washington Post – Craig Whitlock – Dec 9, 2:45 AM

Flynn had granted the interview to staffers from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) as part of its Lessons Learned project. The general had served in the war zone as chief of military intelligence and…

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A Brief History of Singular 'they
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – debaron@illinois.edu – Jul 30, 2018, 12:15 PM

Singular they has become the pronoun of choice to replace he and she in cases where the gender of the antecedent—the word the pronoun refers to—is unknown, irrelevant, or nonbinary, or where gender needs to be concealed. It's the word…

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The Worst Movies of the Decade
The Hollywood Reporter – Frank Scheck – Dec 10, 8:15 AM

Oh, to have been given the assignment to write about the ten best films of the last ten years ! Sure, it would have required some hard choices. But the number of good or excellent films in any given decade, except perhaps the '30s or the '70s, is…

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The Year in Pictures 2019
The New York Times – Dec 11, 2:00 AM

By Dean Baquet, Executive Editor So much of the year's news played out in the streets. Week after week, protesters poured onto the wide boulevards of Hong Kong, where the photographer Lam Yik Fei seemed to be everywhere. Brexit drew tens of…

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