Top five US executives hoard $9bn tax-free for retirement as workers face limits | US income inequal
Posted on April 17, 2024
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US income inequality This article is more than 8 months oldTop five US executives hoard $9bn tax-free for retirement as workers face limitsThis article is more than 8 months oldAt many of these companies a sizeable percentage of workers, in some cases as much as half, had no money in their 401(k)s – report
The top five executives at the US’s largest companies have amassed close to $9bn in tax-free retirement saving accounts while many of their employees have struggled to set aside any funds for retirement, according to a new report released on Thursday.
[Read More]West Ham 2-0 Manchester United: Premier League as it happened | Premier League
Posted on April 17, 2024
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09.27 ESTFULL TIME: West Ham United 2-0 Manchester UnitedWest Ham go above Manchester United in the Premier League table after scoring two fine second-half goals.
Pos Team P GD Pts 5 Tottenham Hotspur 17 12 33 6 West Ham 18 1 30 7 Newcastle 17 15 29 8 Man Utd 18 -5 28 9 Brighton 18 3 27 Manchester United’s Kobbie Mainoo, Jonny Evans.
[Read More]Are all male fashion designers gay?
Posted on April 16, 2024
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Ask HadleyFashionOf course not. Yes there are prominent gay men in the business - but that's something to applaudWhy are all male fashion designers gay?
David, by email
I'm sorry, I think you have your Guardian columns mixed up. All enquiries expressing concern that a family member might be gay should be addressed to Pamela Stephenson- Connolly, Sexual Healing, c/o this parish, etc etc. Oh, no wait a minute – sorry, I read your email too quickly.
[Read More]Arthur Danto obituary | Art
Posted on April 16, 2024
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ArtObituaryArthur Danto obituaryPhilosopher and art critic who championed Andy WarholWhy is Andy Warhol's Brillo Box a work of art when a pile of Brillo pad boxes that looks identical to it is not? From the moment in 1964 when he first saw Warhol's sculpture until his death aged 89, Arthur Danto, professor of philosophy at Columbia University, New York, and art critic of the leftwing American magazine the Nation, devoted himself to answering this and similar questions.
[Read More]Eighth federal judge may withdraw from New Orleans Catholic church litigation | New Orleans
Posted on April 16, 2024
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New Orleans This article is more than 6 months oldEighth federal judge may withdraw from New Orleans Catholic church litigationThis article is more than 6 months oldClergy sexual abuse claimant is calling on Judge Jane Triche Milazzo, who has donated money to archdiocese, to step aside
An eighth federal judge in New Orleans may withdraw from handling litigation involving the local Roman Catholic archdiocese as ties between the city’s legal elite and the church remain deep as ever.
[Read More]Epidemic of violence: Brazil shocked by barbaric gang-rape of gay man | Brazil
Posted on April 16, 2024
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Rights and freedomBrazil This article is more than 2 years old‘Epidemic of violence’: Brazil shocked by ‘barbaric’ gang-rape of gay manThis article is more than 2 years oldActivists fear that an increase in attacks on the country’s LBGT community is fuelled by a culture of homophobia at the very top An act of “barbaric” violence where a 22-year-old gay man was gang-raped and tortured has prompted fierce reaction in Brazil and is evidence of a growing tide of hate crime in the country, according to human rights campaigners.
[Read More]I dislike my lazy adolescent stepdaughter
Posted on April 16, 2024
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Dear MariellaLife and styleA woman complains her husband’s teenage daughter is too busy taking selfies to help out. Mariella Frostrup suggests ways of trying to befriend her
The dilemma My husband and I have been together for 10 years. During this time I have watched my stepdaughter who lives with us part-time (we have no children of our own – my choice) turn into a self-obsessed, lazy adolescent who is too busy taking selfies to help with chores, like setting the dinner table.
[Read More]Unsexing Marilyn Monroe | Lee Siegel for the New York Review of Books blog, part of the Guardian Com
Posted on April 16, 2024
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Guardian Comment NetworkMovies This article is more than 12 years oldUnsexing Marilyn MonroeThis article is more than 12 years oldLee Siegel for the New York Review of Books blog, part of the Guardian Comment NetworkMy Week with Marilyn envelops the star in a chaste aura. This desire to desexualise goes back to Arthur MillerIt is not entirely the fault of the recent movie My Week with Marilyn – about Monroe's disastrous attempt to make The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier – that it is devoid of sex, which is something like depicting the life of Napoleon without mentioning that he was French.
[Read More]A letter to my little brother who passed away
Posted on April 15, 2024
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A letter to ...Family‘I would have dropped everything, done anything for you’: the letter you always wanted to write
When anyone asks whether I have any siblings, I say I have a younger brother. Some people ask more questions about you. How old is he? What does he do? I answer: “Oh, he passed away.”
Recently, someone asked why I say “have” and not “had”. It’s deliberate, I explained. I am a sister.
[Read More]Arizona family discovers bobcat has taken over their dogs bed
Posted on April 15, 2024
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ArizonaOwner finds unruly visitor in place of chihuahua-dachshund, Squeakers, who narrowly survived encounter with wildcat
At first, Nikola Zovko thought the creature curled up in his dog Squeakers’s deluxe, heated dog bed was just one of his cats. “I said, ‘Fuzzerhead, what’re you doing in Squeakers’s bed?’” he said. And that’s when it registered. “Oh that’s not Fuzzerhead. That’s a real life bobcat.”
In the week since, Zovko and his family lost and found their beloved pup Squeakers, a 10-year-old chihuahua-dachshund mix.
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