PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Hydrox Cookies
https://leafbrands.com/hydrox/

How a museum became a beacon of reconciliation in America’s most divided city
https://mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.src=ym&reason=myc#6145242381

Watch as Hot Air Balloon Explodes 300 Feet Above Crowd
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/watch-as-hot-air-balloon-explodes-300-feet-above-crowd?pl=pl-the-latest

Meet the post-millennials — the most educated, ethnically diverse Americans 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/meet-the-post-millennials-youve-never-seen-such-a-group-2018-11-16

'Last Man Standing' star Tim Allen mocks liberals 'small window of sense of humor' 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/fox_news-last_man_standing_star_tim_allen_mocks_liberals_sm-rfoxnews/category/entertainment

MENTAL HEALTH
For the first time, researchers say Facebook can cause depression 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-study-claims-facebook-instagram-and-snapchat-are-linked-to-depression-2018-11-09

PHYSICAL HEALTH
A ‘monster’ plume of toxins under our house gave us cancer
https://nypost.com/2018/11/17/a-monster-plume-of-toxins-under-our-house-gave-us-cancer/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Well, At Least We Aren't the Brits (at least not yet) : UK High School Bans Expensive Coats to Avoid 'Poverty Shaming'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/11/17/well-at-least-we-arent-the-brits-uk-high-school-bans-expensive-coats-to-avoid-poverty-shaming-n2536123?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

BUSINESS
Amazon’s New Neighbor: The Nation’s Largest Housing Project
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/nyregion/amazon-queens-queensbridge-houses.html

To save itself, Facebook must start charging users
https://nypost.com/2018/11/17/to-save-itself-facebook-must-start-charging-users/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

SPORTS
Browns reportedly want to interview Condoleezza Rice for head coaching job
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/18/browns-want-interview-condoleezza-rice-head-coach-/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=jMAjmI8czrSwilPqXRutIkmzIAdaUT2O25ClBFdNaHv%2BViAM29JoNQFeHnh0VaS6&bt_ts=1542557565043

Harvard Wins The Game, Crimson Wins The Finger
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

CALIFORNIA FIRE
Evacuation plans: the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men (Part I)
https://www.thenewneo.com/2018/11/16/evacuation-plans-the-best-laid-schemes-o-mice-an-men-part-i/

Evacuation plans: the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men (Part II)
https://www.thenewneo.com/2018/11/17/evacuation-plans-the-best-laid-schemes-o-mice-an-men-part-ii/

WEATHER
Rain is coming to California as wildfires continue to rage
https://nypost.com/2018/11/18/rain-is-coming-to-california-as-wildfires-continue-to-rage/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

ARCHAEOLOGY
The ancient underground city discovered beneath a house in Anatolia 
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/home-owner-discovers-ancient-underground-city-anatolia-102001

DEFENSE
Why 4K Mines Exploded for No Apparent Reason
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/newser-how_the_sun_triggered_4k_mines-rnewsernor

IMMIGRATION
'A dangerous precedent': Texans outraged at prospect of tent cities for migrants 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/18/texas-fort-bliss-migrant-cities-of-tents-locals-outraged

NKOR
North Korea Moves Forward With Missile Expansion Sites
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38239/breaking-north-korea-moves-forward-missile-ben-shapiro?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=111818-news&utm_campaign=position3

FLORIDA ELECTIONS
Brenda Snipes: The Worst Person Is In Charge Of Broward County’s Count
https://www.dcclothesline.com/2018/11/10/brenda-snipes-the-worst-person-is-in-charge-of-broward-countys-count/

Broward County election supervisor at center of Florida recount battle resigns
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/18/brenda-snipes-broward-election-chief-resigns/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=Rs5ezvsT8dDDyrZgOMlcBlU00COAKUrfIjOsRAAid6oFnt6Wkv4jyg6qQ0wPJ5jk&bt_ts=1542596349234

POLITICS
Schumer got $50K in donations from Facebook — and his daughter got a job
https://nypost.com/2018/11/17/schumer-got-50k-in-donations-and-a-job-for-his-daughter-from-facebook/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Facebook Fallout Ruptures Democrats’ Longtime Alliance With Silicon Valley
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/technology/facebook-democrats-congress.html

Rise of big cities push Texas to swing-state territory — maybe by 2020
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/417140-rise-of-big-cities-push-texas-to-swing-state-territory-maybe-by-2020

Dems wonder if Sherrod Brown could be their magic man
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/417213-dems-wonder-if-sherrod-brown-could-be-their-magic-man

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Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-wins-the-game-crimson-wins-the-finger-1542493541?emailToken=9433cc35e655ea4c000a0c207d791961XF1IhN6N8PzSoI4uPUwKvrS0RVBcQRjQ4czKiHjaKi45+i1wkpXPLPrwYJvKTwohAT4+NVAi+Vqos/hKKo9T2VJb+UOGKmGWQQKON7Os3rA%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Harvard Wins The Game, Crimson Wins The Finger

A football taunt causes a media sensation—then the student newspaper appears to clear the air

Harvard's Devin Darrington scores a touchdown during "The Game," at Fenway Park. Photo: brian snyder/Reuters

By

Jason Gay

Updated Nov. 17, 2018 10:30 p.m. ET

There was The Game. Then there was The Finger. Then The Finger Replay.

And now there is The Finger Photo.

All heck—or at least the Ivy League, the Internet and idiot sportswriters like me—broke loose Saturday after it appeared a Harvard running back offered a one-finger salute to a Yale defender, costing the Crimson a touchdown when officials called an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.