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Strange accounting trick behind one of China’s largest property deals ever

Joe Scarnici | WireImage| Getty Images Board Chairman and President of Dalian Wanda Group Wang Jianlin speaks at the Wanda and AMC press conference on September 4, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. The deal sheds some light on the kind of numbers magic that companies can perform. For instance, Wanda …

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What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘I’m Sorry’ and the Return of ‘Suits’

Photo From left, Judy Greer, Tom Everett Scott and Andrea Savage in “I’m Sorry.” Credit Erica Parise/truTV The comedian Andrea Savage goes bawdy and blue as a version of herself in the new series “I’m Sorry,” backed by an army of her funny friends, onscreen and off. And everyone seems …

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Rival’s desire to leave cabinet may mean challenge for Japan’s Abe: Media

APEduardo Munoz Alvarez | Getty Images Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to members of the security council during a United Nations meeting on April 28, 2017 in New York City. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida wants to leave his post in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet reshuffle next month, …

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The Unfinished Work of Alan Lomax’s Global Jukebox

“The idea was that young people of the world were losing interest in their own traditions, and that had a lot to do with TV and the radio,” Dr. Grauer said. “It was an overwhelming project. All the recordings in his archive needed to be digitized.” Continue reading the main …

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Review: Thinking Outside (and Inside) B.F. Skinner’s Box

This structure does indeed stand in for the boxes used by the behaviorist B. F. Skinner, wherein food was systematically proffered and denied to rats. But as the show progresses, the box becomes a suggestive multitude of other things. Photo Stephen Harper, center, in “Opening Skinner’s Box,” based on Lauren …

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Tech talents now choosing Europe over US, Trivago’s Schromgens says

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Rolf Schroemgens, co-founder and CEO of Trivago GmbH, at the Nasdaq MarketSite during the company’s IPO in New York, U.S., on Dec 16, 2016. Europe is also a beneficiary of the U.S. “talent drain,” Schromgens said, because of what it has to offer …

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Skip It: Why It’s O.K. to Start a TV Show in the Middle

[Waits for the purists to leave.] But yes. Yes, you can totally skip ahead. And it may be the better part of sanity and time management to do it. It’s not always advisable, of course, and there are trade-offs. If you really want to jump into “Game of Thrones” cold …

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‘To the New Owners,’ About a Summer Place (Too) Well Loved

(Honey, grab a sponge, little Whitaker got fudge on the pre-dented coffee table again.) In part it’s a memoir about her husband’s family’s long association with the island, and about the quaintly ramshackle waterfront house on five and a half acres they were forced to sell for $3 million after …

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Cramer’s charts show 3 cloud stocks that are ready to rally

As investors shy away from the technology sector for fear that parts of it are overvalued, Jim Cramer wanted to make the case for three cloud stocks that he believes have more room to run. “In the last few weeks, stocks of cloud kingpins like Salesforce.com, Workday [and] Red Hat …

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Trump sued on First Amendment grounds for blocking Twitter critics

Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images A man holds a laptop showing an image of US president Donald Trump with a Twitter logo displayed in the background in this photo illustration. First Amendment advocates are suing President Donald Trump, saying some of his critics have been unconstitutionally blocked from …

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