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Can the Yeti Unite America?

It’s now peak Yeti time, because football tailgating season is in high gear. But every day is peak Yeti time, because as Matt Reintjes, the company’s chief executive, said, the coolers are “pursuit agnostic.” Anywhere people are gathered together and stuff needs to stay cold, he argues (a golf outing …

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Daniel Johnston, Back on the Road, Hopes This Isn’t the End

On a trip to New York in 1988, he assaulted the Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, landed in Bellevue Hospital Center and upon his release went straight to the punk dive CBGB to perform. Two years later, while his father, Bill, was flying him from Austin to West Virginia in …

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Toyota, Mazda, Denso to form joint venture to develop electric vehicles

Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images Toyota President Akio Toyoda nd Mazda President and CEO Masamichi Kogai at a joint press conference on August 4, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. Toyota, Mazda and Toyota-affiliated parts maker Denso are planning to set up a joint venture to develop electric vehicles, Japanese public broadcaster …

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After Outcry, Irish Government Buys Yeats’s Artifacts

The library and the museum selected the items for purchase themselves, and they were withdrawn from the auction in advance. The items acquired by the museum included a walnut table, a Burmese chest in which Yeats stored manuscripts, a series of Japanese masks, and a collection of objects that show …

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Trump has much better shot with tax reform than health care: Ex-legislators

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for travel to Indiana from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, September 27, 2017. Former Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana agreed with McCrery that, in some shape or form, a tax bill will probably make it into law. “I think …

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Facebook, Google probes proliferating in Washington

Getty Images / David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Google CEO Larry Page When Facebook asked the Federal Election Commission for a waiver from disclosure rules on political advertising in 2011, its request was backed in force by Republicans and Democrats alike. …

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Albert Innaurato, Playwright Who Lit Up Broadway in ’70s, Dies at 70

Mr. Innaurato had only recently graduated from the Yale School of Drama, where his fellow students included Christopher Durang, Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Streep. If his career arc did not ultimately match theirs — none of his later work came close to the success of “Gemini” — his wit and …

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Roku sets IPO price that values company at $1.3 billion

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthony Wood, founder and chief executive officer of Roku Inc. Roku set its IPO price at $14 per share, according to Dow Jones, which would give the video streaming device maker a $1.3 billion stock market value when it debuts on Thursday. …

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Kathy Halbreich of MoMA to Lead Rauschenberg Foundation

Photo Kathy Halbreich will be the new executive director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Credit Peter Ross Kathy Halbreich’s name has often surfaced over the years as a possible successor to the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Glenn D. Lowry. But Ms. Halbreich points out that she is, …

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Overstock.com says its entering digital coin trading business

Shares of retailer Overstock.com surged Wednesday after news its subsidiary is joining the business of trading digital coins. Shares of the online retailer of home goods and clothing shot up 23.5 percent to their highest since January 2014 and are up 65 percent for the year. Overstock’s majority-owned subsidiary tZero, …

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