Category: Published Works

Students at a New York public university are baffled and outraged by an endorsement from their school’s board of directors of a controversial city giveaway to the company owned by the world’s richest man. Their endorsement follows a tuition hike adding to the students’ outrage.

The board members of the City University of New York (CUNY) provided valuable public- relations credibility for a multibillion-dollar subsidy to Amazon for establishing a second headquarters in the New York area. The board’s statement claimed that the move would somehow benefit the school’s largely low-income students — not typically prime candidates for Amazon’s high-paying jobs.

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You know Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau best as the handsome, one-handed, sister-shagging Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones.It’s a part Coster-Waldau plays perfectly, and GoT fans are anxious as hell to learn what Lannister’s fate shall be when the 7th season concludes this Sunday night on HBO. But Coster-Waldau’s already thinking about his next project, a new prison drama called Shot Callerwhere he plays jacked prisoner Money. We sat down with Coster-Waldau to talk about his workout routine for Shot Caller, how the Game of Thrones cast says goodbye to a fellow actor who’s character has been killed off, and why he loathes Navy SEAL burpees.

Take a look at your dress shirts. Do they look like they did when you purchased them? Yeah, we didn’t think so.

No matter how nice dress shirts are, they’ll probably eventually get nasty stains on the collar and armpits. The main culprit behind those yellow spots: sweat, of course. It combines with body oils, product buildup, and environmental pollution to create that dreaded dingy collar that plagues your crisp-white button-downs. You might not notice it at first, but the sweat and body oil combo seep into the fibers of your shirts as soon as you start to perspire. You can stock up on as many undershirts as you’d like, but they most likely won’t save you from the inevitable.

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When it comes to getting a workout in and staying on track with your goals, something is always better than nothing. Skip just one planned workout and you significantly increase the odds of the wheels falling off the bus.

Travel is one of the most common culprits. It’s so easy to blame missed workouts on not having a nearby gym to go to, or being on the road (or in a bus, literally).

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So you need a new watch. Victorinox’s I.N.O.X. Professional Diver is a sporty, but refined timepiece that you can wear to the boardroom or on a dive. It can serve as both a fashion accessory and a sporting tool, and you can choose from a variety of styles including a classic black dial to a bolder yellow design.

Refinery29 lists Boston University’s Student Village 2 (a.k.a. StuVi II) as one of their choices for “College Dorms That Put Your Apartment to Shame.” Boston.com has gone as far as describing it as, “a multimillion dollar vista.” Areas like the twenty-sixth floor of StuVi II and the basement of StuVi I are ideal study spots for all BU students. Once older students who have moved off campus arrive at any of the residence study rooms they are troubled to find that they are barred from entrance.

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