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South-Western schools contracts lawyer who was billing $20,000 a month

NBC4i.com 

Watch previous coverage of this story in the video player above. GROVE CITY, Ohio (WCMH) -- South-Western City School District parents protested the approval of an official contract with a lawyer in a special school board meeting last Monday. Audience cries of “Clueless!” “Unqualified!” and “Waste of money!” underscored the July 22 board meeting. In [...]

Are you a barely-managing manager? This is how to cope

Fast Company 

As a busy executive at Trello, staying on top of work was like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. My calendar was stacked with back-to-back meetings, and I struggled to stay present in them as my Slack flooded with requests for feedback, approvals, and more. Each morning, I wrote down my goals for the day, and […]

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Biden to announce Supreme Court reforms on Monday 

TheHill.com 

President Biden on Monday will propose term limits for Supreme Court justices and a constitutional amendment to counteract their recent presidential immunity decision, according to a White House official. Biden will endorse the proposals during a speech Monday afternoon at the LBJ Presidential Library, where he will also voice support for a binding code of conduct...

Goethe in shirt-sleeves

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Goethe in shirt-sleeves

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is Germany's greatest poet, then and now. At the age of thirty-seven he was on the way to being the centre of a national culture, and a European celebrity.

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How likely is full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah?

France24.com (en) 

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday vowed to "hit the enemy hard" after rocket fire from Lebanon, which it balmed on Hezbollah, killed 12 young people in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and again raised fears that the war in Gaza will spread. France 24's Kethevane Gorjestani takes a look at how likely a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah could be.

China rebukes US, Japan for 'false accusations' on maritime issues, military expansion

Voice of America 

BEIJING — Joint statements between the United States and Japan "falsely accuse" China on maritime issues and point fingers at its normal military development and defense policy, China's foreign ministry said on Monday. The ministry's comment followed the U.S. and Japan's criticism of what they called Beijing's "provocative" behavior in the South and East China Seas, joint military exercises with Russia and the rapid expansion of its nuclear weapons arsenal. U.S. and Japan leaders on Sunday unveiled... Читать дальше...