8.31 Joseph Biggs, a onetime lieutenant in the Proud Boys, is sentenced to 17 years in prison after his conviction on charges of seditious conspiracy for plotting the attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. 8.31 In a filing, the NY AG alleges that Trump and his associates fraudulently inflated his net worth by between $812 …
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7.31 Paul Reubens—PeeWee Herman—dies at 70. 7.31 Megan McArdle at the Washington Post: “Kids who attend Ivy Plus schools don’t actually end up earning all that much more on average than those who attend selective public universities, but they are significantly more likely to end up in the top 1 percent of earners. And while it would …
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To mark our mutual embarkation this year on our eighth decades, Ginny and I took a Viking Cruise down the Rhone River through Provence. A wonderful experience–food, service, facilities and activities were all well done. We visited Lyon, Vienne, Arles, Avignon and other remarkable places. Among the sites: the Basilica in Lyon; a Roman temple …