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Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma just pledged to donate 500,000 coronavirus tests and 1 million face masks to the US as shortages mount Alibaba

Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma just pledged to donate 500,000 coronavirus tests and 1 million face masks to the US as shortages mount

REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonJack Ma, Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group, speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 27, 2014. On Friday, Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, pledged to donate 500,000 testing kits for the novel coronavirus and one million medical face masks to…
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March 13, 2020
Bring a Loupe: A GMT-Master With Political Provenance, A 1930s Reverso, And A Curious Piece Of Girard-Perregaux Ephemera Paul Newman

Bring a Loupe: A GMT-Master With Political Provenance, A 1930s Reverso, And A Curious Piece Of Girard-Perregaux Ephemera

To say it's been a weird week would be an understatement of epic proportions, but just as life goes on, so does the hunt. You've just gotta stay positive, keep washing your hands, and look in areas others might not be for watches and/or toilet paper. With all this in…
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March 13, 2020
For Labour, Rishi Sunak’s Budget is an opportunity – but also a danger Tories and Labour

For Labour, Rishi Sunak’s Budget is an opportunity – but also a danger

Some of the commentary on the Budget suggests that had Labour won the general election, a new chancellor would have presented a similar financial and economic package: focusing infrastructure spending on roads, neglecting to fix Universal Credit, failing to lift working people out of poverty and deprioritising investment in green technologies. Counterfactuals…
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March 13, 2020
How Hawaii’s Japanese Population Was Spared Internment During World War II Peace

How Hawaii’s Japanese Population Was Spared Internment During World War II

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s infamous February 1942 Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of approximately 120,000 persons of Japanese descent from the West Coast — citizens and aliens alike — remains a tremendous blight on the nation’s history. Yet, virtually unremembered is that on March 13, 1942, Roosevelt issued an…
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March 13, 2020