January 25, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Syria peace discussions begin today in Geneva, starting with "proximity talks," where groups meet separately.
- Winter Storm Jonas—the second-biggest snowstorm in New York City history—shuts down government offices in Washington, D.C.
- Despite the travel ban in New York, some used the blizzard as a chance to snowboard with the NYPD.
- Google uses star alpinists to make an immersive guide to Mont Blanc.
- Lindsey Vonn claims 75th World Cup victory, closing on the record of 86 by Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark.
- After years of offensive stagnation, baseball is getting close to using a designated hitter.
- Way before Disney, medieval Europe was obsessed with “self-moving” sculptures in political and religious spectacles.
- Whitesboro, NY, decides to make a new emblem—no longer a white man throttling a Native American.
- More public lynchings in Mexico this past year than at any other time in more than a quarter-century.
- Black students half as likely as white students to be put on a "gifted" track—even with comparable test scores.
- Businessman hired to run university tells staff they need to convince some troubled students to quit.
- How to elect Trump: Nominate Sanders; watch Bloomberg's entrance yank away liberal votes; hail President Donald.
- Obituary: Dying man's final wish is that you don't vote for Trump.
- GOP's response to the National Review's anti-Trump special issue shows institutional caving.
- Media descriptions of the attacks in Cologne wildly misreport that "rape mobs" are a part of Arab culture.
- Sexual assault movement leaves behind women in black colleges, who face “a climate in which silence has become not only standard, but expected.”
- Strunk and White's Elements of Style leads the academic world's list of most successful textbooks.
- China leads the skyscraper race for the eighth year in a row.
- Average age of a newly employed butler is 41, and 40% of people placed by the British Butler Academy are women.
