Michael Leibel

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senior editor for @theatlantic.com | opinions are my own and bad | UNC 2014

Comment from user amcclory says: "I remember the exact moment when I received incontrovertible proof that there is no God. It was Game 6 of the 1993 NBA finals. My beloved Phoenix Suns lost the first two games of that series to Michael Jordan's two-time champion Chicago Bulls. Somehow, the Suns improbably won two out of three games in Chicago, staving off elimination, and bringing the series back to Phoenix. They were cruising to victory in Game 6, only to have John Paxon drain a three-pointer to take the lead in the last 4 seconds of the game. With that dagger three, the Suns season and all possibility of the existence of a loving, powerful deity came to an end."
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Text that says: Inside the schools, many administrators have been making their own preparations over the past year. Amanda Bauer, a teacher at a Minneapolis elementary school that has a large portion of immigrant students, told me that administrators informed parents last fall about their emergency plans for ICE raids by phone or in person, because they were already concerned about leaving email chains that could be mined by a hostile government.
Donald Trump and Jerome Powell stand in the Fed building under renovation. Trump gestures animatedly while Powell looks at blueprints with concern. Overlaid text on Trump read “ME EXPLAINING THE DECADES OF NINTENDO LORE BEHIND DONKEY KONG BANANZA” and the text over Powell reads “MY CONCERNED WIFE.”
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Now, most of the company’s new PCs will be divided into three tiers: Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Pro Max. Attendees at the press briefing were quick to question the similarities with how Apple names its devices. Recent iPhone generations also carry the names “pro” and “pro max” to differentiate higher-tiered devices. “I am wondering why you guys didn’t choose something original, because you essentially have Apple’s branding here,” one audience member quipped. Another said “your branding sounds a lot like Apple — aren’t you just following them?” Dell executives defended the choice, saying nobody owns words like “pro” or “max.” The decisions were supported by research with “tens of thousands of customers,” Clarke said. One similarity to Apple’s approach is the way that Dell is “anchoring” its products to one simple brand name, said Kevin Terwilliger, a vice president of Dell’s PC business.
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