| Good afternoon on this last Monday of August! We're hurtling toward fall, and in the week leading to Labor Day I find myself ambivalent about the impending long weekend: excited for the length of it, certainly, but also a little sad it marks the end of summer. Today's story about Boston's especially dark winter days only reminds one of how near the evenings of a dark commute really are. Those nights do lend themselves to curling up with a good book though, and one available in October sounds like it could fit the bill. Available for pre-order, Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal is already ranking in some of Amazon's business categories. – Emily Banks |
| | In Their Own Words | | | Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes's new book offers some interesting theories about why business execs commit financial crimes–and, perhaps even more interestingly, includes first-person explanations for some of the largest ones. Several convicted criminals provide the observations and self-justifications of a colorful Murderers' Row of white-collar crime. |
| Here are today's top stories... | | Massachusetts could change time zones. Of all the major cities on America's eastern seaboard, none is as far north or east as Boston. In the winter, the sun sets really early–well before happy hour for most of December. Gov. Charles Baker recently signed a bill ordering a study of the wisdom of moving the city into a time zone that would brighten the end of the day in the months the Northern Hemisphere tilts away from the sun. | | Clinton is trying to separate Trump from Republicans, in an attempt to entice voters to ditch the GOP nominee. This strategy puts her at odds with congressional Democrats who want to link the party's House and Senate candidates to Trump's controversial brand of politics. Meanwhile, Trump plans to visit Detroit next weekend to make his first appearance before a predominantly African-American audience, as his campaign makes a bid for support from black voters. This election is so nuts, the libertarian candidate just might win … says the libertarian candidate. | | Apple sent invitations to a Sept. 7 product event. The world's largest publicly traded company is expected to roll out a series of product upgrades, including next-generation versions of the iPhone and Apple Watch, at the press event. The successors to the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus will include advanced photography capabilities and upgraded hardware with a design similar to last year's models–although it will lose the headphone jack, people familiar with the matter said earlier this month. | | Mylan will sell a generic version of EpiPen. The company said it will halve the price of the branded $600 emergency allergy shots in coming weeks, bowing to pressure after U.S. lawmakers derided earlier steps as a mere public-relations fix. The generic version will be identical to the branded product, which includes the drug itself and the handheld pen with a needle that injects the shot. | | Sunday was a bad day to be late to work for Dubai government employees. That morning, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, arrived at government offices for a spot check and found sparsely populated offices. Dubai's media office posted videos on Twitter showing the sheikh standing behind an empty desk. The accompanying tweet stated that managers were no better than rank-and-file employees. | |
| | First Drive | | | Been to a planetarium lately? If not, you could achieve the same effect if you owned a 2017 McLaren 570 GT. Its glass hatch stretches from windshield to taillight and is enough to make you want to lie back and count stars. The car can do other things, too, of course. Things that make you feel as though you've just drunk those stars in a champagne flute and now they're popping out of your head. | | |
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