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Isaiah J. Downing and Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Anything worth doing is worth doing right, and when it came to losing games, the 2024 White Sox were the grandmasters of the art. Sure, the 1899 Cleveland Spiders had a worse record, but that was an intentionally terrible team thanks to an owner who sent the club’s good players over to another team they owned, the St. Louis Perfectos. The 1962…

Unlike Trump, Nixon agreed to a virtual debate against Kennedy, besting JFK

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Nixon later complained that he was “shocked” that Kennedy was using notes. Kennedy, one political reporter wrote, “seemed shocked that Nixon was shocked.” JFK said he had one public document so he could “accurately” make a point on foreign policy. And there wasn’t any rule against that.

It was the nation’s first and only virtual presidential debate. On the evening of Oct. 15, 2020,…

Today, Slack, a popular internal chat application, announced that it added 7,000 new customers between February 1st and March 18. That is 47 days. For context, Slack added 5,000 customers total in its preceding quarter, making its recent customer adds impressive.

Slack, like other companies whose products can help facilitate remote work, has seen a boom in usage due to the COVID-19 pandemicthat…