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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | Joni Jacobsen |Angela Liu |Julia Cameron
Key TakeawaysIn this edition of Dechert’s Securities & Derivative Litigation Quarterly Update, we: Examine trends in federal securities class-action filings, which saw a slight uptick in 2024, with an increase in AI-related cases and notable declines in SPAC and cryptocurrency-related filings; Discuss recent decisions applying the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. v.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Michelle Zhu |Angela Liu |Ashley Wu |Thomas Pak
Returning home from medical school for the holidays, I had an all-too-familiar experience for medical trainees, but with a cultural twist. My Chinese American family bombarded me with medical questions. “I wake up at 4 a.m. every day, 不舒服 (bù shū fu; body feels uncomfortable), feels like 心跳 (xīn tiào; heart palpitations).” “I get woken up at 3 a.m. every day, 胃痛 (Wèitòng; stomach pains), but I had a CT, MRI, and colonoscopy last year, and they said nothing is wrong.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
directorsandboards.com | Joni Jacobsen |Angela Liu |Julia Cameron
Caremark claims, named after the landmark case In re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation, have been described as one of the most difficult theories for plaintiffs to pursue. These claims allege that directors breached their fiduciary duties by failing to make a good-faith effort to oversee the company's operations.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
medium.com | Angela Liu
Angela Liu·Follow5 min read·--image via Pinteresttrigger warning: discussions of depression and suicidal thoughtsEnglish class was a sanctuary, a place where the world softened and unfolded between the pages of nooks. I remember sitting at my desk, feeling as though I stumbled upon a secret: an entire class dedicated to reading, reflecting, and unraveling stories. It baffled me that others groaned at the thought. How could this be anyone’s least favourite class, when it felt like magic to me?
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
uncannymagazine.com | Angela Liu |Clockpunk Studios
Content note: violence, sexual abuse, suicide, cannibalismThere is no limit to the number of curses in the world. For each one the monks try to exorcise, ten more take its place. We are not here because we enjoy it though. Please don’t misunderstand. As you dip into steaming bath waters, entwine your bodies under warm sheets, and dream of delicious sake under spring flowers, know that we are always burning. The crows cawed from atop the shingled roof of the outer hall.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Raven Jakubowski |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
It was Lafayette for me. He was the first,watching over the farmers market in the summer Square. I glanced up from choosing just-ripe tomatoes and found him looking at mewith a malevolent gaze. I was not the first to notice,and it was not just the Marquis. It was all the statues, all those human, inhuman faces,looking at us,displeased with what they saw. Maybe, we said,maybe the dead got wise,maybe it was them climbing in these bodiesclose enough to the ones they remember. Reaching distance.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Octavia Cade |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
John Wyndham (1903-1969) is one of my very favourite authors. I have a lot of his books on my shelves, so when I was offered this new collection to review I grabbed it with both hands, confident that I’d already read most of it. That proved to be the case—only one of the stories here was new to me. That’s because, as the book cover tells us (albeit in smaller font), this isn’t a new collection at all.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
directorsandboards.com | Joni Jacobsen |Angela Liu
In today's corporate environment, companies have increasingly undertaken internal investigations to assess concerns of corporate wrongdoing. While these investigations can be overseen by a company's board, the board may delegate this responsibility to an independent committee, particularly when the investigation concerns sensitive issues, senior management conduct, or concerns about the company's ability to conduct an independent investigation.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Vanessa Jae |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
In Arkady Martine’s Rose/House, vulturehood stands in contrast to personhood. It is an exploitive act of taking from the vulnerable, and the vulnerable are the first to have their agency—and thus their personhood—taken from them. Martine introduces the term “vulturehood” early on in the book, in connection with Basit Deniau, the architect of a mansion located in the Mojave Desert by China Lake, California, known as Rose House.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Angela Liu |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Caroline Hung
On the bus, my mother presses her foreheadagainst the one-eyed vulture in the glassMissed calls,funeral bills,old pockets that smell ofpennies. We talk about medicationslike relatives no one wants to see. Don’t lookat the creature’s wrinklesthe burn scars along its neck and facelike rusted train tracks,its wet eyeshungry for decades-old debts.
