Day: March 16, 2018

Rihanna sends Snapchat shares tumbling

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Rihanna on Thursday denounced Snapchat after an advertisement made light of her beating by fellow pop star Chris Brown, sending the company’s share prices tumbling. The social media platform — which counts 187 million users, especially young people drawn to its quickly vanishing posts — had featured an advertisement for “Would You Rather?,” a game app that asks sometimes provocative questions. The commercial showed the two singers and asked Snapchat users whether they would rather “slap Rihanna” or “punch Chris Brown.” The company pulled the advertisement and apologized, but Rihanna…

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Last woman standing and the return of strong men

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The exit of Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson from office in January at the end of her second term as Liberian president left Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as the last African woman president standing. In a world where women have to prove themselves even for what comes to men naturally, whatever reduces the number of women in power preserves the glass ceiling. After Sirleaf-Johnson’s exit, I feared it was going to be quite lonely at the top for Gurib-Fakim. My first indirect encounter with her was an interview she granted The Interview in 2015 shortly…

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