Morning Belz, Nov. 17

Vaccine distribution will be sprawling public-private effort — NYT
Immigrants from Armenia/Lebanon and France started Moderna — Forbes
Dolly Parton helped pay for the research at Vanderbilt — CNN
Lovely old building in Duluth, burned by fire, in limbo — News Tribune
Pandemic made dysfunctional cattle markets worse — Register
Lake St. Target famously looted in June riots reopened — Star Tribune
Op-Ed: Corporate bureaucracy replaces patriarchy  — Sydney Morn Herald

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“That’s the thing with the British Empire. It’s sort of like British TV versus American TV, where they did everything first. The Office. Chemical attacks. Divide and rule. But they did it very deadpan, just kind of ironic. The American approach is a lot more earnest. ‘Jim and Pam get married! Iraq gets to be a real democracy!’ And the British are just like ‘Fuck it. You have a king now. You voted him in 96 percent.’ This is the original series. This is the UK, BBC Iraqi occupation.” — Blowback podcast, Episode 1

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