• Early Beginnings: The business traces its roots back to 1873 when Charles Barnes opened a book-printing business in Wheaton, Illinois.
• The Partnership: In 1917, Charles's son William Barnes partnered with G. Clifford Noble to open their first major bookstore in New York City.
• The Flagship Store: In 1932, the store moved to Fifth Avenue and 18th Street in New York City, eventually becoming known as the world's largest bookstore.
• Leonard Riggio Era: Entrepreneur Leonard Riggio purchased the company in 1971 and transformed it into a national powerhouse, pioneering discount books, television advertising, and massive book superstores with in-store cafes in the 1980s and 1990s.
• Modern Ownership: After competing heavily with online retailers like Amazon and launching digital products like the NOOK, the company was acquired and taken private in 2019 by Elliott Investment Management (Elliott Advisors), with CEO James Daunt leading a major operational turnaround.

He invented dynamite and then felt bad and now every dynamite inventor invents more dynamite so they can be like, "Look, look, here is peace!"

there can, possibly, in liberal worldview, be a case for the 60-63 period, where internal documents of jfk admin point to some sympathies to africa's plight (and desire to shoulder ussr away) to colonialism and some economic development programs (which were done on less shit deals by world bank), but of course, that's bookended by korea/vietnam wars temporally, guatemala silent genocide concurrently, start of indonesia killing lists and malay rebellion smothering (although brits were the leaders there) and lumumba assassination, so even there the case is basically vibes-based.

icj, in their infinite laziness, have given entity till 2029 to respond to genocide accusations btw

It's a joke now anyway, bring back people's tribunal.

one would think that south african judge will have some ideas about usa leadership in liberatory struggle, but money opens a lot of different viewpoints for the mind.

she is south african