• In explaining the ambition that led to Mr. Manafort’s downfall, a friend referred to the former Ukrainian president for whom Mr. Manafort did work: “He could have kept running campaigns for the Yanukovychs of the world, and nobody would have cared. But he took on the Trump campaign because he believed that the country was going down the wrong path, and he wanted to make a difference.”
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• 126 million Facebook users were exposed to inflammatory posts by Russian agents, a detailed disclosure about the scope of Moscow’s influence on U.S. social media before the presidential election shows.
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• The next season of “House of Cards” will be the last, Netflix said on Monday, a day after the show’s star, Kevin Spacey, was accused of making a sexual advance on a 14-year-old boy in the 1980s.
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Back Story
We begin Halloween with a ghost story.
Stingy Jack invited the devil for a drink.
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As Irish folklore goes, Jack didn’t want to pay for the drinks, so he persuaded the devil to turn himself into a coin that could be used to settle the bill.
The devil agreed, but Jack ditched the tab and kept the coin. When he died, Stingy Jack was denied entry to both heaven and hell and was instead given a burning coal to light his way as he roamed the earth for eternity. He placed the coal in a carved-out turnip, turning it into a lantern.
Stingy Jack became known as “Jack of the Lantern,” or Jack-o’-Lantern, by the late 17th century. Elsewhere in Europe, making lanterns from potatoes and beets was part of a fall harvest celebration. Lights were also thought to ward off evil spirits.
By the end of the 19th century, European immigrants in America switched their carving tradition to pumpkins.
“The fortunate pumpkin is a noble fruit, a joy in the mouth of mankind, a paean of Autumn on the happy palate,” a 1942 Times article proclaimed. “The unfortunate pumpkin becomes a jack-o’-lantern.”
Remy Tumin contributed reporting.
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