![]() ![]() ![]() “If you vote for Joe Biden, you really are counting on a President Harris,” Haley said. 'He wanted to live the American Dream': Honduran teen dies in US immigration custody Not only is she leading the charge on Democrats’ most potent issue, the battle over abortion rights, she’s the running mate for the oldest president in history, increasing scrutiny over whether she’s ready to step into the top job if necessary. Although vice presidents are rarely decisive in reelection efforts, Harris is poised to be an exception. Now Harris, the first woman and person of color in her position, will be put to the test as President Joe Biden seeks a second term. “That is the vice president that America is going to get a chance to get to know for the first time,” said Laphonza Butler, a former adviser to Harris who leads EMILY’s List. After two years of tightly scripted, uneven performances that often dismayed Democrats and cheered Republicans, Harris is looser, more forceful and more willing to speak off the cuff following her trip to Africa a month ago. ![]() She even joked.Īnyone looking for a glimpse of what Vice President Kamala Harris could bring to the campaign trail would have found it this week at Howard University, where she headlined a rally for reproductive rights. ![]() WASHINGTON (AP) - She swaggered, she jabbed, she inspired. ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments The grey lady winked![]() ![]() He went on in his article to attempt to discredit the statements of a Western journalist, British reporter Gareth Jones, who got the story of the famine painfully right.7 Duranty told New York Times readers that he had initially believed Jones’s account that there was “virtually no bread” in many villages but that Jones had not seen dead animals or people. These conditions are bad but there is no famine.”ĭuranty did not stop there. “The rest of the country is on short rations but nothing worse. “In short, conditions are definitely bad in certain sections-the Ukraine, North Caucasus and Lower Volga,” he wrote. In his “breaking eggs” Times article of March 31, 1933,6 Duranty flatly denied that there was a famine at all. Duranty, who was the New York Times’s leading correspondent in Russia at the time, saw nothing particularly amiss. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Big freedia bounce music![]() ![]() And that is what makes the show so compelling to watch. The twerkin' and bounce music are basically the colourful flavours that hang off of that main story. ![]() He is torn between honouring her wish of focusing on his career and staying at home to take care of her during her last days. Vera and her adoring son Freddie aka Big Freedia. But what it's really about, is the relationship between a mother, Ms. Nevertheless Big Freedia is giving it his all to push Bounce music into the limelight. That, and Freedia being openly gay make it a tough sell for Freddia's management team. The old school hip hop influenced bounce music is a little like Marmite. But Bounce music is starting to get some mainstream exposure through the dance style known as twerkin'. But little is known about it nationally or internationally. Bounce music is extremely popular in the N.O. Big Freedia is a New Orleans bounce artist who uses the pronoun "she". It's marketed as a reality piece about a gay, very flamboyant black man called Big Freedia. This is a ground breaking TV show that should be given more credit than it has received. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments I want my hat back animals![]() ![]() The ambiguity this creates frames hypothetical discussion nicely. Because these characters feel the need to deny actions even though no one has accused them of committing the actions, they paint themselves suspiciously. They are mentioned only in statements of denial, from which we may infer that they actually happen. While the common reading of the text is that the Rabbit has stolen the Bear’s hat, and the Bear has eaten the Rabbit to take its hat back, none of these are stated outright. This book lends itself to discussion with its ambiguous nature. Read aloud video by Shon’s Stories Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion The bear jumps up and runs back until he meets the thief and recovers the hat. ![]() As soon as the bear starts describing the hat, he remembers where it has seen the hat: on the head of a rabbit. He wanders around and asks all the animals he encounters whether they’ve seen it. One lies.Ī bear has lost his hat and wants it back. ![]() Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary When a bear loses his hat, he asks all the animals about it. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Goldfinger by Ian Fleming![]() ![]() ![]() This had been a Mexican with a name and an address, an employment card and perhaps a driving license. ![]() What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one. Bond tracks the pipeline to its source and blows up the heroin warehouse, but then is approached in the street that night by an assassin hired by the gang, and after a brief intense fight, kills him. Fleming gives a brief description of how an informal heroin smuggling circle was set up by a posh, amateur Brit which led from poppy fields in Mexico via a courier to Victoria Coach Station and then distribution via Soho. Thus Goldfinger opens with Bond in the departure lounge of Miami airport, obsessively going over his most recent job in Mexico. He tries to persuade himself it’s just part of the job, he does it then moves on, but in reality he broods and worries. Bond dislikes killing and it gives him a bad conscience. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Geraldine brooks books![]() ![]() The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne: $23) A modern fable explores life’s universal lessons through four archetypes.Ĩ. Monsters by Claire Dederer (Knopf: $28) The author explores the dilemma of art created by those with major legal, ethical or moral issues.ħ. Atomic Habits by James Clear (Avery: $27) The self-help expert’s guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones via tiny changes in behavior.Ħ. Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams (Crown: $29) A memoir from the singer-songwriter.ĥ. Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond (Crown: $28) The author of “Evicted” looks at poverty from a fresh perspective.Ĥ. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The music producer’s guidance on how to be a creative person.ģ. ![]() The Wager by David Grann (Doubleday: $30) The story of the shipwreck of an 18th-century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.Ģ. Horse by Geraldine Brooks (Viking: $28) Before the Civil War, an enslaved young man, a racehorse and an artist launch a complex story that spans generations. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (Viking: $28) A professor of film, who’s also a podcaster, returns to her boarding school and gets drawn into an investigation of a murder that occurred there when she was a student.ġ0. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House: $28) A cynical TV comedy writer who has given up on love falls for a pop star in a novel from the author of “Prep” and “Eligible.”ĩ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children, a story that appeals to the very essence of the American Dream. In paperback, the book spent over twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into fourteen languages. ![]() ![]() Never giving in to despair, Gardner makes an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible to being a powerful player in its financial district. The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving from shelters, "HO-tels," and soup-lines. Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC.com. Instead of giving in to despair, he toiled until he made the astonishing transformation back to the boardroom. ![]() Yet no sooner had he landed an entry level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street.Īt the age of twenty, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Isla and the happily ever after![]() In addition, fans of the series will revel as Etienne, Anna, Cricket and Lolas. ![]() OL19983606W Page_number_confidence 95.36 Pages 390 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200716205508 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 835 Scandate 20200709023537 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781409581130 Tts_version 4. Isla and Joshs story does give us that long-awaited happily ever after with many heartfelt moments along the way. ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:00:49 Boxid IA1884205 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Married by morning kleypas![]() ![]() ![]() And then there is Catherine Marks.the extremely proper and polite, rigid, eye-glass wearing governess to Leo's youngest sister. We have the easy-going, relaxed, devilishly handsome, witty, let-life-happen, devil-may-care, aristocrat Leo Hathaway, also known as Viscount Ramsay. They didn't take over the story, but enhanced it with their natural flair. I also liked that Kleypas included the other Hathaways in a believable, yet unobtrusive way. I loved the banter between Marks and Leo and how they constantly surprised each other. Plus, the conflict so paralleled that of Tempt Me at Twilight it was like I experienced deja vu. The end bothered me, mostly because I felt like it was thrown in almost as an after-thought, just to add conflict. Cat isn't the uptight spinster she pretends to be, and Leo isn't as callous and shallow as Cat has always thought him.Īlthough this wasn't my favorite Kleypas, I did enjoy it quite a bit. But he knows it's a bad idea.Ĭat is scared to death of Leo finding out her secrets, because she knows once they've been revealed she'll have to leave.and she isn't ready to give up the Hathaways just yet.īut they both surprise each other. He wants to know all of her secrets, especially the ones hidden under her clothes. The tension between Cat and Leo has been building for 3 books now, and I was very interested in seeing where she was going to take them.Ĭat has a secret and Leo wants to know what it is. Kleypas is always a favorite and I was especially looking forward to this book. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments She persisted 13 american![]() ![]() The artwork by Alexandra Boiger is lovely and shows these women not only as themselves, but as their younger selves, striving to reach higher goals they were told weren't available to them. Clinton does a simply beautiful job introducing 13 diverse women who stood up to discouragement based on their gender and succeeded in long-lasting ways. I think my review for the other one said it all, so I'm just going to paste that here:ĭo you know a little girl? Are you a little girl? Does someone you know know a little girl? If so, tell them about this book. My niece enjoyed this book, although I don't know that she understand the importance as she thinks girls can do anything already. I would like to be someone who persists all the time when it is important. I am someone who lets at times lets 'no' from the outside affect me and sometimes I don't. ![]() I didn't know all these women and I'm glad I know of them now. It's time women can be anything they are meant to be. It's time to get rid of all the glass ceilings. Some of these women faced death threats to learn. ![]() Listen to who you were meant to be and stand up. It's so important to have a message for girls in the world that says, don't listen to societies 'no'. I might love it more than the 1st one about American women. ![]() |