This piece appears in the upcoming issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books Print Quarterly Journal: The Epistolary Issue, No. 21 To receive the LARB Quarterly Journal, become a member or purchase at your local bookstore. ¤ Translator’s Note In 1982, Caio Fernando Abreu published a short story collection called Moldy Strawberries. By then, Abreu was already one […]
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Manafort was sentenced to a total of 90 months in prison in federal court in Washington earlier on Wednesday
Manafort was sentenced to a total of 90 months in prison in federal court in Washington earlier on Wednesday
If anyone assumes you are miserable because you haven't gotten married yet, you don't start feeling sorry for yourself. You feel sorry for them. You feel sorry they assume the only way to reach happiness is with a man. You feel sorry their worldview is so small. You feel sorry they have a skewed understanding of what a successful woman looks like.
Watch out for your funny bones. With his 2019/2020 season, Theatre Calgary’s artistic director Stafford Arima wants to take them hostage. Conceding TC’s current season may be heavy on dramas and a bit sombre, Arima says he wants to see audiences at the Max Bell Theatre rolling in the aisles. “In the 23 months I’ve been […]
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Police in Bangladesh have filed criminal complaints against tens of thousands of people for violence-related cases in recent years. But the opposition and rights activists say most of the cases, allegedly involving bombing and rioting, were made up. Opposition parties claim most of those targeted were their leaders, workers and supporters, and that the government used the law enforcement agency to crack down on its political rivals. “Police in Bangladesh registered thousands of criminal cases... Читать дальше...
Former Miss SA and Miss World Rolene Strauss has taken her little one on his first official family vacation.
Firefighters in Spain battled to extinguish a giant fire that broke out at an industrial facility in Alcorcon, outside Madrid, on March 12. According to footage published by 112 Community Madrid (Madrid’s Emergency and Security Agency), about 200 tons of pressed paper, wood, plastic and cardboard burned at a recycling center near a shopping mall. Six firefighters were treated for mild heatstroke while putting out the fire, according to 112 Community Madrid. Local media said that firefighters warned... Читать дальше...
The Second City derby served up a plot that cried out for a Hollywood ending, and it got one. Blues fan thuggery received Super Jack justice and suddenly Aston Villa were thinking that maybe, just maybe, the play-offs were back on again, after their 1-0 win. On the latest My Old Man Said podcast show […]
Читать дальше...TIFFIN — Thirty area landowners won’t have to let sPower on their property to do the work the Utah-based developer argued was necessary to keep its proposed Seneca Wind project on schedule.
Paul Manafort on Wednesday was sentenced to an additional 43 months in prison by a Washington, D.C. federal court in connection with the undisclosed lobbying work he did on behalf of a Ukrainian political party, just days after receiving a 47-month sentence in a separate case in Virginia.In delivering the sentence, Judge Amy Berman Jackson stipulated that, while the charges against Manafort did result from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine... Читать дальше...
Determined AI raised $11 million, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), to bring new features to its distributed deep learning management platform.
Campolindo, Menlo School, Oakland Tech, Palo Alto athletes recognized
Emily Mortimer happily strikes a pose alongside her daughter May Rose Nivola while attending the European premiere of her latest film Head Full of Honey held at Zoo Palast Theater on Tuesday (March 12) in London, England. The 47-year-old actress was joined at the event by writer-director Til Schweiger who was accompanied by his daughters [...]
A matchup between two welterweights who love nothing more than a good scrap serves as Saturday’s UFC on ESPN+ 5 headliner – but who wins?
Update Night is a fortnightly column in which Rich McCormick revisits games to find out whether they’ve been changed for better or worse. Who says games aren’t educational? When I woke up this morning, I didn’t know the Korean word for “Red Zone.” That’s “Red Zone” as in, the randomly selected section of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds’ map […]
THE owners of an inflatable trampoline which exploded killing a three-year-old girl after she catapulted 20ft in the air will not face further action, it emerged today. Ava-May Littleboy was hurled from the inflatable on the beach at Gorleston, Norfolk, on July 1 – one of the hottest days in Britain last year. Members of […]
Credit card data stealing attacks use a technique rarely deployed in POS malware to help avoid detection - and are thought to have been operating since 2016.
On 13 March 2019, the Philippines notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated on 19 February 2019 a safeguard investigation on clear and tinted float glass.