Ruby Rose has made history after being cast as Batwoman, the first openly-gay superhero to headline a TV series. The CW is currently developing a Batwoman series scheduled to premiere in the 2019-20 season. Rose identifies as gender fluid and is best known for her roles in “Orange Is the New Black,” “Pitch Perfect 3,” …
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Children of Iran, December 2017. Wikicommons/ Mostafameraji. Some rights reserved.On Tuesday night, I was on the plane coming back from giving a talk, when Donald Trump announced his rejection of the Iran nuclear deal. The subject of the talk, ironically, was the economic sanctions and the ordinary suffering of Iranians. With a few exceptions, which …
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Beyond the ribbon of asphalt that wends through the landscape, Isabelle sees a man, young and darkly handsome. His arms open in welcome and he smiles, a sweetly amorous smile that makes her heart beat faster. It has been so long since she has seen him, kissed him. Her lips tingle with delicious anticipation. “Grandmama?” …
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It may be some time before we hear the full story from the Toronto police constable who apprehended the suspect in the van attack on Monday, April 23, 2018, that left 10 people dead and several others injured. But many are rightfully praising the policeman’s actions and at the same time comparing them with the actions taken …
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Migrant caravan of Hondurans, photographed on Sunday the 21st October. Image: Aporrea.org. All Rights Reserved. With the deaths of 2 migrants from Central America that were travelling with the caravan that departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on the 13th of October, the humanitarian crisis provoked by the precarious situation in which approx. 7000 (the …
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1 My father disappeared at 6:30 p.m. on a Sunday in November. Since then, I’ve been fascinated by disappearances. 2 No one else I know has ever disappeared. People have sometimes gone missing. People have sometimes died. But no one else has vanished into thin air. 3 I once read a newspaper article about a …
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All María José Coni and Marina Menegazzo wanted to do was travel. Like many 20-somethings dream of doing, the two Argentinian girls spent weeks traveling together up the west coast of South America — from Lima, Peru, to Ecuador’s “Mitad del Mundo” (or “middle of the world” monument), taking pictures with bright toothy smiles the whole way. Unfortunately, their trip …
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Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (image: Cierre de Campaña). All Rights Reserved. It is the stuff of legend in Mexico: In 1938, president Lázaro Cárdenas nationalised US and Anglo-Dutch oil companies and called on Mexicans to “furnish the necessary moral and material support” to pay the debt that newly-created Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) had acquired. Thousands of Mexicans, …
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The war correspondent and author MacKinlay Kantor wrote several novels on the American Civil War, like Gettysburg and his Pulitzer Prize-winning Andersonville. He also wrote crime stories, having gotten his start in pulp magazines. His story “That Greek Dog” looks at a small Midwestern town in the 1920s as its people grapple with a rising …
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Click:round tin box Physical fitness is important for success in sports and athletics, but it is also important for good health. If you are generally fit, you probably have a strong heart, brain, muscles, and bones, all of which help you to exercise and improve your chances of living a long, fit, and healthy life. …
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