The neighbors said the jungle gym was great for our block. I told them it was just the beginning and showed them the picture of my wife’s childhood yard. I told them I would duplicate the Tennessee homestead down to the smallest detail. Honeysuckles would cover the Los Angeles city fire hydrant, and the chicken …
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Fiji is easily reached by Air Pacific, airpacific.com, which flies direct to Nadi from Los Angeles. They fly two-story 747s; if the plane isn’t too full, you can buy a full row of seats for yourself in the quiet upstairs for a few hundred extra bucks. Money well spent for the 10-hour flight. Most resorts …
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On Dec. 4, 2017, Jamie Bennett was sitting at home in his living room recovering from the flu. It was a blustery Monday night in the picturesque valley of Ojai, California — some 20 miles east of the coastal town of Ventura — and the winds were rattling the windows of his home. Around 8 p.m., …
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Image of European Parliament, June 2018. Global Media Group/Press Association. All rights reserved. IM/HD: We are today witnessing the advance of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme-right groups in every successive European election. They have even managed to enter government, for instance, in Italy. What’s going on? Etienne Balibar (EB): This trend has been ongoing for …
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Suffragette Rebecca Eastman wrote articles, fiction, and drama for a host of publications at the turn of the century. Her work was largely forgotten, save her novel The Big Little Person, which became a silent film in 1919. Eastman’s story “The Girl with Henna Hair” appeared in the Post in 1919, and its witty treatment …
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Behind concrete walls that span several feet high in the bustling streets of Karachi, Pakistan, Mashal Hussain stands on the side of the soccer field, looking on at the group of girls playing. The girls are laughing and smiling, dripping in sweat from running around in the hot and humid conditions. It’s clear Hussain is …
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When was the last time you really got to know your hometown? Instead of traveling to far-flung places, try loca-tourism. Pack your next four-day weekend with special places to eat, learn, and play within 100 miles of home. “No airports, no TSA, no exchange rates, and huge savings,” points out travel writer Betsa Marsh. Here’s …
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Click:vanilla prepaid card balance “Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.” – Jorge Luis Borges Brazil´s presidential elections next month will be one of the biggest tests the country´s democracy has ever faced. Aside from choosing the country´s president, the members of the lower …
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As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump positioned himself as an outsider who’d shake up Washington. He claimed that only he could fix long-standing problems that politicians had ignored. One of those issues was the U.S.’s intractable relationship with North Korea. Trump saw it as a battle between two men instead of two countries’ geopolitical differences. …
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The Conservative government in Britain led by Theresa May faces deep divisions over Brexit, so deep indeed that its very survival even in the short term cannot be assured. For much of the past two years, its ability to remain upright has owed much to its ability to cast the opposition, a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour …
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