When you saw “Home Alone” for the first time as a kid, you probably just loved it as a thrill ride. You got to watch some kid go full on John Rambo and protect his home against the narrator from “The Wonder Years” and the unhinged guy from nearly every Scorsese film. To put it simply: …
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To earn 50 years in prison, most of the time, one either has to kill someone, move a few kilos of drugs, or swindle rich people out of their money. But a man in Texas was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Friday, April 20, because he simply could not stop himself from stealing fajitas. Employees …
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ELN Guerrilla members. Image: cortesy of pacifista.tv Even though Colombia signed a peace deal with the FARC rebels in 2016, armed conflict in the country is not yet over. Another rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN – Ejército de Liberación Nacional, in Spanish), the country’s now-largest guerrilla organisation, is still alive and kicking. Since …
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Originally published in the Post on May 22, 1920. And Mrs. Curley, who is always so agreeable about doing anything like that, did some of her original child impersonations, in her favorite selections, “Don’t Tell the Daisies I Tolded You, ‘Cause I Promised Them Not to Tell”; and “Little Girls Must Always Be Dressed up …
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The doves stare through the bars of their cage, the opened slats of the blinds, the tight mesh of the window screens, into the dismal, sunless morning. They are mystified, it seems — the world is as much a mystery to them as they are to Anne. She watches them while she waits for the …
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Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, March 2018. Albin Lohr-Jones/Press Association. All rights reserved.Even under one of the most rhetorically aggressive leaderships that it has ever had, the United States maintains a rational approach in dealing with nuclear North Korea. Its plans for a meeting between the …
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Last January, actor-writer-comedian Rob Delaney (“Catastrophe,” “Deadpool 2) lost his son, Henry, after a two-year battle with brain cancer. Henry was just two-and-a-half years old. During the painful ordeal, Delaney began writing a book about Henry’s illness to help other parents of sick children. He wanted to remind others that “someone understood and cared” about …
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My father believed individuality was best forged in violence: He taught me to swim by throwing me off a silo near Hales Bar Dam, to keep my mitt up by throwing the baseball at my nose (he broke it — I made All Stars that year), and to conquer my fear of snakes by thrusting …
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Fake news, hate speech, and the consolidation of ‘outsider’ type candidates that pit themselves against traditional ways of doing politics were the elements that came together to produce the populist tendencies that have recently taken centre stage in Latin America. The strong presidential character of Latin American political systems ensures that the personality of the …
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Over the past few years, NFL cheerleaders have been standing up for themselves. Cheerleaders for the Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, and Cincinnati Bengals have all sued over poor pay and requirements that they pay for their own makeup, uniforms, and transportation. Now, a former New Orleans Saints cheerleader is …
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