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☆ Muggings, Murders and Mob Justice: Violent Crime Roars Back in Karachi
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Zia Ur-Rehman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The terrifying stories are sprawled across local newspapers and recounted in hushed tones at tea stalls and bus stands: another day, another brutal death during an armed robbery in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. Last Wednesday, a car mechanic was shot dead by muggers trying to steal his phone. A few days earlier, robbers killed a 27-year-old mechanical engineer, stealing his phone, cash and motorcycle. Across Karachi, Pakistan’s economic powerhouse, the rate of violent crime has soared. The country’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, has called for a “large-scale operation” against the street criminals.

Persons: muggers, Asif Ali Zardari, mugging, ”, Shamim Ali Locations: Karachi, Pakistan’s

☆ Opinion: ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ has a surprising secret
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatksy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Watch “Apocalypse Now” (1979), “Full Metal Jacket” (1987) or “Platoon” (1986) and you should know what war really means. “Ungentlemanly Warfare” features a disreputable band of riff raff brought together for a super-secret mission. Ritchie makes no such concessions to authenticity in “Ungentlemanly Warfare.”Henry Cavill is Gus March-Phillips in Guy Ritchie’s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." Even when a war movie doesn’t actively mislead you, the promise of being privy to an unvarnished, authentic and extreme experience can be seductive. “It would decay in eternal peace.”Compared to that kind of cult of authentic war, “Ungentlemanly Warfare” feels fairly harmless, and not in a bad way.

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☆ In Fight Over Bump Stock Ban, Lawyers Take Aim at Administrative State
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Abbie Vansickle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A simple device that speeds up a semiautomatic weapon’s rate of fire is at the center of a case that could cast a shadow over a government agency’s ability to regulate firearms. For Michael Cargill, a fierce defender of gun rights who sells firearms in Austin, the accessory, a bump stock, was until 2017 a niche item on the shelves of his store, Central Texas Gun Works. It mainly appealed to people who were injured or disabled, like veterans who needed support firing a gun or by “people who just wanted to have fun,” he said. But that year, a high-stakes gambler stationed on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel opened fire on a country music festival, killing 60 people and injuring hundreds. Government officials swiftly called for a ban, eliciting alarm among gun store owners like Mr. Cargill, 54, a gregarious Army veteran who said that the mugging and assault of his grandmother had shaped his views on gun control.

Persons: Michael Cargill, ”, Cargill Organizations: Central Texas Gun, Government, Army Locations: Austin, Las Vegas

Michael Cargill, owner of Central Texas Gun Works in Austin, opposes the ban on bump stock sales. “During the Trump administration, the bump stock ban cropped up as a rather glaring example of unlawful administrative power,” Philip Hamburger, a founder of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, said in an email. Image A bump stock attaches to a semiautomatic rifle and enables it to fire at a much higher rate. In response, the Justice Department promised to review the legality of bump stocks, but A.T.F. Eventually, the full court agreed with Mr. Cargill by vote of 13 to 3, split along ideological lines.

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☆ Fact Check: Video shows bus station attack in Brazil, not Sunderland
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A widely-shared video of a man being robbed and stabbed at a bus station was filmed in Brazil last year not, as is being falsely reported online, in England. The graphic clip, uploaded to Facebook, shows a man at a ticket machine being grabbed from behind and his bag being stolen by two men. The attackers then run away and the man falls over a ticket barrier onto the floor. The man wounded in the attack was named in reports as Pablo Felipe Lima Bernardo. The video shows an attack in Brazil, not the UK.

Persons: Pablo Felipe Lima Bernardo, Read Organizations: Facebook, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Brazil, England, English, Sunderland, Taquara, Rio de Janeiro

☆ How Hip-Hop Changed the English Language Forever
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Miles Marshall Lewis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +16 min

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☆ Sundance Movies: Brett Kavanaugh and Steph Curry Docs, "Cat Person"
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Alison Brower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The Sundance Film Festival was back in person for the first time since 2020. In five days I saw eight films, and while I'm not a critic, I can affirm that not one of them was a clunker. Asked about the film's aspect ratio in an audience Q&A, Jalali said, "It was prettier that way." The bulk of the films I saw were more commercial, and four of them centered on relationships. And then there was "Cat Person," based on a 2017 New Yorker story about dating by Kristen Roupenian.

☆ The Sundance Film Festival stirs buzz, draws A-list stars, and screens movies that get you talking, but it can't hide the crisis facing independent filmmakers.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Alison Brower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Sundance Film Festival was back in person for the first time since 2020. A-list stars like Anne Hathaway and Jason Momoa were present to promote their buzzy films. It was impossible not to feel optimistic about the state of independent film at the opening weekend of the Sundance Film Festival. In five days I saw eight films, and while I'm not a critic, I can affirm that not one of them was a clunker. At an event like Sundance, even amid some hand-wringing over the future, the excitement is contagious.

☆ George Santos told Brazilian media that he survived an assassination attempt, MSNBC reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

NY Rep. George Santos claimed to Brazilian media that he was the victim of an attempted murder. We go back to our house, it was vandalized because we were at a Republican Party in Florida in December 2020," Santos told the hosts, according to the Rachel Maddow Show translation. Santos did not elaborate on his claim in the clip, according to host Rachel Maddow. interjected podcast interviewer João Batista Jr., per a translation of the clip by the Rachel Maddow show. The clip comes as Santos faces growing controversy over apparent falsehoods in his resume, campaign biography, family history, and religious background.

☆ Expert on White House chiefs of staff says Mark Meadows 'absolutely owns' the title of 'worst' chief in history after ex-aide's damning testimony
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The historian Chris Whipple said Mark Meadows was the worst White House chief of staff in history. The author Chris Whipple, who has interviewed dozens of White House chiefs of staff, said that Cassidy Hutchinson's shocking testimony before the House January 6 committee has made it abundantly clear that Mark Meadows is by far the "worst" White House chief of staff in history. On December 19, the panel released an executive summary of its findings that was harshly critical of Meadows' book "The Chief's Chief." Whipple wrote the literal book on White House chiefs of staffABC's George Stephanopoulos interviews the author Chris Whipple in 2017. "I've said oftentimes that being White House chief of staff is perhaps the second most powerful job in Washington, D.C.

When Tioni Theus woke up, most mornings, the first thing she did was turn on music. Tioni’s most frequent social media posts were videos of herself singing along to music, smiling and mugging for the camera. But in recent years she had begun to gravitate toward gritty, emotional rappers and singers like Rod Wave, whose songs explore the painful underside of street life. (“Daddy gone and mama couldn’t save me/So hard times made me,” he raps on his song “Thug Life.”) Read MoreTioni, right, with her family. But as with many aspects of Tioni’s life, the stakes were higher than they should have been: Both investigators and some family members have suggested that she may have been a victim of human trafficking.

☆ The Best Actors of 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( The New York Times Magazine | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

There are no guarantees for a screen actor anymore. There are no guarantees for a screen actor’s audience. Perhaps that’s why we’ve turned, along with many an actor, to television, where the ground feels more fertile. There is enough outstanding work on television alone to fill a portfolio twice or three times the size of this one. We want to applaud, marvel at and salute the achievement of screen acting, the increasing miracle of it in challenging and confusing circumstances.

☆ The Clippers Finally Get to Test Their Version of the Super Team
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Robert O'Connell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

After a practice in mid-September, the Los Angeles Clippers released a photo reel on the theme of training-camp togetherness: dunks, laughs, camera-mugging, a chest bump. But one shot of a solitary player made everyone’s eyes widen. Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers’ expensive and often-unavailable superstar, had returned to the floor following a season missed due to ACL surgery, and in the picture he ran down-and-backs on legs that looked not just healed, but upgraded: quadriceps as round as basketballs, calves that jutted out at pronounced and unignorable angles.

☆ Oops: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's official Facebook page is filled with images insulting the lawmaker as a cavewoman, clown, and 'whore'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's official Facebook pages are filled with photos and memes that taunt her. An image that appeared on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Facebook page as of October 17, 2022. An image that appeared on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Facebook page as of October 17, 2022. Marjorie Taylor Greene's FacebookAnd another one features her in clown makeup. An image that appeared on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Facebook page as of October 17, 2022.

☆ How to adapt Jane Austen -- and why it's so hard to get right
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-07 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Over the years, Austen adaptations have made millions, been nominated for more than a dozen Oscars and several Emmys, and convinced viewers the world over that Mr. Darcy is the gold standard of suitors. Pride vs. Miss Prejudice," two of several Austen adaptations starring Asian protagonists. "Austen is a way for today's readers to both romanticize about soul mates and also sustain their self-respect," said Brodey, who's published several papers on Austen. What the best Austen adaptations get rightA strong Austen adaptation doesn't need to parrot the original text or even take place in late 18th-century England. The Austenites CNN interviewed agreed -- for an Austen adaptation to succeed, it needs to maintain the spirit of her work, especially her incisive depth and incomparable wit.

☆ 4 ways to make an iconic Super Bowl campaign, according to a creative who's worked with brands like Pepsi and Cheetos
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-24 | by ( Michael Kaminer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Goodby Silverstein & Partners' Margaret Johnson broke down what it takes to make a great Super Bowl ad. She said the best Super Bowl ads are funny, boosted everywhere, have purpose, and kept simple. Johnson listed the 2020 Cheetos Super Bowl spot starring Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis as a perfect example. Margaret Johnson, chief creative officer and partner, GS&P Goodby Silverstein & PartnersBut what makes a successful Super Bowl ad? She pointed to GS&P's 2020 Cheetos Super Bowl spot that starred a quarantined Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, mugging to Shaggy's hit "It Wasn't Me."

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