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For the last two weeks, Paris completely lost its cool. The rain that had doused the opening ceremony had ceased by then, and Paris felt like a city en fête. “What happened four weeks ago — with the election and everything that came afterward — was a real shame. They wanted to forget about it for a while.”It is fair to say they embraced their opportunity. More than anything, though, there have been French tricolors.

Persons: —, Teddy Riner, Marie, José Perec, ”, Anne Brion, Tricolors, Richard Salandre Organizations: Games, Tuileries, United Locations: Paris, French, fête, United States, “

☆ What do we know about China’s respiratory illness surge?
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Andrew Silver | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

SHANGHAI, Dec 1 (Reuters) - A request by the World Health Organization for more information on a surge in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children in China has attracted global attention. The following is what we know about the surge in illness in the world's second most populous country so far, and why experts think there is no need to panic. The National Health Commission told a news conference on Nov. 13 that there was an increase in incidence of respiratory disease without providing further details. IS MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE A BIG WORRY? One concern about the surge in respiratory illness is mycoplasma pneumoniae, which has also spiked in other countries.

Persons: Maria Van Kerkhove, Rajib Dasgupta, mycoplasma pneumoniae, it's, Cecille Brion, Van Kerkhove, We're, Andrew Silver, Miyoung Kim Organizations: World Health Organization, WHO, Program, National Health Commission, Reuters, Pacific, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Doctors, Raffles Medical Group Beijing, Thomson Locations: SHANGHAI, China, Taiwan, WHO China, COVID, South East Asia, New Delhi

☆ ‘The family feels like he got trapped’: How a low-profile Mar-a-Lago employee got tangled up in Trump’s legal problems
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Alayna Treene Zachary Cohen Kristen Holmes Randi Kaye Christie Johnson | Alayna Treene | Zachary Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The 56-year-old De Oliveira lives in an apartment in a middle class townhome community in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, about 20 minutes north of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. Almeida told CNN he believed that De Oliveria has worked at Mar-a-Lago for more than 20 years. Some members of his family, “couldn’t even sleep last night with all of this going on,” one family member told CNN. “He isn’t familiar with how the government here works and he was probably just being loyal to his boss who is paying his bills,” the person told CNN. Asked about the Trump indictment, Brion said, “I can’t even imagine how he could be implicated in that mess.”

Persons: Donald Trump, Carlos De Oliveira, De Oliveira, Walt Nauta, Trump’s, De Oliveria, “ I’ve, Trump, “, hadn’t, ”, ’, Yuscil, ‘, de Oliveira, Tiberio Almeida, De, Almeida, Oliveria, Carlos, It’s, ” Almeida, “ He’s, Miami De Oliveira, De Oliveira “, John Irving, Taveras, Irving, ” Raymond Brion, Brion Organizations: CNN, Justice Department, Trump, White House, “, Mar, Club, Lago, DC, Trump’s, America, Prosecutors Locations: Trump’s Florida, Mar, “, Palm Beach Gardens , Florida, Trump’s, Portugal, Massachusetts, Florida, Miami

☆ Opinion | The Enemies of Slavery Gave New Meaning to the Declaration of Independence
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Examples of this use of the Declaration abound. “And now my virtuous fellow citizens, let me entreat you, that, after you have rid yourselves of the British yoke, that you will also emancipate those who have been all their life time subject to bondage.”White abolitionists and other opponents of slavery also made use of the Declaration in their legal and rhetorical assaults on human bondage. “It was repeatedly declared in Congress, as language and sentiment of all these States, and by other public bodies of men, ‘that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,’” wrote the pseudonymous author Crito (after the ancient Athenian companion of Socrates) in 1787. “The Africans, and the blacks in servitude among us, were really as much included in these assertions as ourselves,” he continued. “And if we have not allowed them to enjoy these unalienable rights, we are guilty of a ridiculous, wicked contradiction and inconsistence.”

Persons: Alexander Tsesis, “, David Brion Davis, Lemuel Haynes, ” Haynes, Great Britain ” —, Whig ” —, ”, ’ ”, Crito, Socrates Organizations: Congregational, Affairs of America, Whig Locations: Vermont, Independence, Great Britain

The school had been "reviewing a potential hazing issue" when the Office of Student Affairs "heard from a student that Mr. Jones made a comment to him about possessing a gun," the university said in a statement Tuesday. "The reporting party did not see Mr. Jones in possession of a gun," the statement said. As the probe moved forward, it was learned that "Mr. Jones previously had been convicted of a misdemeanor for a concealed weapons violation in 2021," the school said. But officials said they realized only after Sunday’s shooting that the report of his conviction was never relayed to the University Judiciary Committee. Jones had a difficult upbringing at home and was bullied at school, Logan said.

Franța, ale cărei soluri roditoare și condiții climatice sunt ideale pentru viticultură, a domnit mult timp în lume ca principal furnizor de vin rafinat. Cele două regiuni viticole principale ale sale, Bordeaux și Burgundia, au oferit inspirație mai multor scriitori remarcabili din diferite epoci. Pieter de Vries, creatorul romanelor grafice, s-a autointitulat „băutor de vin” și a fost fascinat în special de vinurile din Burgundia: „Montrachet-ul masculin și Musigny-ul feminin conferă cea mai rafinată unire cu pământul, aerul și cerul la dispoziția omului”. Clima locală nu era potrivită pentru viticultură, vinul era adus în principal din Franța, Spania și Grecia. În eseul său „Despre vin și hașiș” (1851), Baudelaire întreabă: „Cine cunoaște cele mai profunde bucurii ale vinului?

Persons: Roald Dahl, Dahl, Thomas Jefferson, d’Yquem, Pieter de Vries, Ernest Hemingway, Vries „ Ruben, Ruben, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Don, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Baudelaire, Robert Louis Stevenson, scoțianul Robert Louis Stevenson, Eminescu, Creangă, Călinescu, Ion Creangă Organizations: Adevărul Locations: Franța, Bordeaux, Burgundia, America, Brion, Anglia, Spania, Grecia, Muscat, Rin, Canare, francez, Silverado, California, Copou, Socola, Humuleşti

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