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☆ Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Alastair Macaulay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The world of letters has been mourning Robert Gottlieb, who died last week at 92, as a reader and editor of qualities that became legendary. The world of dance has been mourning him as well. He neither performed nor choreographed, but he played a major role, often behind the scenes, in fostering American dance. He ran influential works of dance criticism as editor of The New Yorker, and he later became a dance critic himself for The New York Observer. Perhaps less widely known was the key role he played behind the scenes at New York City Ballet, where he served on the board of directors.

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REUTERS/Joe SkipperLOS ANGELES, April 20 (Reuters) - The spectacular explosion of SpaceX's new Starship rocket minutes after it soared off its launch pad on a first flight test is the latest vivid illustration of a "successful failure" business formula that serves Elon Musk's company well, experts said on Thursday. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECTAt least two experts in aerospace engineering and planetary science who spoke with Reuters agreed that the test flight delivered benefits. "This is a classical SpaceX successful failure," said Garrett Reisman, an astronautical engineering professor at the University of Southern California who is a former NASA astronaut and is also a senior adviser to SpaceX. Reisman called the Starship test flight a hallmark of a SpaceX strategy that sets Musk's company apart from traditional aerospace companies and even NASA by "this embracing of failure when the consequences of failure are low." She said the risks of a single flight test were small in comparison to the ambitious gains at stake.

☆ Northern Ireland recognises women who helped bring peace
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Amanda Ferguson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"There wouldn't be a Good Friday agreement to celebrate today if it were not for the women of Northern Ireland," Clinton said, to applause from the audience. The peace accord largely ended 30 years of violence between mainly Catholic nationalist opponents and mainly Protestant unionist supporters of British rule. Other recipients included Ireland's first female president, Mary Robinson, Northern Ireland's first female first minister, Arlene Foster and Lyra McKee, a journalist who was killed in 2019 during an outbreak of the sporadic violence that still exists. "I was amazed that my name was among such an illustrious group of women," Avila Killmurray, a co-founder of the Women's Coalition, said at the ceremony. "However it's really nice because I worked mainly with women in local communities and I think very often their contribution over the years doesn't go recognised enough."

☆ Takeaways from Biden's trip to Ireland
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Kevin Liptak | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Biden’s trip came as he nears a decision on running again for president. “I own property in Ireland, I’m not going to Ireland,” former President Donald Trump said during Biden’s trip. Patrick Semansky/APDiplomatic legacy: ‘Keep the peace’White House officials made little attempt at ascribing major policy objectives to Biden’s trip. Kevin Lamarque/ReutersBiden makes Ireland visit a family affairMore than anything, Biden’s trip this week had the feeling of a family spring break. Throughout the sometimes-rainy trip, Biden kept his head dry with a baseball cap from the Beau Biden Foundation.

☆ Biden plans to focus heavily on the economy in Belfast speech marking Good Friday Agreement anniversary
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Kevin Liptak | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Biden’s optimistic speech did not paper over tensions that persist 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement was signed. “It doesn’t change the political dynamic in Northern Ireland,” said Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, which withdrew from the government in dispute of Brexit trade rules. Ahead of the speech, Biden sat for brief talks over coffee with Sunak, though won’t participate in any major public events with him while he’s here. That includes the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Arlene Foster, who previously served as the first minister of Northern Ireland. The region along the border with Northern Ireland was where Biden’s great-great-great-grandfather, Owen Finnegan, was born in 1818.

☆ A risk taken, UK's Sunak announces the Windsor Framework
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Elizabeth Piper | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

But it was secrecy that fostered suspicion among two big hitters in the years-long Brexit debate - the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Northern Ireland's biggest unionist party, and the pro-Brexit Conservative European Research Group (ERG). "I am pleased to report that we have now made a decisive breakthrough, together we have changed the original protocol and are today announcing the new Windsor framework," Sunak told a news conference. Then both former leaders had threatened to rip up the Northern Ireland protocol with legislation in parliament and their administrations had regularly criticised the EU for being overly legalistic and inflexible. Pressing pause on the Northern Ireland Protocol bill which would all but rip up the earlier agreement, he saw solving the Northern Ireland standoff as a concrete "win" for his administration which has struggled to establish itself. But Sunak still has to win over not only some of his lawmakers in the ERG, but more importantly the DUP.

☆ Some CEOs are pushing workers to return to the office, but it could come with a cost: hurting diversity
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But remote work has benefited many people with disabilities, many Black workers, and others. But Dimon appears more bearish when it comes to another measure that's been shown to promote diversity: remote work. Citadel CEO Ken Griffin slammed remote work at a conference last year, saying innovation and creativity declines because of it. The shift to remote work has been especially helpful for people with physical difficulties and mobility limitations. MoMo Productions/Getty ImagesSome Black workers report facing less discrimination and fewer microaggressions working from home than when they're at the office.

But the perceived spectacle means that not only will Murdaugh be on display — so will the county seat of Walterboro, population 5,460. “We didn’t want this, but it’s happening, and it’s here,” Scott Grooms, Walterboro’s director of tourism and downtown development, said last week. A portrait of Randolph "Buster" Murdaugh Jr., Alex Murdaugh's late grandfather, was removed from the Colleton County Courthouse ahead of Alex Murdaugh's trial. From left, Paul, Margaret and Alex Murdaugh. While he didn’t know Alex Murdaugh personally, he said few with longstanding ties in the area had not been touched by the Murdaughs’ orbit in one way or another.

☆ Is this the last Christmas for Sears?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Easterling was at the Sears in her hometown of Jersey City, New Jersey, one of only 15 full-line Sears stores still open. The two started a catalog business selling watches and jewelry in 1888, incorporating under the Sears Roebuck name in 1893. The Sears catalog was the way many Americans first started to buy mass-produced goods. File photo/AP People shop inside a Sears store in Morton Grove, Illinois, in 1961. AP Soldiers guard a Sears store in Baltimore after riots broke out following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

☆ An AirTag led police to a dumpster filled with more than 100 stolen Democratic campaign signs
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Isabella Zavarise | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An AirTag led police to a dumpster filled with more than 100 stolen campaign signs in Philadelphia. The Tredyffrin Township Police Department received numerous reports of stolen political signs. In a press release, the police department said it received numerous reports of stolen political signs from community members between Oct. 10 to Oct. 13. Police said a person whose signs were stolen told them that one of their signs had an AirTag attached to it which led officers to a commercial dumpster behind the Valley Fair Shopping Center where they discovered more than 100 signs. The Apple AirTag has been used to track campaign signs before: In April, a candidate in Florida used an AirTag to track a stolen campaign sign located in a Jeep parked outside the home of his political rival.

Still, these six Black Republicans seem unmoved, even if Black voters overall appear to present more of an uphill challenge. Herschel Walker and Former ambassador Nikki Haley speak with the press during Herschel's Unite Georgia Bus Stop rally at the Global Mall in Norcross, Ga., on Sept. 9, 2022. It’s a bigger picture.”The Black vote was critical in turning Georgia blue in the 2020 presidential election and pushing Biden to the presidency and ultimately Warnock into the Senate. “I know Herschel Walker votes more conservative. Even with the recent allegations, these voters point out that between Warnock and Walker’s policies, they prefer Walker’s because he is anti-abortion.

Walker spoke of getting his start playing football in Johnson County and then making his way to the University of Georgia and pro football. He said that if he is re-elected he will fight to expand Medicaid in Georgia. And I think the people of Georgia have a real choice about who they think is ready to represent them in the United States Senate," Warnock told reporters Thursday, without directly addressing the abortion story. Warnock's allies, meanwhile, see the question more as a battle between Walker and Georgia voters — why give his opponent a chance to bring him into the story? What’s “very important” to her is Democrats’ holding the Senate and fighting GOP "extremism."

☆ Tensiuni la summitul G7 între liderii UE şi Boris Johnson, din cauza crizei nord-irlandeze
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-12 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: ProfimediaTensiuni la summitul G7 între liderii UE şi Boris Johnson, din cauza crizei nord-irlandezeLiderii Uniunii Europene au insistat, sâmbătă, la summitul G7, ca Marea Britanie să implementeze în totalitate Protocolul nord-irlandez al Acordului Brexit, iar premierul britanic, Boris Johnson, susţine că Bruxellesul nu înţelege situaţia din Irlanda de Nord. "Aceasta nu este o problemă între Marea Britanie şi Franţa, este o problemă între europeni şi Marea Britanie", a atras atenţia preşedintele Franţei. Uniunea Europeană a avertizat că va reacţiona "ferm" dacă Marea Britanie nu va aplica în totalitate Protocolul Acordului Brexit în provincia Irlanda de Nord. Retragerea Marii Britanii din UE a generat o stare generală de nemulţumire şi violenţe în provincia britanică Irlanda de Nord. La summitul G7, care se derulează în localitatea britanică St Ives (Cornwall), participă liderii din Statele Unite, Canada, Franţa, Germania, Italia, Japonia şi Marea Britanie.

Persons: Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, Britanii, Arlene Foster, britanică St Ives, Charles Michel, Ursula von Organizations: UE, Uniunii Europene, Europeană, Uniunea Europeană, Consiliului Locations: irlandez, susţine, Irlanda de Nord, Britanie, Franţa, britanică Irlanda de Nord, Britanii, Brexit, britanică St, Cornwall, Statele Unite, Canada, Germania, Italia, Japonia, Ursula von der

☆ Prima imagine de la nunta secretă ţinută de premierul britanic Boris Johnson şi Carrie Symonds
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-30 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Premierul Marii Britanii, Boris Johnson, a făcut nunta în secret cu logodnica sa, Carrie Symonds, la Catedrala Westminster, din Londra, în cadrul unei ceremonii restrânse, plănuită în secret, informează BBC. De asemenea, Johnson a fost felicitat de Twitter de premierul Irlandei de Nord, Arlene Foster, și de secretarul pentru Muncă și Pensii, Therese Coffey. De asemenea, un grup de muzicieni care-și cărau instrumentele a fost văzut părăsind reședința premierului de pe Downing Street nr. Ultimul premier britanic care s-a căsătorit în timpul mandatului a fost Robert Banks Jenkinson, în 1822. Legătura lui Johnson, 56 de ani, cu Carrie Symonds, a fost observată pentru prima oară de presă la începutul anului 2019.

Persons: Marii Britanii, Boris Johnson, Carrie Symonds, Johnson, El, Arlene Foster, Therese Coffey, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Ea, Symonds, Cuplul Organizations: Catedrala Westminster, BBC, Sky News, Romano - Catolică, Partidului Conservator Locations: Londra, Irlandei de Nord, Anglia, Londrei

☆ Boris Johnson s-a căsătorit în secret cu Carrie Symonds
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: ProfimediaBoris Johnson s-a căsătorit în secret cu Carrie SymondsPremierul Boris Johnson s-a căsătorit sâmbătă cu logodnica sa Carrie Symonds într-o ceremonie secretă care a avut loc la Catedrala Westminster și la care au participat un număr restrâns de persoane. Jumătate de oră mai târziu ar fi sosit cu o limuzină Carrie Symonds, care ar fi purtat o rochie albă. Boris Johnson, în vârstă de 56 de ani, și Carrie Symonds, care are 33 de ani, au fost nevoiţi să amâne oficializarea relaţiei lor, care durează din 2018, din cauza pandemiei. Symonds a fost responsabila pe probleme de comunicare a Partidului Conservator și se spune că a avut un rol decisiv în ascensiunea politică a lui Boris Johnson. A fost prima oară în ultimii 20 de ani când un premier britanic în funcție devenea tată.

Persons: Boris Johnson, Carrie Symonds, Therese Coffey, Arlene Foster, Daniel Humphreys, Carrie, Symonds Organizations: Catedrala Westminster, BBC, Partidului Conservator Locations: Irlandei de Nord, Anglia, britanic

Symonds a fost responsabila pe probleme de comunicare a Partidului Conservator și se spune că a avut un rol decisiv în ascensiunea politică a lui Boris Johnson. Se întâmpla după ce Boris Johnson tocmai trecuse printr-o formă destul de gravă de covid. De altfel, Boris Johnson și logodnica sa au decis să-și numească fiul după numele doctorilor care i-au salvat viața premierului: Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson. Recordurile lui Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson și Carrie Symonds au fost primul cuplu necăsătorit care a locuit în reședința prim-ministrului britanic. În orice caz, Boris Johnson este primul premier, după 199 de ani, care se însoară în timp ce este în funcție.

Persons: Therese Coffey, Arlene Foster, Daniel Humphreys, Carrie, Boris Johnson, Carrie Symonds, Symonds, Nicholas Johnson, Boris Johnson Boris Johnson, Marina Wheeler Organizations: BBC, Partidului Conservator Locations: Irlandei de Nord, Anglia, Downing, britanic

☆ Efectele Brexit: Premierul Irlandei de Nord, Arlene Foster, a demisionat
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-28 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Premierul unionist al Irlandei de Nord, Arlene Foster, și-a anunțat miercuri demisia în urma tensiunilor apărute în partidul său cu privire la consecințele Brexitului asupra provinciei britanice, potrivit AFP și Reuters. Când va fi ales, voi colabora cu noul lider asupra tranziţiei", a precizat Arlene Foster, potrivit Mediafax. Viitorul unionismului şi al Irlandei de Nord nu poate fi găsit în diviziuni, va fi găsit doar în convieţuirea în acest spaţiu pe care suntem cu toţii privilegiaţi să îl numim acasă", a subliniat Arlene Foster. Arlene Foster, o avocată în vârstă de 50 de ani, adeptă convinsă a uniunii Irlandei de Nord cu coroana britanică, a redevenit prim-ministru în ianuarie 2020, după ce părăsise această funcţie în urma unui scandal legat de gestionarea subvenţiilor pentru energii regenerabile. Soluţia îi nemulţumeşte pe unionişti, care denunţă crearea unei frontiere în Marea Irlandei, şi a alimentat violenţe în Irlanda de Nord, fără precedent în ultimii ani.

Persons: Arlene Foster, Foster, toţii, Theresa May, Soluţia Organizations: Partidului Democrat Unionist, Mediafax, UE Locations: Irlandei de Nord, britanice, Irlanda de Nord, Irlanda, alţii, Londra, Bruxelles, Britanii, Irlandei

☆ Meet the GOP's biggest Hollywood donors
▼ + stars: | 2020-08-26 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

America First Action, the most notable super PAC backing President Donald Trump, has directly criticized Hollywood. Donors from Hollywood-area ZIP codes also rank among the most generous donors to key Republican senators, including Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida. 3 donor ZIP code in the nation, trailing only ZIP codes in Houston and Palm Beach, Florida, which is home to his Mar-a-Lago Club resort. Bill Pugliano/Getty ImagesTrump continues to profit from HollywoodIn messages to supporters this year, Trump has decried "liberal HOLLYWOOD donors" and "MEGA HOLLYWOOD DONORS," while his son Donald Trump Jr. has castigated the "Hollywood Elite." As president, Trump's pension earned him more than $84,000 in 2017, about $91,000 in 2018, and about $78,000 in 2019, his personal financial disclosures showed.

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