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☆ A country where kissing is a custom reels from a major exception
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Al Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Madrid CNN —In Spain kissing is a widely-accepted custom. Friends and family do it, whether woman to woman, woman to man, or man to man. A day after the kiss, Rubiales said he had “made a mistake,” but since then has insisted that it was consensual. But more broadly, men are still in a power position in many activities and endeavors across the country, including at work. For Spain’s women’s soccer team, there have been protests over lower pay than the men’s national team.

Persons: ”, Luis Rubiales, Jennifer Hermoso, Hermoso, Rubiales, “, haven’t, ” Tania Verge Mestre, Verge Mestre, who’s Organizations: Madrid CNN —, Spanish, Spain, England, FIFA, Sports, Hermoso, CNN, IESE, Vox Locations: Madrid, Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona

☆ Spain's soccer federation stands by its chief amid uproar over kiss
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The statement on the Royal Spanish Football Federation website said it would take legal action to defend Rubiales' honour, but did not say what the action would consist of. Rubiales refused on Friday to resign as RFEF chief over his actions last Sunday in Sydney, seeking to defend his behaviour and calling the kiss "spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and consensual". Hermoso said she did not consent to the kiss and felt "vulnerable and the victim of an aggression". Rubiales had been widely expected to resign at an emergency meeting of the federation on Friday. Rubiales' comments and the supportive reaction he got from many in the audience at the federation meeting on Friday were widely scorned on social media.

Persons: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso's, Hermoso, Rubiales, Royal Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales, Yolanda Diaz, Graham Keeley, Frances Kerry Organizations: Royal Spanish Football Federation, Spain, FUTPRO, Soccer Football, Spanish Soccer Federation, Del Futbol, REUTERS Acquire, Labour, England, Thomson Locations: MADRID, Sydney, Spanish, FUTPRO Union, Del Futbol Las, Rozas, Spain, Handout

☆ FIFA suspends Spanish soccer president over controversial World Cup kiss
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Leila Sackur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

FIFA suspended the president of the Spanish soccer federation Saturday after star player Jenni Hermoso accused him of a nonconsensual kiss during the celebrations of Spain's Women's World Cup victory. Rubiales and representatives from the Royal Spanish Football Federation were also ordered to refrain from contacting Hermoso and anyone close to her, the statement said. The announcement came hours after Spain's soccer federation said Saturday it would take legal action to defend Rubiales from "lies." It added that Pedro Rocha Junco, the vice president of the federation, would be the interim president. In her statement, Hermoso denied Rubiales' contention that the kiss he gave her was consensual.

Persons: Jenni Hermoso, Spain's, Luis Rubiales, Rubiales, Pedro Rocha Junco, Hermoso, Yolanda Diaz Organizations: FIFA, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Rubiales, England, Labour, Spain's Association of Professional Soccer, National Team Locations: Spanish, Sydney, Spain

☆ Spanish federation chief refuses to resign over kiss scandal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Speaking at an RFEF emergency assembly on Friday, Rubiales complained that "false feminists" were "trying to kill me". He described the kiss as a "little peck" that was "spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and consensual". Rubiales, 46, said in his speech that Hermoso was the one who initiated physical contact by lifting him off the ground by his hips. Criticism of Rubiales's behaviour has built throughout the week of the incident which occurred while the players were being handed their medals after they beat England 1-0 in the World Cup final in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday. As players filed past, Rubiales grabbed Hermoso by the head and planted a kiss on her mouth.

Persons: Pedro Sanchez, Royal Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales, Juan Medina, Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso, Rubiales, peck, Yolanda Diaz, Diaz, Hermoso, Queen Letizia, Fernando Kallas, Inti Landauro, Charlie Devereux, Andrei Khalip, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Soccer Football, FIFA, Spain's, Moncloa, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Royal Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales REUTERS, Rights, Socialists, Labour, England, Reuters, Thomson Locations: New Zealand, Madrid, Spain, Spanish, Sydney, Australia

☆ Spanish soccer president refuses to resign despite kissing a player on the lips at Women’s World Cup
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Facing his possible removal from office, the president of the Spanish soccer federation refused to resign Friday despite an uproar for kissing a player on the lips without her consent after the Women's World Cup final. The president of Spain's women's league, Beatriz Álvarez, told Spanish state broadcaster RTVE that she was not surprised because Rubiales' "ego is above his dignity." The only relevant institution to remain silent has been European soccer body UEFA, for which Rubiales is a vice president. Rubiales, who led the Spanish players' union for eight years before taking over as federation president in 2018, is currently heading the UEFA-backed bid to host the men's World Cup in 2030. "The speech by Mr. Rubiales before the general assembly of the Spanish soccer federation is absolutely incompatible with representing Spanish sports and with the values of an advanced society like Spain's," Spain's Higher Council for Sports said.

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☆ The Future of Rap Is Female
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Niela Orr | Photographs Adrienne Raquel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

The Future of Rap Is Female As their male counterparts turn depressive and paranoid, it’s the women who are having all the fun. In the mid-’80s, the dynamics shifted slightly, when UTFO released “Roxanne, Roxanne,” a comical torch song dissing a woman who rejected the men’s advances. Like good sex, raunchy rap is only fun if all parties are completely enthusiastic, and this music provides necessary female perspectives to match what the men make. In Miami one weekend in late July, Rolling Loud, one of the biggest annual hip-hop festivals, made itself into a microcosm of the rap world. There’s a relentless gender pessimism in the air, too — on the street, on dating apps, in the Supreme Court and, of course, in rap music.

Persons: Sackler, Drake, Foley, Yung Miami, Wu, Da, Tupac Shakur, Nicki Minaj, Cardi, Megan Thee, there’s, ”, There’s Latto, Jung Kook, “, Diana ”, Boy’s, Red’s, Munch, Rodney Dangerfield, munch, ” MAIYA, “ We’re, Lil Baby, Flo Milli, —, ” Flo Milli, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire —, Debbie D, Lisa Lee, Mercedes Ladies, UTFO, Roxanne, Lolita Shanté Gooden, Gooden, ” FLO MILLI, Roxanne Shanté, Clover Hope, M.C, Brian Coleman, Lyte, Ruff Ryders, it’s, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Kash Doll, SKODI LOLA BROOKE, Lil ’ Kim, “ I’m, I’m, ” That’s, Lolita Gooden, Greta Gerwig’s “ Barbie ”, James Harden, P.J, Tucker, KENTHEMAN “, I’ve, Playboi Carti, Travis Scott, Grace Jones, Benzino, blowin, ignorin ’, Berry hairdo, Grandmaster Flash, It’s, ” —, ” Leray, VETTE, CHANEL, ” Flo, Cartier, “ Lyte, Flo Organizations: YouTube, Girls, City Girls, Public, Down Productions, Wu -, Digital, City, Memphis, Brooklyn Locations: Miami, Wu - Tang, “, Bronx, Mobile , Ala, y’all

☆ What Mike Epps Learned From ‘Sanford and Son’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Chris Kornelis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When you’re a Black man and you see a Black movie like that that is macho, you know, you want to be a part of it in some capacity. When people see me riding it, they look at me like I’m crazy and say: “What the hell you doing? Killer Mike is one of those guys that has been blessed to have that voice for our people. 9Treasure HuntingWhen I’m out on the road telling jokes, the first thing I want to hit is a vintage store. I want to hit the vintage clothing store, and I want to hit the antique furniture store.

Persons: ’, “, ”, Michael B, Jordan, you’re, Denzel Washington, Jackson, Mike It’s, Mike Organizations: Denzel, Detroit Locations: Miami, America, Detroit

☆ Spain 2023 election: PM Sanchez and rival Feijoo in chaotic live TV debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/3] Spanish People's Party candidate Alberto Nunez Feijoo and Spain's Prime Minister and Socialist candidate Pedro Sanchez talk before a televised debate ahead of snap election in Madrid, Spain, July 10, 2023. With just under two weeks to go until the vote, opinion polls predict Feijoo as the likely winner, although he would probably need the support of far-right party Vox. Sanchez highlighted that Spain is among only a few European countries that has tamed inflation to below the European Central Bank's 2% target by 2023. Feijoo himself was recently pilloried for saying a Vox electoral candidate convicted of gender violence had a "hard divorce". Feijoo told Sanchez: "Those men who raped in the street are in the street because of you - there are more than 1,000 of them."

Persons: Alberto Nunez Feijoo, Pedro Sanchez, Juan Medina MADRID, gesticulating, Maria Jose Canel, Sanchez, Feijoo, Vox, Feijoo's, EH, Jose Miguel Contreras, Madrid's King, Madrid's King Juan Carlos University, Belen Carreno, Corina Rodriguez, Aislinn Laing, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Spanish People's Party, Spain's, Socialist, REUTERS, People's Party, Madrid's Complutense University, Socialists, AS, Central, Vox, Madrid's, Madrid's King Juan, Atresmedia, Thomson Locations: Madrid, Spain, Ukraine, Basque

☆ A partner at Goldman Sachs shares what it was like to rise the ranks of Wall Street as an openly gay man
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

That same day, Broadbery achieved a different, but equally momentous, milestone in his Wall Street career. He's seen support for traditionally underrepresented groups, like the LGBTQ+ community, become institutionalized at most Wall Street firms — a welcome improvement. There's also much less stigma now around being "too gay" for Wall Street, he added. So it's like, how gay is too gay for Wall Street?" "I think Wall Street is Wall Street and in the finance industry there are certain norms and certain things you need to do to conform — the working environment, the working hours, the hierarchy, the path to promotion — those things are what they are," he said.

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☆ Heavy drinkers really don’t ‘handle their liquor,’ study says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —It’s a misnomer that heavy drinkers can “hold their liquor,” a new study found. The 397 participants included light drinkers, heavy social drinkers and those who had alcohol abuse disorder. “In their daily lives, this group averaged 38.7 drinks a week, compared to 2.5 drinks a week for light drinkers and about 20 drinks for heavy drinkers,” King said. Some tolerance was seenAt first, the study supported the notion that heavy drinkers can manage larger doses without impairment. Neither the heavy drinkers nor those with alcohol abuse disorder felt impaired when asked.

Persons: CNN —, ”, Nathan Didier, Andrea King, King, —, ” King, ” Didier, ” Didler, Kevin Trimmer Organizations: CNN, University of Chicago, National Institute, Alcohol, Research, Chicago, Drinking, “, Getty Locations: United States

☆ Trump was DJ-ing on the patio at Bedminster and playing Elvis, Pavarotti, and James Brown tracks from an iPad after he found out about his second indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hours after he was indicted, Donald Trump was seen jamming to Elvis, Pavarotti and James Brown. The ex-president was seen DJ-ing at Bedminster after getting indicted, sources told The New York Times. However, he was rage-posting on Truth Social almost simultaneously. Sources close to Trump told The New York Times on Thursday evening that just 90 minutes after he received the call, he was playing tracks by Elvis, opera singer Pavarotti, and James Brown, on his iPad. He then posted a video on Truth Social shortly after, reiterating his stance that he is an innocent man and that "THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS TOTALLY CORRUPT."

Persons: Donald Trump, Elvis, Pavarotti, James Brown, —, he'd, Trump, He's, — Trump, James Brown's, he's, Celine Dion, Jim, CNN's Kaitlin Collins Organizations: Bedminster, New York Times, Service, The New York Times, BIDEN, Trump, Mar, DOJ Locations: Bedminster , New Jersey, United States, Mar

☆ Pat Robertson, the televangelist who helped turn Christianity into a political force, is dead at 93
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Ben Finley | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Robertson was a televangelist who helped bring Christianity to the center of the Republican Party. Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson was born March 22, 1930, in Lexington, Virginia, to Absalom Willis Robertson and Gladys Churchill Robertson. Robertson was interested in politics until he found religion, Dede Robertson told the AP in 1987. Pat Robertson listens as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. But after President Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, Robertson said Trump was living in an "alternate reality" and should "move on," news outlets reported.

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☆ Opinion | Men Have Lost Their Way. Josh Hawley Has Thoughts About How to Save Them.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Carlos Lozada | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

In Bly’s view, part of the answer was to recreate ancient rites of male initiation and restore mentoring between young men and their elders, a relationship that instructs boys to channel, but not suppress, their instincts. And he urges young men to assume greater responsibility for their own lives (“Ditching porn is a good place to start,” Hawley writes) as a step toward glimpsing that missing vision of manhood. To dismiss or mock such views merely because they come from Josh Hawley is to let partisan commitments overwhelm intellectual ones. “Much of today’s left seems to welcome men who are passive and tame, who will do as they are told and sit in their cubicles, eyes affixed to their screens,” Hawley writes. Hawley is not necessarily wrong when he complains about the mixed messages aimed at young men today — Your identity is yours to shape and claim, but why are you so toxic and oppressive?

Persons: Schlesinger, John F, Kennedy, John Wayne, ” Hawley, Josh Hawley, Hawley, today’s, “, ”, … Organizations: Trump Locations: America

☆ Putin is terrified of being assassinated and is refusing to travel abroad after a drone attack near his luxury home: reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The report said Putin was so scared of being assassinated that he was refusing to travel abroad. Dmitry Medvedev, a Kremlin official and former Russian president, said a drone attack on the Kremlin in May was a Ukrainian attempt to assassinate Putin, which Ukraine denied. Ingram's comments echo those of a former Kremlin security official, Gleb Karakulov, who fled Russia in April in opposition to the war in Ukraine. Ingram said Putin's isolation meant he was only being presented with distorted information by a group of close aides, warping his decision-making. Ingram said Putin would like to portray himself as an "international statesman" who asserts himself on the global stage.

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Here are the meanings of the least-found words that were used in (mostly) recent Times articles. Of course, the other people at your table will say they have no room for dessert. Or Kuh-TAH, like the British pronunciation of catarrh, a phlegmy sore throat?— How Do You Pronounce Qatar? The difference is that “b” is voiced, which for some people, makes it sound funny or strange coming at the end of a word. (April 3, 2005)And the list of the week’s easiest words:

☆ ‘The Night of the 12th’ Review: When a Case Doesn’t Close
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Nicolas Rapold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But Dominik Moll’s “The Night of the 12th” does just that, and then watches a French investigator labor away at a murder case before reluctantly abandoning it. This is a refreshingly grounded, deceptively plain picture of crime-fighting as a grind of false leads, workplace fatigue and no closure. After a few years, a judge takes interest in the cold case, funding new surveillance. But even though the inexpressive Yohan does seem like one of the good guys, he’s going in circles, and can’t even help his burned-out partner, Marceau (Bouli Lanners). Despite all the best intentions, “cracking a case” just doesn’t happen sometimes, and the movie (based on a nonfiction book by Pauline Guéna) matter-of-factly avoids the magical thinking we’ve absorbed from decades of macho crime-fighting yarns.

☆ The Village People really want Trump to stop playing 'Macho Man' and say a recent cover of it at Mar-a-Lago caused 'public confusion'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Village People have asked Trump to stop using their music and likeness at his events. The letter said a cover band's recent performance of "Macho Man" at Mar-a-Lago caused "public confusion." The letter requested that Trump stop using the band's music and likeness at his events. "The performance has, and continues to cause, public confusion as to why Village People would even engage in such a performance," Willis wrote. The Village People are not the first, and likely won't be the last, musicians to demand Trump stop using their music — artists like Rihanna, Adele, and Elton John have also voiced their disapproval.

☆ Wagner boss' reported efforts to sell out Russia's army are a serious threat to Putin's leadership, expert says. 'This was treason.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"Essentially this poses a real serious challenge to Putin's leadership in the sense that he has to act," Galeotti added. Galeotti said the alleged actions, which Prigozhin has denied, pose a threat to Putin's leadership. The report of Prigozhin's offer came after months of escalating feuds between the Wagner leader and Russia's military brass. "If he could have delivered Bakhmut while the Russian military was looking assailed elsewhere — in part precisely because of the information that he provided, but still — he would've looked particularly useful to the boss," he said. Despite rising tensions between Prigozhin's and Russia's traditional military leadership, Putin has yet to publicly intervene.

☆ Putting the Brutality of a Prize Fight on the Met Opera Stage
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Victor Mather | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Many in the crowd of 7,500 were begging” the referee to intervene, The Times reported. The referee, Ruby Goldstein, was later exonerated by the State Athletic Commission. The opera’s second act deals with the fallout from the fatal punches, and Griffith’s later life, including a brutal beating he received outside a gay bar. (The conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin emerges in the pit for the second act in a boxer’s hooded robe.) Helping to make it look accurate was Michael Bentt, a former professional world champion who served as the opera’s boxing consultant.

☆ I'm a career consultant, and I'm now telling clients to expect to apply to 100 jobs before getting an offer
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

I'm a former tech recruiter who worked at Microsoft, Meta, and LinkedIn who has my own career consulting business. I tell my clients that in this slowing job market, it can take about 100 job applications to get an offer. Last year, I would tell clients to expect that it would take 60 to 80 applications and about two-and-a-half months to get a job offer. Based on the information we track, it takes about 100 job applications and 12 to 16 weeks to get an offer. I tell my clients the process is a lot more challenging if you're not staying focused, especially in 2023.

[1/2] Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate are escorted by police officers outside the headquarters of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, in Bucharest, Romania, February 1, 2023. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERSBUCHAREST, March 31 (Reuters) - Social media personality Andrew Tate will be moved to house arrest on Friday evening after a Romanian court overturned prosecutors' request to keep him in police custody until late April, his lawyer said on Friday. Earlier this week, the same Bucharest court of appeals denied the Tate brothers' request to be released on bail. In previous rulings that extended their stay in police custody, judges have said the Tate brothers posed a flight risk and that their release could jeopardise the investigation. Prosecutors have said the Tate brothers recruited their alleged victims by seducing them and falsely claiming to want a relationship or marriage.

☆ I got fired from my $190,000 job at Meta for posting on TikTok, but there wasn't much real work for recruiters like me to do
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Maddie Macho worked as a recruiter at Meta until she was fired for posting tips for job seekers on TikTok. She said her team at Meta barely had enough work to do, and her days were filled with meetings and trainings. A rocky startWhen I started my job as a recruiter at Meta in September 2021, I was so excited. There wasn't enough work to do at MetaAfter onboarding, we were supposed to start sourcing new talent, but there wasn't enough to do. I began posting on TikTokBefore working at Meta, I wasn't active on TikTok.

☆ Tech workers are taking to TikTok to debate 'fake work'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Grace Kay | Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Former tech staffers have taken to TikTok to discuss and debate "fake work." Earlier this month, Kendall Smith, known by her TikTok name @roilysm, shared a story from Insider about PayPal Mafia member Keith Rabois saying workers at Meta and Google were doing "fake work." Aube told Insider in a comment that he never saw anyone at the company "not doing any work or doing fake work." One TikTok creator, Arianna Tong, says she couldn't disagree more with the idea of fake work at Meta. "I've seen so many videos chiming in and saying they did fake work at Meta," @ariannatong said in a TikTok video.

☆ Drew Barrymore on Her Unexpected Hit Talk Show, IRL Dates and Macho Appliances
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Grace Rasmus | Photographs Heather Sten For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

“I CAN’T BELIEVE we just gave everyone in the audience Oura rings,” said Drew Barrymore, laughing. These two episodes—where they’ll take home the aforementioned fitness tracking rings, weighted Bala Bangle wristbands and Ms. Barrymore’s favorite JanSport backpack—are the first time they’ve been allowed to forgo face masks. “When we signed up to do this show in 2019, there were high expectations,” Ms. Barrymore recalls, from her mostly pink dressing room. “When we launched in the pandemic, there was a lot of disappointment. I don’t really identify with smoothness, I identify a lot more with struggle.”

☆ Pope says equal opportunities for women are key to a better world
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Gavin Jones | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

VATICAN CITY, March 8 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday decried violence and prejudice against women and said granting equal pay and opportunities could help create a more peaceful and sustainable world. Francis has condemned discrimination against women in the past but, like his predecessors, he has ruled out a female clergy. "Women's thinking is different from men's," the pope wrote in the preface to a book entitled: More Women's Leadership for a Better World. "Women know that they give birth in pain to achieve a great joy: to give life and open vast, new horizons. He said women need to get equal remuneration with men for equal roles and described ongoing pay gaps as "a serious injustice."

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