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It was May 4, 2007, and I was working on article for Newsweek about presidential courage. I’d sent messages to all of the candidates’ spokespeople, asking for short lists of the three presidents their bosses most admire. After failing to receive a response from David Swanson, Kucinich’s point man, I fired off a follow-up asking if we should hold our breath. “Can try asap,” he wrote back. “Can’t promise.” An hour later, my phone rings–and it’s the candidate himself....

As the news of the show’s cancelation came out, Kravitz shared a photo of the show’s cast and crew on her Instagram, in a post she gave the hashtag “#BreakUpsSuck.” The caption to this image wrote: “i wanna give a shout out to my #highfidelity family. thank you for all the love and heart you put into this show. i’m in awe of all of you. and thank you to everyone who watched, loved and supported us....

In a viral post published on Reddit’s r/AmITheA**hole forum, Redditor u/ThrowawayMarie67i20 (otherwise referred to as the original poster) said that her husband has shown blatant favoritism for their son and revealed how she recently gave him a “taste of his own medicine.” Titled, “[Am I the a**hole] for compelling my husband to include our daughters more in his hobbies instead of just our son?” the viral post has received nearly 13,000 votes and 1,900 comments in the last day....

Author George R. R. Martin has previously defended the show against accusations of sexism, suggesting that “history” is more “misogynistic” and it is because he draws on historical events that his work may appear sexist to some. ‘House of the Dragon’ Star Milly Alcock Addresses Misogyny in HBO Show Milly Alcock, who portrays Rhaenyra Targaryen in her younger years, also addressed the portrayal of misogyny in House of the Dragon in an interview with Newsweek....

She tells NEWSWEEK that the CIA’s Publications Review Board, the wing of the agency that edits the public writings of ex-employees, moved to approve her work before being overruled by director Michael Hayden. According to Plame, board chairman Richard Puhl told her that her book required only minor redactions before publication, but that “the seventh floor”–a euphemism for senior management–was still debating more extensive cuts. A week later, Puhl told her that she could not reveal that she worked for the CIA prior to 2002, a decision that required her to strike large sections of text....

We hadn’t worked with Ukraine before the war started. A lot of the refugees that we work with at RefugEase are from the Middle East; Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. And, they are often in transit; living in places like Turkey and trying to reach Europe or living in camps in Greece and trying to sort their asylum claim. Our thoughts are that if we can make conditions better for people where they are, they aren’t going to risk long and dangerous journeys to get somewhere better....

Now that I have made my way through my divorce, it seems to me that grief might be too classy of a metaphor for the process. Grief elicits imagery of a gentle soul writing emotive poetry in the morning mist. Divorce, on the other hand, left me feeling like a contestant on Wipeout: completely battered, generally off balance, and surrounded by utter chaos. With a little bit of distance from my chaos, I can see that my therapist had been right about there being stages of divorce, but she was a bit off with her warnings about what was coming my way....

A man currently away on World Cup duty with his country enjoyed a productive debut campaign at the Etihad Stadium, taking in 53 appearances after completing a €50 million switch from Monaco. The 23-year-old playmaker is enjoying his time in England, with City’s domestic dominance allowing them to work with a relaxed camp where dressing room banter flows as freely as the goals. Silva is, however, looking for a fellow countryman to come and join him in the japes, with Pep Guardiola urged to raid the transfer market for a player with ties to the Euro 2016 champions....

Neymar will head for a Christmas break with just six goals to his name from 18 appearances in all competitions in 2016-17, although he has provided 14 assists. Luis Enrique won’t justify Rakitic The Brazil captain has ended each of his past two seasons at Camp Nou with over 30 goals. Luis Enrique failed to guarantee his own Barcelona future beyond the end of the season, when his contract ends, but used a news conference to express happiness with Neymar’s long-term prospects....

I’m from Montreal in Canada. Because of the city’s French background, I remember drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes being a big part of the cultural fabric at the time. Both of my parents are absolute caffeine heads, but as a young kid I swore I would never smoke or drink coffee. By 16 I was doing both. Drinking coffee was just the cool thing to do. Before high school started, I would pick up a cup of takeaway coffee and be seen with it waiting at the bus stop....

Palacios scored 20 minutes into her first appearance for Las Rozas in Primera Nacional, the third tier of women’s football in Spain. Remembering that goal, back in September 2018, automatically brings a smile to the winger’s face. She is speaking exclusively to Goal via Zoom and a translator. However, when describing how she felt at that moment, no translation is necessary. “Flote," she says. “I felt like I was flying....

Sports are gone for a long, long time, unfortunately. The only thing we have right now is each other — and our cringey, embarrassing, awkward sports memories. So let’s keep this train rolling. MORE: Fans will miss March Madness most in world without sports Most of the people on this planet have played sports at some point or another, whether recreationally, organized or semi-pro. More people have not played professional sports, which is why most of us sit here and tweet and write about them....

This is truly a difficult subject. I don’t think any normal person takes pleasure in discussing his diseases in public. Believe me, it doesn’t make me happy, either. However, each person chooses his own fate. The citizens of Russia have for a second time entrusted me with the post of president. This means they have entrusted me with the fate of our motherland for another four full years. This is a great honor....

My dad came up with the name Kashmania, because my name is Kash and we started a YouTube channel as the Mania family. The first song I recorded as Kashmania was called Snack Out. The lyrics go, “Snack Out, watch me! Snack Out, yeah!” It feels like I’ve been in the studio about 50,000 times now. I dance and shake around when I’m there. Sometimes I play roadblocks and other times I play football and I break stuff....

His team saw off the challenge of Emery’s Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League last 16 with a 5-2 aggregate win over the Ligue 1 leaders, leading to rumours that the Spaniard will be on his way out of Parc des Princes. Zidane, though, is wary of the fickle nature of the game, having seen his own job come under scrutiny for a poor league performance for the Bernabeu side this term....

I taught myself to sew through online videos and started experimenting with clothing in between going to classes. I’ve never had any formal training, but I have always loved design. When it came to engineering I was always interested in learning how to create tools or airplanes. Fashion and engineering strangely correlated in some ways. Creating clothing is all about structure, you often have to use math to create a pattern and make sure everything fits the body well....

My father was born in Germany in 1886 and came to America after losing his fortune at the hands of Hitler. Our family that was left behind was freed by the Allied forces and Eisenhower became commander of all U.S. troops in the Europe in World War II, so obviously my household was an Eisenhower household. For me, being a Republican was kind of like brushing your teeth. I was a normal American kid and went on to college in the late ’60s and early ’70s....

It was the mid-1990s, the heyday of the so-called purity movement, when the True Love Waits campaign arrived at our small, Catholic parish in the suburbs of Chicago. A pious child who wanted to please God, I dutifully signed a pledge to my “future mate”—and strangely my “future children” too—that I would wait to have sex until I was married. This prescribed only two good scripts for my life: Mother or Mother Superior....

A friend of mine asked me why I wasn’t going for it. After all, he pointed out, I had done impersonations for many years. But my impersonations had always been rooted in mockery and derision. Truthfully, that’s how I got the gumption to imitate people. When I was growing up, I was the only brown kid in the trailer park, and we had always had white presidents. So I didn’t want to be the person to mock Obama in the public space before he’d had a chance to settle into the role....

I like the closeness, intimacy and the sense of building a story together that you get from a relationship but I’ve always slightly struggled with the loss of infatuation and freedom. Opening up the relationship with my ex was a bit of a compromise; a way of saying, “I really care about you, but actually there are other things that I think I need to do and explore.” I’m not a particularly jealous person and I felt more fulfilled in an open relationship....