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Finding the best ways to do good. Made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. The Senate on Tuesday passed a criminal justice reform bill in an 87-12 vote, overwhelmingly approving the biggest changes to the federal criminal justice system in decades.…
Even noteworthy filmmakers may not see what they’re doing. They can reveal crucial aspects of their work inadvertently, bringing to light the cinematic unconscious, hinting at what a movie could and should have been. That’s what Alfonso Cuarón, the writer…
We sticklers are in fine fettle (cliché!) this holiday season. One guy hates “’Tis the season,” and he’s right: ’tis overused. I get pedantic about the placement of the vocative comma in “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.” The song is…
Adare Manor last night hosted a gala event 45 years in the making. All-Ireland hurling champions Limerick – a title the county had been questing for since 1973 – received their medals in a gala function which boasted a guest…
While addressing the World Trade Organization (WTO), China trade envoy Zhang Xiangchen has urged the US on Monday to work on reforming the WTO by means of “consultations on equal grounds”. China told the WTO that US Section 301 measures…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his administration had inherited a 15 billion Canadian dollars ($11 billion) arms contract with Saudi Arabia it now wanted to scrap. “The murder of a journalist is absolutely unacceptable and that’s why…
