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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The War in Ukraine Is a Colonial War</strong> - For centuries, the country has lived in the shadow of empire. But its past also provides the key to its present. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-war-in-ukraine-is-a-colonial-war">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Can Liberty University Be Saved?</strong> - After Jerry Falwell, Jr.,’s ouster, some students and alumni have sought a more thorough excavation of Liberty’s values. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/can-liberty-university-be-saved">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Worst Boyfriend on the Upper East Side</strong> - For decades, a man has romanced New York women, persuading them to invest in questionable business deals. How did he keep running the same scam? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-worst-boyfriend-on-the-upper-east-side">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kyiv After Dark</strong> - An artist captures the fight for airspace over the Ukrainian capital. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/kyiv-after-dark">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Camille Bordas Reads Saul Bellow</strong> - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Father-to-Be,” by Saul Bellow, which was published in a 1955 issue of the magazine. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/camille-bordas-reads-saul-bellow">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>What happens when The Real World turns you into an “Angry Black Woman”</strong> -
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Melissa Beck from The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans | Paramount+
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Real World: Homecoming is a second chance for the seminal series, and for New Orleans castmate Melissa Beck.
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“I just want you to know that I don’t like you. We’re not friends, because I find you to be very dishonest,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/melissabeckrwno/">Melissa Beck</a> (née Howard) said to Julie Stoffer the last time the two were on TV together on MTV’s<em> Battle of the Sexes</em> in 2003. “You got your smug little smile and think it’s all cute — you’re a backstabber and you’re a liar.”
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Then, in a separate confessional, Melissa uttered a phrase that’s become a part of MTV canon: “You go messing with my money, you go messing with my emotions.”
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Melissa and Julie had left their season of <em>The Real World: New Orleans</em> as best friends. Two years later, they were onscreen enemies, and Melissa was pigeonholed as “The Angry Black Woman.”
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<em>The Real World</em> will go down as one of the more progressive shows in television history for documenting the lives of gay people, people of color, and other underrepresented groups. But in its 33-season run, it could also lean on stereotypes — like the Angry Black Woman — to tell those stories. <em>Real World: Homecoming,</em> a new weekly Paramount+ series starring Melissa and the rest of her <em>New Orleans</em> housemates, is trying to right those wrongs and allow the cast to reassess their experiences.
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“Listen, there were abs and there was comedy — it’s iconic,” <a href="https://melissabeck.merchdirect.com/categories/accessories">Melissa</a>, now a 44-year- old mom of three living on Long Island, told Vox in a recent interview. Reflecting on her fight with Julie, she said, “My arm is so thin. My stomach is so flat. I had a great tan. And I was cussing somebody out. I have no apologies about that.”
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Being able to laugh at yourself is a gift, but getting to this point wasn’t easy for Melissa. Looking back, it’s clear how <em>The Real World</em> failed Melissa and other Black women: Kameelah Phillips, who was on the show’s Boston edition, Arissa Hill on <em>Las Vegas</em>, Coral Smith on <em>Back to</em> <em>New York</em>. All were portrayed as versions of <a href="https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/antiblack/sapphire.htm">the Angry Black Woman,</a> a stereotype rooted in the false and racist idea that anger is ingrained within a Black woman’s nature rather than a normal human response to a frustrating situation.
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It’s not that <em>The Real World</em> and other reality programs can’t show Black women and women of color having angry moments. The problem is how that anger is so often presented.
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Going back on the show is an opportunity for Melissa to tell her story and make sure viewers know she was more than the Black woman who cussed out the white girl.
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“I also figured,” she said, “what’s the worst that could happen?”
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<strong>In Melissa’s original season</strong>, she and her housemates took a swamp boat tour during which the white guide called one of the bird species by a name that included the n-word. Melissa was disturbed by the guide’s casual use of the word and upset with her castmate Jamie’s reaction. He made excuses for the guide, saying that he wasn’t purposely using the word in a hurtful way. Melissa tried in vain to explain that there is no way for white people to use that word and not have it be malicious.
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She knew she had the right to be angry, but the editing questioned that and in turn emboldened fans. After the show aired, she was hounded by viewers. Social media didn’t exist at the time, but people sent their attacks by email.
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“For months, I was called racist, that I’m race-obsessed, that I’m race-baiting,” she said. “Every racist thing that could be hurled toward me was, and I don’t think that as a cast — because we hadn’t kept in touch with each other over the years — they understood that perspective or the impact that had on my life.”
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After the season aired, Melissa and some <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/04/20/real-world-star-danny-roberts-on-julies-alleged-homophobic-
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letter/">former</a> <em>Real World</em> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MtvChallenge/comments/7rl8ef/reality_bytes_coral_smith_podcast_havent_seen/">castmates</a> alleged that Julie stole their opportunities on the lucrative (at the time) college speaker circuit. They claimed Julie would offer to speak at the schools for a smaller fee than her castmates, and the colleges — looking to save money — would book Julie instead. Because <em>Battle of the Sexes</em> producers didn’t offer viewers this context, the Melissa/Julie fight appeared to come out of left field.
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“It’s the first time viewers had seen Melissa and Julie from <em>The Real World</em>, who left the show frolicking through a bed of roses. They came back, and now Melissa is screaming her head off,” Melissa said. “Instead of it being like, ‘Melissa was genuinely hurt by a friend who went behind her back and fucked with her money,’ it was, ‘Wow, Melissa’s really petty, I can’t believe she voted her off — Melissa’s a terrible person.’”
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Because she was seen as inherently rage-filled — an Angry Black Woman — anything she criticized became easy to dismiss, whether it was a situation that’s plainly racist like the one on the boat or her business dispute with Julie.
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Critics and <a href="https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/antiblack/sapphire.htm">scholars</a> note that while the Angry Black Woman caricature has roots in minstrel shows of the early 1900s, the radio show <em>Amos ’n’ Andy</em> — which debuted in 1928 — is what led to its <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299859537_Sapphire_Exploring_The_Power_Of_A_Popular_Stereotype">popularization</a>. <em>Amos ’n’ Andy</em>, a show about Black characters that was created and voiced by two white men, features <a href="https://vawnet.org/events/unpacking-sapphire-stereotype-protect-black-girls">Sapphire</a>, an aggressive scold; “the Sapphire,” in fact, became shorthand for the Angry Black Woman caricature. The stereotype began to appear as an <a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/popular-and-pervasive-stereotypes-african-americans">onscreen trope</a> as the film industry took hold in the <a href="https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/antiblack/sapphire.htm">1930s</a> and carried over into the television age (<em>Amos ’n’ Andy</em> itself became a TV show in 1951).
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Sustained, harmful pop culture portrayals like these generate <a href="https://scholars.org/contribution/how-racial-stereotypes-popular-media-affect-people-and-what-hollywood-can-do-
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become">real-world bias</a> with real-world effects. Studies have shown that the Angry Black Woman stereotype has led to Black women receiving <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33793257/">negative performance evaluations at work</a>, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24188294/">less effective mental health treatment</a>, and <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31112918/">discrimination during maternity care</a>.
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<em>The Real World</em> premiered in 1992, more than 60 years after the premiere of <em>Amos ’n’ Andy</em>. It was an era when tabloid talk shows like <em>The Jerry Springer Show</em>, <em>The Maury Povich Show</em>, and <em>The Jenny Jones Show </em>were wildly popular — and heavily reliant on the Angry Black Woman and <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/the-racial-dynamics-in-maury-make-my-stomach-churn.html">other</a> <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/2019/11/chuck-d-accuses-maury-povich-jerry-springer-exploiting-black-people">racist tropes</a>.
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<em>The Real World </em>purported to be more thoughtful. It promised to show real-life young people dealing with real-life issues like sexuality, religion, and gender — and for some of its audience, the show was the first time they would get to “know” people that they might not encounter in their own lives.
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It’s that last part that bothers some of the show’s Black female alums who spoke to Vox: In many ways, <em>The Real World</em> was progressive, educational, and <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/4/29/21240341/the-
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real-world-cultural-influence-chappelles-show-parodies">highly influential</a>, but it still relied on tropes and dynamics that privileged white people’s point of view at the expense of others.
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First- season cast member Julie Gentry’s storyline was that she was a sheltered, small-town white girl from Alabama. In the final stretch of the season, Julie accused her Black roommate Kevin Powell of threatening her after she interrupted one of his personal phone calls. He refuted her telling of the story and explained to her and the other castmates that accusing a Black person of violence is a serious matter, citing the Rodney King trial (which coincided with the taping of the show). Julie called Kevin <a href="https://www.mtv.com/video-clips/erba2g/the-real-world-kevin-and-julie-argue-
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over-cultural-differences">racist, psychotic, and capable of violence</a> and said she didn’t want to be alone in the house with him. The roommates largely took her side.<strong> </strong>Julie and Kevin reconciled on their season of <a href="https://www.avclub.com/the-real-worlds-kevin-julie-and-andre-on-racism-and-t-1846411168"><em>Homecoming</em></a>, and Julie has talked in <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-03-08/julie-oliver-gentry-the-
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“If we look at the storytelling of the original <em>The Real World</em>,” Melissa said, “the viewpoint that has always been the most important perspective was the doe-eyed white girl that walks into the house.”
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<strong>Three seasons prior to </strong><em><strong>New Orleans</strong></em>, on <em>The Real World: Boston</em>, Kameelah Phillips experienced something similar to Melissa. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/drkameelahsays/?hl=en">Kameelah</a>, 44, <a href="https://www.callawomenshealth.com/">is now an obstetrician</a> based in New York City.
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On the show, Kameelah was 19, taking a break from Stanford. She clashed with Sean Duffy, then 25, who went on to serve as a Republican Congress member from 2011 through 2019. In one of their final fights on the show, Kameelah told him that she was exhausted from having to teach him about Blackness and Black culture. In response, Sean compared her to Hitler.
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“I definitely think I got a bit of the Angry Black Woman stereotype,” Kameelah said.
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She theorized that because she butted heads with a white man whose storyline was about how he was sheltered and conservative, she came off as mad and aggressive. She says she was also portrayed at times as the <a href="https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/mcnairsymposium/2020/presentations/12/">“lonely” and “bitter” Black woman</a>, as the show implied that she was hostile to her fellow Black castmate Syrus Yarbrough because he dated white women.
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“That was a storyline I felt was created to run that narrative of Black women being alone and or being just so grumpy that they can’t get along, when that wasn’t the case at all,” Kameelah said. Like Melissa, she received a stream of racist abuse when the show aired.
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“I remember checking DOS or some basic email and I had hate mail there. I was like,<em> ‘</em>Why? What is going on?’ I definitely experienced a negative backlash from strangers,” she said. “People called me horrible names, so I got to a point where I had very negative emotions about this show.”
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Arissa Hill, who was on <em>The Real World: Las Vegas</em>, hasn’t watched her run on the show, which aired in 2002. Still, she’s heard plenty about how fans believe her season ruined the franchise. While <a href="https://ew.com/recap/reunited-real-world-vegas-grown-pains/"><em>Las Vegas</em> was a ratings monster</a>,<em> </em>producers<em> </em>were criticized by <a href="https://stopbeingpolite.com/2018/12/18/game-changers-the-real-world-
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What strikes Arissa most about how her season was edited is that she and her roommates spent a lot of time having fun together and lovingly teasing each other. Most of that good-natured ribbing was left on the cutting room floor. “I believe we were fucking hilarious,” she said.
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That the cast’s lighter moments didn’t make the cut didn’t necessarily surprise her, since she quickly understood the narrative producers were attempting to create. The season that made it to air featured love triangles, a pregnancy scare, and plenty of shouting and scolding. Arissa was often at the center of the confrontations, frequently fighting with her white castmate Frank Roessler, whom MTV described as “wide-eyed” and someone who “makes friends easily.”
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Their dynamic wasn’t unlike that of Kameelah and Sean, or Melissa and Julie. The Angry Black Woman and Wide-Eyed Young White Person are stereotypes that simultaneously shortchange both of the people they supposedly portray, but it’s inherently more damaging to be portrayed as angry — which is seen as a permanent character flaw — than being sheltered, which one will presumably grow out of.
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“Do we have the Angry Black Woman or somebody who is just trying to assert themselves or assert a boundary that has been crossed?” Arissa asked.
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Arissa is working on a docuseries that’s inspired by her experience after <em>The Real World</em> stopped filming. Like Melissa, Arissa didn’t know how to navigate her image post-show. Every single time her season re-aired during a marathon or in syndication, there was a new round of people who knew Arissa only as that person — the villain, the scold, the fight-starter — on <em>Las Vegas</em>.
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“I want the opportunity to reclaim my likeness and rebrand myself, and tell stories the way that I’d like to tell them,” she said. “I am not the only person that feels this way. There’s a space for a story like this, and it’s been a long time coming.”
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<strong>After deciding to reenter </strong><em>The Real World </em>fold, Melissa stressed to producers that she was concerned that the emotional labor of explaining and teaching people about race was going to fall on her shoulders yet again. She was also worried that the show wouldn’t explore the other aspects of her life. “I wanted to be able to be a whole and full person outside of who I am as my race,” she said.
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<em>Homecoming</em> executive producer and showrunner James Knox said he fully understood Melissa’s worries. Knox didn’t work on the original season, and he has no qualms discussing how the 2000 series and<em> Battle of the Sexes</em> fell short. Knox, a queer Black man, noted that Julie was the main character, with Melissa and Danny (Danny came out on the show as gay) used as accessories to her story.
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“That season was all through Julie’s perspective,” he said of <em>Real World: New Orleans.</em> “I needed to allow for Melissa and Danny to lead their own stories independent of Julie being naive.”
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The centering of the white experience and the use of the Angry Black Woman trope was, and continues to be, a problem in reality television. Following <em>The Real World</em>, it was perpetuated in series from <em>Survivor</em> to <em>The Apprentice</em> to the various <em>Real Housewives</em> franchises. What’s changed over the last decade or so is that we’re less inclined to buy into them. Audiences, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2021/black-women-reality-tv/">reality show participants themselves</a>, and even the people who make reality television now, are all more aware and ready to call out these lazy portrayals.
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“Back then, we didn’t have the language to describe what was going on. We didn’t have ‘diversity and inclusion.’ We didn’t use the word ‘equity.,” Kameelah said. “We’ve, in the past 20 years, developed the tools to call things out when we see injustices — not just on TV.”
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Knox told Melissa that <em>Homecoming</em> wasn’t about any kind of redemption narrative for her; this also wouldn’t be a sympathy edit to make up for what happened in 2000. What he and his team wanted to do is tell the story of seven strangers picked to live in a house — and how their lives had changed once the cameras moved on.
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Part of what convinced Melissa to sign on was the fact that, in addition to Knox, there were many people of color involved in making <em>Homecoming. </em>With a more diverse crew and an audience that’s fluent in topics of identity like race and class, Knox said, there’s now a way to tell fuller stories that — while not perfect — do not have the same blind spots as the show did before.
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The first episode of <em>Homecoming </em>revisits the Melissa and Julie fight. This time around, Melissa was given space to talk about the situation and the hurt it caused. The episode also included a moment in which Melissa’s castmates discussed the damage that can be done when a white person calls a person of color a liar.
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“Melissa has had to have this conversation a lot, and that’s tiring — that’s a burden and it shouldn’t be her burden,” Melissa’s castmate Kelley Wolf told Vox. Kelley said that living with Melissa again, and reliving those moments, made Kelley more empathetic to Melissa and brought the two closer than when the show first aired.
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Melissa said that, in her first run on MTV, she didn’t have the language to easily express what she knew to be true about race, identity, and the way her castmates were treating her back in 2000.
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“I was a messy, vulnerable 22-year-old girl from the South, who was awkward, biracial, with bad teeth, who had a lot of feelings, and who was coming into her own in terms of identity,” Melissa said. She has unapologetic affection for that version of herself, someone who approached the experiment earnestly, if naively. Melissa kept all that in mind as she filmed this reunion.
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“Did it hinder the process of me being able to be real? I don’t think so.”
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After a month of intense civilian-led protests over Sri Lanka’s deteriorating economy, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to appoint a new council on Friday to lead the formation of an interim government. The resolution would create a coalition made up of all parties in Parliament and would remove the grip of the Rajapaksa family dynasty currently ruling the country. At issue is the country’s economic future which is in shambles after defaulting on payments on its mountain of foreign loans — estimated to be worth $50 billion — <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-international-monetary-fund-sri-lanka-foreign-
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debt-f48b3cfb388c3a11af5d2d8a3d1a4391">for the first time</a> since the country gained independence from the British in 1948.
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Signs of Sri Lanka’s impending economic crisis became increasingly apparent over the last two years of the Covid-19 pandemic as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/world/asia/sri-lanka-economic-
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crisis.html">food prices soared and power blackouts</a> increased in frequency. Sri Lanka currently has about $7 billion in total debt due this year.
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Many attribute Sri Lanka’s economic crisis to the mishandling of its finances by successive governments through mounting foreign debt and continued infrastructure investments. The Rajapaksa administration also implemented <a href="https://apnews.com/article/b6b96849ebe74c8dbeac461ff8418c28">sweeping tax cuts in 2019</a>, slashing the value added tax (VAT) rate — the tax applied to imports and domestic supplies — from 15 percent to eight percent which contributed to a decrease in the country’s revenue.
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The president’s older brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is expected to be removed as prime minister as part of an agreement brokered by former President Maithripala Sirisena, who defected with dozens of other members of the incumbent president’s governing party in April in protest of the Rajapaksas’ poor governing.
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But the country’s power struggle may have sown discord between the two brothers which could exacerbate its political impasse. On Friday, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-biden-cabinet-sri-lanka-maithripala-sirisena-
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bc8ed130537eb090b9bc648b1b470d76">reported</a> a spokesperson for the prime minister did not immediately confirm the elder Rajapaksa’s removal, saying that any such decisions would be announced by the prime minister in due time.
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A big part of Sri Lanka’s economic woes is its ballooning foreign debt, namely to fund its aggressive turn to infrastructure development under former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the elder Rajapaksa sibling and two-time prime minister. With its finances already bleeding, Sri Lanka took out major investment loans from state-owned Chinese banks to fund its infrastructure projects including a controversial port development in the Hambantota district.
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The Sri Lankan government justified the Hambantota project as a way to grow its economy as a bustling trade hub comparable to Singapore. However, the project was riddled with corruption and stalled, and Sri Lanka eventually <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html">handed over the port’s control</a> to China as collateral after it was unable to pay back its loans.
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Over the last decade, Sri Lanka amassed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html">a debt of $5 billion to China</a> alone, making up a large portion of its overall foreign debt, according to the BBC. Sri Lanka’s bloated debt to China and the Hambantota project failure are often held up as an example of the “debtbook diplomacy” that China has pursued in the last couple of decades.
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Some believe China has expanded that monetary diplomacy approach through its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructure project involving Chinese investment in infrastructure developments in parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe that is later repaid, as part of China’s bid to increase global influence as a growing economic power. About 139 out of 146 of the world’s countries, including Sri Lanka, have signed on to China’s BRI project. While an infrastructure project on such a global scale may provide some economic benefits to the participating countries, the BRI has inevitably become a strategic way for China to gain political leverage with economically vulnerable countries across the Asia-Pacific region. At least 16 countries involved in the BRI project have been saddled with billions of dollars of debt which China then has leveraged, according to an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/15/warning-sounded-over-chinas-debtbook-diplomacy">independent analysis</a> by Harvard’s Kennedy School for the US State Department.
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About <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/01/india-tries-to-pry-sri-lanka-loose-from-chinas-embrace.html">22 percent of Sri Lanka’s debt</a> is owed to bilateral creditors — institutional investors from foreign governments — according to CNBC. Neighboring India has sought to grow its bilateral cooperation with Sri Lanka partly as an attempt to secure its influence in South Asia over China. India recently gave Sri Lanka a $1.5 billion credit line to tide over the country’s fuel crisis in addition to another $2.4 billion through a currency swap and loan deferment since January.
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As the country amassed foreign debt, its tourism sector — previously <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/sri-
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The next year, the Covid-19 pandemic halted tourism and other major sectors, spurring a global economic downturn. Although Sri Lanka saw some increase in its number of foreign visitors last year, the ongoing pandemic combined with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — both nations <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/6/crisis-hit-sri-lanka-is-hosting-thousands-of-stranded-ukrainians">leading sources of tourism</a> for Sri Lanka before the conflict — continued to slow the industry’s recovery.
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The country’s issues escalated in March when the Sri Lankan government <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220330-10-hour-power-cuts-in-sri-lanka-as-
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crisis-worsens">announced</a> a 13-hour daily power cut as a way to save energy amid the ongoing crisis. Without sufficient power, many were unable to do their jobs as the economic crisis continued, prompting mass unrest. Thousands of Sri Lankans took to the streets in the weeks following the power cut to protest the country’s growing crisis.
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On April 1, President Rajapaksa declared an emergency as growing unrest<strong> </strong>saw protesters clash with police. The entire Sri Lankan government Cabinet <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090753152/sri-
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With growing political unrest and no resolution in sight, Rajapaksa’s rivals began calls for a no-confidence vote against his administration.
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“We are confident we have the numbers and we will bring the motion at the appropriate time,” opposition lawmaker Harsha de Silva <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/18/sri-lankan-opposition-to-table-no-
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confidence-vote-against-government-.html">told</a> CNBC. Hoping to placate critics, President Rajapaksa sought to form a new unity coalition under his leadership but failed to gain support. In April, the government also announced it would temporarily suspend foreign debt payments, marking the first time Sri Lanka had defaulted on foreign loans since its independence.
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Experts had been warning of a potential dire situation around the country’s finances for some time. When the country defaulted, the government had been <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61145854">negotiating a bailout plan</a> with the International Monetary Fund, which had assessed its accumulated debt as unsustainable.
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“The government intends to pursue its discussions with the IMF as expeditiously as possible with a view to formulating and presenting to the country’s creditors a comprehensive plan for restoring Sri Lanka’s external public debt to a fully sustainable position,” the Finance Ministry said in a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-international-monetary-fund-sri-lanka-foreign-
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In a meeting with Cabinet officials a week later, President Rajapaksa <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-biden-cabinet-sri-lanka-mahinda-
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rajapaksa-c85718a88d4ff03d2a72f969eb595afa">acknowledged</a> his government’s role in the country’s declining economy. Specifically, the president said the government should have approached the IMF earlier for support in tackling its unruly foreign debt and that they should have avoided the ban on imported chemical fertilizers which was meant to preserve Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange holdings but instead hurt its agricultural production.
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“During the last two and a half years we have had vast challenges. The Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the debt burden, and some mistakes on our part,” Rajapaksa said.
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Now, Sri Lanka’s future rests on whether the president’s proposed government changes will placate his growing opposition long enough for a solution to come through from the IMF. The Sri Lankan head of finance, Nandalal Weerasinghe, has stated that such a hoped-for deal could <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220429-crisis-hit-sri-lanka-says-imf-bailout-three-months-away">still be months away</a>, however.
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Older, more tenured people are increasingly quitting their jobs.
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With prices soaring and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/economy/inflation-recession-economy-deutsche-bank/index.html">analysts predicting</a> a recession on the horizon, it might not seem like the best time to quit your job. But that’s not keeping American workers, especially older, more tenured ones, from doing so.
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Higher-paid workers are increasingly quitting their jobs, as the Great Resignation — also known as the Great Reshuffle — enters its second year. Earlier in the pandemic, the trend was led by younger, less-tenured workers in low-paying industries like retail, food service, and health care. Now, the main growth in quit rates is coming from older, more tenured workers in higher-paid industries like finance, tech, and other knowledge worker fields, according to data from two separate human resources and analytics companies. These workers say they are searching for less tangible benefits like meaning and flexibility.
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That changing composition of who is quitting paints an increasingly complicated picture of the state of work in America and suggests that while quit rates have decreased slightly from their highs last year, the phenomenon is not going away just yet.
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“The Great Resignation is almost like a train, where it’s built all this momentum and it’s hard to slow down, but certain workers are getting off the train and new workers are coming on,” said Luke Pardue, an economist at <a href="https://gusto.com/">Gusto</a>, which provides payroll, benefits, and human resource management software to small- and medium-sized businesses.
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Rates of quits are always highest among younger workers — those who tend to be less invested in their jobs and whose lives are less stable. This was true during the early stages of the pandemic when these workers quit their jobs amid heightened demand to eke out better wages and conditions elsewhere (though those gains are <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-
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highlight/22977654/future-of-work-restaurants-retail-hospitality">unlikely to be permanent</a>). But those quit rates have been declining. Data from Gusto, which typically works with companies that have around 25 employees, shows that the average tenure of people who quit has grown in every age group and in nearly every industry. In other words, older people who’ve worked at a job longer are also quitting.
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A similar change is happening at bigger companies, according to data from people analytics provider <a href="https://www.visier.com/">Visier</a>.
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Between the first quarter of 2021 and 2022, the greatest growth in resignations was among people aged 40 to 60 and those with a tenure of more than 10 years, a Visier dataset from companies with over 1,000 employees shows. Older and more tenured people are especially likely to be quitting in knowledge worker industries like finance and tech.
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Their reasons are myriad.
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“Don’t look for one thing that’s driving the Great Resignation,” Ian Cook, Visier’s vice president of people analytics, told Recode. “It’s actually made up from a combination of different patterns and will continue to change as the labor market changes and as the economic recovery changes.”
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Among the more financially stable set, quits are being driven by<strong> </strong>everything from a desire to continue working remotely to a greater search for meaning to simply having the means to do so.
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Columbia Business School professor Adam Galinsky calls this iteration of the Great Resignation the “great midlife crisis.”
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“At the midpoint of life, we become aware of our own mortality, and it allows us to reflect on what really matters to us,” said Galinsky. The pandemic has amplified that effect. “A global pandemic obviously makes people reflect on their own mortality in terms of being afraid of dying themselves or having a loved one or family and colleagues pass away.”
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Importantly, the people who quit to hold out for the jobs they want or forgo work entirely are usually the ones with the financial means to do so.
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Galinsky, who is currently on sabbatical in Hawaii, says he’s seen it among his peers and among other high-earning knowledge workers now working from his island getaway. He mentioned a Bloomberg employee who quit after the finance publication called workers back to the office and who now works on a pasta truck.
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Such workers, either due to savings or a spouse’s income, have the freedom to look for other work, including <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22651953/americans-gig-independent-workers-benefits-vacation-health-care-
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inequality">gig work</a> or <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22884040/more-americans-starting-own-business-
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entrepreneur">starting their own business</a>. A Gusto survey of new businesses shows that they’ve shifted from e-commerce startups earlier in the pandemic to more professional services, like, say, an accountant starting her own firm rather than working for someone else.
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Many of these workers, especially those who are older and more stable in their careers, now have the perspective to consider what they really want out of their lives and work.
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After more than two years of successfully working from home, many knowledge workers are loath to come back to the office, and some are jumping ship if they feel they have to do so. That makes sense. Data from Slack’s <a href="https://futureforum.com/">ongoing survey</a> of 10,000 knowledge workers <a href="https://futureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Future-Forum-Pulse-Report-April-2022.pdf">just found</a> that with a third of them now back in the office five days a week, their work-related stress and anxiety has reached its highest level since the survey began in 2020.
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Growth in knowledge worker quits also might just simply be a case of people copying one another.
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“Workers who have this experience, that switched a job, that became more flexible, talk about it and how they had a great experience, and that leads their neighbor or their friend to do the same,” Pardue said.
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They’re also quitting because there are a lot of jobs out there for them. The number of business and professional services job openings is at a record high, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. According to job site Indeed, the number of high-paid job postings has not cooled as much as postings for low-paid jobs (postings for both remain above pre-pandemic levels).
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So while the future might look grim, the present looks just fine for these workers, who are confident in the current tight job market. As Galinsky put it, “People believe less in global warming on days it snows.”
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Still I Rise claims Nilgiris 2000 Guineas</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Premier League: Rampant Man City back on top after 4-0 victory at Leeds</strong> - Man City have kept a clean sheet in their last five away Premier League matches; their longest ever run of consecutive away league clean sheets</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>IPL 2022 | Rahul, Hooda half-centuries take Lucknow Super Giants to 195/3 vs Delhi Capitals</strong> - LSG are placed at the third spot, while DC are currently at the sixth place in the overall standing</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>It was really unfair, I could have played the final: Sindhu on controversial point penalty at BAC</strong> - P.V. Sindhu blew a game-and-half lead after referee handed her a point penalty for taking too much time to serve between points, eventually losing 21-13 19-21 16-21 against Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>After great start, Nadal returns from injury at Madrid Open</strong> - Nadal could face a semifinal against top-ranked Novak Djokovic</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>High Court sets aside MCI order on discharging 787 MBBS students</strong> - Their dreams will shatter since they were admitted in the academic year 2016-17, says judge</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>India-UAE trade pact comes into force</strong> - India is negotiating trade agreements at a very fast pace with complementary economies, including the UK, Canada and the EU.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Arrest of George to please communal forces: Surendran</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine crisis: India calls for cessation of hostilities, resolution via dialogue ahead of PM Modi’s Europe visit</strong> - On his first trip abroad this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a three-day visit to Germany, Denmark and France beginning Monday amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Face masks likely to be made compulsory in Maharashtra if COVID-19 cases rise</strong> - Maharashtra reported 155 new coronavirus cases, as against 148 on Friday</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mariupol civilians leave besieged Azovstal steelworks</strong> - Despite an order from Vladimir Putin to completely seal off the area, 20 civilians escape Azovstal.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Ukraine’s ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ legendary pilot was born</strong> - The “Ghost of Kyiv” story about a heroic pilot downing many Russian planes turns out to be a legend.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Resistance to Russian rouble in Kherson</strong> - Russian forces say the currency will be used there from Sunday. But many residents have other ideas.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Germany takes Italy to UN court over Nazi-era compensation claims</strong> - Germany wants to stop property it owns in Italy being seized to finance compensation for Nazi war crimes</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Asylum in Denmark: Is the country guilty of double standards?</strong> - As thousands of Ukrainians are welcomed, the government plans to reduce the number of non-European refugees.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Scientists blast out Earth’s location with the hope of reaching aliens</strong> - “These efforts are like building a big bonfire in the woods and hoping someone finds you.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1851383">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The weekend’s best deals: Beats, iPads, Samsung portable SSD, and more</strong> - Dealmaster also has deals on Apple’s MacBook, Withings ScanWatch, Fire TV and more. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1851472">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Every little bit helps: How to pick the least eco-hostile laptop</strong> - Laptops are generally bad for the environment—but some are less bad than others. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1851486">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Tasting Coca-Cola’s first “gamer” flavor—and the history of game-and-soda tie-ins</strong> - Our dive into gaming-soda history goes back to the dubious <em>Pepsi Invaders</em>. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1850159">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Review: Oura Ring 3 and Whoop 4.0 are 2 ambitious wearables, but they’re tough sells</strong> - A focus on recovery is welcome, but not at the cost of easy activity tracking. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1838201">link</a></p></li>
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The other night I was invited out for a night with the ‘girls.’ I told my husband that I would be home by midnight, ‘I promise!’ Well, the hours passed and the drinks went down way too easily.<br/> Around 3 a.m., a bit pissed, I headed for home. Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up and cuckooed 3 times. Quickly, realizing my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed another 9 times.
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I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with him. (Even when totally smashed… 3 cuckoos plus 9 cuckoos totals 12 cuckoos MIDNIGHT!)
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When I asked him why, he said, ‘Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said ’oh shit.’ Cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted
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The Coach of the Detroit Lions had put together the perfect football team. But then his quarterback got blindsided and was out for the season with a knee injury. Then his backup went down with a concussion. He tried the trading route, free agents, but nobody any good was available.
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One evening while watching the news from Iraq, he saw a young Iraqi soldier with an amazing arm. The soldier rifled a grenade on a perfect arc into a 4th story window from 100 yards, bam!
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He tossed another directly into a tight group of 12 enemy fighters 80 yards away, ka-bam! Then a humvee passed, going 60 kph, boom! Another perfect shot! Coach said to himself, “I got to have this guy. He’s got the best arm I’ve ever seen!” He tracks him down and convinces him to come to Detroit. The kid takes coaching perfectly, makes all the plays, and long story short, the Lions win the Super Bowl. The Iraqi is now the Conquering Hero in pro football, and a huge story. But when the broadcast team tries to interview him, all he wants is to phone his mom.
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“Don’t talk to me,” the woman says. “You abandoned us. You can’t be my son.” The young Iraqi begs, “Mom, you don’t understand! Our team won the biggest game here in the U.S. Thousands of fans are screaming for me. The U.S. President is going to call me!”
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“I don’t care,” his mother snaps. “Right now I can hear gunshots everywhere. Our block is like a ruin. Your brothers were beaten half to death last night, and your sister was nearly raped.”
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