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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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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Biden White House Is Tossing Obama’s Economics Playbook</strong> - Joe Biden and Janet Yellen are proving to be far bolder than past Democratic Administrations. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-biden-white-house-is-tossing-obamas-economics-playbook">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Can Biden Reverse Trump’s Damage to Latin America?</strong> - The new President has vowed to end his predecessor’s “incompetence and neglect” in the region, but first he must convince allies to trust Washington again. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/can-biden-reverse-trumps-lasting-damage-in-latin-america">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Trump’s Impeachment-Trial Lawyers Refuse to Seriously Engage with the Constitutional Issues</strong> - What looks like incompetence by Bruce Castor and David Schoen may be better understood as contempt for the process. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trumps-impeachment-trial-lawyers-refuse-to-seriously-engage-with-the-constitutional-issues">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>“We Lost the Line”: Trump Is on the Brink of Yet Another Senate Acquittal</strong> - Republican senators ran for their lives, but they will not run from the former President. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/we-lost-the-line-trump-is-on-the-brink-of-yet-another-senate-acquittal">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What the Impeachment Trial Tells Us About the Biden Administration</strong> - There is something a bit illusory about the impeachment trial, in that its central dramas are all about Republicans, and the real action in Washington is about the Democrats. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-surprising-progressivism-of-the-biden-administration">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>One Good Thing: The pulpy joys of the Bruce Lee-inspired Warrior</strong> -
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<em>Warrior</em> follows the Hop Wei, a powerful tong that deals opium, in their power struggles during the San Francisco Tong Wars of the 1980s. | Graham Bartholomew/Cinemax
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Warrior feels like if Peaky Blinders starred Bruce Lee and was set in 1870s Chinatown. It’s great.
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Before he died tragically in 1973 at the age of 32, Bruce Lee was writing the beginnings of a martial arts Western television series. It was a chance for the Chinese American actor, who had long played supporting characters in American films, to finally star as the hero of his own show. Lee pitched it to the studios, but <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2019/4/9/18301042/warrior-bruce-lee-stunt-coordinator-interview">according to him</a>, producers didn’t think audiences were ready for a show with a nonwhite lead. He died before he could see his vision through.
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Years later, Lee’s daughter, actress and martial artist Shannon, <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2019/04/08/bruce-lee-daughter-shannon-lee-warrior/">discovered</a> an eight-page treatment for the show in her father’s journals after taking over the Bruce Lee Foundation, an organization dedicated to his legacy, in 2000. She picked up where her father left off, <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/06/shannon-lee-bruce-lee-warrior-interview-cinemax-1202622774/">collaborating with Justin Lin</a>, director of the <em>Fast & Furious </em>franchise. The resulting <em>Warrior</em> feels like the series Lee <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/06/shannon-lee-bruce-lee-warrior-interview-cinemax-1202622774/">would have wanted</a>: pulpy, action-filled genre television that centers Chinese American stories.
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<em>Warrior </em>premiered on Cinemax in 2019 and aired for two 10-episode seasons, both of which are available to stream on HBO Max. There’s a lot about the show that will be recognizable to fans of today’s dark antihero dramas: The gangster storyline feels like a plot from <em>Boardwalk Empire</em> or <em>Peaky Blinders</em>, the frontier fable of capitalism resembles <em>Deadwood</em>, and warring factions vying for power recall similar conflicts on <em>Game of Thrones</em>. But what sets <em>Warrior</em> apart is its focus on a fascinating chapter in the American story that’s often treated like an afterthought in history books. And it wraps that history lesson in an enticing action-thriller package with nods to spaghetti Westerns, the kung fu cinema of Hong Kong, gangster flicks, and exploitation films, as well as other grindhouse genres.
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<em>Warrior</em> takes place in 1870s San Francisco — the city where Bruce Lee was born — during a wave of Chinese migration, primarily to provide labor for America’s new railroads. Newly arrived Chinese immigrants, facing discrimination and sequestered in Chinatowns in major cities across the country, self-organized into gangs, or “tongs,” as a way to survive. The violent <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/When-SF-police-broke-the-law-to-combat-14904377.php">Tong Wars</a> ensued as anti-Chinese sentiment swept the nation, ultimately leading to the 1882 passage of the shameful Chinese Exclusion Act, the sole piece of legislation in American history that banned the immigration of an entire nationality.
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<em>Warrior</em>’s story follows Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), a poor Chinese immigrant with first-class fighting skills who arrives on the shores of America in search of his sister, Mai Ling (Diane Doan). Once he arrives, he’s immediately initiated into the Hop Wei, a tong that sells opium in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Soon he discovers that Mai Ling, who had come to America years earlier, is now married to the powerful leader of an opposing tong. Their reunion ignites long-simmering tensions between the tongs, triggering a power play between the long-lost siblings over who will take over Chinatown.
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Andrew Koji plays Ah Sahm, a skilled martial artist and member of the Hop Wei tong.
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The show’s universe is hard-boiled, steeped in menacing violence and the cutthroat core of American capitalism. The tongs operate on enforced loyalty under threat of death, but you can’t help but admire them for staking out a small piece of power in a country where Chinese people are villainized and shut out of society. The alternative is to work as a cheap laborer subjected to backbreaking conditions for starvation wages. Meanwhile, the city’s Irish workers, who have found their jobs undercut by the new migrants, routinely attack both the Chinese and the factories where they work.
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<em>Warrior</em>’s characters are survivors. Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng), the bisexual madam of a Chinatown brothel, is trying to not only build a safety net for herself but also provide a better alternative to more exploitative avenues of sex work — or, in the direst circumstances, sex slavery — for Chinese women. Weapons dealer Chao (Hoon Lee) makes his way and tries to get ahead by selling hatchets and information to the highest bidder, including the police. For me, the standout character is Baby Jun, the bastard son of a tong leader and sex worker, who is played with humor and recklessness by Jason Tobin.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/JYPe3mxkoQcHPJrKpgzE4kiVE_Q=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22298497/war_101_110117_gb_2992_12476.jpg"/> <cite>David Bloomer/Cinemax</cite>
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Olivia Cheng plays the madam Ah Toy, based on a real-life frontier sex worker.
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<em>Warrior </em>focuses on its Chinese American characters, who are just trying to make it in this country. But the show’s villains are compelling figures too. Dean Jagger’s Dylan Leary is particularly interesting as a union leader who mixes genuine concern for his fellow working-class Irish immigrants with the terrifying and violent rage of a racist. The show’s police, mostly Irish themselves, are depicted as unbridled enforcers of wealth and white supremacy, but a Southern cop named Officer Lee (Tom Weston-Jones) makes an admirable attempt to do actual police work. To the industrialists, the Chinese matter little beyond providing a cheap labor source, but it’s hard not to root for Penny (Joanna Vanderham), a woman whose inherited steel factory is her only route to independence from her horrific husband, the mayor.
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The immigrant caste system of the show is one of its strongest storytelling features. Recently migrated Chinese are at the bottom, Irish migrant laborers and police officers the next rung up, yet all sit underneath the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) industrialists and politicians — who are, of course, on stolen land themselves. The question of who gets to truly be American and how that question is used to exploit the working class is a core theme of <em>Warrior</em> that feels especially relevant to today’s politics.
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And the real-world stories and figures that inspire <em>Warrior’</em>s storytelling — Ah Toy is based on a <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/19/ah-toy-pioneering-prostitute-of-gold-rush-california/">real gold rush-era madam</a>, and Dylan Leary is based on the labor organizer and founder of the Workingmen’s Party, <a href="https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/warrior-the-historical-inspiration-for-dylan-leary/">Denis Kearney</a> — are refreshing. As a huge fan of period television, I’ve long wanted to see more people who look like me at the center of these shows. This is part of what felt so intriguing about the recent debut of Netflix’s popular <a href="https://www.vox.com/22178125/bridgerton-netflix-review-regency-romance"><em>Bridgerton</em></a>, which transplants characters of color into a Jane Austen-style romance. But representation can feel like a shallow concession when portrayed without consequence, subbing out would-be white characters for nonwhites with little more than an obligatory nod to the realities of racial dynamics. That’s why I’ve found <em>Warrior </em>so satisfying to watch: Here is a little-known piece of actual Chinese American history, rooted in America’s history of immigrant exploitation, playing out on screen.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/sSJZXrpDv_4yp4jsxrLxmO11Huo=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22298519/war_103_021518_db_1752_12479.jpg"/> <cite>David Bloomer/Cinemax</cite>
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The character of Dylan Leary (played by Dean Jagger) is based on a real labor organizer and anti-Chinese agitator.
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The fact that <em>Warrior</em> is imbued with the legacy of Bruce Lee, an icon of Asian American cinema, just adds to the show’s Asian American specificity. The influence of Justin Lin, action-movie mogul and one of the most powerful Asian American creatives in Hollywood, is most obvious in the series’ terrific fight sequences. However, I was reminded more of Lin’s underrated first film <em>Better Luck Tomorrow</em>, which also depicted Asian-Americans — freed from the stereotype of silent obedience — breaking bad.
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But I don’t mean to make the show sound preachy or pedantic. I promise, <em>Warrior</em> is just really fun to watch. Its martial arts sequences are standouts, as complex as they are bloody, and the dialogue feels straight out of a dark graphic novel. Because the show originated on Cinemax, there’s a lot of sex and violence, as well as racial slurs that at times slip into “gratuitous” territory. But because <em>Warrior</em> feels like a deliberate tribute to grindhouse movies, it all sort of fits.
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Sadly, the untimely <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-launch-of-hbo-max-sidelined-cinemax-11592839882">demise of Cinemax</a> in 2020 means that <em>Warrior</em> is effectively canceled. Now that it’s streaming on HBO Max, however, there is a glimmer of possibility the show will find a wider audience and maybe get picked up for another season as an HBO Max original. I hope it does. I’d love to see the universe of <em>Warrior</em> expand, especially to include other groups in late 1800s California; an episode that focuses on a Mexican American street-fighting host and the introduction of the show’s first Black character are signs the show, at one time or another, intended to do just that.
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But regardless of whether the show is ever revived, <em>Warrior</em>’s two completed seasons provide a satisfying storyline. The penultimate episode of season two, a violent clash in Chinatown following the lynching of a Chinese man — based on the real-world <a href="https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/warrior-the-real-history-of-the-race-riot-that-shook-san-francisco/">San Francisco Riot of 1877</a> — feels like a culmination of the series, despite the cliffhanger that follows in the next episode.
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Ultimately, the episode that best encapsulates <em>Warrior</em> for me is a season one installment in which a spaghetti-Western-style shootout erupts in a saloon in Grass Valley, Nevada. The small business is owned and operated by a former Chinese railroad laborer who toiled for decades before using his long-saved earnings to build a homestead in the middle of nowhere with his American wife. Their life feels like the realization of a humble immigrant fantasy that, suddenly sieged by violence, is as precarious as it is rare. As Baby Jun, one of the show’s few second-generation Chinese migrants, says in the episode, “I’m sure no fucking American. I don’t belong anywhere.” <em>Warrior</em> is about the many Americans who have not (and probably will never) really belong, but who have no choice but to keep grinding for the chance at a small piece of the American dream.
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Warrior<em> is streaming on HBO Max. For more recommendations from the world of culture, check out the </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/one-good-thing">One Good Thing</a><em> archives.</em>
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<li><strong>To All the Boys: Always and Forever suffers from a case of diminishing returns</strong> -
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Lana Condor as Lara Jean Covey in <em>To All the Boys: Always and Forever</em>. | Katie Yu/Netflix
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The first To All the Boys film was an instant classic. What happened?
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As the closing credits scroll on <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10676012/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt"><em>To All the Boys: Always and Forever</em></a>, the third and final volume in Netflix’s sweet teen love trilogy, clips from all three films play in the background. And as they played, I found myself desperately trying to work out what it was that made the first entry in the trilogy — 2018’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/19/17756330/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-review-netflix"><em>To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before</em></a>, directed by Susan Johnson — so much more compelling than the other two. Even in soundless 10-second clips, it was so much better than its successors that it hurt a little.
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Maybe it’s the weight of the hype. When the first <em>To All the Boys</em> movie came out in 2018, it was an unexpected success, a dark horse that became one of the most-watched and re-watched original movies on Netflix and single-handedly made teen icons out of both Lana Condor and Noah Centineo. It could afford to be low-stakes and surprising because few critics were expecting much from it. But the next two movies had high expectations to live up to.
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Was it the lighting? All three <em>To All the Boys</em> movies are rendered in joyous shades of turquoise and sunshine yellow and pink, like a platter of vividly toned macarons. But there was a slight bleaching to certain scenes in that first movie, an occasional willingness to let the light be ugly or distorting when it felt right, so that when it went sun-drenched and romantic, the romance really landed.
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That willingness has completely vanished from the other two movies — and with it has gone any sense that these films might ever be willing to get really sad, or that their characters might ever experience anything other than temporary distress. Which means the happiness that they do inevitably encounter becomes a little bit cheap.
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Or maybe it was the costumes?
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In the first film, our heroine Lara Jean (Lana Condor) was dressed by Rafaella Rabinovich <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/27/17778022/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-netflix-fashion-rafaella-rabinovich">in clothes that mixed references freely from the ’60s to the ’90s</a>. Then, Lara Jean displayed a tendency to mix sweet and girly frills with a little punk drama: she was always wearing combat boots with her pink miniskirts, or pairing her bows with a sharp-edged neon plaid. But in 2020’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/2/10/21113584/to-all-the-boys-ps-i-still-love-you-review-netflix"><em>To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You</em></a>, and in the latest outing, <em>Always and Forever</em> (both directed by Michael Fimognari), Lara Jean is dressed by Lorraine Carson in a softly romantic mod wardrobe without a trace of punk to it. She wears her sunshine-yellow frocks with flat teal sandals, and all her plaids are sweet.
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Lara Jean looks great in all three films. But the girly girl/cool chick combo of the first movie didn’t just look great. It also doubled as character development. It suggested that nice girl Lara Jean had a few hidden sharp edges herself, and that there was some secret badass potential inside of her that, if given the right encouragement, might finally emerge.
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With the wardrobe of the second and third films, that layer of character work is gone. There’s no longer any suggestion of secret badassery in the way Lara Jean is presented to us. There’s just flat and straightforward sweetness.
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In that same way, the light in the second and third films is straightforwardly sweet, without melancholy. And the story is straightforwardly sweet, without real potential for tragedy. It all feels sweet right up to the edge of becoming cloying, and maybe even stepping over the threshold.
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Whatever it is, some fundamental alchemy has leached out of this trilogy. Some under-the-radar willingness to get weird and sad — a willingness that made the straightforward trope-driven structure of that first movie’s happy ending feel earned and lovely and lived-in — has disappeared.
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<em>To All the Boys: Always and Forever</em> is a perfectly fine, competent, and forgettable teen romance. It’s a better movie than 2020’s <em>P.S. I Still Love You</em>, largely because its central conflict is stronger than that film’s DOA love triangle. But it doesn’t come anywhere close to the heights of the original <em>To All the Boys</em>.
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This movie is just okay. It’s nothing more than that.
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<em>Always and Forever</em> deals with that great nemesis of high school love: college
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<em>Always and Forever</em> finds high school sweethearts Lara Jean Covey and Peter Kavinsky (Centineo) entering spring of their senior year. After fake dating in the first movie, and surviving a romantic rival for Lara Jean’s affections in the second, they’re now preparing to face their biggest trial of all: college.
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Peter plans to go to Stanford (lol, sure), where he’s landed a lacrosse scholarship (<a href="https://www.ruleoftree.com/2016/7/31/12329878/stanford-football-faces-extraordinary-recruiting-challenges">lololol, sure</a>). Lara Jean is certain she’ll be admitted as well — but when she’s rejected, she has a backup plan. She is willing to settle for UC Berkeley, where she did get in, and which is just an hour’s drive away from Stanford. And surely, Peter tells her, she can transfer to Stanford as long as she keeps her grades up. So really, they’ll only be separated for one year, not four. (It’s worth noting that in the books by Jenny Han on which the <em>To All the Boys</em> films are based, this plotline involves the University of Virginia. Han’s version, it must be said, makes a lot more sense than Peter and Lara Jean betting their relationship on both of them getting into <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/stanford-university-1305">a school with an acceptance rate of 4 percent</a>.)
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But Lara Jean has also been accepted to NYU. And on a class trip to New York, she finds herself falling in love with the city. She starts to think that maybe she might actually want to go to NYU, thousands of miles away from Stanford — and maybe she might want to go for all four years, not just for one year until she can transfer.
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Peter, who is working through some abandonment issues left over from growing up with an absent father, does not take this idea well. “We both know what 3,000 miles of distance will do to us,” he tells her.
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On a purely structural level, the question of how college will affect our lovers’ relationship is a much richer and more interesting problem for them to face than the second movie’s question of whether Lara Jean was going to choose some other, non-Peter guy (she didn’t). It’s a meaningful and relatable problem that real-life high school couples face every year. It has a pleasing symmetry with the first <em>To All the Boys</em> film, which began when Lara Jean’s older sister dumped her high school boyfriend as she prepared to go off to college. And it comes with layers of conflict for Centineo and Condor to play through, with their smiles growing a little bit tenser in each successive scene as one obstacle after another seems to land between Lara Jean and Peter.
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Condor and Centineo continue to have appealing chemistry. That’s not enough.
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Noah Centineo and Lana Condor as Peter and Lara Jean in <em>To All the Boys: Always and Forever</em>.
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Centineo and Condor remain the best part of <em>To All the Boys: Always and Forever</em>, as they were the best part of <em>P.S. I Still Love You</em>. They have a wholesomely sexy chemistry that manages to keep even their cutest moments from ever quite descending into cutesiness, and they can sell the giddy joy of first love as easily as they sell their terror at their looming separation. Centineo remains the reigning champion of the longing gaze, and while Condor’s gift for comic timing goes underused in <em>Always and Forever</em>, every time she has the chance to break it out, she reminds us just how funny and endearing she can be.
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But like <em>P.S. I Still Love You</em>, <em>Always and Forever</em> fails to find strong, specific details in which to ground this love story. Gone are the yogurt smoothies, the hands in back pockets, the stolen scrunchies. Instead, <em>Always and Forever</em> is heavy on the wordless montages, where you don’t need interesting details because you can just rely on a romantic setting and your actors’ smiles to do the work for you. And the film leans on lazy and underwritten references to <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> and <em>Romeo and Juliet</em>, neither of which particularly applies to the story we’re watching play out between Peter and Lara Jean.
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It all feels a little bit generic, a little bit lazy, a little bit too sweet. None of it is executed with the flair this trilogy demonstrated it was capable of showing in its first outing.
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So as this sweet-natured high school romance comes to a close, it’s not getting the happy ending it deserves. Instead, the <em>To All the Boys</em> series fades out on what feels all too much like a case of diminishing returns.
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<li><strong>“Who’s to say it won’t happen again?”: Democrats warn of the risks of acquittal</strong> -
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) arrives at the US Capitol on the third day of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on February 11. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Moderate Republicans are betting Trump has no political future. Democrats argue that’s the problem.
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Closing their second day of arguments in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, House Democrats warned of the real danger of acquittal.
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Asking senators to weigh the threat of letting Trump’s incitement of an insurrection go unpunished, House impeachment managers detailed his history of stoking violence and the ongoing threat of domestic terrorism that his actions have encouraged. Their intent: making it clear that January 6 was an extension of a pattern — rather than an aberration — and could be repeated if consequences are not imposed.
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“Senators, the evidence is clear,” Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) said in his closing statement. “We showed you statements, videos, affidavits that prove President Trump incited an insurrection — an insurrection that he alone had the power to stop.”
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“We humbly, humbly ask you to convict President Trump for the crime for which he is overwhelmingly guilty,” Neguse continued. “Because if you don’t, if we pretend this didn’t happen — worse, if we let it go unanswered — who’s to say it won’t happen again?”
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Some Republicans, including <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-trial-live-updates/2021/02/11/966984248/he-can-do-this-again-rep-lieu-warns-of-future-attacks-on-democracy">Trump’s defense lawyer Bruce Castor</a> and <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/senator-kevin-cramer-playfully-asks-why-democrats-are-concerned-about-2024-trump-campaign-1568383">Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND)</a>, have suggested Democrats are only pursuing impeachment because they are worried about Trump running for president in 2024 and winning, as he did in 2016.
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But Democrats responded directly to that line of thinking,<strong> </strong>arguing another Trump loss, rather than a victory, would be riskier for American democracy.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="tWjV8a">
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“President Trump’s lack of remorse shows that he will undoubtedly cause future harm if allowed, because he still refuses to account for his previous high, grave crime against our government,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said. “I’m not afraid of Donald Trump running again in four years. I’m afraid he’s going to run again and lose — because he can do this again.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="S2lCA1">
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The question of what Trump will do next is not just a Democratic concern. It’s splitting the GOP. Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2021%2F02%2F01%2Fwhy-mcconnell-dumped-trump&referrer=vox.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2F2021%2F2%2F11%2F22279010%2Fmurkowski-mcconell-lieu-impeachment-acquittal-risk" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Mitch McConnell formally broke from Trump after the insurrection</a>, laying the blame directly at Trump’s feet for promoting election conspiracies. McConnell <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mcconnell-not-plotting-save-republicans-trump.html">will not whip the impeachment vote</a>, and his own vote is reportedly undecided, though he voted with the majority of his caucus that the trial was unconstitutional.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="ovSty1">
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Some Republican lawmakers continue to repeat the former president’s ongoing assertions of election fraud. Those unsubstantiated claims play well with parts of<strong> </strong><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/politics/2020-election-donald-trump-voter-fraud/index.html">the electorate</a> and are becoming a mandate for state-level Republican attempts to enact <a href="https://www.vox.com/22254482/republicans-voter-suppression-state-legislatures">their largest voter suppression campaign in years</a> — both of which could help keep these senators in office.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="qZ55Yt">
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Others in the Senate GOP are betting, as Democrats outlined, that he will run again and lose. The difference is that, despite the two days of evidence Democrats presented, they do not seem to share the same fears that he could incite violence yet again, or are too afraid of offending the former president’s base to say so.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="64SFmC">
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On Tuesday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), one of the caucus’s more moderate members and one of six Republicans to vote that the trial was constitutional, said the evidence was damning. But she came to a conclusion that House Democrats are arguing misses the real danger.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="mU1v7b">
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“After the American public sees the full story laid out here … I don’t see how Donald Trump could be reelected to the president again,” <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/538334-murkowski-i-dont-know-how-trump-could-be-elected-again">she told reporters, according to the Hill</a>.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="6zWdXY">
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Democrats argue the risk lies in his continued false claims about election fraud and are asking senators to use their power to ensure he cannot run again rather than just hoping his continued political viability does not lead to another, potentially more deadly, episode of political violence.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="irX2IB">
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“My dear colleagues, is there any political leader in this room who believes if he’s ever allowed by the Senate to get back into the Oval Office, Donald Trump would stop inciting violence to get his way?” Raskin said. “Would you bet the lives of more police officers on that? Would you bet the safety of your family on that? Would you bet the future of your democracy on that? President Trump declared his conduct totally appropriate. So if he gets back into office and it happens again, we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves.”
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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|
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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>Opting out of IPL auction was a very difficult decision, says Joe Root</strong> - England know that two more wins in their remaining three Tests in India will see them qualify for the WTC final against New Zealand.</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>Ind vs Eng | Pitch looks completely different and I am sure it will turn from day 1, says Rahane</strong> - Despite hinting that left-arm spin bowling all-rounder Axar Patel is available for selection, Rahane didn’t divulge the playing XI.</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>Debate around Kohli’s Test captaincy unneeded distraction but impossible to avoid, says Pietersen</strong> - Kevin Pietersen threw his weight behind Virat Kohli, saying he is perfectly capable to lead his side to victory.</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 vs England | England make four changes to their 12-man squad for second Test</strong> - England lead the four match series 1-0 after defeating India by a massive 227 runs in the first Test.</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>Australian Open | Osaka shows gentle touch to reach last 16</strong> - The third seed, champion in Melbourne two years ago, gently carried a butterfly to safety at the side of the court before closing out an easy 6-3, 6-2 victory over Tunisian 27th seed Ons Jabeur.</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>J&K govt. resolves row over hosting Khelo India games</strong> - Withdraws order for hoteliers to cancel tourist bookings for athletes, officials</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>Five unions to boycott BPCL project launch by Modi</strong> - ‘He is inaugurating a project while going ahead with BPCL disinvestment’</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>Action against ‘Mizo aggression’ needed, Assam Congress says on border row</strong> - Decades-old boundary dispute between the two northeastern States flared up again on January 9</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>Artists, comics call for withdrawal of charges against Munawar Faruqui</strong> - The arrest of Mr. Faruqui “even before he cracked a joke” was astounding and outrageous.</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>Rangayana to stage two plays</strong> - Shivamogga Rangayana has invited theatre lovers for two plays this weekend. ‘Tahataha’, a production by Natyalekha Rangasamuha of Mysuru, will be stag</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>Russia warns EU it could cut ties over sanctions</strong> - The EU is considering more sanctions on Russia over the case of Putin critic Alexei Navalny.</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>Covid: Germany to halt travel from Czech Republic and Tyrol</strong> - Germany announces new border restrictions, while Austrian and Czech governments also restrict travel.</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>Fernando Alonso: Two-time Formula 1 champion involved in road accident while cycling</strong> - Two-time champion Fernando Alonso has been involved in a road accident while cycling in Switzerland.</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>‘Putin’s palace’: Builders’ story of luxury, mould and fake walls</strong> - The Black Sea mansion highlighted by Alexei Navalny is beset with construction issues, say builders.</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>UK economy suffered record annual slump in 2020</strong> - The size of the economy shrank by 9.9% in 2020 as coronavirus restrictions hit output, figures show.</p></li>
|
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rocket Report: Iran debuts new booster, SpaceX to launch Lunar Gateway</strong> - “Customer demand has been extremely strong.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1741615">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What happens when you replace a human gene with its Neanderthal version?</strong> - Neural stem cells with the Neanderthal version of a key gene behave differently. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1741700">link</a></p></li>
|
||
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Apple TV+ acquires a “sci-fi courtroom drama” about a murderous robot doll</strong> - Sci-fi is looking like a cornerstone of Apple TV+’s slowly growing library. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1741475">link</a></p></li>
|
||
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Caged heat: Mesquite bugs battle in a plastic cup—for science!</strong> - Two mesquite bugs enter, one mesquite bug leaves. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1740335">link</a></p></li>
|
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Cox cuts some users’ uploads from 30Mbps to 10Mbps—here’s how to avoid it</strong> - Cox notifies users of speed cut, fails to mention they can keep current plan. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1741592">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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<li><strong>Wife: We just ate, why are you making pancakes?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Wife: Why are you making pancakes for the dogs?
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RayInRed"> /u/RayInRed </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/li1zsl/wife_we_just_ate_why_are_you_making_pancakes/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/li1zsl/wife_we_just_ate_why_are_you_making_pancakes/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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A sweet old lady telephoned the hospital.
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She timidly asked, “Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me how a patient is doing?”
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The operator said, “I can, what’s the name and room number?”
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The old laday in her weak voice said, “Doreen Jacobs, Room 604.”
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The operator replied, “Let me place you on hold while I check with her nurse.”
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After a few minutes the operator returned to the phone and said, “Oh, I have good news, her nurse just told me that Doreen is doing very well. Her blood pressure is fine; her blood work just came back as normal and her physician, Dr. Ross, has scheduled her to be discharged on Tuesday.”
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The old lady said, “Thank you. That’s wonderful! I was so worried! God bless you!”
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The operator replied, “You’re more than welcome. Is Doreen your daughter?”
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The grandmother said, “No, I’m Doreen Jacobs in room 604. No one tells me shit.”
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‘Nurse’, he mumbles, from behind the mask. ‘Are my testicles black?’
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Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, ‘I don’t know, Sir. I’m only here to wash your upper body and feet.’
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He struggles to ask again, ‘Nurse, please check. Are my testicles black?’
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Concerned that he may elevate his blood pressure and heart rate from worry about his testicles, she overcomes her embarrassment and pulls back the covers. She raises his gown, holds his manhood in one hand and his testicles in the other.
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Then, she takes a close look and says, ‘There’s nothing wrong with them, Sir!’
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The man pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her and says very slowly: ’Thank you very much. That was wonderful, but, listen very, very closely…… ’Are my test results back?"
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“Good”, they said, while handing me some menus. “Take these to Table 11.”
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