JUSTICE SLEEP, by Stacey Abrams. (Anchor, 480 p., $17.) In this legal thriller, a young law clerk smells a dangerous conspiracy in Washington after the Supreme Court justice he works for falls into a coma. “Those who crave danger and surprise will encounter them in abundance,” said our critic, Richard North Patterson. WE OWN THIS …
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This grim and dizzying slice of existentialism called Samuel Beckett’s Land doesn’t exactly scream to be adapted musically, but the world of opera, where tragedy and comedy coexist, is where at least one of his plays fits perfectly. Beckett’s masterfully written “Endgame” opera “Fin de Partie” is having its French premiere. April 28 at the …
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EMILE AND FIELDWritten by Kevin Young.Illustrated by Chioma Ebinama This first picture book by Young (poetry editor of The New Yorker and director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) and Ebinama (a beautiful Nigerian-American artist who never saw characters like him as a kid) is “really entertaining on open in …
“There are many reasons why it went so horribly. The Russian troops have no clear purpose, the troops are running out of food, and it turns out they have really bad technology. For example, while most modern military radios are impossible to intercept, many Russian forces communicate on unencrypted high-frequency channels that allow anyone with …
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MINNEAPOLIS — Brian Cosgriff first saw Paige Bueckers in her sophomore year during a scrimmage at the University of Minnesota. He was playing against fourth graders and was “dominant”. “Paige was a peanut, a tiny little thing,” said Cosgriff, Bueckers’ former head basketball coach at Hopkins High. “As a seventh grader, she was still a …
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NCAA women’s tournament ground was eventually reduced to four teams. Top-rankers South Carolina, Stanford, and Louisville confirmed the selection committee’s standings, while #2 Connecticut beat No.1 State of North Carolina to reach their 14th Final Four, keeping a record-breaking streak alive. The semifinal game will be played Friday at Target Center in Minneapolis at 7 …
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday said it would support the Trump-era decision and would not impose limits on drinking water. perchloratea pollutant linked to brain damage in infants. Announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency shocked public health advocates who condemned the Trump administration in 2020 to choose not to regulate the perchlorate. The …
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Judd Apatow’s new movie is a comedy about actors trying to make a dinosaur movie during the pandemic that plays more like a documentary about actors trying to make a Covid comedy. Source link
NEW ORLEANS — Just before his final season at Oklahoma State, Bill Self injured his knee while working as a basketball camp counselor at the University of Kansas. Every time he saw Larry Brown, the head coach of the Jayhawks at the time, his limp got worse. Brown felt so sorry for Self that when …
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