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Watching

9 Recent Netflix Original Series That Are Worth Your Time

By JUDY BERMAN | Jul 24th 2018

Recent highlights include true-crime documentaries, an irreverent weekly talk show and a very angry cartoon panda.

Somebody must watch these messes.
It will not be me.

2

Style

Entrepreneurs to Wed

By MATTHEW SCHNEIER | Jul 24th 2018

Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner announced their engagement over Instagram.

"Get a good makeup and the part plays itself"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwqwAy85CgY

This is not my world.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

3

World

Glass Bottle Inside a Box Carried Poison, British Victim Says

By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and ERIC SCHMITT | Jul 24th 2018

The victim, Charlie Rowley, offered new clues in an interview about how he and a friend came across a lethal Soviet-designed nerve agent, the same one that sickened a former Russian spy, Sergei V. Skripal, and his daughter.

I am not skilled at the game of Diplomacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_%28game%29
Steve Bannon and Vladimir Putin are professional.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

People and nations are being played.

Sergei V. Skripal was an act of revenge and a warning.
Dawn Sturgess was collateral damage.

4

New York

Pizza Delivery Man Detained by ICE Is Freed by Judge

By LIZ ROBBINS | Jul 24th 2018

Judge Paul A. Crotty said an undocumented immigrant who had been detained while delivering food to an army base could stay in the U.S. and pursue a green card.

The Army likes monsters.

5

Arts

Panel Finds Bill Cosby to Be a Sexually Violent Predator

By JON HURDLE | Jul 24th 2018

The determination, if upheld by the court system, would mean that he would be classified as a registered sex offender and it could affect his sentencing.

Bill Cosby will die in prison if Trump does not pardon him.

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U.S.

Video: Sessions Laughs as Crowd Chants ‘Lock Her Up’

By REUTERS | Jul 24th 2018

A crowd of high school students began the chant during a speech by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday in Washington.

Propaganda works.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/us/politics/jeff-sessions-lock-her-up-hillary-clinton.html

7

Books

Beauty, Bad Temper and Scandal in a Riveting Look at Princess Margaret

By PARUL SEHGAL | Jul 24th 2018

In “Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret,” Craig Brown ignores all the starchy obligations of biography and adopts a form of his own to ensnare the reader.

There was no escape.

8

Opinion

Together, Parents Boost Their Children’s Early Learning

By SANDRA LARSON | Jul 24th 2018

In Boston, where nearly 40 percent of children enter kindergarten not ready in literacy, a parent-led movement to bolster readiness is growing.

My siblings taught themselves.

9

Arts

BRIC Appoints New President

By ANDREW R. CHOW | Jul 24th 2018

Kristina Newman-Scott, director of culture for the State of Connecticut, is to join BRIC as its president in September.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC_Arts_Media

I did not like them.

10

Opinion

When Republicans Bash Trump

By DAVID LEONHARDT | Jul 24th 2018

It may be a weak form of dissent. But it still matters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/opinion/trump-hicks-kushner.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/opinion/save-daily-news-tronc.html

I have read the Daily News but not the Post.