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Facing Pelé: what it was like by those who played against him

  
The Guardian - 12.30.2022 Original article ›
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Players in World Cups past, Kurt Hamrin for Sweden in 1958, Guillermo Sepulveda for Mexico in 1962, and Tarcisio Burgnich in 1970, share their memories and pictures of playing against Brazil and Pele in The Guardian. He is remembered by Kurt Hamrin as a rare talent who was humble and kind. He was Hamrin says "incredibly humble." After the first Brazilian World Cup title win in 1958 against Sweden Hamrin recalls- Pele took the Swedish flag draped around him and circled the stadium to show respect for his opponents. Who does that nowadays. Something is lost. No, a lot is lost and needs to be recovered of the way we played and lived. Asen, Marshall and Romano conducted the interviews for The Guardian.

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Biden Visits Southern Border While Facing Criticism From Both Parties

  
WSJ - 01.08.2023 Original article ›
Catherine Lucey, Michelle Hackman
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US president Biden visits the southern border with Mexico where there is a surge of migrants mostly from Nicaragua. He meets Texas Governor Abbott and visits the El Paso border area and El Paso county Migrant Support Center. He will then meet Lopez Obrador of Mexico and Justin Trudeau of Canada in a summit meeting in Mexico. This report in the WSJ says Mr. Biden is pursuing policy that will send back migrants including Title 42 used by the Trump administration. Republicans have made the border a top priority. Trump era policy requires Mexico to take back 30,000 migrants a month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Biden plans to continue these policies for illegal entry to stem the surge.

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Biden Administration Plans to Ease Rules for Income-Based Student-Loan Forgiveness

  
WSJ - 01.10.2023 Original article ›
Gabriel T. Rubin
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President Biden's plan to reduce payments to 5% of income instead of 10% for income driven payments on student loans. Loan balances would not grow as long as payments are made. After 10 years of payments student loan balances would be forgiven where balances are less than $12000 in place of the current 20 years.   This is the first effort to create a student loan safety net. Borrowers making less than $30,600 as individuals or $64,200 for a family of four will not be required to make monthly payments on loans. Under the current system loan balances kept growing till borrowers were left with huge and often unpayable student undergraduate loans.

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5 Inviting New Reasons Why Train Travel Beats Flying

  
WSJ - 01.25.2023 Original article ›
Nina Molina
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The new excitement of scenic train travel. The Manhattan New York to Burlington, Vermont, on Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express takes you through the Hudson River Valley and to the shores of Lake Champlain with its fresh mountain air away from the hustle and bustle of New York City. It is an 8 hour ride to this lively university town in the north country near Canada. "I like to see it lap the Miles/ And lick the Valleys Up/And then around a Pile of Mountains," says Emily Dickinson of train rides even in a period of steam engine driven trains. Today's trains with glass around you are even better for the view of Nature.

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The Guardian view on the Uber files: a tech immorality tale | Editorial

  
The Guardian - 07.11.2022 Original article ›
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This Guardian Editorial says the whistleblower revelations of Uber tell the story of political class drunk on Silicon Valley's hype of Kool-Aid, and that went along for the ride. Government officials including Mr. Macron are cited as desperate for growth after the 2009 financial crisis and offering a sympathetic year to a huge lobbying effort that was beyond scrutiny of any sort and violated both common sense and decent behaviour. Language such as the phrase violence guarantees success typify a lot of what has happened and trouble us today. And the way it has crept into business behaviour with the public unaware fully of what has happened and what ails economies and society today.

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100% pure rip-off? New Zealand voted second-worst place to move to

  
The Guardian - 07.14.2022 Original article ›
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A survey of immigrants all over the world asked about their new living standards shows Mexico at the top with Taiwan, Portugal and Spain. And Kuwait at the bottom. Surprise is that New Zealand ranks next to Kuwait at the bottom. The reason is the high cost of living and jobs not paying enough, fewer opportunities, a growing rich poor divide. New Zealand ranks high in the natural environment and climate, yet the cost of living is too high in relation to salaries. New Zealand ranked below global averages in worklife- in feeling fairly paid for work, seeing purpose in work, or liking workhours. By comparison Australia ranks ninth from the top- for the economy, compensation and work hours. 

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PM Modi attends NIIO Seminar 'Swavlamban' in New Delhi

  
YouTube - 07.19.2022 Original article ›
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The Naval Innovation and Indeginization Organization of the Indian Navy, NIIO, sets. a new pace and direction for the Indian Navy and its mission in the Indian Ocean. The goal is to use the idea of the Gati Shakti plan to bring together industry, academia, research organizations, government in partnership for adopting 75 indeginized innovations in a few years. In the last year 54% of the Indian defense budget was given to companies within India for product and services, and in the coming year the plan is for it to go up to 70%, according to defense minister Rajnath Singh. This means even aircraft carriers will be be developed and built in India at Indian shipyards using Indian technology.

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Xi Jinping tells Joe Biden not to ‘play with fire’ over Taiwan in two-hour call

  
The Guardian - 07.28.2022 Original article ›
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In the 2 hour call Xi and Biden discussed issues that are creating serious differences between the 2 countries, the war in Ukraine, Taiwan, trade and tariffs, South China sea and Indo-Pacific issues, global supply chains, food and energy issues. Chinese statement says "those who play with fire will be perished by it. It is hope the US will be clear eyed about this." Xi Jinping takes on a third term in 2022. Biden has spoken with Xi five times since 2021 and the last call in March was to dissuade China from supporting Russia in the Ukraine war. China is opposed to Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. Biden has said it was a bad idea at this time.

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Kenyans vote in knife-edge election

  
- 08.09.2022 Original article ›
Charlie Mitchell, Nairobi
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Raila Odinga runs for a third time in the Kenyan elections. He ran against Uhuru Kenyatta in the 2013 and 2017 elections. After supporting his deputy vice president William Ruto for president, Kenyatta shifts to Odinga. The Times looks at Kenya today and the current election in a country long split along tribal lines with the Kikuyu tribe of Kenyatta family dominating  since independence. In the 2007 election Odinga ran against Mwai Kibaki with the results being considered flawed even though Kibaki was made president. A reconciliation after post election violence was arranged by Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General. In that arrangement Odinga was made prime minister. This is the fourth time Odinga at 77 years is contesting the election.

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U.S. and Canada Reach an Agreement on Diverting Asylum Seekers

  
NYTimes.com - 03.25.2023 Original article ›
Michael D. Shear, Ian Austen
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A visit by president Biden to Canada to meet president Trudeau shows a unity of purpose of the two leaders who have a close Justin and Joe relationship, says this report in NYT. Before the trip an agreement had been reached by which the two countries can ease pressures of migration from the southern hemisphere. Migrants seeking asylum in Canada from the US will be turned back at Roxham Crossing. Canada will accept 15,000 refugees from persecution, violence or economic devastation, to ease pressures of illegal crossings into the US from Mexico. The trip comes after Trudeau's frosty relationship with former president Trump. It also comes as Canada and the US build a closer relationship to meet challenges of multipolar world from China.

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For Chip Makers, a Choice Between the U.S. and China Looms

  
WSJ - 03.28.2023 Original article ›
Yuka Hayashi, Jiyoung Sohn
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The Biden administration has set new rules for restricting leading edge chip manufacturing in China. The policy is intended to prevent military use of advanced chip technologies by China, a policy adopted by Xi Jinping in China. US and China have differences on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region. Companies making chips will have to decide if they will invest in the US or China. Any leading edge manufacturing in China of chips over $100,000 or increasing manufacturing capacity by 5% will lead to restrictions being placed on these manufacturers for working with the US. This sends a clear message about US policy for leading edge chip technologies that the US seeks to protect from misuse by other countries.

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Private or Political? Charges Over Hush Money Hinge on Payment’s Purpose

  
NYTimes.com - 04.05.2023 Original article ›
Michael Rothfeld
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Former federal prosecutors say proving a second crime exists that converts a misdeameanor into a felony under New York law is important for the prosecution's case in the indictment of Mr. Trump. This they say depends on whether the hush money payments made to a porn actress were personal or political for the campaign to protect the candidate. The specifics of the case and obvious intent matters a lot in the case, say experts. NYT says the groping issue that came up in the Trump campaign's early days- and which could have tanked the Trump campaign- was at about the time that this story may have come out if it was not stopped with hush money payments.  

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Shabana Mahmood: the woman behind Labour’s election campaign

  
The Times - 04.07.2023 Original article ›
Henry Zeffman, Associate Political Editor
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Shabana Mahmood, Labour MP, is Keir Starmer's campaign chief for the Labour party. She describes how she struggled over the years to bring the party to where it is now- having a new level of support from the British people. She is Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood. Her first experience with Labour comes from being with her father who was chairman of the Labour party in the area she represents in parliament. Her father was an engineer who came from Kashmir, had been to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and had a great deal of reverence for the British system of parliamentary government. Mahmood met Sunak at Lincoln's College, Oxford, in her junior year. 

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Fact check: Are 15-minute cities a plan to create lockdowns? – DW – 04/10/2023

  
dw.com - 04.10.2023 Original article ›
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Astonishing distortion of a concept that is basically about better designing cities to reflect lessons learned from the pandemic and the importance of quality of life, worklife balance, healthy lifestyles. It involves bicycling to work popular in countries such as Netherlands and other parts of Europe. Utrecht in the Netherlands is a model city for this concept of working closer to where one lives and being able access sports, exercize activities, and community social meeting places within short distances. Because this is in line with climate change action where it is important to reduce huge carbon footprint of transportation and use of fossil fuels to get to and from work, and also promotes healthy lifestyles, community living, it is an idea that makes sense.

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Witness Testimony Helps Prosecutors Advance Trump Election Case

  
NYTimes.com - 04.14.2023 Original article ›
Alan Feuer, Glenn Thrush
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The Justice Department case on Mr. Trump overturning the 2020 election reaches a crucial point. For 9 months the person in charge of the Justice Department investigation Jack Smith has been collecting testimony on this case from close advisers to president Trump. Smith is close to finishing his fact finding and has to decide with Attorney General Merrick Garland whether an indictment will take place. Another investigation is also taking place in Georgia by district attorney Fanni Willis.  The NYT looks at whether Smith will move ahead before Willis as he needs to do this to move the case ahead quickly as the first primary debates start in August 2023 for the 2024 election. Mr. Trump is a candidate for 2024. 

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UNGA vote: Despite Russia’s red flag, why India put foot down in its tightrope walk

  
The Indian Express - 04.09.2022 Original article ›
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The rapidly evolving situation in Ukraine and the importance given to it at the level of the prime minister and senior cabinet ministers about the importance India gives to respect for international law, the national sovereignty of countries, and the UN Charter. India abstained from the vote in the UN General Assembly on expelling Russia from the UN Human Rights Council yet as this Indian Express report says India as the world's largest democracy and its policies rooted in the work of Mohandas Gandhi has a clear stand on respect for the UN Charter and international law. It firmly condemned the reported atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine, as Mohandas Gandhi would have done in his own way.

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Tai: US Trade Representative Tai, Commerce Minister Goyal to take 'comprehensive look' at bilateral trade ties - Times of India

  
The Times of India - 11.04.2021 Original article ›
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US Trade Representative Tai and India Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will meet in New Delhi November 22-23 on Tai's visit to New Delhi, Seoul and Tokyo to strengthen trade and investment ties for Indo-Pacific region. Following Modi's meeting with Biden in Washington DC the discussions with Tai will reconvene the India US Trade Policy Forum in 2021, and push forward with the negotiations for the Investment Incentive Agreement to increase investment in development projects in India. All aspects of investment, trade and industry will be covered as India builds a closer relationship with US in its drive for economic development that also strives to achieve goals for renewable energy.

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Who was Joe Biden’s father?

  
The Independent - 11.19.2021 Original article ›
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Biden's father, Joe Sr. grew up in Maryland during the years of the Great Depression.  Biden on the campaign trail often reminded people that he could connect with people who faced unemployment or economic difficulties because of the experience of his father in the years he was growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Biden's early experience has shaped his views on America, on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal that helped America get back on its feet during the Great Depression. This is also the driving conviction behind his $2 trillion Families and Workers Plan to get America back on its feet after decades of neglect of working class Americans and the effects of the pandemic. 

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New North America Trade Deal Seen as Template for Deals to Come

  
WSJ - 12.14.2019 Original article ›
Josh Zumbrun
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The U.S. Mexico, Canada trade agreement USMCA is now seen as a model for future trade agreements with China, Japan, Germany, the EU, and Britain as it leaves the EU. It is based on a pro-growth, labor protections, higher wages in America model. The USMCA provisions to raise American wages for workers, improve labor protections in developing countries, pro-growth, and level playing field, are portable and can be transferred to other trade agreements. The USMCA now has support from all parties and is expected to become law when it passes Congress next week. The USMCA when applied to countries that favor or subsidize their businesses also provides a template to level the playing field and ensure fair competition.

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Chinese Authorities Rush to Build New Hospital to Contain Coronavirus

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WSJ - 01.27.2020 Original article ›
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China is building a new hospital in Wuhan the center of the coronavirus outbreak, to contain the outbreak. The plan is to build it in just 6 days. China has taken a new approach to tackling this health crisis, isolating the area and speeding up action to find solutions to the virus. A shortage of hospital beds and resources in Wuhan led to the decision to build a new hospital rapidly. China's rapid response is the first high speed response and could be a model for future outbreaks. Before this during the SARS crisis in China, and other health crises worldwide, action was taken gradually by hospital and government authorites leading to more deaths and wider spread of disease.

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Opening Ceremony Photos: Naomi Osaka, a Drone Globe and a Lot of Empty Seats

  
NYTimes.com - 07.23.2021 Original article ›
The New York Times
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Pictures of the Tokyo Olympics as shown in the NYT. A excerpt form old Kabuki theatre is shown to dispel negative energy in an effort to keep the spirit of the Olympics alive in an empty stadium. Over 10,000 athletes gathered at the opening ceremony in a stadium that would normally seat 68,000 people. The governor of Tokyo in supporting the holding of the Olympics said it was to show that during the pandemic the spirit to carry on normally can be preserved. Now that the Olympics has started and all the precautionary protocol has been followed, millions of people around the world can see the games on television to catch some glimpses of their athletes.

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Food Crisis Grows Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

  
WSJ - 10.06.2020 Original article ›
Jesse Newman
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The United Nations World Food Programme estimates are that acutely food insecure people doubled from 135 million before the pandemic to 270 million. Mr. Husain of the WFP says the world has not seen such a shock to food supplies and food demand on a global scale in the past century.The head of the food division at Unilever, Hanneke Faber, says about a billion people may be going hungry today after the loss of purchasing power and jobs during the pandemic. Many children depend on school lunch programs for their main meal and not going to school could mean about 370 million children may be losing this meal says UNICEF former executive director Ann Veneman.

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The Secret to Having a Successful Relationship in Retirement

  
WSJ - 11.17.2020 Original article ›
Marissa Davala, Grace Mims
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Two professors from the University of Nebraska offer ideas on spouses connecting with each other during retirement. Recognition of the new situation where old roles at work are behind and new relationships have to be cultivated is part of the answer. Building on the good emotional parts that went before is one way to build a connection. Recognizing that taking away work and children makes this different. That one has to build something new and exciting to replace that, to create new pathways to each other and to relearn some things, and build joy in a relationship by talking to each other and recognizing one's frailties openly, creating new meaning from old memories of doing things together.

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Jill Biden Presses for School Funding, Visits Military Families and Meets the Queen

  
WSJ - 06.14.2021 Original article ›
Catherine Lucey
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Jill Biden pushes the long neglected US agenda on education. She has talked to teachers and union members in about 21 states. Dr. Biden told teachers in Salt Lake City that president Biden was committed to increased federal funding for schools and to pay teachers competitive salaries. In his speech to the joint sessions of Congress president Biden said " she (Jill Biden) has long said any country that out-educates us will out-compete us- and she'll be leading this effort." One part of this is 2 years of free community college education. Like Eleanor Roosevelt during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930's and 1940's Jill Biden is playing an active role.

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U.S. Economy Grows Beyond Pre-Pandemic Level

  
WSJ - 07.29.2021 Original article ›
Sarah Chaney Cambon
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US economic growth surged at a rate of 6.5% for the April to June period in 2021. This pushes the economy beyond its pre-pandemic size. Growth was lower than the 8.4% forecast of economists, yet strong enough to increase its size to exceed the pre pandemic level. It was powered by the business reopenings, vaccination drive, and the government infusion of pandemic aid to households and business. New restrictions after this summer for coronavirus following last year's pattern with extensive summer tourism and spread of coronavirus, could again slow the economy. Government infusions of aid aided consumer spending, and this could slow in the months ahead, and lockdown restrictions could limit growth.

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