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Insua antes de Boca y la tremenda defensa al fútbol argentino

© Olé
March 27, 2024

Como de costumbre, es muy especial para San Lorenzo jugar contra Boca y el partido de este sábado no va a ser la excepción. El Ciclón necesita un buen resultado en la Bombonera para seguir con chances de aspirar a un lugar entre los cuatro clasificados de la Zona B de la Copa de la Liga. Y Ruben Darío Insua lo sabe y lo dejó en claro en la conferencia de prensa conjunta que dio con Diego Martínez (en un momento, bromearon sobre un San Lorenzo-Huracán que los enfrentó).

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-I’ve never been so insulted in all my life.
-Well, it’s early yet.

-Esther Muir and Groucho Marx in “A Day at the Races” (1937)

Israel isolated as UN security council demands immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Julian Borger and Lorenzo Tondo, © The Guardian
March 25, 2024

The UN security council has voted to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the first time since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, after the US dropped a threat to veto, bringing Israel to near total isolation on the world stage.

The vote result sets up the strongest public clash between US president Joe Biden and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the war began.

The US abstained and the 14 other council members all voted in favour of the security council ceasefire resolution, put forward by the 10 elected council members who voiced their frustration with more than five months of deadlock between the major powers. Applause broke out in the chamber after the vote.

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We’re not quarreling. We’re in complete agreement. We hate each other.

-Nanette Fabray about Oscar Levant, in "The Bandwagon” (1953)

THB #504: Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech

DAVID POLAND © Substack
March 12, 2024

I clicked on a bunch of links to outlets from The New York Times to BBC to The Guardian and on today, looking for a simple transcription of Jonathan Glazer’s brief acceptance speech for The Zone of Interest at last night’s Oscar show.

Couldn’t find one.

Every outlet seemed compelled to chop up the text with editorial that told or led readers to what to make of Glazer’s words. (Eventually, I found the plain text at Vox… which was using it to shame other outlets, offering, “Everyone is misquoting Jonathan Glazer’s speech at the Academy Awards.”)

Ironically, this behavior by what seems to be the majority of the media speaks very much to what Glazer’s movie is about. While some very smart people have argued that the film’s “gimmick” of not showing the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust was a major flaw in the film, I see the film as one that inspires reflection and thought in the viewer, considering the things we know and don’t know and don’t want to know (I’m reminding myself of The Unknown Known) when the hard truths are close enough to touch and far enough away to avoid.

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Chuck Todd bashes NBC News hiring of former RNC chief Ronna McDaniel

By STEPHEN BATTAGLIO, © The Los Angeles Times
March 24, 2024

NBC News staffers are upset about the network’s hiring of former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, and one of them let viewers know about it Sunday.

Former “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd, appearing on the program’s roundtable, told his successor, Kristen Welker, that “there is a reason a lot of journalists at NBC News are uncomfortable” with the decision to make McDaniel a paid contributor to the network.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

-Mark Twain

Putin seeking to blame Ukraine for Moscow shooting, despite ISIS taking responsibility

by Kateryna Denisova, © The Kyiv Independent
March 23, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that the detained suspected perpetrators of the Moscow shooting allegedly planned to flee to Ukraine, without providing any evidence.

Putin’s address was published on March 23 almost 20 hours after the shooting, which Putin called “a bloody, barbaric terrorist act.”

Several gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, northwest of Moscow, on the evening of March 22, killing 133 people and injuring at least 140, according to the latest updates by the Russian authorities.

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