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Michelle Obama: Donald Trump Is ‘Threatening the Very Idea of America Itself’

Edit Time Magazine 21 Oct 2016
“Maybe that’s why he demeans and humiliates women as if we’re objects meant solely for pleasure and entertainment rather than human beings worthy of love and respect,” she said....

The New Season of Black Mirror Is the Bleakest Yet

Edit Slate 21 Oct 2016
You can understand why someone might try to bring a loved one back from the dead, but why would you ever want to live in a world where we treat one another like Yelp reviewers, constantly rating every interaction, a five-star system that determines class and privilege and that turns us into unhappy, overly polite, social media obsessives? The ......

Merging into a digital reality

Edit The Hindu 21 Oct 2016
I am ambivalent about what that does to us as human beings,” Ray says ... Our gaze, and how we appear to be, also becomes an important sub-theme of the layered works ... “I am further interested in how these personal ambivalences can be used to reflect on the scope of humanity-at-large.”....

A Texan’s triumph recounted in ‘Moscow Nights’

Edit The Mercury News 21 Oct 2016
The event took place in Moscow; most of the judges were from the Soviet bloc, and the music to be performed was mostly Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and some “Russian or Soviet composers barely known in the West.” ... professional (“like a waiter,” he said), “and he felt obliged to give listeners what they wanted.” And what they wanted was the Russians....

Remarks by the First Lady at HFA Rally in Phoenix, Az (President of the United States)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Oct 2016
I also want to recognize your members of Congress -- Representatives Raul Grijalva, Ann Kirkpatrick, to Ann -- Ruben Gallego, as well ... Men of all backgrounds and walks of life agreeing that decent men do not demean women -- (applause) -- and we shouldn't tolerate this behavior from any man, let alone a man who wants to be the President ... As you're out there working your hearts out, here's what I want you to be....

Pogba purrs as Manchester United trounce Fenerbahce

Edit The Times of India 21 Oct 2016
France midfielder Pogba scored a penalty and curled in from distance to take his tally to three goals since his world-record 89 million pounds ($109.1 million, 100 million euros) return from Juventus ... Referee Benoit Bastien thrust his hand towards the penalty spot and after an almost comical tip-toed run-up, Pogba tucked away a low shot to goalkeeper Volkan Demirel's right ... Click here to download it for your device....

Terrelle Pryor and Browns have had preliminary contract extension talks

Edit Cleveland 21 Oct 2016
The club has almost $50 million in cap space, and they have the money to do it ... Pryor told cleveland.com last month that he wants to remain here as long as Hue Jackson is here.  "I respect him very highly and if Hue Jackson's here, I'd love to stay here,'' Pryor said. "I want to be here if Hue's going to be here for a while, because I know this is a building process — and it's not really....

Obit: Bernese Bell

Edit Times Free Press 21 Oct 2016
She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and sister. She loved working outside with her flowers. She worked almost 50 years at Brock Candy ... Funeral services will be held 2 p.m ... Visitation will be held today, from 3 to 8 p.m.; and Friday, 11 a.m....

Rae Dawn Chong Compares ‘Soul Man’ Backlash to ‘Birth of a Nation’

Edit The Wrap 21 Oct 2016
... and also go on to be an Oscar contender — something that’s not yet entirely out of the cards ... 'The Birth of a Nation' Star Gabrielle Union Understands Why People 'Don't Want to See the Film' ... “If we want people to take us seriously and look at our materials and films and green light us, we should be more unified,” she said....

Divyanka Tripathi is over the moon!

Edit DNA India 21 Oct 2016
Her husband Vivek Dahiya may not have fasted with her, but the love and care he showered on her throughout the day was enough for Divyanka to hold the vrat for a lifetime ... He did not want me to fast, in the first place. He is not into spiritualism and rituals, but I wanted to hold the vrat ... As I said neither my husband nor my in-laws wanted me to fast ... A woman should be allowed to do what she wants....

Michelle Obama’s speech in Phoenix was a stirring defense of everyone left out of Trump’s America

Edit Vox 21 Oct 2016
Trump, she said, lives in a bubble, rarely exposed to people unlike him or to people who are struggling — and that makes him less empathetic to people who are struggling and unable to see what makes America great. “It’s easy to dehumanize ‘them.’ To treat ‘them’ with contempt,” Obama said ... Trump, she said, views women as “objects solely for pleasure and entertainment rather than human beings worthy of love and respect.”....

Excerpts of Puritan writing that suggests they enjoyed sex

Edit Rocky Mount Telegram 21 Oct 2016
“Being filled with the joy of thy love, and wanting opportunity of more familiar connection with thee, which my heart fervently desires, I am constrained to ease the burden of my mind by this poor help of my scribbling pen, being sufficiently assured that although my presence is that which thou desires, yet in the want thereof these lines shall not be unfruitful of comfort unto thee.” — Massachusetts Gov....

Josephine Gordon: 'Woman will become champion jockey within 15 years'

Edit BBC News 21 Oct 2016
I didn't think I could achieve being champion apprentice."Female riders to be champion apprentice jockeys ... "I think in the next 10, 20 years there will be a top female rider and a lot of records are going to be broken." ... 'It's up to you whether you want to use me ... After first sitting on a pony as a toddler at her mother Cheryl's livery yard, Gordon has always loved horses and decided she wanted to be a jockey aged about 12....
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