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...Former European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, to whom we owe the currency of the term polycrisis, borrowed it in 2016 from the French theorist of complexity Edgar Morin, who first used it in...
...What the draft said is that the judges plan to uphold a state ban in Mississippi that made it illegal to have an abortion 15 weeks into a pregnancy....
...As for Mr Trump’s picks for the US federal judiciary, they have refused to say whether Brown v Board of Education, the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision that struck down government-sanctioned racial segregation...
...Rather, his holy grail was not an object or a place, but a state of mind, a depth of understanding that would allow him to reveal to the world the wonder of Inuit life....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Much of this fear was generated by FBI director J Edgar Hoover, who was so obsessed that he seemed, at times, to prefer chasing red demons to actual organised crime....
...Specifically, the court’s five-to-four majority held that the statute’s clearance process of contemplated changes to local and state election laws clashed with notions of state sovereignty....
...(FiveThirtyEight) Numbers of the day $23.2m v $3.9m The charitable donations, respectively made by the Clintons and Trumps, according to the Washington Post....
...The ruling has broad implications for states that instituted similar restrictions, with the Supreme Court on Tuesday declining to hear appeals from Mississippi and Wisconsin to reinstate their own laws....
...Polls will soon close in Michigan and Mississippi....
...I’m very unhappy with the lack of ability to get things done,” says Mr Lott, 74, now a lobbyist at Squire Patton Boggs....
...In the 1960s, as a volunteer civil rights lawyer in Mississippi, members of the Ku Klux Klan shot at him and missed....
...Those old buildings are now being used in creative ways to bring cash in to the state. Somewhat appropriately, it all started with Charlie Patton, the father of Delta Blues....
...In Mississippi and in other Republican-led states across the country, social conservatives are fighting to make abortion so difficult to obtain that it amounts to a de facto repeal of Roe v Wade, the US...
...The pariah states, meanwhile, are no longer so needful of spurs to black turnout as they were 50 years ago, when just 6.4 per cent of blacks in Mississippi were registered to vote....
...land, when the cardboard Westerns of Zane Grey and the overripe yarns of Edgar Rice Burroughs outsold books by the little-known F Scott Fitzgerald by 10 to one....
...State Police....
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...Thor may be a great warrior but he’s no genius, and he proves an all-too-malleable Edgar/Othello to Loki’s scheming Edmund/Iago. This all takes place in the celestial realm of Asgard....
...In Hellhound on His Trail, Hampton Sides reconstructs King’s last days in Memphis and the subsequent search for his killer, from the swamplands of the Mississippi to the backstreets of London....
...The plaintiffs include the City of Baltimore, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Bucks County Water & Sewer Authority....
...We arrived just short of Memphis at a small town in Mississippi to take advantage of the $29.99 motel room and the opportunity to visit a juke joint....
...the United States of America....
...The sign records the one claim to fame of Edgar Springs, Missouri. And even that is a rather obscure kind of fame. According to the 2000 census, this is the population centre of the United States....
...In January, Thad Cochran, a Republican senator for Mississippi, said the thought of Mr McCain as president sent a “cold chill down my spine”, describing him as “hotheaded” and “erratic”....
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