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...But I’m flying blind here.” English is set in a classroom in Iran where there’s one rule: English only....
...I’ve just taken a Covid test and I’m wearing a mask, and Suzan-Lori Parks is across from me, and she’s wearing a mask. Suzan-Lori Parks Why are we wearing masks? I know. And this is the thing....
...“I don’t think I’m that good of a scripter, or anybody on our staff,” he said. “Taylor is obviously a dynamo....
...“The language is the same but I added a bit more layers,” says Bellotti. “I’m still going deeper, searching for my idea of what a Swiss brand like Bally could be.”...
...“I’m very concerned about the exodus of companies,” said one longtime Chicago business and civic leader....
...“One thing I’m really good at is hiring amazing people,” she says. “She’s always had a very practical, intuitive side as well as a creative side....
...“I’m still painting and going to parties with friends.”...
...Here’s what I’m watching today: Ukraine: Defence secretary Lloyd Austin hosts a meeting with allies at the US air base in Ramstein, southern Germany....
...Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a political novice who swept into office in 2019 on a landslide, failed to make the April 4 run-off after four years of alienating opponents and supporters alike....
...Next week we are talking to the Pulitzer Prize-winning MacArthur Genius playwright Suzan-Lori Parks....
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...I'm for trade. Lori wasn't the only one raising a red flag. Remember all those anti-globalisation, anti-WTO protests like this one from Seattle in 1999?...
...“I’m interested in how we are portrayed as black women because we are negotiating very different things from black men. Baldwin, genius though he may be, was not a black woman....
...“That’s why I’m taking the Protect Chicago 77 pledge and I encourage everyone else to do so as well so we can reach a citywide vaccination rate of 77 per cent.”...
...The near future of Lori Ann Stephens’ Blue Running (Moonflower Books, £16.99) is markedly less light-hearted. Texas is now segregated from the rest of the US, having surrounded itself with a wall....
...earrings declaring: “I’m lost pls call mom.”...
...“As a diehard sports fan myself, I’m personally excited to have Chicago take its first, cautious steps toward safely reopening our beloved baseball stadiums to fans this season,” Lightfoot said....
...“I’m hearing the ‘sell in May’ question all the time,” said Johanna Kyrklund, chief investment officer at asset manager Schroders....
...Lori Mattix says she lost her virginity to David Bowie aged just 14, before beginning a romantic relationship with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page....
...I’m Not a Monster opens with a call between a British journalist and a mother from Indiana. The line is poor and, when the woman speaks, we hear shouting in the background....
...“To be a woman, to be a black woman, and to stand up to the government is incredible. I’m not sure that I would have had the balls to do it.”...
...Sunnei, a six-year-old label founded by Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo, is an exception. “People don’t care when you’re really small here,” says Messina of why there are so few young brands....
...“People are really attached to the comfort of a certain smell and a certain taste on Thanksgiving and I’m afraid they’ll be sad if they can’t have that,” he says. But there are silver linings, too....
...high-school sweetheart and future wife Lori....
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