The current administration is not likely to have a more ambivalent triumph than the one it achieved Thursday with the release of basketball star Brittney Griner from a Russian labor camp in exchange for a truly dangerous man named Victor Bout. Certainly it's good news that Griner is free and on her way home via the United Arab Emirates, where the exchange was consummated. And it's unlikely that Bout will be able to rebuild his arms-dealing empire, given the changes in that game since he's been in jail (this assumes that he doesn't make the terminal Russian mistake of standing too close to a window). But people are wondering, rightly, about the status of other Americans detained in Putinland, in particular Paul Whelan, a former Marine convicted of spying and now rounding into his fifth year of imprisonment. |
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In an emotional video, the singer detailed that it is affecting her ability to sing, and even to walk. |
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Guys are tough to shop for. But these ideas are fail-proof. |
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| Does Tanya live or die? Will Lucia and Mia take everyone down? Could Albie lose his shit?! |
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| The cold-weather collab won't stick around for long. |
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| Each night as I put my three-year-old son to bed we read our books, we sing our songs, and I tell myself that he may not survive to see the morning. When I revealed this to my mother the other night, she said it made her sick to her stomach. "How could you do that?" she asked. "How could you possibly think like that?" She sat on the couch in my living room, the light from the fire roaring in the fireplace danced across her face as she looked at me with earnest concern. I sat on the hearth and took a beat to digest the moment. Then I inhaled deeply, and started to explain. About two and a half years ago, I became fascinated with the philosophy known as Stoicism, an ancient school of thought that urges us to own the immediate present, and in doing so, to achieve true freedom—and, perhaps, even happiness. |
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