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Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Last Lesson

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May 7, 2024

Gabriel García Márquez’s last work of fiction.

His final novel, Until August, serves as not only a record of his last struggles with illness but also as a document of courage.

Illustration by Angelica Alzona.

Toward the end of his life, as his blindness progressed, the shy librarian who answered to the name Jorge Luis Borges began to feel alienated from

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Not learnt your lesson, Dragons’ Den? Couple promotes ‘libido-boosting’ supplements that lack scientific-backing, could just create a ‘placebo effect’ and used personal preference as research – (but at least the BBC’s added a health disclaimer this time!)

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It faced fierce backlash over promoting an entrepreneur’s ‘snake oil’ ear seeds product she claimed could ‘cure’ ME earlier in the series.

Yet Dragons’ Den doesn’t appear to have learnt its lesson – after last night’s episode featured a British couple looking for a £50,000 investment for their ‘libido-boosting’ supplement business.

Wesley Pierce and his fiancée Lottie arrived in the Den eager to secure partnerships with either Steven Bartlett, Sara Davies, Touker Suleyman, Peter Jones or Deborah Meaden, and offered

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How hard is it to land an airliner in a crosswind – and take off in fog… with an engine failure? The Mail finds out in a thrilling Boeing 777 flight-simulator lesson with a BA captain

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It’s 209ft (63m) long and weighs about 180 tonnes – yet I can feel this giant aircraft being pushed around by the crosswind.

And I’m having issues keeping her on course.

I’m in the captain’s seat trying to guide a British Airways Boeing 777 in to land at Heathrow Airport, but the 40-knot (46mph) crosswind – just five knots beneath the maximum permitted for a 777 landing – is not making things easy.

Luckily, I’ve got some expert help. To

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NFL Power Rankings Week 18: Browns and Packers move up, plus a lesson from every team

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Like the rest of you, the Power Rankings are trying to make some sense of this NFL year as we head into the final week of the regular season. Nine playoff spots are spoken for — by the Ravens, Dolphins, Chiefs and Browns in the AFC and 49ers, Cowboys, Lions, Eagles and Rams in the NFC. That leaves five more to be decided by the results of Week 18.

Before all that, though, we’re going to try to take a

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Israel withholding visas for UN officials after Hamas comments: ‘Teach them a lesson’

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Tensions between Israel and the United Nations are heightened after a series of comments about Hamas led to U.N. visas being denied.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Tuesday during a meeting of the Security Council the terrorist attacks against Israel Oct. 7 “did not happen in a vacuum.”

Supporters of Israel took offense to the assertion, and critics claimed the U.N. was blaming the Jewish state for the slaughter of its own civilians by Hamas.

UN LEADER RESPONDS TO ISRAEL

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F1 LIVE: Hamilton to finally get his wish as Verstappen to be taught a lesson at Red Bull | F1 | Sport

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Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve has taken a brutal dig at Daniel Ricciardo over his return to the sport, suggesting the Aussie was not deserving of replacing Nyck de Vries.

He said: “He did some political background work with [Helmut Marko] that [Nyck de Vries] didn’t see coming, well done.

“On the other hand, it’s impressive, for a return to Formula 1, a big smile and Instagram are enough to drive these magnificent cars, it’s incredible.

“No [other] driver after

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2 Man Utd kids impress but 2 struggle in harsh Wrexham lesson | Football | Sport

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With Manchester United playing two pre-season games within a 24-hour window it allowed Erik ten Hag to unleash his young talent for 90 minutes. Ten Hag fielded an inexperienced team against Wrexham in San Diego on Tuesday night, and things didn’t exactly go to plan.

Midfielder Daniel Gore was sent off for United during a 3-1 defeat to Wrexham, with starting goalkeeper Nathan Bishop also lucky to escape a red card.

Goals from Elliot Lee, Aaron Hayden, and Sam Dalby

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EUR-Exklusiv: Julie Delpy gibt Einblick in „The Lesson“ | Trailer ansehen

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Richard E. Grant, Daryl McCormack, Julie Delpy und Stephen McMillan in The Lesson Foto: Anna Patarakina, mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Bleecker Street

*Ein Super Julie Delpy (Hélène) ist in „Der Unterricht„, ein elektrisierender Thriller unter der Regie von Alice Troughton. Das Drama beginnt mit Liam (Daryl McCormack), ein aufstrebender und ehrgeiziger junger Schriftsteller, der eine Nachhilfestelle auf dem Familienanwesen seines Idols, des renommierten Autors JM Sinclair, annimmt (Richard E. Grant).

Doch schon bald

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The Real Lesson of ‘The Truman Show’

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Truman Burbank, the unwitting star of the world’s most popular TV show, is supposed to be an everyman. The Truman Show is set in an island town, Seahaven, that evokes the prefab conformities of American suburbia. Truman is a brand in a setting that is stridently generic. Since his birth, he has navigated a world manufactured—by Christof, the creator of his show—for lucrative inoffensiveness. Everything around him exists to fulfill the primary mandate of a mass-market TV show: appealing to

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