And just like that, the national attitude on COVID is flipping like a light switch. As the United States descends the bumpy back end of the Omicron wave, governors and mayors up and down the coasts are extinguishing indoor mask mandates and pulling back proof-of-vaccination protocols. In many parts of the country, restaurants, bars, gyms, and movie theaters are operating at pre-pandemic capacity, not a face covering to be seen; even grade schools and universities have started to relax testing
MUNICH
It was the kind of tense moment that Wolfgang Ischinger was born to defuse. The veteran German diplomat and chairman of the annual Munich Security Conference was hosting a meeting between leaders from the Balkans and senior European and American diplomats when anger bubbled up over the slow progress countries from the region were making toward joining the European Union.
“You have to tell us if you want us or not,” Serbian President Aleksandar
Der Free Agent-Ansturm vor Thanksgiving ist da. Aaron Loup unterschrieb bei den Angels und Anthony DeSclafani kehrte am Montag zu den Giants zurück. Alex Wood könnte DeSclafani bald zurück nach San Francisco folgen, und weitere Neuverpflichtungen sind vor Donnerstag unvermeidlich. Hier nun die heißen Ofengerüchte vom Dienstag.
Es ist unwahrscheinlich, dass die Mets aufgrund der Draft-Pick-Entschädigung einen qualifizierten Free Agent verpflichten, berichtet Ken Rosenthal von The Athletic. Sie müssten jedes
Sergio Aguero had been waiting since he was 14. ‘One day Barcelona will surely notice me,’ he would say. Almost two decades on the call came and last month Aguero opened his Barca account in El Clasico against Real Madrid.
It wasn’t supposed to be his final bow. Six days later, however, the striker suffered chest pains against Alaves. Now, after being diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat, Aguero’s career looks to be over at the age of 33.
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Before the altar of the church stood a large screen displaying the words “recital no. 1: mass,” in black letters on a white background. The singer entered from the back, walking slowly, delivering an a-cappella setting of the Kyrie from the traditional Mass, by the contemporary composer Caroline Shaw: “Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy.” The light was low, almost séance-like. The singer wore a black suit jacket over a black tank top, with a pearl rosary around
Father William Kelley delivered a blunt message to his parishioners in his homily earlier this month at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.: “You may think that we are already a pro-life Church, but, my friends, we are not. In a very real sense. We are only an anti-abortion Church … Our Church also falls short in its self-identification as pro-life because of our disproportionate concerns for life in the womb and our relatively scant concern for the quality
David Means liest seine Geschichte „The Depletion Prompts“ aus der Ausgabe des Magazins vom 1. November 2021. Means ist Autor des Romans „Hystopia“ und fünf Geschichtensammlungen, darunter „The Spot“ und „Instructions for a Funeral“, die 2019 erschienen sind.
Audio: David Means reads.
Write about that night, long ago, when you lay in bed listening to the sound of wind buzzing through the old television aerial mounted on the porch outside your bedroom—remember the door out to the tin roof, the buckle and ting against your toes—a deeply disturbing sound, like a stuck harmonica reed, one that, combined with the sound of crying drifting up from downstairs through the heater duct, seemed indicative of more troubling harmonics.
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