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Jake Tapper: Finally, Justice for C. J. Rice
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C. J. Rice was first arraigned in 2011 on the 11th floor of 1301 Filbert Street, a towering, steel-framed criminal-court complex two miles from the South Philadelphia neighborhood where he’d grown up. In 2013, on the fifth floor of the same building, Rice was tried on four counts of attempted murder, found guilty, and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison.
The Lessons Israel Failed to Learn From the Yom Kippur War
The parallels are blindingly and painfully obvious. A surprise attack against an Israel caught largely unaware; an invading military force; the timing, a holy day in early October; the victims, an unsuspecting population forced to scramble for underground bomb shelters and mobilize for war; the mistakes by an intelligence apparatus that is the envy of the world.
But the surprise attack that took place in Israel this past weekend is arguably worse than the one that launched the Yom
It’s Never Too Late to Have a Housewarming Party
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Lizzie: Despite having done it eight times in the past 10 years, I can’t recommend moving. Sure, it’s a good opportunity to imagine a few alternate lives and get rid of your dissolving socks, but it’s also an almost unbearable undertaking that involves reckoning with your accumulation of stuff, tussling with formerly hidden dust clumps, and swallowing expletives and tears when brokers you’ve never even seen pretend they need $8K just for
‘The Northman’ Brings a Surprising Twist on Male Heroism
In the director Robert Eggers’s brutal $90 million Viking epic, a prince seeks revenge on the uncle who killed his father and married his mother. If the plot sounds familiar, it’s because the Scandinavian source material of the legend of Prince Amleth was also the inspiration for Hamlet. And like so much of Shakespeare’s work, the story has been told and retold across centuries. The iteration in The Northman achieves a kind of feral animal violence exceeding even the