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One day last August, as they struggled to figure out whether to lift Covid-19 restrictions, the supervisors of Placer County, California, convened a panel of experts. It was a reasonable move. If being a local official could be thankless in normal times, the pandemic had made it nearly impossible. Federal messaging had been hopelessly muddled. Rules meant to stop viral spread came with painful side effects. One constituent insisted the sheriff enforce lockdowns; another called stay-at-home-orders an economic death sentence. Wanting advice from doctors and professors was hardly surprising.
What was surprising was that the first invited speaker had chosen to frame himself as an authority on Covid-19 at all. His name was Michael Levitt. His credentials were stellar an endowed Stanford professorship, one-third of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry but utterly unrelated to infectious disease outbreaks. He’d won his h
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Gillard paved way for new wave in fight for womenâs rights
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Julia Gillardâs misogyny speech echoed around the world, striking a positive blow for womenâs long struggle against verbal and physical sexual predation, and for equality (âNot a plea, a demand: letâs make misogyny historyâ, April 10-11). Who can forget that appalling picture of Tony Abbott speaking outside federal parliament with Sophie Mirabella and Bronwyn Bishop close by, as âDitch the Witchâ and other crude signs were hoisted behind them? Who can forget her shocking treatment by the likes of Alan Jones? A measure of our former PMâs stature, determination to press for justice, and forgiveness for these depravities, is that there is no self-pitying about her own maltreatment. She has helped pave the way for Grace Tame, Brit
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military. we have this military that is strong in one way but another way we know it s getting weaker and weaker all the time. we don t have the general macarthurs and the general pattons. a watched one the top people saying it s tough to beat isis. i i m saying, george patton wouldn t say that. macarthur wouldn t say that. it would go very quickly. it s just like we re in a different place. we re living in a different world from what we used to. we need victory and we don t have victory. you look at all of the things happening in this country, china ripping us off, japan ripping us a of, mexico taking advantage because their leaders are smarter than our leaders, and people are tired of it. they re tired of politicians, tired of incompetence, and tired of all talk, no action. and the people of new hampshire, the people of iowa, these are amazing people because i m doing great in iowa, too, and they re amazing people.
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