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It has been 10 years since the start of the war in Syria, but the conflict grinds on with little sign of ending.
Even if the regime of Bashar Al Assad, who has often portrayed himself as a bastion of resistance against the imperialist West, manages to retake Idlib province – the last stronghold of Syria s rebels – the country is now in ruins and bogged down in economic misery.
More than 300,000 people have died and 11 million have been displaced. Many other casualties remain undocumented.
The war s intensity has been driven by the growing realisation among the opposing sides that defeat means near-certain death.
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Sunday’s NBC telecast of the “Golden Globes” awards (8 p.m., WPXI-TV) includes a few ties to Pittsburgh, including Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit.”
Former Pittsburgher Susan Schulman, a New York-based literary agent, represented the estate of Walter Tevis, author of the 1983 novel of the same name that was the basis for the Netflix show, which has nominations for best limited series and best actress in a limited series for star Anya Taylor-Joy.
Schulman taught English literature at Ohio University before moving to New York, becoming a literary agent and eventually founding her own agency. She said most books that are optioned by film and TV producers don’t make it to the screen.
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