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Meet Frank Snepp (b. 1943). Snepp is a journalist and former CIA analyst, interrogator, and recipient of the Intelligence Medal of Merit. During his time at the CIA (1968–1976), Snepp rose to become the Agency’s top analyst of North Vietnamese strategy. Snepp was recruited by the CIA in 1968 while a student at Columbia University. The following year, he traveled to Saigon where he worked as a counter-intelligence officer and managed Agency network activities, including prisoner interrogations and torture (or at least what many would describe as torture).

Joe Garcia knew that his recent New Yorker essay about Taylor Swift’s music was good. “I am very confident and narcissistic about my talent as a writer,” the 53-year-old journalist says. But Garcia never anticipated that the story would go viral like it did, with readers posting on social media about how the piece had moved them to tears. (“Fully cried in public reading this through,” one person tweeted. “Art and humanity are truly all we have.

There aren't many people I would go out on a Monday night in early January for. But Mickey Rapkin isn't most people. The journalist and author, whose first book of non-fiction inspired that little known movie franchise, Pitch Perfect, has now written and directed a short satirical film called The Anne Frank Gift Shop. It's been shortlisted for an Oscar and earlier this week the inimitable Selma Blair hosted a screening and Q&A at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

November 1, 2020 | Wilson Located at 2816 WorldReach Drive, the new Indian Land YMCA finally opened its doors Friday. The building is 70,000 square feet and anchors the new Cross Ridge Business Park. It features an indoor heated pool, cardio and weight training, elevated walking track, full gymnasium, fitness area, separate women’s training room, cycle room, locker rooms (with saunas), community room, yoga and Pilates studio, room for group exercises, space for ChildWatch and a teen room.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, by Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. I think I’ve seen this film before… —Kate The first video that appears when you search Meghan Markle on TikTok is titled: “Exact moment MEGHAN MARKLE Lies! Body Language analysis.” “You know MM is lying when you see her mouth moving and words coming out,” one commenter wrote.  “Obviously she is comfortable, this is her big break,” another added.

We have all felt the dizzying effects of the world being generally skewed, but it is my firmest belief the world tilted slightly off its axis when Melvin Van Peebles passed at the age of 89 on September 21, 2021. For weeks, I've been trying to conjure up words to say for a man who lived and breathed art as a playwright, novelist, writer, actor, producer, journalist, musician, composer, painter, uncompromising Black visionary, and director.

Nikcole Cunningham, who serves on the California city’s 15-person African American Reparations Advisory Committee, was served with a restraining order from the City and County of San Francisco on Dec. 28, 2023, after threatening her coworkers. Cunningham, who has been employed by the San Francisco Human Services Agency (HSA) as a social worker since 2007, stated that she has been "homicidal many, many times.” In the restraining order (which you can read in its entirety here), HSA Executive Director Trent Rhorer says on or about December 7, 2023, an employee at the City's Health Service System (HSS), which coordinates health plans for San Francisco and other employers, notified him that long-term disability insurance provider Hartford had informed the City that Cunningham made a credible threat of workplace violence against HSA employees via a letter from Cunningham to Hartford.

By the time this reaches you, I pray that this is the first instance of you reading the phrases “spoopy” or “spooky season”. I hope that we have killed that part of our vocabulary. Twitter Kevin James Kevin James continues to repulse and delight. I’m surprised it took us two weeks to add boobs but this is a process of the collective conscious, not a sprint. It’s getting weirder and more off-putting so that points to a kind of staying power that I would not have said this meme has.

Now, because you’re obsessed with us, you’ll have noticed we’ve been talking a lot about memes—a brand is a meme after all. And for all that talk about memes, we haven’t actually written a lot about funny pictures, videos, and sounds on the Internet. See, while an hilarious pic of Gene Wilder leaning on his wrist will always be relevant in conversation, it’s not clear why. We want to right that wrong.