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What to do when your long-running character’s first name takes on uncomfortable meanings? DC Comics’ Power Girl can be a paradox. She’s wildly powerful as a hero but subject to the whims of a multiverse that sometimes seems out to get her. She was created as an alternate-universe version of Supergirl—a long-lost cousin and fellow hero to Superman, with more or less his powers. But while Supergirl approached life with bubbly, Barbielike optimism, Power Girl had more of a temper.

No post this week, but a link to an essay I wrote for The Point, on philosophy as a form of self-help: Philosophy is an abstract field of argument and theory: this is true as much of ethics as it is of metaphysics. Why should reflection in this vein—ruthless, complex, conceptual—make us happier, more well-adjusted people? (If you’ve spent time with philosophers, you may doubt that it has such salutary effects.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. - Rainier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1929) I started thinking about the relationship between crisis prefixes (polycrisis, permacrisis, and metacrisis) in January, and I almost published a version of this article back then, but something unexpected happened. The idea of crisis came into my life like a beleaguered celebrity seeking refuge, fleeing from overuse and abuse, asking for a safe place to just sit down and talk.

LONDON — Decked out in a light brown New York Yankees cap and wearing a smirk that would have made her father, Dennis, proud, Trinity Rodman didn’t worm out of answering my question: I thought you had a good goal. Did you? In real time it looked glorious: a sweeping finish at speed from the 20-year-old Rodman, a budding star, after a piercing run by Sophia Smith and a backheel—or was it a dummy?

Pretium has built a portfolio of 90,000+ single-family rental properties across the country, with over half of the portfolio located in Florida, Texas, and Georgia. While many SFR funds operate only within the Sunbelt, Pretium’s holdings extend to the Midwest. Earlier today, Pretium announced that it had raised a new $1 billion fund dedicated to acquiring build-to-rent (BTR) opportunities. In a statement, CEO Don Mullen also said that the company has now invested a total of more than $2.

On July 21, 2021, I valued Zomato just ahead of its initial public offering at about ₹41 per share. The market clearly had a very different view, as the stock premiered at ₹74  per share and soared into the stratosphere, peaking at ₹169 per share in late 2021. The last few months have been rocky, as the price has been marked down, partly in response to disappointing results from the company, and partly because of macro developments.

Okay, that’s not a photo of a youthful me and a youthful (and now dead) Prigozhin. In the late 1990s and early aughts I was researching a novel called Absurdistan. I went to St. Leninsburg for weeks and months at a time trying to come up with the character of Misha Vainberg, son of the 1238th richest man in Russia, and his dad the gangster Boris Vainberg. To do so I had to go to the lower depths in the company of some friends.

This is the perfect post-Christmas breakfast - or dinner - and the best way I know to use up the final, precious bits of a great rib roast. <li>Prime Rib Hash: <li>What you need before you start: a couple of small whole potatoes that are already cooked (any kind of potato will do, either baked or boiled), cut into small cubes.  About 2 cups of cold roast beef, cut into tiny cubes.

Confessions of a Living Legend By Prince Stash Intimate, deliciously tantalizing, never-before-told accounts drawn from a life of incredible eccentricity. ⭐️ Stories beyond sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, including Eastern mysticism, Western occultism, and the Secret Philosophy. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbG%2ByKeanquklsCp