@jclavel2003 petite question : ne serait-ce pas "ayant tous deux *étés* kidnappés plutôt que "ayant tous deux *été* kidnappés ? (If not, why not?)
Aussi: "la demande remontant elle-même au discours" ... pourquoi pas "la demande remontante?" (C'est *elle*-même, après tout. Cela perturbe même mon spellchecker.)
(Et comment dit-on "spellchecker?" Mon dictionnaire me donne "correcteur d'orthographe," mais ça ressemble à une des phrases que l'Académie française a inventées mais que personne n'utilise dans la vie réelle ... )
Another question: Is "d’ Hannah Arendt" a typo, or should there be a space between the d and the H? (If so, why?)
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I like Congressman Kinzinger and I'm on his side, but I'm baffled by the soundtrack. I'm not carping about something trivial here. The soundtrack is an aspect of a certain flattened emotional sensibility that's part of the larger problem:
It involves the loss of a sense of what's emotionally appropriate. It involves the rendering of what should be the most serious of oratory into an emotionally homogeneous goo. The soundtrack is perhaps suitable for selling something plant-based.
It has no business as the soundtrack to a serious speech, and indeed a serious speech should not have a soundtrack, and if this isn't a serious speech, what is it?
It's the details that are so exquisite. "Polly Rodriguez, 34, chief executive of the sexual wellness business Unbound" ..."Mr. Kennedy, co-founder of the herbal supplement brand Plant People ... " "Elaine Purcell, 34 founder of the maternity care start-up Oula" ...
"Emily Fletcher, 42, who runs Ziva Meditation," "Lola Priego, 31, chief executive of the lab-testing start-up Base" (that one's my favorite, tbh) ... and "Ali Kriegsman, 30," who isn't sure how she feels about her employees skipping work because they've got menstrual cramps--
"I want to call out of managing my team sometimes because my period is making me super hormonal,” she concedes.
My brother tells me he no longer knows what's going on in my life because I'm never on Twitter anymore. Which is true. For reasons I don't understand, I just got bored with Twitter.
It isn't owed to some scheme for self-improvement: I didn't make some big decision that Twitter was a waste of time and life or anything. I just got bored.
However, I've been getting a number of emails from people who, I guess, are starting to worry.
Especially since they've also received no newsletter recently. But don't worry. There is no cause. We're working hard to debut the new @cosmo_globalist website. All is well.
I really see no reason--nothing to be gained, and no excuse--for having insulted France so profoundly. They were entitled to a warning, and entitled to hear it from AUS and US, rather than finding out in Politico.
In international relations as in love, if you're going to dump someone, you should do them the courtesy of telling them to their face. Letting them hear it on the grapevine is just needlessly humiliating.
Bonjour @forumrefugies, je me demande si vous pouviez me renseigner. Je suis extrêmement inquiète pour une famille de huit personnes, dont cinq filles, en Afghanistan. Ils sont en danger grave car le père travaillait pour une ONG française;
et la mère et la fille étaient toutes deux des avocats qui travaillaient pour les droits des femmes. Ils sont maintenant cachés et désespérés. J'essaie de trouver un moyen de les aider à retrouver leur liberté et leur sécurité.
Existe-t-il un programme, en France, qui me permettrait de parrainer cette famille ? S'ils peuvent obtenir un visa pour venir en France, il y a une chance qu'ils puissent partir sur un vol commercial si les compagnies aériennes recommencent à fonctionner.
"The decision is contrary to the letter and the spirit of cooperation that had prevailed between France and Australia, based on a relationship of political trust as well as Australia's development of a very high level industrial and technological defense base."
"The American choice, which leads to the removal of an ally and a European partner like France from a structuring partnership with Australia, at a time when we are facing unprecedented challenges in the Indo-Pacific region--
--both in terms of our values and in regard to respect for multilateralism based on the rule of law--marks an absence of coherence that France can only observe and regret."