extra credit now that the question is answered in the most predictable way possible — he wasn’t allowed, his campaign goons shoved their way in and are now calling the cemetery official trying to enforce federal law by stopping them mentally ill
the LePen threat (and for many French voters its the LePen temptation) has been haunting French elections for a long time — I wrote this profile of Marine’s father Jean-Marie LePen in 1996 newyorker.com/magazine/1997/…
I wrote of papa LePen that he asked me, “What do I have to do to not be racist? Marry a black woman? With AIDS if possible?” He sent a letter saying I’d missed his joke because he said “un noir”—a Black man—not “une noire.” Vile man. His Putinist daughter’s no better.
The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
"Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.
He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made."
"Now, with his financial challenges mounting, the records show that he depends more and more on making money from businesses that put him in potential and often direct conflict of interest with his job as president."
CNN reports UAE denies involvement in Rusesabagina’s arrest, saying he arrived in Dubai on commercial flight & departed legally on private jet for “East African country.” A senior Rwanda government source tells me “can confirm what UAE said is accurate" edition.cnn.com/2020/09/02/afr…
Sr Rwandan govt source says Rusesabagina “departed UAE voluntarily by private jet en route to a country in East Africa” & “When that plane made a stop in Rwanda, he was placed under arrest pursuant to the international arrest warrant issued in November 2018.”
Why would Rusesabagina travel to Rwanda, where he was a wanted man? Was the private plane’s “stop” there scheduled? Did he know about it when he boarded? Sr. Rwanda govt source says: “I don't know exactly, but he did not board under duress. My guess is it was unscheduled.”
a lot of history and of literature in those 121 yrs of paper, including— if I remember from a photo of this I saw—a long ago serialization of Madame Bovary in Yiddish, which was read aloud by readers on ladders amid the laborers hand-rolling cigars in Lower East Side sweatshops…