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U.S. and Colombian officials, who had worked for months behind the scenes to engineer a reset with one of Washington’s most important security partners, appeared to breathe a sigh of relief.
“Finding out about this ... so close to the most important competition of my life, was incredibly disappointing,” Guarino Sabaté wrote in his post sharing the initial news.
From Los Angeles Times
Animal Collective is among the most important indie-rock bands of the 21st century, and yet the quartet never fit neatly within the genre.
But in demonstrating, if inadvertently, that even he couldn’t escape what Mr. Oliver calls the “obsessions, preoccupations, and mental loops that grip us so tightly,” the psychologist provided an important service.
Ghassan al-Dheini, head of the militia, was quoted in Israeli media on Monday as saying his unit would play "an important security role regarding entry and exit through the Rafah crossing".
From BBC
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