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The conversations apparently included the administration fretting about Trump’s involvement with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, with one official suggesting that Trump pardon Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in the hope that she could say things which take heat off the president. Another tape reportedly has Secretary of State Marco Rubio profanely criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

That seems fair.

Президент США Дональд Трамп зашел в тупик в своих международных интервенциях. Об этом пишет американская газета The New York Times. В публикации отмечается, что глава Белого дома не выполнил своего обещания по завершению конфликта на Украине. Трамп любит скорые военные и дипломатические победы, однако сейчас...... Читать дальше »

connections has been suspiciously merciful recently. we're overdue for a "homophones for latin bacteria names" category

Yet while paying homage to Ms. Channing’s inspired angular cartoonishness and to Monroe’s surreally curved sensuality, Ms. Hilty finds a middle ground between those extremes that is far from middling. Robust, ambitious and single-minded, her Lorelei is very much of this world, inhabited by that potent and uncompromising life force that propels its possessors to places like the White House, the Super Bowl and the top tiers of megacorporations in addition to efficiently run, expensively upholstered Park Avenue aeries. [...] By the time Ms. Hilty finished her third encore of that number, the audience had all but bloodied its hands from clapping. And had there been Olympic judges among us, they would each and every one have turned up a card reading “10.”