When Ghana declared independence, in 1957, dignitaries from around the world descended on the capital, Accra.
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Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
Trips to those locations included conferences and meetings with foreign dignitaries ― specifically, the consul generals of India, Kyrgz Republic, Taiwan, South Korea, Turkey, Romania, Japan and Hungary.
Rebecca Hall plays Rosenkrantz and Ben Whishaw plays Hujar, who offers a detailed account of his previous day’s activity, involving such idiosyncratic eminences as Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg—and the sorts of gamesmanship and intimate tensions that ensnare and frustrate artistic energies.
Tzvika Tesler, the chairman of the kibbutz, says his community is now debating whether to tear down the charred and bullet-ridden husks of homes that were attacked or to preserve them like monuments.
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Emily Feng,
NPR,
7 Oct. 2025
Create monuments — work that deserves to be remembered.
Based on recent announcements, several major superstars are set to return for the episode on Netflix.
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Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Kirkpatrick is currently performing alongside other members of his Pop 2000 tour — which features 2000s superstars, like Brad Fischetti from LFO, O-Town, BBMak and Ryan Cabrera.
That studio is one of many spaces, official and unofficial, cited throughout the film as meeting places where artists, activists, journalists, and other notables met, and where a wide variety of activities were fostered, sustained, financed, and brought to public attention.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
Some notables have been added to the injury report.
Its figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants and cannot be independently verified by TIME.
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Callum Sutherland,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
In September, Border Patrol agents averaged roughly 279 apprehensions per day along the Southwest border — about 8,300 for the month — marking a 95% drop from the previous administration’s daily average of about 5,110 between February 2021 and December 2024, according to CBP figures.
Good historians and talented fiction writers can tease out human qualities from such personages while acknowledging their fundamental distance from our own time.
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Will Collins,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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