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Times have changed. Vacation–the universal salve to French ills–has just put an end to the most dramatic student protests in a generation. In more than 30 cities, a half-million high-school students took to the streets. But these were not their father’s protests. The real drama didn’t come from the students’ demands–pragmatic requests for smaller classes, better equipment and better preparation for the job market. What was revolutionary was the sexual politics: this time around, France’s young protesters were overwhelmingly female....

He replaces Luiz Felipe Scolari, who led Evergrande to three Chinese Super League titles and an AFC Champions League crown during his time with the club. “After discussion, we have decided to appoint Fabio Cannavaro as the head coach of Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Football Club,” read an official statement. Cannavaro had previously been in charge at Evergrande, replacing Marcello Lippi at the end of 2014, but lasted just seven months after defensive deficiencies and injury problems derailed Evergrande’s season....

Second-place Liverpool welcome a City side one point and one place behind them in the title race, with both clubs heading into the contest buoyed by three consecutive wins. Nevertheless, Liverpool’s swashbuckling attacking play could present problems for a City defence which remains under scrutiny, despite clean sheets in recent victories over Watford and Hull City. Guardiola’s backline crumpled when Tottenham, Chelsea and Leicester City unleashed the type of pacey attack that Klopp has made his calling card at Liverpool and, when the two heavyweight coaches previously faced off, at Borussia Dortmund....

Pique: Pep turning City into Barcelona Barcelona paper Mundo Deportivo ran a front page story in September claiming that Guardiola had tried to persuade the two players to join him in Manchester, and that City’s CEO, Ferran Soriano, had held up to three meetings with Messi’s camp. But Guardiola, speaking at Camp Nou ahead of City’s Champions League clash with his former club Barca, took the opportunity to give a lengthy riposte....

Man City 4/11 to start season with a win Guardiola revealed after City’s 2-0 defeat to Manchester United at the International Champions Cup that Kolarov has asked to leave. The Serbian joined City from Lazio in 2010 and Guardiola says the chance to return to Rome has proven decisive, and left the Blues short of defensive cover as they push to finalise a deal for Monaco left-back Benjamin Mendy....

Gabriel Guerra returned to face his former side, PKNS FC on Wednesday night and for the second time this season - came away with a win against his former employers. On both meetings this season, Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) only managed single goal victories against the Red Ants as they proved to be a more difficult customer than their league position suggests. For Guerra, despite playing against his former team, remained professional and while there were good memories of his time there - his current purpose is only to help JDT to win....

And it’s these Americans who the Left, eager to enact stricter gun control laws, must not forget. After all, gun control has historically been used as a tool to disarm Black people, leaving them more vulnerable to acts of terror. And in our search for better gun laws, we must be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the past. The truth is, despite what many want you to believe, being pro-gun ownership and pro-gun regulation are not mutually exclusive....

Gen Z voters going into November’s general election now say that the top issue the next administration should address first is COVID-19, followed by racial injustice and inequality, according to a new survey from Barnes & Noble College Insights. Other top issues for these young voters include police reform, health of the environment and health care reform. Gen Z, those born after 1996, will account for one in 10 eligible voters in the 2020 presidential election and they have proven to be some of the most politically active in the nation....

Kristopher Pratt apologized to the family of the 20-year-old Chicago native before Washtenaw County trial Judge Donald Shelton issued the sentence Tuesday. Pratt pleaded guilty to second-degree murder as part of a deal that called on the 20-year-old Detroit man to testify against 21-year-old co-defendant Ed Thomas. A jury acquitted Thomas of murder and other charges on July 28. Pratt says he shot Reed and that Thomas participated in the Oct....

Next to Khorkina, who was favored for a gold medal, the most visible victim of the vault foul-up may have been American Elise Ray, who fell on her back in her warm-up and then twice more in competition, earning a deplorable 7.618 for the event. Britain’s Annika Reeder was taken off the floor in a wheelchair after injuring her ankle in a fall and withdrew from competition. As dismay and bewilderment spread over the faces of the watching athletes, no one seemed to consider the possibility of an equipment problem until a question was raised by Australian gymnast Allana Slater....

Thirty years later, that last-choice assignment has turned out to be the key to his success. Ha Jin went on to earn a master’s in American literature from Shandong University, writing occasional poetry in Chinese, and then traveled to America to pursue a doctorate at Brandeis University. He published his first book of English-language poetry, “Between Silences,” in 1990; nine years later, he won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel “Waiting,” about a Chinese Army doctor who keeps trying to divorce his wife so he can marry his sweetheart....

Twenty percent of U.S. companies reported a security breach tied to a remote worker, according to a report by Malwarebytes. The May attack on the Colonial Pipeline is believed to have originated through the compromising of an employee password that allowed hackers to infiltrate company accounts. Last year’s attack on SolarWinds involved the compromising of company email accounts, as noted in a blogpost by SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna reported by CRN, a computer trade magazine, in an article titled SolarWinds CEO Confirms Office 365 Email ‘Compromise’ Played Role In Broad-Based Attack....

The computer break-in was unique only in that it was widely reported. Businesses lose an estimated $10 billion or more annually due to security breaches in their computer systems, according to the Computer Security Institute, a San Francisco-based association of information security professionals. But you aren’t likely to hear about them. Companies rarely go public with news of a computer break-in for fear of scaring off customers or damaging their brand name....

Strontium, also known as Party Bear or APT28, often uses false Microsoft domains to execute their attacks. They use methods such as spear-phishing, in which they send fake emails that appear to be from a trusted souce. Password spraying [attempting to use multiple common passwords to infiltrate accounts], exploiting weaknesses in firmware and the spreading of malware have also been employed. “Some of these attacks were successful, but the majority were not,” Microsoft said....

Such political lawlessness is not supposed to be welcome in George Bush’s new world order. The Bush administration’s condemnation of the Sept. 29 coup in Haiti was even stronger than its initial reaction to the Soviet putsch. “This junta is illegitimate,” Secretary of State James Baker told an emergency session of the Organization of American States. “Until President Aristide’s government is restored, this junta will be treated as a pariah....

The 400 Mawozo abducted 16 American citizens and one Canadian from the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries. A total of five children and 12 adults were taken in the Croix des Bouquets suburb while they visited an orphanage, according to the group. “Join us in praying for those who are being held hostage, the kidnappers and the families, friends and churches of those affected,” Christian Aid Ministries said in a statement....

The Atlas Lions are going to the tournament with an unbeaten record after they beat Estonia 3-1 in their fifth and final friendly in preparations for the tournament. Morocco defeated Serbia, Uzbekistan, and Slovakia and drew with Ukraine. Throughout their friendlies, Morocco scored nine goals and conceded three. Morocco’s last defeat came on June 10th 2017 in an Africa Cup of Nations qualification game away at Cameroon, following a disappointing start to the year that saw them lose a friendly to the Netherlands and exit the Africa Cup of Nations prematurely thanks to Kahraba’s goal in the quarter finals....

A recent poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 45 percent of Americans said they were putting more money into savings than usual, and 26 percent said they’re paying down debt faster than before the pandemic began. According to the Federal Reserve, $1.3 trillion more is being kept in Americans’ checking accounts since February, a 56 percent increase in savings. About two-thirds of those polled said they were spending less money than usual during the pandemic, a result of record unemployment rates and mass closures of stores and restaurants in the early spring....

Us Midsommar Dig out that old flower crown you wore to a festival and combine it with a white folk dress for an easy recreation of this arty Scandi-horror. Though hopefully the party you are going to does not take as dark a turn as the one in Ari Aster’s follow up to Hereditary. Stranger Things In the years since we first saw her in her shaved head, dirty dress and blue anorak, Eleven (played by Millie Bobby Brown) has had quite the fashion glow-up....

It was hard for me to reconcile the young upstart I first met in 1974 in Atlanta with the Hamilton who attended the 30th-anniversary retrospective of the Carter presidency earlier this year. It wasn’t only the oxygen tank that he pulled beside him; it was the life he had lived in those 30 years since leaving Washington. It was a life of service and courage, one that would not have been predicted from the antics that landed him on the front page when he was in the White House....