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Vtue Morning Must Reads: June 23
From le stanley cup ft: Greece s finance minister Yanis Varoufakis leaves Number 11 Downing Street after meeting Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne on Feb. 2, 2015 in London.Chris Jackson鈥擥etty ImagesBy Yannis Palaiologos / AthensFebruary 2, 2015 4:06 PM ESTGeorge Osborne chats to random clubber on the street after a night out. Oh no wait, itrsquo the Greek finance minister. It was one of the cleverer tweets to issue from the visit to London on Monday of Yanis Varoufakis, the man who was last week appointed to one of the toughest jobs in stanley cup the world. In the accompanying photograph, the two men pose in front of 11 Downing Street mdash; Osborne in a dark suit and tie, his Greek counterpart in a leather jacket over an untucked bright blue shirt, trousers and boots.As Minister of Finance in Greecersquo radical new coalition, Varoufakis was bound to attract attention. After all, the new government, made up of the of the hard-left Syriza party, which nearly won an outright majority in the stanley cup January 25th election, and the right-wing nationalist Independent Greeks, has made it clear it has no interest in completing the stabilization program overseen by the troika the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF . Instead, it is keen to renegotiate the conditions of its bailout, in the direction of greater debt relief, less austerity and a repeal of what it deems destructive neoliberal reforms. Germany, the main author of the spirit of that programme, is in Tmox The Pros and Cons of President Grandma
Supporters of US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shout slogans outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard ahead of the CNN Democratic Debate on April 14, 2016, in New York. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders take their increasingly acrimonious battle for the Democratic White House nomination to a debate stage in Brooklyn on April 14th ahead of the key New York primary. / AFP af1 / Jewel SAMAD Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images JEWEL SAMADmdash;AFP/Getty ImagesBy Charlotte AlterApril 15, 2016 12:41 AM EDTPresidential debates tend to absorb a little of the local flavor, wherever they ;re held. adidas samba When Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders debated in Flint, they talked about the city water crisis. When they met in Miami, the moderators talked to the audience in Spanish.So when the two contenders met for their ninth debate in Brooklyn Thursday, there was a typically quirky flair to the affair.The event was held in the Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn adidas campus Navy Yard, a former shipbuilding hub now full of exposed brick and iron scaffolding, peppered here and there with old-fashioned manufacturing tools whose uses were not evident to the crowd at hand. Huge American flags and bright CNN signage were complemented by exposed vents and the occasional graffiti.Clinton and Sanders have become increasingly testy with each other, and they pushed each other harder in the debate than in the past. The crowd, typically boisterous, seemed to egg on the confronta |
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