![]() ![]() He has written features on Wilfred Thesiger, Texan rattlesnake hunters, the Taliban, and British-Asian Urdu poets. His chosen subject matter has been wide-ranging. ![]() Hall has worked in TV news and is a former South Asia bureau chief of Associated Press TV, based in New Delhi. Hall has spent much of his adult life away from England, living in the United States, Pakistan, India, Kenya and Turkey, and travelling extensively in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. He was born in London, in 1969, to an English father and American mother. Tarquin Hall is an English writer and journalist. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) JSTOR ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message). ![]() Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Troubled, she traveled around the country digging up sources and interviewing the targets of these politically motivated campaigns. But even as she worked to correct these injustices, Dreger began to witness how some fellow liberal activists, motivated by identity politics, were employing lies and personal attacks to silence scientists whose data revealed inconvenient truths. ![]() By bringing evidence to physicians and the public, she helped change the medical system. The shocking history of surgical mutilation and ethical abuses conducted in the name of "normalizing" intersex children moved her to become a patient rights' activist. Dreger's own attempts to reconcile academic freedom with the pursuit of justice grew out of her research into the treatment of people born intersex (formerly called hermaphrodites). An investigation of some of the most contentious debates of our time, Galileo's Middle Finger describes Alice Dreger's experiences on the front lines of scientific controversy, where for two decades she has worked as an advocate for victims of unethical research while also defending the right of scientists to pursue challenging research into human identities. ![]() ![]() It is true that the entire cast, that we know of, in Fantastic Beasts so far, is white. Of the thousands of minutes within the series, this video totals about six minutes for non-white actors. YouTuber Dylan Marron released a video completion of all lines spoken by actors of diverse nationalities. Hypable isn’t the first news source to release a viral post about this topic. ![]() They addressed the historical accuracy of the films and why the subject of diversity matters within the Harry Potter franchise and the movie industry as a whole. ![]() ![]() Hypable recently posted an opinionated editorial on Fantastic Beast diversity–giving their reasoning for why the new movies series did not have to be all white. The controversy over the whiteness of the Harry Potter series, especially in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them films. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a funny, painful, touching, heartbreaking and ultimately optimistic view of life as a teenager coming to grips with his sexuality. But, they’re in Boise, for God’s sake, and that just doesn’t work. This, of course, is the worst thing possible, even though they somehow know it shouldn’t be. ![]() Then, not quite simultaneously, but almost, Niko and Tommy kind of realize that they’re into each other. Their lives are not free of strife and family drama, but they’re playing the game the way they think they’re supposed to, and so far they’re making a good job of it. In fact, both Niko and Tommy are good guys. Neither is Thomas Chu, the jock who’s been Niko’s best friend since childhood in Boise, Idaho. The thing about Niko Savic, the central figure of this ensemble-cast romantic drama/comedy, is that he’s sort of a 21st-century Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye), except for one thing. This book I really loved, almost without reservation.* Ah, I read “Mickey and the Chickadee” in 2016, and sort of loved it (four stars) but had a few moments of confusion about the young author’s verbiage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But, I pray you, who is his companion? Is there no young squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil ? MESSENGER He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio. BEATRICE No an he were, I would burn my study. ![]() MESSENGER I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books. MESSENGER Is't possible? BEATRICE Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat it ever changes with the next block. Who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother. In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one: so that if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse for it is all the wealth that he hath left, to be known a reasonable creature. ![]() There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her: they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them. LEONATO You must not, sir, mistake my niece. BEATRICE It is so, indeed he is no less than a stuffed man: but for the stuffing,-well, we are all mortal. BEATRICE And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord? MESSENGER A lord to a lord, a man to a man stuffed with all honourable virtues. ![]() ![]() ![]() But she’s about to learn that Wisewood won’t let either of them go without a fight. Panicked, Natalie hurries north to come clean to her sister and bring her home. Six months later, Natalie receives a menacing email from a Wisewood account threatening to reveal the secret she’s been keeping from Kit. Natalie thinks it’s a bad idea, but Kit has had enough of her sister’s cynicism and voluntarily disappears off the grid. But the rules are for a good reason: to keep guests focused on achieving true fearlessness so they can become their Maximized Selves. During this time, they’re prohibited from contact with the rest of the world-no Internet, no phones, no exceptions. On a private island off the coast of Maine, Wisewood’s guests commit to six-month stays. She told Natalie she was sure there was something more out there. ![]() The last time they spoke, Kit was slogging from mundane workdays to obligatory happy hours to crying in the shower about their dead mother. Natalie Collins hasn’t heard from her sister in more than half a year. ![]() We’ll keep your secrets if you keep ours. From the national and USA TODAY bestselling author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters-one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A former boxer, Sam decided to leave the sport when he almost killed a man, and then his protegé died in the ring. No matter how much his brothers try to get him out, he stews in misery as he watches his staff leave. He refuses to give up his house, and becomes a recluse. Instead, Hartley is shunned from society. There is 100% truth in this gossip, but thankfully the son doesn’t have definite proof that would criminally prosecute Hartley. But when his godfather dies, and Hartley inherits his house, the godfather’s son, who was overlooked in the inheritance, starts to release salacious gossip about Hartley – that he admires men, not women. Hartley Sedgwick took London drawing rooms by storm with his good looks and easy charm. I don’t think I’ve ever read Cat Sebastian and shame on me! I really enjoyed her voice in this one – she gives us two characters that will make you smile and warm your heart. A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian (Seducing the Sedgwicks #2) ![]() ![]() Author Robert Stone, a "master of a certain kind of paranoid fiction", was a primary influence on the novel. Gibson heard the term " flatlining" in a bar around twenty years before writing Neuromancer and it stuck with him. ![]() John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981) was an influence on the novel Gibson was "intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake 'You flew the Gulfire over Leningrad, didn't you?' It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF, where a casual reference can imply a lot." The novel's street and computer slang dialogue derives from the vocabulary of subcultures, particularly "1969 Toronto dope dealer's slang, or biker talk". The themes which he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome" (1982) and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic" (1981) laid the foundations for the novel. ![]() ![]() Prior to the composition of Neuromancer, Gibson had written several short stories for prominent science fiction periodicals – mostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low-life protagonists in near-future encounters with cyberspace. ![]() ![]() Of the two bears in the local police, Chief Theodore Meade is as usual out past his depth, and the paw prints at the crime scene have led Deputy Orville Braun to arrest crooked raccoon Lefty, who’s obviously innocent of this particular crime. ![]() Tracing the bottle to its likely source, the Bamboo Patch vegetarian restaurant, she learns from owner Sun Li, a giant panda with a medical background, that the likely agent was heartstill, a little of which goes a long way. The mystery deepens when Solomon Broadhead, the adder who serves as Shady Hollow’s medical examiner, announces that Otto has been poisoned as well, presumably by something introduced into the bottle of plum wine foxy reporter Vera Vixen found near his body. Nobody much liked Otto Sumpf, but nobody can imagine who disliked the toad enough to stab him in the back and dump him into a pond. ![]() ![]() Under the fig-leaf Black pseudonym, newcomers Jocelyn Cole and Sharon Nagel introduce an animals-only village in which members of many species coexist, except when they’re killing each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() But eventually a sort of amnesia had overtaken Susan her rebellion and hurt had melted away, deliquesced into a sweet, eternal sunniness that was terrible in the way that life would be terrible, Ted supposed, without death to give it gravitas and shape. Susan was baffled at first, then distraught she’d hit him twice across the face she’d run from the house in a thunderstorm and slept at a motel she’d wrestled Ted to the bedroom floor in a pair of black crotchless underpants. ![]() His desire was so small in the end that Ted could slip it inside his desk or a pocket and forget about it, and this gave him a feeling of safety and accomplishment, of having dismantled a perilous apparatus that might have crushed them both. Then in half again, so he hardly felt it. Then in half again, so that feeling desire entailed no immediate need to act. Then he’d folded it in half again, so when he felt desire for Susan, it no longer brought with it an edgy terror of never being satisfied. ![]() “Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half, so he no longer had a drowning, helpless feeling when he glimpsed her beside him in bed: her ropy arms and soft, generous ass. ![]() |