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Got to QBABM! Yesterday I almost made it but couldn't figure out tutti for the life of me despite usually getting that one.  At least we had team QB.

No luck on LB yesterday.  Maybe today!

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Oh lighten up, it's a bit of fun.

That cat has a good thing going -- a whole campus providing pets on demand.

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Back from Europe - great trip. Now off to a conference and hoping this tickle in my throat is just an allergy to my host's cat.

QBwHFIF (QB with Hint From Italian Friend) for tutti. LB jerk-kleptomania.

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I never finished SB yesterday! Looking at the answers, I missed barbarity, rarity, ribbit, and tutti. Today I am at genius with both pangrams.

LB: Again, I never got back to it, but probably never would have found kleptomania.

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Aiming for 13 pages today; hopefully more.

At the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, protesters wearing masks and sunglasses break into a building and order an employee to leave.

QuoteProtesters Stormed an Ex-Senator's Office and Demanded She Leave. She Refused.
Heidi Heitkamp was in her office at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics when protesters occupied the building.

QuoteFormer Senator Heidi Heitkamp was sitting in her second floor office at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, preparing to  appear on a television news show on Friday afternoon, when three pro-Palestinian protesters in masks and sunglasses burst in and ordered her to leave the building.

Ms. Heitkamp, the director of the institute and the only staff member left in the building, refused to go, slowing what had apparently been an effort to take over the building, the latest tactic in demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war that have taken place on the University of Chicago campus and across the country.

"They desperately wanted me out," Ms. Heitkamp recalled. "I told them, 'I'm not going to leave. This is our building.' And I planted my feet." She added, "I'm a stubborn old woman."

Ms. Heitkamp, who represented North Dakota as a Democrat in the Senate, said she tried to engage in a dialogue with the protesters about their goals and why they had targeted the institute, even as she heard others smashing furniture in other rooms.

"I was trying to find common ground," she said. "They kept saying, 'Aren't you worried about your safety?'"

The confrontation ended, she said, when campus police officers suddenly arrived and some protesters, who had brought a supply of bagels and water to last for an extended period, fled out of windows.

QuoteJeremy Manier, a university spokesman, said in a statement that protesters had tried to block the building's entrance, damaged property and ignored orders from law enforcement officials to leave.

QuoteMr. Axelrod and Ms. Heitkamp issued a statement later in the day, "We recognize protest as a time-honored part of the democratic process. But the occupation of buildings, destruction of property and impingement on the rights of others are not."

Whatever happened to "safe spaces" on campus and "trigger warnings"? They seem so outdated.

Quote from: Ancient Fellow on May 19, 2024, 03:50:38 AMCute cat. Reprehensible decision.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13433173/vermont-state-university-castleton-cat-honorary-doctorate.html

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QB. QB yesterday, with tartar as the last word.

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Cute cat. Reprehensible decision.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13433173/vermont-state-university-castleton-cat-honorary-doctorate.html