○○○ Ben Zimmer ⪢⪢
Ben Zimmer writes about language for the Wall
Street Journal. He says, "There has been a lot of debate recently about something that has been in our language for centuries."
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○○○ Wuhan ⪢⪢
According to the Wall
Street Journal, an intelligence report said that three employees at this Wuhan lab for studying viruses were hospitalized in November 2019, a month earlier than the first reported cases of COVID-19.
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○○○ Bastille ⪢⪢
The wands of smoke are rising from the walls of the Bastille and through the
streets of Paris runs a sense of the unreal.
The Kings have all departed.
Their servants are no where.
We burned out their mansions in the name of Robespierre. #song #lyrics
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○○○ Paris ⪢⪢
The ghost of revolution still prowls the Paris
streets.
Down all the restless centuries it wanders incomplete.
It speaks inside the cheap red wine of Cafe summer nights.
Its red and amber voices call the cars at traffic lights. #song #lyrics
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○○○ Ottawa ⪢⪢
In Ottawa,
streets near Canada's parlament were quiet after a weekend police operation ended weeks of protests against pandemic restrictions. A police official said at least 191 people were arrested.
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○○○ crush ⪢⪢
And South Korea's police chief takes "heavy responsibility" for failing to prevent the crushing deaths of 154 people during a
street celebration Saturday in Seoul.
2022-11-01
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