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\nU. S. President in Poland: Donald Trump criticized Russia and affirmed his commitment to NATO\u2019s mutual-defense provision in a highly anticipated speech today in Warsaw. That affirmation may come as some relief to critics who worried its omission at the NATO summit in May signaled a withdrawal from global leadership\u2014yet as James Fallows writes, it emphasized racial and religious ties rather than democratic ideals. Trump gave a rambling answer at a press conference when asked whether he accepts that Russia interfered in his election. He also addressed North Korea\u2019s long-range missile test this week, saying the U. S. response could include \u201c some pretty severe things .\u201d
About That Response: Though Trump will discuss the North Korea crisis tonight with South Korean and Japanese allies, he\u2019s repeatedly pointed to China as the key to influencing the rogue state. At the same time, he\u2019s expressed frustration with China’s North Korea strategy, accusing Beijing of not exerting enough economic pressure. Trump\u2019s also getting bipartisan support for increased military pressure on Pyongyang\u2014but that plan risks escalating the problem. So, asks Peter Beinart, why won\u2019 t Democrats challenge Trump?
Meanwhile, in Washington: Walter Shaub, who\u2019s clashed repeatedly Trump over ethics issues related to the president\u2019s businesses, announced he will step down from his post as head of the Office of Government Ethics. As the Senate prepares to vote on Republicans\u2019 health-care legislation, liberal activists are working to sustain the public backlash against the bill. Ten Democratic senators from red states see opposition to Trump as the path to reelection\u2014while a book that predicted the president\u2019s rise suggests a slightly different path for the left.
Parul Sehgal on the art and activism of Arundhati Roy:
It may seem like the pamphleteer has subsumed the novelist. But Roy\u2019s enterprise is less dutiful than it sounds. There is no grudging marriage of art and politics in her work; as John Berger, one of her longtime interlocutors and a formative influence, wrote, \u201cFar from my dragging politics into art, art has dragged me into politics.\u201d Roy\u2019s work conveys a similar spirit. She is a great admirer of the world. Her strongest writing is always at the margins of the main story\u2014the pleasure of finding \u201can egg hot from a hen, \u201d or this passing detail from The God of Small Things: \u201cA thin red cow with a protruding pelvic bone appeared and swam straight out to sea without wetting her horns, without looking back.\u201d From the fine-grained affection that stirs her imagination springs an ethical imperative\u2014after all, how can one appreciate the world without desiring to defend it? And it must be defended not merely from war or political calamity, but from that natural, more insidious phenomenon: forgetting.
Keep reading here as Sehgal reviews Roy\u2019s latest novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness .
1. For drugs approved by the FDA between 1980 and 2000, it took an average of____________ years after approval to gather enough data to determine whether those drugs were safe for pregnant women to use.
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2. Princeton University\u2019s current project to promote women\u2019s mentorship on campus was prompted by a report that found the university had ____________ female student-body presidents over 29 years.
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3. Kesha\u2019s latest single is produced by ____________, who\u2019s also known for his work with Macklemore.
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Answers: 27 \/ four \/ Ryan Lewis
Our partner site CityLab explores the cities of the future and investigates the biggest ideas and issues facing city dwellers around the world. Adam Sneed shares three of today\u2019s top stories:
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Christopher Orr calls Spider-Man: Homecoming \u201cone of the best superhero movies in years.\u201d But this commenter is skeptical:
Given that this is the third attempt at this character, there\u2019s no excuse for them not to get it right. They should know by now what works and what doesn\u2019 t. But despite that, I just can\u2019 t get interested in yet another reboot of a character who feels like he’s been on movie screens for the last 20 years. The thing about reboots is that you have to have enough time in between for people to start asking for them. I don\u2019 t know anyone who was asking for a Spider-Man reboot. The whole idea of reboots has become a crutch for Hollywood. When a series goes bad, like it did with Superman or Batman, start over. Or when your actors become too expensive, like they did with the first Spider-Man movies, start over with cheaper actors. It sounds like this new Spider-Man will do well. But if the series goes bad, we know what\u2019 ll happen\u2014another reboot with yet another new actor. Sigh.
Read the review here \u2014or, if you too are sick of sequels, read David Sims on Hollywood\u2019s bad-movie problem .
Artifacts smuggled, fact-checks conceded, student teaches, ghost lingers .
Happy birthday to Abdurrehman\u2019s brother Abdurrafey (a year younger than Amazon) , Mary (the same age as the Drug Enforcement Administration) , Lori\u2019s aunt Darlys (the same age as Barbra Streisand) , Karen (a year younger than fiber-optic communication) , Patrick\u2019s daughter Kathleen (the same age as Serena Williams) , and from Alex to Matthew (a year younger than the Disney Channel) . And a happy belated birthday from Juan to his wife Ligia (a year younger than Barbie) .
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