Posted on 29 Feb 2020 by Anthony Moretti

According to the Guardian,
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, meanwhile, said in a statement: “At a time of increased antisemitism in our country, including on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, we demand to know what steps Brooklyn College intends to take with regard to this display of antisemitism by members of its volleyball team. The ball is in their court.”
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Posted on 29 Feb 2020 by Anthony Moretti

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RT reports
Simonyan tweeted that three separate groups, each numbering about 10 hooligans, swooped on the flats of three agency’s employees, hurling threats and accusing them of betraying their homeland, Turkey, for doing journalistic work for the Russian outlet.
I have not yet found any Turkish media stories about these events.
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Posted on 29 Feb 2020 by Anthony Moretti

According to the Guardian,
The 54 UC Santa Cruz graduate students who received termination letters on Friday are just a fraction of the 233 graduate student instructors and teaching assistants who have refused to submit nearly 12,000 grades from the fall quarter since December.
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Posted on 29 Feb 2020 by Anthony Moretti

Yonhap notes that
South Korea reported a whopping 594 additional cases of the new coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the total infections here to 2,931 as the country intensified its anti-virus fight with a massive program of testing.
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Posted on 29 Feb 2020 by Anthony Moretti

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An open door
Opportunity for new memories
And the echo of another person’s laughter
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