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| OK, so I said Happy Lunar New Year yesterday because it had already started in Asia. So, I get to say it again! Happy Lunar New Year! |
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| By Thuan Le Elston |
| As we welcome the Lunar New Year on Tuesday, let's give a collective hug to the Year of the Ox because in the past year, COVID-19 vaccinations allowed our family and friends to hug again. I'm not even a hugger, but I shamelessly and desperately went a little crazy reuniting with loved ones. |
| Because Lunar New Year is tied to the year's first new moon, it starts anytime from mid-January to mid-February. Last year, the holiday fell on Feb. 12; this year it's Feb. 1. The Middle English word for fortune, chance, luck or lot was "hap" or "happe." From it comes haphazard, hapless, happenstance, perhaps. If you've experienced more good luck than bad, you're happy. |
| "Happy," then, like "lunar" has no chance of being constant. Unlike Jan. 1 of New Year's Day. |
| From my journal dated Jan. 1, 2020 – "What a major year (this) will be: three kids graduating; a presidential election; a family trip to Vietnam, we hope." |
| As poet Mary Oliver wrote, "What is so utterly invisible as tomorrow?" |
Today's Editorial Cartoon |
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| By Constance Royster and Kurt Schmoke |
| In 1970, Yale University's campus was one of many focal points of Black social and academic change – and tensions that had been building across the country over women's rights, the Vietnam War, the Black Panther movement and minority student representation came to a head on May Day of that year. |
| Demonstrators gathered in the college town of New Haven, Connecticut, to protest the trial of Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins and call for their release. The party leaders were being tried in the murder of fellow member Alex Rackley – a presumed FBI informant. |
| Yale wasn't the only academic institution that was met with protests that year – among the most talked about is Kent State, where four students were killed. But Yale stands out as a place where thousands of protesters gathered and their voices were heard without major physical violence. Ultimately the charges against Seale and Huggins were dropped, and Yale in the late 1960s and early 1970s became a model of racial progress. |
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| By David Mastio |
| Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has tough words for China's Olympic games. "No Olympics should be held in a country whose government is committing genocide and crimes against humanity," he wrote in a letter last year. |
| Rubio has backed his position with legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. |
| Since then he has gotten even tougher on the communist dictatorship, calling for the Olympics to be moved because of China's genocide against the Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang province. |
| That's one reason the American corporate sponsors of China's genocide Olympics are keeping a low profile as the Games begin. The sponsors don't pay China directly; their money goes to the International Olympic Committee to subsidize athletes from around the world, but without the sponsorships the Olympics couldn't go on in Beijing. And given that the decision to put the Olympics in China came in 2015, they've had plenty of time to find a way to back out. |
Other columns to read today |
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