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Jordan McNair: University of Maryland reaches $3.5 million settlement with football pla... - 0 views

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football player settlement

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  • The University of Maryland has reached a $3.5 million settlement with the family of Jordan McNair, the offensive lineman who died after suffering heatstroke during a team workout in 2018.
  • "We are focused on honoring Jordan's legacy so that his death was not in vain. This includes protecting student athletes of all levels of competition, increasing awareness, education, and prevention of all heat-related illnesses, empowering student athletes, and introducing legislation nationwide so that no parent should have to wait this long for closure where their child has been treated unfairly or unjustly,"
  • An independent medical report found several issues with his treatment, including failure to assess his vital signs, not having proper cooling devices and failure to recognize quickly he was having heat illness.
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  • "This has been a long and painful fight, but we will attempt to find closure even though this is a wound that will never, ever fully heal,"
  • the "university accepts legal and moral responsibility for the mistakes that our training staff made on that fateful workout day."
  • "This is not at all a reflection of my opinion of Coach Durkin as a person. However, a departure is in the best interest of the university,"
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Hot Pockets recalled over potential glass and plastic contamination - CNN - 0 views

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hotpockets recalled contamination

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  • NestlĂ© Prepared Foods is recalling certain pepperoni Hot Pockets over concerns they may be contaminated with pieces of glass and hard plastic,
  • health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death,"
  • There are four consumer complaints of extraneous materials inside the Hot Pockets, the Food Safety and Inspection Service said.
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  • Consumers who purchased the recalled product should throw it away or return it to the place of purchase, the Food Safety and Inspection Service said.
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Trump finishes with worst first term approval rating ever - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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trump approval rating

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  • Donald Trump's approval rating stands at 33%, while his disapproval is at 60%.
  • 38% approval rating and 59% disapproval rating.
  • It turns out that the insurrection at the US Capitol last week did exactly that.
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  • Heading into January, Trump had a 44% approval rating to 53% disapproval rating. That was not significantly different from his 45% approval rating going into the election.
  • It means Trump will be the first president in the polling era to end his first term with an approval of below 40%
  • He has certainly made Republican lawmakers less leery of distancing themselves from him.
  • Before Trump, the previous lowest approval rating for a president at the end of his term belonged to Jimmy Carter. He remains the only president besides Trump to finish his first term with an approval rating below 50%.
  • He did not try to reach out to Democrats, nor did he try to achieve non-partisan or bipartisan goals in his final two months.
  • What we do know is that Trump may have thought he could escape the post-election period without damage. He thought wrong.
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Man who accidentally threw out a bitcoin fortune offers $70 million for permission to d... - 0 views

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man offers fortune dig

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  • A British man who accidentally threw a hard drive loaded with bitcoin into the trash has offered the local authority where he lives more than $70 million if it allows him to excavate a landfill site.
  • held a digital store of 7,500 bitcoins,
  • he discovered that he had mistakenly thrown the hard drive out with the trash.
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  • They can then be used as payment, with every transaction being recorded in a public list known as blockchain.
  • "The plan would be to dig a specific area of the landfill based on a grid reference system and recover the hard drive whilst adhering to all safety and environmental standards,
  • they refused the offer and won't even have a face to face discussion with me on the matter."
  • Howells first discovered that the hard drive was missing when his bitcoin was worth around $9 million. Based on the current rates, he estimates it would be worth around $273 million.
  • "The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds -- without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order."
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Capitol riot investigation: 275 cases are open, US prosecutors say - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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capitol investigation cases

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  • US investigators have opened up 275 criminal cases and charged roughly 98 individuals in connection to last week's pro-Donald Trump riot at the US Capitol,
  • they are focused on rounding up the most violent offenders.
  • Some of the individuals who breached the Capitol intended to "capture and assassinate elected officials,"
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  • Law enforcement officials did not deny they are investigating allegations that Capitol Police and lawmakers were involved in the riot.
  • "we don't have any direct evidence of kill-capture teams,"
  • Some of the pro-Trump rioters who rampaged the Capitol were heard screaming "where's Mike Pence" and seen on video shouting "hang Mike Pence"
  • Authorities are investigating a growing number of current law enforcement officers who allegedly participated in the riots.
  • , if you are conducting or engaged in criminal activity, we will charge you and you will be arrested,"
  • Prosecutors have noted in court filings how several charged defendants have already spoken to investigators about the riot and how many have posted about their experience or footage they took of the riots on social media.
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Jack Dorsey: Twitter CEO says Trump ban was right but sets a 'dangerous' precedent - CNN - 0 views

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trump ban twitter

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  • Jack Dorsey has defended his company's decision to ban President Donald Trump,
  • "extraordinary and untenable" circumstances after Trump incited a riot at the US Capitol last week,
  • "I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter, or how we got here,"
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  • often arguing that as a public official, Trump must be given wide latitude to speak. But the riot at the Capitol led to a ban.
  • I feel a ban is a failure of ours ultimately to promote healthy conversation.
  • These actions were not coordinated, Dorsey said, but present a challenge for the tech industry.
  • Trump lost access to more than 88 million followers, and the move exposed the company to censorship complaints from Republicans
  • "This moment in time might call for this dynamic, but over the long term it will be destructive to the noble purpose and ideals of the open internet.
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Post Malone donating 10,000 of his sold-out Crocs to frontline workers - CNN - 0 views

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crocs frontline workers

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  • Frontline workers across the country are getting their hands on some Crocs many others cannot.
  • has announced that Grammy-nominated artist Post Malone is gifting 10,000 pairs of his sold out Duet Max Clog II Crocs to frontline workers at 70 hospitals across the country.
  • The shoes are well known for their comfortableness, and the Duet Max Clog II marks Malone's fifth collaboration with the company. They were released last month and like the proceeding pairs sold out in less than a day.
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Donald Trump just pushed Rudy Giuliani under the bus - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • In the wake of his second impeachment at the hands of the House on Wednesday, Trump told people around him to stop paying Giuliani's legal fees.
  • "Trump has been blaming his longtime personal attorney and many others for the predicament he now finds himself in
  • but has been left out of most conversations thus far."
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  • "Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job."
  • Trump, you see, is incapable of self-reflection. Or of accepting blame.
  • he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades
  • Rather than the face of America's resolve in the face of terrorism, Giuliani is now known as the steady presence at Trump's side
  • What's 60 lawsuits between friends people you owe money and refuse to pay!
  • The rise and fall of Giuliani would be tragic if the former mayor hadn't had so much agency in his demise.
  • That day has now come. But none of us -- least of all Giuliani -- should be surprised. This is who Trump is. This is what he does.
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Kevin Seefried, seen carrying Confederate flag inside Capitol during riot, arrested - CNN - 0 views

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Delaware ConfederateFlag capitol

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  • The FBI has arrested Kevin Seefried, seen carrying a Confederate flag inside Capitol Hill, according to a federal criminal complaint.
  • Seefried had been a focus of the FBI's efforts to get the public to help them identify riot participants.
  • Kevin Seefried told the FBI he had brought the Confederate flag with him to Washington from his home in Delaware,
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  • Many face criminal charges, and some have lost or left their jobs because of their participation.
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Jacksonville Jaguars hire Urban Meyer as head coach - CNN - 0 views

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Meyer Jaguars Football

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  • three-time national champion as a college football coach -- will now lead the Jacksonville Jaguars, the team announced Thursday.
  • "Urban Meyer is who we want and need, a leader, winner and champion who demands excellence and produces results
  • Meyer had a 187-32 record during head coaching stints at Ohio State, Florida, Utah and Bowling Green.
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  • That final season with the Buckeyes also was one with controversy. Meyer was suspended for three games without pay in the wake of an investigation into what he did about spousal abuse allegations against former assistant coach Zach Smith, the university said.
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Stimulus checks: Biden puts $2,000 payments back in play - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • A $2,000 stimulus check will be at the heart of a $2 trillion Covid relief plan that President-elect Joe Biden is set to unveil Thursday evening.
  • Congress included payments of $1,200 in its initial stimulus when shutdowns because of the coronavirus began last spring.
  • Current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected a standalone bill on increasing the value of the checks, but with Democrats about to take control of the chamber -- and of Congress -- following victories in two Georgia Senate runoff elections, Biden will likely have the votes to approve increased relief spending.Read More
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  • "Democrats wanted to do much more in the last bill and promised to do more, if given the opportunity, to increase direct payments to a total of $2,000,"
  • Undocumented immigrants who don't have Social Security numbers are ineligible for the payments
  • their spouses and children are now eligible as long as they have Social Security numbers.
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Opinion: Gaming the vaccine system to jump the line isn't fair - CNN - 0 views

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vaccine cnn system opinion

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  • the Department of Health and Human Services announced a change in its Covid-19 vaccine distribution plan, an effort step up the grossly insufficient number of vaccinations that have been administered to date.
  • the administration will now release all available doses of the vaccine.
  • well-connected friends and community members who have managed to get vaccinated against Covid-19, even though they meet no current criteria to join the front of the line.
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  • those at highest risk for getting sick from Covid-19, either because of their job or their underlying health status, should get first dibs.
  • These guidelines are supported by bioethical principles about the need to balance "priorities of minimizing societal disruption and preventing morbidity and mortality."
  • As a result, the system is open to manipulation
  • A first distribution option is to treat vaccination like a class list.
  • seniors lined up overnight to get the shot, putting their own health at risk for the chance to avert future infections.
  • This strategy clearly prioritizes those who are in-the-know, who have time to sit on hold, or who are willing (in the case of camping out overnight) to put their health at risk.
  • it's the conditions of scarcity that make fairness difficult to achieve.
  • Whether it's using the National Guard to assist in setting up vaccination centers, deploying mobile vans to access rural and urban populations, or working with community groups to increase uptake among at-risk populations, better is needed.
  • we must release all the available doses of the Covid-19 vaccines
  • To protect our communities, we must not be paralyzed by fairness -- or stop pursuing it.
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Opinion: The real key to winning this election - CNN - 0 views

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election cnn winning

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  • the ghosts seem to be turning out in large numbers to cast their ballots early.
  • The long lines are an important reminder that the 2020 election will be won or lost based on the ground game.
  • Voting restrictions (photo identification requirements, registration limits and more) that have been imposed in more than 25 states heighten the importance of obtaining as large a margin as possible.
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  • This election feels historic down to the bones.
  • This means that each party needs to make sure that every supporter has a clear voting plan if they have not already mailed-in their ballots.
  • Each party needs to do the better job selling the message that not voting is simply not an option.
  • We live in a passive, observational age where so much of our politics has turned into what we watch, hear, read, email and tweet.
  • The party that forgets to pay sufficient attention to the ground game is the one that will be rendered powerless come January 2021.
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Opinion: I've had it with interviewing Trump supporters who go off the deep end - CNN - 0 views

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Trump capitol cnn

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  • Or maybe you saw the one where a panelist told me he would believe Donald Trump over Jesus Christ.
  • The cries from right-wing politicians telling us we need to hear the feelings of Trump supporters are wearing thin, as is the idea that the mob at the Capitol was somehow "silenced" or "censored" for too long.
  • He left a "nasty note" for Nancy Pelosi and stole some of her mail. I guess he didn't know that's a federal crime. I'm not sure we should take any pointers from him either.
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  • , I don't think the arsonists and vandals who caused damage in Portland, Oregon and other cities last summer need to be listened to either
  • They broke windows, scaled walls, carried a Confederate flag into the Capitol Rotunda, defecated in the halls of the Capitol, killed a police officer, savagely beat another one with a pole holding an American flag and crushed yet another officer in a door while he screamed for help.
  • 73% of Republican voters believe there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election
  • A Pew poll finds that roughly 41% of Republicans who have heard of QAnon, a group that peddles the conspiracy theory that a ring of satanic pedophiles have taken over the US government, say QAnon is a good thing for the country.
  • I think the time for listening to present-day Trump supporters is over.
  • I think at this point the smartest thing the rest of us could do is no longer give warped Trump supporters a platform and no longer lend them our ears. It's time to turn off their microphones.
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Wuhan: Two WHO team members blocked from entering China over failed coronavirus antibod... - 0 views

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china covid19 cnn

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  • Two members of a World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic have been blocked from flying to China after failing a coronavirus antibody test.
  • IgM antibodies are among the earliest potential signs of a coronavirus infection,
  • False positives are also possible with such tests.
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  • Since November 2020, travelers flying into China have to show neg
  • had previously been tested and found negative for coronavirus multiple times,
  • "I have been in contact with senior Chinese officials and I have once again made clear that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team."
  • nothing is off limits
  • "We really need to have patience and not judge. It's meticulous work, it will take time,
  • the US would terminate its relationship with WHO,
  • "the investigation itself appears to be inconsistent" with its mandate.
  • As countries around the world struggle with new infection surges and outbreaks, China appears to be rebounding.
  • "more and more research suggests that the pandemic was likely to have been caused by separate outbreaks in multiple places in the world."
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Can America still promote democracy? Yes, and it should start with Ukraine - CNN - 1 views

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ukraine democracy america cnn

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  • strong democracy emerged badly damaged.
  • "The United States lost all the rights to pursue the democratic path and lost their rights to impose it on other countries,"
  • The images of mobs attacking sacred institutions of government or coup attempts are familiar to people living in states ruled by dictators and autocrats.
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  • Trump's administration has repeatedly attacked the rules-based multilateral system, on the basis that America has been shortchanged by unfair rules and a disproportionate burden of cost.
  • Ukraine.
  • . It remains an important country in an important region for the US, sitting as it does on the dangerous fault line between Putin's Russia and US-allied Europe.
  • Ukraine has been in crisis.
  • Ukraine needs American assistance
  • Trump has contradicted US policy.
  • "the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were."
  • If Biden wants to return to the source of all those ills, Ukraine is the place to start.
  • send an unambiguous signal to Putin that the US has Ukraine's back
  • The November election was anything but a mass repudiation of Trumpism and his America-first policies
  • Biden needs to act quickly to salvage America's reputation overseas, lest the void be filled by other world leaders less interested in the promotion of values we hold so dear.
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Opinion: Donald Trump is going home a loser - CNN - 1 views

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trump loser cnn

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  • There are killers, and there are losers.
  • Throughout his life, the President has seemingly operated with that conviction
  • the President has seemingly operated with that conviction
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  • if you don't screw the other guys, they sure as hell are going to screw you.
  • That's how Trump appears to have run his businesses -- burning bridges almost everywhere he's gone
  • Trump has routinely and scurrilously lied and sold his self-serving version of events and conspiracy theories.
  • No president, in the long history of our republic, has ever been impeached twice
  • Now five people are dead and our democracy wounded by the coup attempt the President of the United States incited in a las
  • There should have been more Republicans who crossed party lines
  • He will leave office within a week, not as an honored former president but as the disgraced and selfish provocateur of a seditious uprising.
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Amazon to invest $2 billion to build affordable housing in these three cities - CNN - 0 views

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amazon cnn housing

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  • Amazon is pledging to invest more than $2 billion over the next five years toward affordable housing in three cities where it has major operations.
  • Seattle, Nashville and Arlington, Virginia,
  • 5,000 employees each.
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  • "This new $2 billion Housing Equity Fund will create or preserve 20,000 affordable homes in all three of our headquarters regions
  • "It will also help local families achieve long-term stability while building strong, inclusive communities."
  • $567 million will go toward 1,300 affordable apartment
  • $381.9 million in loans
  • 1,300 affordable homes
  • $185.5 million
  • 1,000 affordable homes.
  • But backlash from community leaders and local government officials in Queens ultimately led Amazon to pull out of New York.
  • $125 million in grants to minority-led organizations
  • The fund will also give grants to government partners, like transit agencies and school districts, to help working families in those fields.
  • "Investments like those announced by Amazon that help preserve these existing buildings and maintain moderate rent levels are critical to local efforts that promote economic inclusion and support the stability and economic mobility of moderate- and low-income families."
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Transparent screens are the cool new tech trend - CNN - 0 views

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tech cnn tv

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  • you can also see right through them.
  • LG (LPL) unveiled a transparent TV with a screen you can see through when on or off.
  • While 8k TVs may be the next true big bump in screen resolution, many TV manufacturers use CES as a testing ground to tease new innovations.
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  • In August, Xiaomi started selling a 55-inch transparent TV with a mighty high $7,200 price tag.
  • Although transparent TVs seem like a cool-but-unnecessary technology, industry experts say they are something we could see more in public spaces soon.
  • "The major use case is going to be commercial for now,"
  • It's not unusual for companies to release technologies without a clear market for them
  • . Doing so is a way to gauge people's initial response and interest
  • LG's move to hide a transparent TV in a bed for its promotional video shows how the technology could find a home beyond public places
  • it can be placed like a space divider or against a large glass window, which will only look like glass when it is not in us
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Opinion: America was lucky to be saved by its democracy -- even if some don't realize i... - 0 views

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democracy america cnn

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  • America's extraordinary privileges of law and functionality seemed to sustain, even in a brief moment of collapse
  • Americans perhaps also took that for granted
  • not fear at the new unknown - dominated. Chaos normally follows disorder, but in the United States the cogs kept whirring.
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  • This short moment of ugly collapse should not lead Americans to dismiss the extraordinary eloquence and value of their system.
  • Wednesday's violence didn't really fit the conventional description of an "attempted coup"
  • It was uglier.
  • the departing President's supporters did not take over parliament and change the government. The army did not switch sides. The rightful winner of the last election is not in hiding
  • Yet remember, between horror at what a sense of privilege among a small mob can do, there is also a moment of hope. Values worked.
  • But when you woke up each morning in Donetsk, the system continued to fall apart. In Washington DC, the opposite was true.
  • Now is not a time for chest-thumping over American values that have slowly deteriorated for years to get to this point.
  • The singular reason the US system has advantages over its authoritarian rivals is that it is based on the open competition and truth of ideas.
  • Many perhaps taking for granted how lucky they are to live in a nation where such a staggering abuse of democracy can still be eclipsed by its virtues.
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