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1. You’re wearing pajamas—not sexy or cute ones.
2. When a friend visits, you’re drinking a beer on the couch.
3. You’re not wearing makeup.
4. You don’t really feel like going to the party. When you do, you feel awkward and alienated, and you leave early.
5. You’re wearing baggy sweat clothes (but not training for a boxing match).
6. Your apartment is messy.
7. You’re smoking a cigarette.
8. You don’t really feel like going to the party. When you do, you drink too much and jump up on the coffee table to sing a song, and everybody’s awkwardly amused, except your one irritatingly earnest friend who’s concerned about you.
9. Your hair is not styled in any particular way. It’s not perfectly straight and shiny, or fixed into an updo, or big and bouncy. It’s just sort of limp and wavy.
10. One shirttail is untucked in the front.
11. You bring a six-pack of beers to a friend’s house and crack one open right away when you get there.
12. No one’s heard from you in a while, maybe three days.
13. You didn’t shave, and you have a bit of stubble (face or legs).
14. You’re watching television.
So, back on March 16th I wrote an article about the Chinese brokered Iran-Saudi Arabia peace deal. At the end of the article I wrote:
I am most interested to see if this will mean some sort of peace can be worked out in Yemen, or if it means the Iranians will abandon the Houthis, which would be sad.
Turns out peace with Yemen was almost certainly part of the deal:
Saudi Arabia has decided to end the war in Yemen . A Saudi delegation will travel to Sana’a next week to conclude an agreement with Yemen, Reuters reported
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McCarthy was the highest-level US official to meet with a Taiwanese president since the 1979 diplomatic shift.
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Only the Pentagon could make Florida Republican Matt Gaetz sound like a sober, reasoned voice on U.S. foreign policy.
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We must not allow our movements for justice to be silenced by laws that criminalize dissent.
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- by Ha-Joon Chang
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The Pentagon and intel chiefs are in a tizzy over a major documents leak. How serious is it?
We run down wages, workforces, and rent hikes. Illustrated by Kay Sohini.
You hear about this guy? You hear what he did now?
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A STRANGE feathered friend surprised local Coffs Coast birders last week, giving them a very unusual sighting for our area. On Wednesday 22 March Ellany Whelan and Cheryl Cooper were walking and peering as birders do, and suddenly saw the bird in a patch of bushland near Howard Street in Coffs Harbour. Advertise with News...
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