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TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR<\/strong>. The Guardians and The War on Truth<\/a>. \u2018The story of this assault on truth is, somewhat paradoxically, one of the hardest to tell. \u201cWe all learned in our schools that journalists shouldn\u2019t be the story ourselves, but this is, again, not our choice,\u201d says Can D\u00fcndar, who, after being charged with revealing state secrets and nearly assassinated as a newspaper editor in Turkey, fled to Germany, where he set up a news site. \u201cThis is the world of the strong leaders who hate the free press and truth.\u201d<\/p>\n The Guardians\u2014Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo\u2014are TIME’s Person of the Year 2018 #TIMEPOY<\/a> t.co\/HvoEaW5oUi<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/9Mr0wBTmvj<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n NICK AYERS<\/strong>. A signal to Trump that the rats are abandoning ship?<\/a> \u2018Journalists weren\u2019t the only ones surprised by the Ayers development. It took many people in the White House unawares, including the President, it seems. The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u2019 Maggie Haberman\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ctwo people close to Mr. Trump said a news release announcing Mr. Ayers\u2019s appointment had been drafted, and that the president had wanted to announce it as soon as possible.\u201d Instead of showcasing as his new majordomo a blond, thirty-six-year-old Republican operative who has spent the past two years helping keep Pence out of any serious scrapes\u2014quite a feat in the Trump White House\u2014Trump was forced to engage in some Sunday-evening damage control.<\/p>\n BETO 2020?<\/strong> Speaking to prominent African-Americans<\/a>: \u201cIn the last two weeks, the soon-to-be-former Texas congressmen met with former President Barack Obama at his Washington office, a source familiar with the meeting confirmed to NBC News, and spoke by phone with the Rev. Al Sharpton and fellow 2018 progressive darling Andrew Gillum. The O\u2019Rourke-Obama meeting was first reported by The\u00a0Washington Post<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n RIP<\/strong>. Roger the buff kangaroo<\/a>.<\/p>\n IMPEACHMENT<\/strong>. Donald Trump now sees it as a real possibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n MOREHOUSE COLLEGE<\/strong>. Student accuses gay professor of sexual harassment<\/a>: \u2018Peterson continued to sexually harass the student and other Morehouse students throughout the trip, the lawsuit said. This included sending explicit text messages and making frequent comments about sex<\/a>. One of the text messages Peterson allegedly sent to students had a picture of a man<\/a>\u2019s penis<\/a>, which Peterson referred to as a \u201cshrimp salad\/dinner.\u201d He also repeatedly asked them \u201cif they wanted a shrimp dinner,\u201d the lawsuit said\u2026Peterson \u201cvehemently denied\u201d the allegations and insisted that \u201cthe students were saying these things about him because they didn\u2019t like the fact that he is gay<\/a>,\u201d according to the results of the investigation included in a court filing.\u2019<\/p>\n MEL REID<\/strong>. Pro golfer comes out as gay<\/a>: \u201cI fell in love with a girl<\/a> and I was excited about it, so I told my sister who was completely cool about it, and then my brother. My parents are older than most, but they couldn\u2019t have been better about everything.\u00a0They just assured me that as long as I love a good person, it doesn\u2019t matter what race, gender or background they come from.\u201d<\/p>\n SWANNING<\/strong>. Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black hit the ballet<\/a>.<\/p>\n HEADLINE FAIL OF THE DAY<\/strong>. Julia Roberts\u2019 holes. By the Jamestown, New York newspaper Post-Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n LEONARDO<\/strong>.\u00a0U.S. showrunner\u00a0Frank Spotnitz\u00a0and British writer\u00a0Steve Thompson speak to Variety about their new series about \u201cgay outsider\u201d Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s certainly a feature, but it\u2019s not the main pillar on which we are hanging it. Some of his relationships were with men<\/a>; those were significant relationships. But perhaps the most significant relationship in his life was with a friend who was a woman<\/a>, with whom he was very close, and we unpack that. So we are not steering clear of it\u2026.It\u2019s just part of the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n SURVIVAL VIDEO OF THE DAY<\/strong>. Timber the cat, found one month after California\u2019s Camp Fire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n BEETHOVEN OF THE DAY<\/strong>. Johnathan Brendle plays the Moonlight Sonata.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n TORSO TUESDAY<\/strong>. Wissen Dnlr.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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