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Haitis Lost Billions. The Root of Haitis Misery: Reparations to Enslavers. How a French Bank Captured Haiti. Invade Haiti, Wall Street Urged. The US Obliged. Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile. These were the top headlines in a sprawling package of articlestotaling tens of thousands of words and written primarily by four reporters, with the help of more than a dozen researchers in at least six locations on two continentsthat the New York Times published on Haiti over the weekend, under the rubric The Ransom. The package took the form of a slick multimedia production online and a special section in print, trailed on Sundays front page across four columns under a large illustration of plantations burning during the Haitian Revolution, when enslaved Africans won independence from French colonial rule.

Though the events of the illustration date to 1791, the package really picks up Haitis story in 1825, more than twenty years after it declared independence, when the French returned and demanded that Haiti give them reparations or else face a war, setting the stage for decades of debt and exploitation. For years, as New York Times journalists have chronicled Haitis travails, a question has hovered: What if? What if the nation had not been looted by outside powers, foreign banks and its own leaders almost since birth? How much more money might it have had to build a nation? the paper asked. For more than a year, a team of Times correspondents scoured long-forgotten documents languishing in archives and libraries on three continents to answer that question, to put a number on what it cost Haitians to be free. The paper concludedand fourteen experts agreedthat the payments have cost Haiti at least twenty-one billion dollars in lost growth, and quite possibly much more. The Times described the story as a whole as rarely taught or acknowledged, and claimed that leading historians viewed its efforts to calculate the payments as a first. Monica Drake, a Times editor, described the package as investigative journalism, the documents are just really old.

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Alongside the package, the Times published at least two articles explaining how it came together, one of which offered an extensive, though not exhaustive, methodology and bibliography that itself came to five thousand or so words. Newspapers dont normally do this, Catherine Porter, a reporter on the series, said, but we thought it was important. The paper is also now running a live blog detailing the international reaction to, and impact of, the package. A French bank highlighted by the Times as having exploited Haiti said that it would hire researchers to investigate its history in the country, with the head of its parent company decrying a very sad illustration of the meaning of colonization. The Times also relayed reaction in Haitiwhere radio hosts discussed the package at length and a leading newspaper splashed the findings on its front pageand across the diaspora. The paper translated the package into both French and Haitian Creole, explaining that the latter step, a first for the Times, was particularly significant given the languages dominant yet often stigmatized status in Haiti. It published a piece about the reaction under the headline, Haitian Creole Speakers Welcome The Ransom Translation.

Interestingly, the Times reaction blog also noted less positive reactions to the package among some historians, who took issue not with its historical content but with the way it was framedarguing, in essence, that the paper presented the roots of Haitis present-day poverty as a mystery that its reporters had just solved, without giving sufficient credit to the many historians, many of them people of color, whove been researching the topic for years. The Times quoted Mary Lewis, a Harvard historian who said that the paper hadnt credited her for putting the paper in touch with sources, and Paul E. Cohen, a University of Toronto historian who noted, among other observations, that the papers bibliography was partial and framed in a way that functions to legitimate the journalists claims about the originality and importance of their work. The Times pointed in response to the extensiveness of the bibliography and the uniqueness of its calculation. (Interestingly, the paper also noted, some way into the package, that the total figure it reached was surprisingly close to the very precise amount that Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a former Haitian president, demanded in reparations in 2003, before he was ousted by France and the US.)

Like most historical discussions themselves, the debate as to how journalists ought to credit historians (and vice versa) is not new. (Indeed, the Times described its package as having rekindled the debate.) Views on the matter conflict sharply, but it strikes me that a case-by-case approach is probably best, with the extent of attribution owed depending on factors such as the terms on which a given historian has agreed to engage with a given journalist, the originality of the formers thesis, and the centrality thereof to the latters article. Very deeply reported worka standard to which we should all aspireis usually the tip of an iceberg of detail that would, if included, often serve to weigh down narrative structure and even basic factual clarity, doing the reader a disservice. As various observers have pointed out, academic-style citations typically arent tenable in journalism. Still, there are ways, these days, for journalists to ensure at least a degree of attributionlike hyperlinks, as my CJR colleague Mathew Ingram pointed out in this hyperlinked tweetthat dont infringe on their precious copy. Ironically, the Times bibliography laudably went far beyond this bare minimum, and its a little baffling to me, given its existing level of detail, why it didnt carry on to cite every source the Times consulted. (The Times also deserves to be lauded, to an extent, for quoting some of its critics tweets, especially in light of its recent, dismissive-sounding stance on online feedback. But I digress.)

If all this ties into a much broader industry debate about attribution to experts, it also ties into long-standing industry gripes about the Times, specifically, and its track record of prominently crediting the work of other journalists, with something like them at issue again here; Michael Harriot, for example, pointed to his past coverage for The Root headlined As Haiti Burns, Never Forget: White People Did That. Politicos Jack Shafer tweeted yesterday that the genuine scrimmage isnt journalists vs. historians but the New York Times vs. everybody else, elaborating in a column that no subject exists or matters until it receives the Times treatmentthats the papers code. The Haiti package is only the latest expression of this mindset. (Though Shafer, too, noted that broader industry dynamics are at play here.)

As I see it, the most interesting and complicated issue at stake here doesnt involve the relationship between historians and journalists, but between history and journalism, as disciplines. The former, fundamentally, is seen as being expansive and about the past, whereas the latter concerns whats new, often tied to a rigid news peg; their demands are different and thus rightly draw on different practices, as I wrote eighteen months ago, amid another Times-driven controversy. But the two disciplines arent conceptually separable either, given how deeply the past informsor should informour understanding of the present, and excellent journalism can form a bridge between the two, as the Times itself did with its 1619 Project asserting the centrality of slavery to the American story. Even that project had a pegthe four hundredth anniversary of the first enslaved Africans arriving in Virginiabut it didnt claim to be new scholarship, as Nikole Hannah-Jones, its lead journalist, noted over the weekend. What the project achieved, she said, was helping to usher a particular understanding into the culture.

It seems to me that we have to work to do, as an industry, to better define the boundaries of this type of engagement. As various journalists argued with regard to the Haiti package, the idea that a story must say something new in order to be news, while generally a good principle, is inflexible as a hard rule. At the very least, we could expand our definition of the news peg beyond new facts, seeing broad current problems as an opportunity to scrutinize how they came to be. The Haiti package certainly does contain some important new facts, but its much greater service, in my view, lies in focusing global attention on a shameful chapter of history with an ongoing legacy that many readers dont understand. (Old facts are usually new to someone.) The packages more sweeping claims of originality, in this light, werent just contrived, but also unnecessary. We need more nuanced understandings of how to slot the past into our present stories, beyond mirroring round-number dates and straining the boundaries of novelty.

As a global and growing news juggernaut, the Times, perhaps more than any other outlet, has the resources to commit to seriously ambitious historical storytelling, and the reach to put it in front of readers and open up debates, both old and new. With that global dominance, though, should come a responsibility to be a generous and humble steward of such debates. Again, the bibliography the Times published here was a step toward that. But its not a misunderstanding that the way it presented the package rankled so many people to such an extent.

If theres a timing problem with the Haiti package, it isnt any want of a current news peg, but the fact that its taken so much time for such a clear-eyed way of seeing the legacies of slavery and colonialism to routinely get such extensive treatmentand here, the Times is not a lone offender. The originality framing is not only not true, but also allows the NYT to be self-satisfied that its doing incredible work. It means you dont ask what took you so long? Kendra Pierre-Louis, a former Times journalist who is now at Gimlet, wrote over the weekend. What took them so long is white supremacy. White supremacy is why we expect a Black country founded in revolution and self-determination to be poor, so predominantly white institutions dont have to look at how they helped create that poverty.

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Wednesday will mark the 100th trading day of 2022, a year that will likely be remembered for its historic market turbulence as the megacap tech stocks that had dominated the market for so long collapsed in what has been the most punishing retrenchment since the dot-com bust.

And with stocks mired deep in the red once again following a painfully short-lived bounce, the main U.S. benchmarks on Wednesday were set to finalize what has been among the worst starts to a year in market history.

According to Dow Jones Market Data, the S&P 500 SPX, -0.81% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.15% are on track for the worst first 100 trading days since 1970. And for the Nasdaq-100 NDX, -2.20%, its the worst ever.

After years of outperformance, the Nasdaq COMP, -2.35% has traded essentially straight lower for the last two months, losing nearly a quarter of its value with only a handful of brief but powerful rallies breaking up the relentless selling. Since March, the index has seen five countertrend rallies of 4% or more, according to Matt Weller, a market technician who studies near-term technical trends.

Analysts have blamed all the usual suspects: the inescapable burden of inflation, which taxes a companys future earnings, cheapening their value in the present. The hawkish Federal Reserve, which has been content to stand back and refrain from intervening to try to slow or reverse the bloodletting. And of course the war in Ukraine, which has contributed to higher food and energy prices, and shutdowns in China, which has wreaked more havoc on fragile global supply chains.

See: Markets are imploding because the Fed isnt doing its job, says billionaire investor Bill Ackman

For investors who are considering whether to reach out and try to snatch a falling knife, theres plenty of context that could help to put the 2022 selloff in perspective.

For example, Ryan Detrick of LPL Financial recentlypointed out that historically, midterm election years are tough for markets. U.S. stocks have lost more than 17% on average peak-to-trough. On average, the market bottoms during these years occur later in the year.

Shifting to discuss some historical points of interest for the S&P 500, the supremely popular U.S. equity benchmark, its worth noting that the index has been down for seven consecutive weeks this year, a streak seen just three other times in history: during 2001, 1980 and 1970.

In terms of volatility, the market has also been extremely interesting this year: the S&P 500 hasposted intraday swings of 2% or more on almost 40% of the days so far in 2022.

The pace of the selloff, and the impression that the U.S. economy will slide into a recession some time next year have inspired a gloomy outlook on markets. Few, if any, market bulls have come forward to call a bottom. And theres plenty of data to warrant caution.

Before the markets most recent attempt at a post-correction rebound faded on Tuesday, a team of analysts at Jefferies produced a note to clients analyzing forward returns for the S&P 500 a year after periods of historical losses to test the conventional wisdom that selloffs like these often reward courageous dip buyers.

In the note,the analysts examinedperiods wherethe S&P 500 had dropped 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% from its previous high. Using market data dating back to the 1950s, the analysts found that, historically speaking, U.S. stocks typically dont recoup their losses within a year, unless the indexes clear the 25% selloff mark.

Perhaps this is one reason why professional money managers remain so cautious. Bank of Americas most recent Global Fund Managers survey showed that over the past month fund managers have increased their cash position by 5%, reaching the highest level in 20 years in May. Recent surveys have also confirmed the gloomy atmosphere by showing that a gauge of financial market risk is at its highest level since Merril Lynch started the survey, with fund managers expecting slowing economic growth and rising rates to continue to weigh on stocks.

Thats not to say there arent some bulls left. Ateam of JP Morgan analysts recently told clients that up to $250 billion ofrebalancing flows away from bonds and into equitiescould trigger another brief rebound in stocks before the end of the second quarter.

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Kennedys and Reagans first ladies were both tightly encircled by gay courtiers, though loyalty in both directions could easily waver. Kirchick writes of Nancy Reagan: Her own persona is inescapably, irrepressibly gay, embodied by the retinue that designed, dressed, escorted, entertained, flattered, housed, humored, pampered, styled and titillated her.

The grimness of AIDS, though, was simply incompatible with the administrations message that it was morning again in America. One of the starker documents in Secret City is a draft of the presidents statement when his prominent friend Rock Hudson died of the disease, the word profoundly scribbled out before saddened, along with the line we will miss him greatly. Kirchick also reproduces in full a long, poignant letter from Bob Waldron, loyal aide to Lyndon B. Johnson, to the friend who betrayed his confidences about his sexuality and ruined his career.

Secret City is a luxurious, slow-rolling Cadillac of a book, not to be mastered in one sitting. It would be best read at the violet hour with a snifter of brandy in a wood-paneled library, one of those with a rolling ladder to bring down some of the faded midcentury best-sellers resurfaced in these pages, like Vidals The City and the Pillar the narrative perks up considerably whenever this contentious, urbane writer arrives on the premises Washington Confidential, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer (1951), with its fabled Garden of Pansies; and Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury (1959), which won a Pulitzer and was made into a movie by Otto Preminger.

Its also a Baedeker of important places (map included): the rollicking Chicken Hut bar where Teboe met his murderers; the Fruit Loop of theDupont Circle pickup scene that developed in the 1960s; the Cinema Follies, the pornographic theater where nine men died in a 1977 fire; the gay corner of the Congressional Cemetery; and, more hopefully, the Lambda Rising bookstore.

This is overwhelmingly a gallery of the white male gaytriarchy, with lesbians and people of color mostly on the sidelines. And Kirchick seems to run out of gas toward the end, as the gay situation improves. Though he addressed the defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act in a triumphalist essay for The Atlantic in 2019 that drew ire from some on the left, theres only the briefest mention of it here; nothing about the presidential candidacy and subsequent cabinet appointment of Pete Buttigieg; little about the rise of the L.G.B.T.Q. rainbow. But as an epic of a dark age, complex and shaded, Secret City is rewarding in the extreme.

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In late October of 1917, while reports of death on a monstrous scale in World War I dominated the front pages of Limas newspapers, a woman who had been under the countys care since the Civil War passed away almost unnoticed.

Miss Mollie Sharp, aged 78 years, died at the Allen County Infirmary last night after an illness of 40 years. Miss Sharp went to the infirmary nearly 55 years ago, when a young woman, and helped clear away the woods where the buildings are now located, The Lima News reported Oct. 26, 1917.

With no living relatives, a brief service was held at the infirmary, and Sharp was laid to rest at the county cemetery, the newspaper wrote.

Sharp had been a resident of the Infirmary for nearly as long as the institution existed. Approved by the county in February 1857 as a place for the countys indigent, the Infirmary opened in 1859 on Ada Road in Bath Township.

A few days ago we visited the County Infirmary, for the first time since its opening, and were shown over the premises, Limas Weekly Gazette reported in July 1859. The farm, with a little management, will, we think, prove a good one. There is this season, under cultivation, 32 acres of corn, 21 acres of wheat, 9 or 10 acres of oats, besides a couple of acres potatoes, and garden stuffs sufficient for the institution.

Over the years, the Ada Road institution housed the sick and destitute, prisoners, orphans, the physically and mentally disabled and the insane. Which category Sharp fit into is not known.

In the early 1960s, the old red brick building Sharp had lived in for so long was razed and replaced by a white, concrete structure. Thirty years later, Allen County leased the site to a private healthcare company. It has been vacant since about 2010 and became a target for thieves and vandals. The roof collapsed years ago. In April of this year, the county announced the 62,000 square-foot building at 3125 Ada Road would be demolished and, along with the 70 acres of surrounding, county-owned farmland and woods, redeveloped.

The original infirmary building itself was part of a working farm, with many of the residents tending the surrounding fields as well as the hogs and cows kept in two large barns. Other residents worked in the gardens or in housekeeping. Two large, red barns, which today are part of the Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District, were part of the Infirmary farm.

During Sharps more than half a century there, the infirmary was enlarged several times and was at one time the focus of a bitter political feud. The Allen County Republican reported in September 1889 the county had approved building a one-story insane asylum on the grounds.

This is certainly a good move, as the quarters where the hopeless insane of our county have been kept in the Infirmary building has been entirely too inadequate, and to care for them properly was almost an impossibility, the newspaper noted.

In the early 1890s, the county decided to build a separate childrens home in Shawnee Township. In early April 1893, the children, described as the outcasts and the friendless by the Allen County Republican-Gazette, were moved from the Infirmary to their new home.

H.B. Cores big wagon and two others brought them the seven miles, the newspaper wrote. It was an interesting sight to see them. The boys were on the tip toe of expectancy standing with hats in hand gazing anxiously around long before the place was reached.

In January 1913, supervision of the Infirmary as well as the Childrens Home, which had been under the auspices of the state, was placed under the county commissioners. Even with three Democratic commissioners Beech Graham, Enos Huffer and Arthur Fisher a political feud developed almost immediately.

Initially, Delbert McBride was handed the infirmary superintendents post, but David E. Baxter, a local Democratic Party bigwig, decided he had a better man for the job his cousin, Jacob C. Baxter. Commissioners Graham and Huffer were convinced by Baxter to support his cousin, while Fisher stuck with McBride and vowed to fight the re-election of Graham and Huffer, who hoped McBride would go quietly. He didnt.

Alleging McBrides short tenure was rife with mismanagement, Graham and Huffer voted to dismiss him in December 1913. McBride, however, refused to be dismissed, and the county briefly had two infirmary superintendents. The mess was turned over to the courts, which, after holding several contentious hearings, decided McBride had to go. He finally did in March 1914, although by then the political careers of all involved were well on their way to ruin.

In 1921, the name of the Infirmary was changed to the Allen County Home.

By that time, residents were predominantly the older people who could not care for themselves either physically or financially, The Lima News noted.

By 1961, the Allen County Home was showing its age and, despite the yeoman efforts of superintendent Floyd Jett and his wife, Ruth, the homes matron, the more-than-100-year-old structure was a nightmare to keep clean and safe as the number of residents increased. Walter O. Seiling, chairman of a committee formed to push for passage of a bond issue to finance a new home, wrote in The Lima News that the home was antiquated, a fire trap and a hazard in the community it has steep and narrow stairways and not enough fire escapes. If it ever caught fire, wed never be able to rescue all the people.

The community agreed a new home was needed, passing the bond issue handily. In late November 1963, with the new white brick home on the verge of opening, Mrs. Jett expressed her relief.

Within a month, Mrs. Floyd Jett, matron of the Allen County Home, can forget her big fear of the past 15 years, the Lima Citizen wrote Nov. 26, 1963. Residents will be moved soon into the bright and tidy new concrete and block fireproof home. And Ill worry about fires no more, says Mrs. Jett.

The new $875,000 home was ready for occupancy as the new year of 1964 began.

Now the 55 patients at the County Home will move into a modern, well-heated, well-equipped building complete with hospital wing and medical facilities, the Toledo Blade wrote Jan. 15, 1964. With a capacity of 135, the new home should provide for Allen Countys aged for some time, but matron Mrs. Ruth Jett says the building could be filled almost immediately.

In 1972 the Allen County Home was renamed the Allen Inn, and The Lima News columnist Hope Strong paid a visit.

Spending a day at the home is an eye-opener a far, far cry from the stereotype poor house. Individual and public rooms are in bright and cheerful colors. Many of the residents have favorite chairs, lamps and treasured accessories decorating their rooms, Strong wrote Oct. 8, 1972.

The Allen Inn became the Allen County Healthcare Center in 1988. Five years later, the county, concerned about the increasing expense of running the home, leased the building to Plus Management Services. The building would remain a private care facility until 2007. It was subsequently used as housing for nearby OSU-Lima until about 2010.

An undated postcard shows residents working around the old Allen County Home. The home was part of a working farm, and residents tended crops as well as livestock. In August 1891, the Allen County Democrat wrote that threshing had yielded 1,183 bushels of wheat, enough to run the institution over a year (and) a half, with the same quota of inmates as last winter, 135.

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2021: Latest mock draft has Red Sox selecting Jack Leiter; This seemed like the best-case scenario at the time. Little did we know how things would actually go.

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2014: Is 2014 a bridge year for the Red Sox?; The bridge would last two years, but it led to a good place.

1957: Ted Williams sparks some controversy as, on an off-day, he shot 35 pigeons with a shotgun while sitting on the bench in the Fenway bullpen.

Happy 49th birthday to Bartolo Coln, who has become something of a legend among baseball fans in general for his build and long career, but for Red Sox fans is not so well loved after just straight-up left the team back in 2008.

Happy 44th birthday to Brad Penny, who had a couple of All-Star caliber seasons with the Dodgers in the late 2000s, but struggled in his one season in Boston.

Many thanks to Baseball-Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History for assistance here, and thanks to Battery Power for the inspiration for these posts.

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In February, season two of HBOs teen drama Euphoria reached a climax. Well, if that makes me a villain, proclaimed an unrepentant Cassie Howard, then so fucking be it. This much-memed line encapsulates popular cultures preoccupation with baddies, from Netflixs endless scammer series to Disneys villain origin stories. Social media is pretty much a conveyor belt of villainy, too, with different echo chambers picking their own adversaries. Meanwhile, famous young women such as Britney Spears, who were once demonised, are now being reappraised as victims. And with hindsights perfect vision, its clear that plenty of characters in TV and film were not the actual villain either.

We seem to be more accepting of some baddies than others. History is littered with famous probably-gay villains, from Alexander the Great to Roy Cohn, Senator McCarthys chief counsel and Trumps favourite lawyer. But unlike LGBTQ+ heroes such as Alan Turing or Audre Lorde, they are seldom remembered or claimed as gay. The question of why that should be the case is the starting point of Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. The books central argument is that, if we are to fully understand how todays gay identities evolved, the lives of villains the most deceitful, criminal, manipulative and power-hungry gay people are just as important as those of gay heroes such as Oscar Wilde.

Bad Gays is a continuation of the duos podcast of the same name, which profiles the evil and complicated queers in history such as Ernst Rhm, the worlds first out gay politician a Nazi and J Edgar Hoover, the FBI director who helped harass political dissidents and gay government employees and was posthumously outed by his friend, Broadway star Ethel Merman. We want to address our history and how gay identity came to be, Lemmey says. But if were ever going to understand our sexual identity in a way that is based around solidarity and friendship, we need to discuss gay people who were devious and ruthless, too.

The podcast began in 2019 when Lemmey, a Welsh author and film-maker, and Miller, a writer and historical researcher, were introduced to each other by friends. While recording the podcast, we found that there were recurring themes, says Lemmey. We kept coming back to colonialism, race and the creation of the white homosexual identity. And also the same disclaimer, which was that concepts like gay and homosexual didnt really exist before 1860. That was when sexologists and early gay rights campaigners first coined the term homosexual, and began to conceive of homosexual and heterosexual as innate sexual identities.

The pair discuss these issues more deeply in the book. The text still has the irreverent swishiness of the podcast there is a reference to evil twinks in the first few pages. But a key difference is that the book tells a story about how white gay identity was formed, and is more focused on men, whereas the podcast which has had five series and almost 1m downloads now profiles an even mix of men and women. When we started the podcast, it was only about men, because the ethics of two cis men talking about villainous women were less clear, Miller says. We changed that partly because women and trans people kept getting in touch saying: We want to be part of these stories and we trust you to tell them.

Bad Gays starts with the story of perpetually horny Roman emperor Hadrian. Next we learn about King James, whose ascension to the throne of Scotland and England formed the United Kingdom. Jamess rule was defined by authoritarian laws, colonialism and misogynistic witch-hunts and by his attraction to athletic jousters half his age. The book unpacks how the gangster Ronnie Kray became an unironic icon of masculinity. And how the Hitler sympathiser and architect Philip Johnson came to influence the skylines of Americas cities more than any other. For us, its not about casting these figures aside and saying: They have nothing to teach us, Lemmey says. Its not fair to say these people are always monsters. Just like our heroes, villains are complicated there are hidden aspects of their lives that might explain their actions.

Rejecting an apolitical approach to LGBTQ+ history and culture, and telling the story of how todays dominant white gay identity was formed, Lemmey and Miller explain how it can uphold systems that marginalise trans people, women, the working class and people of colour. While they are sympathetic to their subjects individually even the murderers they are much more critical of the white gay identity their legacies have helped to form. The authors argue for a dismantling of oppressive structures, rather than mere representation within them a philosophy similar to the gay liberation movements of the 1970s.

When I ask which figure best epitomises the book, Lemmey responds with Thomas Edward Lawrence. He is known as the impossibly blond hero Lawrence of Arabia, who we saw riding a camel across the desert screaming No prisoners! in David Leans 1962 cinema spectacular. But his kinky gay sexual awakening he detailed in his diaries regular thrashings administered by Jack Bruce, a member of the Scots Guards who later sold his story to the tabloids was entwined with imperialist philosophies that persist. His sexual desire towards colonised people was built out of both admiration and exploitation, Lemmey says. The way he used the figure of the colonised primitive was indicative of the types of white identity formation we discuss here. Like all of the books subjects, he was complicated.

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The Miami Heat didn't just struggle in the first quarter of Game 4 vs. the Boston Celtics. They had one of the worst starts to a playoff game in NBA history.

Miami shot 0-for-14 from the field to begin Monday night's Eastern Conference Finals matchup at TD Garden. It scored one point in the first eight minutes, marking the fewest points through the first eight minutes of a playoff game over the last 25 years.

The Heat didn't make their first shot until 3:22 remaining in the first quarter. That's the longest a team has gone without a field goal to start any postseason game in the last 25 years.

Boston outscored Miami 29-11 in the first quarter. That's the fewest first-quarter playoff points in Heat franchise history. Celtics star Jayson Tatum outscored the Heat on his own with 12 points in the first frame.

Miami shot 3-for-20 from the field in the nightmare first quarter. The Celtics, meanwhile, were 9-for-22 with Derrick White adding 10 points in place of the injured Marcus Smart.

The Celtics are looking to even the series at 2-2 before heading back to Miami for Game 5.

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The celebratory moment was pre-meditated for the South Carolina native as from an early age Zindzi was set on becoming a doctor.

I have always wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember, theres nothing else that I wanted to be, Zindzi said, according to News Channel 5.

Ten years later, Zindzi went to Mary Baldwin University in Virginia to obtain a four-year degree through a gifted program open to 20 women. Although the five-hour move was difficult for her parents, they refused to get in the way of their childs dream.

A big part of the process has been letting her go and achieve her goal. And thats been the hardest part. The academics for her and knowing that she was going to do it was easy, but not having your daughter through those years was the hard part, Samuel Thompson said to News Channel 5.

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Stanford is once again the top seed entering match play in the NCAA DI Womens Golf Championship. But, its hoping that history doesnt fully repeat itself.

A year ago at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Cardinal led the field through four days of stroke play, only to fall to Arizona in the quarterfinals of match play, 3-2.

Looking for redemption and with a second straight individual champion on its side Stanford finished stroke play this year at 9 over par. That was three shots better than second-seeded Oregon. No top seed has won the women's championship since match play was instituted in 2015. Stanford, however, won in '15 as a 4-seed.

The other teams to advance to the match-play portion of the championship were: Texas A&M (+14), UCLA (+17), Auburn (+23), Florida State (+27), San Jose State (+29) and Georgia (+30).

Rose Zhang won the NCAA womens individual title, becoming the second-straight Stanford freshman to win the title.

Rose Zhang won the individual title by three shots, closing in 75 to finish at 6 under par. She followed Rachel Heck, in 21, as Stanford freshmen to claim that trophy.

Quarterfinal action will take place on Golf Channel, beginning at noon ET on Tuesday. The semifinals will begin at 5 p.m. ET on Golf Channel. The finals will take place Wednesday, also at 5 p.m. ET on Golf Channel.

Here are the quarterfinal matchups:

(1) Stanford vs. (8) Georgia

(4) UCLA vs. (5) Auburn

(2) Oregon vs. (7) San Jose State

(3) Texas A&M vs. (6) Florida State

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The Time 100 Most Influential list includes eight Olympians, the most ever in the annual lists 19-year history. At least one Olympian made each edition dating to the first year in 2004.

Beijing Olympic gold medalistsNathan ChenandEileen Guwere joined by soccer playersAlex Morgan,Megan RapinoeandBecky Sauerbrunn, tennis players Rafael Nadal and Peng Shuai and basketball player Candace Parker.

Time 100 listees are based on factors including relevance, impact, innovation, leadership, ambition and success.

Chen and Gu were spotlight athletes in February, each earning gold at the Beijing Games. Chen became the first U.S. singles figure skater to take gold since 2010, four years after struggling as a favorite. Figure skaters Adam Rippon(2018) andYuna Kim(2010) previously made the Time 100.

That perseverance never wavered, even after his first Olympics didnt go as hed hoped, two-time Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan wrote for Time. He trained for another four years and showed the world just how fierce a competitor he is.

Gu earned two golds and a bronze in freestyle skiing as the host nations biggest star. She competed while scrutinized for her decision to switch representation in 2019 from the U.S. to China, her mothers birth nation.

Its hard for athletes particularly Olympic athletes to transcend their sport. Eileen Gu is an exception to that rule, fellow Olympic freeskier Gus Kenworthy wrote for Time. Im not sure Ive ever seen anybody more disciplined, driven, or determined than Eileen. And hard work pays off.

Morgan, Rapinoe and Sauerbrunn have been longtime leaders for the U.S. womens soccer team, winning Olympic and World Cup titles. Last week, after a yearslong battle, a historic victory was scored with the announcement of equal pay for the U.S. mens and womens national teams.

Nadal made the list for a second time 13 years after his previous appearance after winning a mens record-breaking 21st major singles title at the Australian Open.

Peng, an Olympic tennis player in 2008, 2012 and 2016, made the list in the Icons category. Last November, she accused a former high-ranking Chinese government official of sexual assault in a Weibo post that was soon deleted.

Parker, a 36-year-old mom, won her second WNBA title last season and first with her hometown team, the Chicago Sky.

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Olympians and Paralympians on Time100 lists, counting only athletes who had competed in the Games before being listed:

2022 Nathan Chen, Eileen Gu, Alex Morgan, Rafael Nadal, Candace Parker, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn, Peng Shuai2021 Simone Biles, Allyson Felix, Suni Lee, Naomi Osaka2020 Allyson Felix, Maya Moore, Megan Rapinoe, Dwyane Wade2019 LeBron James, Alex Morgan,Mo Salah, Caster Semenya2018 Kevin Durant,Roger Federer,Chloe Kim,Adam Rippon2017 Simone Biles, LeBron James, Neymar2016 Usain Bolt,Caitlyn Jenner,Katie Ledecky,Sania Mirza,Ronda Rousey2015 Abby Wambach2014 Cristiano Ronaldo, Serena Williams2013 LeBron James, Li Na, Lindsey Vonn2012 Novak Djokovic,Lionel Messi,Oscar Pistorius2011 Lionel Messi2010 Yuna Kim,Serena Williams2009 Rafael Nadal2008 Andre Agassi,Lance Armstrong,Oscar Pistorius2007 Roger Federer,Chien Ming-Wang2006 JoeyCheek,Steve Nash2005 LeBron James2004 Lance Armstrong, Paula Radcliffe, Yao Ming2000 (20th Century) Muhammad Ali

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