The Full Belmonte, 1/3/2024
Senior Hamas leader killed in Lebanon, group says
“An Israeli drone strike killed senior Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri and two other members in a suburb of Beirut, the group said today.
Saleh al-Arouri helped establish Hamas's military wing. Credit: Getty Images
The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the explosion, which happened in a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah, a Hamas ally.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati accused Israel in a statement of attempting to ‘bring Lebanon into a new phase of confrontations.’
The reported assassination would mark a major escalation in Lebanon, after Israeli forces and Hezbollah exchanged fire over the country’s southern border in recent months, following the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack.
An adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told MSNBC that Israel had not taken responsibility for the explosion, but ‘whoever did it, it must be clear: That this was not an attack on the Lebanese state.’” [NBC News]
People stand outside a building after an explosion Tuesday in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
Israel on alert for possible Hezbollah response after senior Hamas leader is killed in Beirut strike
“Israel was on high alert for an escalation with Hezbollah on Wednesday after one of the top leaders of the Palestinian Hamas was killed in a strike in Beirut that was widely blamed on Israel and heightened the risk of a broader Middle East conflict. Read more.
Why this matters:
Saleh Arouri, the most senior Hamas figure killed since the war with Israel began, was a founder of the group’s military wing. His death could provoke major retaliation by Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militia. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has already vowed to strike back against any Israeli targeting of Palestinian officials in Lebanon.
Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been exchanging fire almost daily over the Israeli-Lebanese border since Israel’s military campaign in Gaza began. But so far, the Lebanese group has appeared reluctant to escalate the fighting.” [NBC News]
“Jury selection has begun for the civil corruption trial against the National Rifle Association's longtime leader, Wayne LaPierre. New York's Attorney General Letitia James says her team found evidence LaPierre and other NRA leaders used more than $64 million from donors for personal expenses.” [NPR]
Donald Trump appealed Maine’s decision to ban him from its primary ballot.
“What to know: Trump yesterday asked a judge to reverse an attempt by Maine’s secretary of state, Democrat Shenna Bellows, to keep the former president off the state’s 2024 primary ballot.
The bigger picture: Efforts to disqualify Trump over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack are ongoing in several states. The issue may land in the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Read this story at Washington Post
Some scientists think 2024 could be even hotter than 2023.
“Why? An El Niño climate pattern and record-warm oceans are supercharging the decades-long warming trend tied to fossil fuel emissions.
Why it’s worrying: This year, average global temperatures could, for the first time, exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial levels — a long-dreaded threshold.
In related news: The Great Lakes had the smallest amount of ice cover on New Year’s Day in at least 50 years.”
Read this story at Washington Post
Harvard president resigns after antisemitism testimony and plagiarism probe
“Harvard University President Claudine Gay has announced she is resigning, after facing backlash for her congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus, as well as allegations of plagiarism.
‘It has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual,’ Gay wrote in a letter to the Harvard community.
Gay’s six-month tenure is the shortest in Harvard’s 388-year history, the university’s student paper reported.
Gay and two other Ivy League presidents, Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania and Sally Kornbluth of MIT, were heavily criticized for their answers at a congressional hearing in December, about whether calls for the genocide of Jews on campus would violate their schools’ policies. Magill resigned last month.” [NBC News]
Harvard President Claudine Gay speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Education, Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington. | Mark Schiefelbein/AP
“COORDINATED ATTACK — Conservatives who have long been at war with elite academic institutions have pointed to these universities’ responses to the conflict between Israel and Hamas as the latest example of the ivory tower’s skewed values.
Today, the right got a strong dose of satisfaction by engineering the departure of the head of the most influential university in the world.
Almost a month after a widely panned congressional hearing where she said it was context-dependent whether calls for genocide against Jews violated Harvard’s code of conduct, President Claudine Gay announced that she was resigning, a coda that followed a pronounced pressure campaign led by conservatives in Congress, prominent donors and right-leaning media and activists.
Gay’s departure marked the rare exit that occasioned widespread congressional comment. House Speaker Mike Johnson argued ‘the resignation of Claudine Gay is long overdue.’
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) was even more unvarnished, giving voice to the deep disdain held for Harvard and other elite institutions by an increasingly populist Republican Party: ‘She was a total disgrace to her profession.’
Gay became the second president to step down after the Dec. 5 hearing; when University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned on Dec. 9, her chief antagonist in Congress, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), responded ‘One down.’
Stefanik, the Harvard grad whose line of questioning with three university presidents during the congressional hearing produced the viral moments that doomed Gay and Magill, took a victory lap today.
‘TWO DOWN,’ wrote Stefanik in a post on X.
Yet it was the conservative media ecosystem, not Stefanik, that struck the crowning blow leading to Gay’s resignation. Gay managed at first to escape Magill’s fate with the support of the Harvard Corporation, the smaller and more powerful of Harvard’s two governing boards. But a sustained pressure campaign that focused on allegations of plagiarism in her scholarship ultimately led to her downfall.
It began Dec. 10, when conservative activists Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet published a newsletter on Substack titled ‘Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist?’
Rufo occupies a unique place in the culture wars. He describes himself as a policy scholar and a political combatant, a polemicist and a journalist; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed him as a trustee of New College of Florida as part of his efforts to eliminate what he calls the ‘ideological conformity’ of higher education. (Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) refers to Rufo as ‘a right-wing propagandist’ on a ‘campaign to destroy public education in America.’)
Rufo, who has spent much of his career fighting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and advocating for bans on teachers discussing LGBTQ+ issues in classrooms, compiled a provocative piece featuring evidence from Gay’s dissertation that wasn’t easily dismissed. Aaron Sibarium, a reporter at the conservative Washington Free Beacon, followed with a Dec. 11 article in which he spoke with scholars about the plagiarism accusations and uncovered new allegations — Sibarium has since reported on additional charges of plagiarism.
On the heels of a hearing that had Gay on the ropes, Rufo was frank about his intentions.
‘We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right. The next step is to smuggle it into the media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have the power to topple her. Then squeeze,’ Rufo posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Dec. 19.
Rufo says it took a three-pronged attack to force Gay’s hand — with Stefanik leading from Congress, financier Bill Ackman (who continually posted about Gay on X) galvanizing the university’s donor class and his own efforts, along with Brunet and Sibarium.
‘We executed it to a really stunning degree of perfection,’ Rufo said in an interview today.
Sibarium, for his part, says that it was a natural reporting process that led him to the story. ‘I was not sitting there twisting my thumbs asking ‘how do I time this exactly to cause maximum damage?’ he said. ‘I got a tip and I tracked it down.’
Questions about plagiarism involving Gay have swirled since before she assumed the job of Harvard president in July. An anonymous post on the online discussion forum econjobrumors from June 11 reads ‘Claudine Gay plagiarized several sources nearly verbatim… in her dissertation, according to a 100-page report circulated to the Harvard Board of Overseers.’ A commenter responds “‘end it to chrisbrunet @ protonmail dot com.’
Brunet had his own history with Gay, dating back to at least April 2022, when she was dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. He published a newsletter on Substack entitled ‘The Curious Case of Claudine Gay,’ where he opined on her connection to various scandals at Harvard and elsewhere.
But Brunet’s writing and various anonymous posts, though often filled with venom, included few verifiable facts and made little to no impact outside of conservative media at the time. The more rigorous reporting — actual reporting that more closely adhered to mainstream media standards — made the allegations harder to overlook.
‘The right has excelled at and outperformed the left when it comes to television and radio opinion… where the right has always lagged is in reporting,’ Eliana Johnson, the editor-in-chief of the Free Beacon, said (Johnson formerly worked at POLITICO).
By Dec. 20, mainstream news outlets were reporting on plagiarism allegations against Gay. The Free Beacon’s continued reporting during the holidays — as well as reporting and op eds in The Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper — kept the spotlight on Gay, who began to bleed support among former allies who had to that point stood by her.
‘Her support behind the scenes really had collapsed,’ Johnson said.” [POLITICO]
IMMIGRATION
Some Illinois and New York suburbs are putting the brakes on migrant bus arrivals
“Nervous officials in suburbs and outlying cities near Chicago and New York are giving migrants arriving from the southern border a cold shoulder amid attempts to circumvent restrictions on buses in those two cities, opening a new front in response to efforts led by Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to pay for migrants to leave his state. Read more.
Why this matters:
The suburban backlash comes amid unprecedented arrivals, with illegal entries topping 10,000 several days last month. For months, big-city Democratic mayors including Eric Adams of New York and Brandon Johnson of Chicago have pleaded with the Biden administration for help addressing the influx.
Abbott has bused more than 80,000 migrants from Texas to Democratic-led cities since 2022, and some buses have also arrived from other states. Abbott’s administration also recently began chartering planes as Chicago and New York started cracking down on buses making unscheduled drop-offs.” [NBC News]
Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Border Patrol to Cut Texas Razor Wire - “The legal battle is part of an escalating conflict between U.S. government and Texas officials over immigration enforcement.” [Wall Street Journal]
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting on Capitol Hill Oct. 11, 2023. | Francis Chung/POLITICO
“RUN FOR THE BORDER — As MIKE JOHNSON campaigned for the speaker's gavel this fall, Rep. TONY GONZALES (R-Texas) made one request before delivering his support: Make the border your top priority.
It didn’t take any convincing. Soon after Johnson won the gavel, he detailed his staff to begin planning a GOP codel to Gonzales’ border district. The timeline accelerated two weeks ago, after Gonzales personally watched several thousand migrants flood across the Rio Grande and into a facility near Eagle Pass, overwhelming border officials there.
‘I had never seen it in that poor of a condition,’ Gonzales told Playbook. ‘What ends up happening when it gets to a boiling point like that, you just release people into the streets — and then it's really chaos.’
Today, about 60 House Republicans will cut their holiday break a few days short to join Johnson and Gonzales at that same facility in Eagle Pass. It’s no accident why the House GOP’s first big political event of the election year is centered on the southern border:
Migrant flows keep rising. Homeland Security officials already estimate southern border apprehensions reached a new record in December, with some days topping 10,000. A caravan of some 6,000 migrants was seen last week trekking north through Mexico.
The issue has gone national. Texas Gov. GREG ABBOTT’sbusing campaign, dropping thousands of migrants into Democratic-led cities has arguably gotten results, leading mayors in New York, Denver, Chicago and elsewhere to pressure the Biden administration to do more — and quick.
The border brings the GOP together. ‘Last year was pretty rough and rowdy,’ Gonzales said. ‘But one of the things that I think unites House Republicans more than anything else is the border.’ It’s also the issue where the GOP has its most persistent advantage with voters.
And it divides Democrats. The dynamic has been made clear with the pending Senate negotiation on border security (more on that in a moment) which has raised serious alarms on the left, while more moderate Democrats signal a willingness to entertain a deal that could curtail asylum claims and allow for a surge of deportations.
It adds up to a political pressure cooker for President JOE BIDEN, and House Republicans are more than happy to turn up the heat. They’re hoping, in fact, for a particularly stark split screen today: Calling for a crackdown at the border just as the Justice Department is expected to file a lawsuit blocking Abbott from enforcing a new Texas state law allowing local law enforcement to arrest anyone suspected of entering the U.S. illegally.
Republicans are also already planning for the eventual impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS — proceedings that Johnson has personally blessed, we’re told by senior GOP officials, and could begin in a matter of days.
The White House is preemptively responding to the codel this morning in an exclusive statement to our colleague Jennifer Haberkorn that accuses Republicans of exacerbating the border crisis by (1) voting to cut Customs and Border Protection funding in spending bills and (2) blocking passage of Biden’s $106 billion national security supplemental that includes border funding.
‘Actions speak louder than words,’ White House spokesperson ANDREW BATES said. ‘They are now aiming to make the border a key 2024 election issue.’
Well, no secret there. That brings us back to those Senate negotiations — and the big question of whether a border deal is even possible in an election year when the politics of the issue are so lopsided in the GOP’s favor.
The key senators met in person yesterday for the first time since before the holidays, and according to our friends at Huddle, the vibes were not exactly positive. Sen. CHRIS MURPHY (D-Conn.) told reporters the hope was to have a proposal to circulate next week and ‘that at some point, Republicans can take the offer that we've all been working on together in the room for a long time.’…” [POLITICO]
“Foreign connections: US prosecutors have accused New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez of accepting bribes, including tickets to car races, from Qatar. A lawyer for the senator, who also denies acting as an agent of Egypt, has dismissed the allegations.” [BBC News]
“Authorities expanding investigation into Florida GOP chair accused of rape: Sarasota authorities are expanding their investigation into Florida Republican Chair Christian Ziegler to probe whether he broke any laws when he allegedly recorded a sexual encounter with a woman accusing him of rape, according to a search warrant affidavit. The Dec. 8 search warrant, obtained by POLITICO through a public records request, seeks access to Ziegler’s Instagram messages, videos and photos, including those that were under the ‘vanish’ mode that makes them disappear from the app.” [POLITICO]
Explosions in Iran kill at least 70 at an event commemorating a general killed in a U.S. strike, state media says
“Two blasts struck the city of Kerman, where thousands of mourners had gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian leader who was killed in a U.S. strike in 2020, Iranian state media reported. Kerman’s deputy governor said the incident was a ‘terrorist attack,’ according to Iranian state TV.”
Read more at Washington Post
The burned remains of a Japan Airlines passenger plane that collided with a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft at Haneda airport in Tokyo.
Tokyo plane crash
“A Japan Airlines plane burst into flames Tuesday at Tokyo's Haneda airport after it collided with a Coast Guard aircraft helping with earthquake relief efforts. Nearly 400 people were aboard the plane — and all escaped with minor injuries. However, five crew members of the Coast Guard plane were killed, and the captain is in critical condition. More than 100 flights have been canceled and an investigation into the cause of the crash is underway, the airline said. At the same time, rescue crews in Japan are frantically searching for survivors from the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck the country's west coast on Monday. The death toll from the quake has risen to 62 as thousands remain in evacuation centers.” [CNN]
Hamas Leaders Killed in Beirut
People gather at the site of an alleged Israeli strike targeting a Hamas office in Beirut on Jan. 2.AFP
“Israeli forces killed senior Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday during a targeted drone strike against a militant leadership meeting in Beirut, Hamas officials said. Six other Hamas members, including high-ranking officials, were also killed.
Arouri was known for his efforts to create a militant battalion in the West Bank and for his close ties to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, who warned against any Israeli attack on Lebanese soil in August. Israel has not formally taken responsibility for the strike, but a prominent Knesset member in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party openly praised the Israeli military and security forces for the assassination in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
Israeli troops also targeted Hamas leaders believed to be hiding in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Tuesday. ‘This will continue as high-intensity efforts in the heart of Khan Younis,’ Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, echoing Netanyahu’s promise to continue fighting until Hamas is destroyed and the group releases all of its more than 100 Israeli hostages. The Palestine Red Crescent Society posted on X that its headquarters in the city had also been struck by Israeli forces, killing and wounding several people.
Major bursts of fighting came just one day after Israel confirmed that it will pull back five brigades (comprising thousands of troops) from Gaza in the coming weeks, signaling an intention to move to a long-term, lower-intensity fight. Many Israeli soldiers will return to their bases for training or rest while older reservists will be sent home to help boost the nation’s economy. To prepare for ‘prolonged fighting,’ Israel plans to focus on targeting Hamas strongholds and ‘pockets of resistance,’ said Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari.
As Israel’s military campaign begins to shift its strategy, Netanyahu faces political turmoil both domestically and abroad. On Monday, Israel’s Supreme Court struck down Netanyahu’s controversial judicial reform bill, which first passed in July and curbed the high court’s check on government decisions. Thousands of Israelis protested the legislation at the time, and some Israeli officials have said the chaos, including Netanyahu using the bill to temporarily fire Gallant in March, may have contributed to Hamas’s decision to attack Israel on Oct. 7.
Netanyahu condemned the Supreme Court’s decision. Opposition leader Yair Lapid said the ruling ‘seals a tough year of dispute that tore us apart from the inside and led to the most terrible disaster in our history.’
Meanwhile, Turkish officials detained 33 people on Tuesday suspected of spying for Israel and are still searching for 13 others allegedly linked to Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Ankara accused the individuals of planning to assault and kidnap foreign nationals. In December, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Israel of ‘serious consequences’ if it targeted Hamas militants on its soil. Ankara’s latest accusations test last year’s decision to resume diplomatic ties between the two nations.” [Foreign Policy]
“Putin’s revenge. Russia launched a large-scale attack against Kyiv and other major Ukrainian cities on Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring nearly 130 others. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 72 of around 99 Russian missiles and drones, including hypersonic weapons. Kyiv retaliated hours later against the city of Belgorod, Russian officials said, accusing Ukraine of killing at least one civilian and wounding four others.
Moscow’s large-scale assault fulfills President Vladimir Putin’s promise on Monday to continue targeting Ukrainian cities after Kyiv launched what Putin called a ‘terror’ attack against Belgorod in comments made on Saturday. Putin accused Ukraine of ‘indiscriminate’ strikes against the city; the Kremlin is known for attacking civilian infrastructure despite falsely claiming to only target military facilities.” [Foreign Policy]
“Assassination attempt. South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung is recovering in an intensive care unit on Tuesday after being stabbed in the neck while visiting the port city of Busan. Lee was touring construction of a new airport when a man asking for his autograph attacked him. The 66-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene.
Lee became head of South Korea’s Democratic Party in 2022 following his narrow defeat against President Yoon Suk-yeol and has spent the past few months preparing for parliamentary elections this April. He is expected to re-run for president in 2027. On Tuesday, Yoon expressed ‘deep concern’ over Lee’s attack and ordered an investigation.” [Foreign Policy]
Some parents are being prosecuted or fined when their children miss school.
“One example: A single mother in Missouri — one of several states with anti-truancy laws — was sentenced to jail for 15 days after her 5-year-old son’s 14 absences in five months.
The bigger picture: Absenteeism is spiking. Nearly 15 million students were considered ‘chronically absent’ in 2021-2022 — that’s 80% higher than before the pandemic.”
Read this story at Washington Post
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“Brooky Parks loved her job at the teen section of her local public library in Colorado – until the district fired her. She had launched a book club focused on LGBTQ-themed books, and two community members had complained about the word “woke” in its name. Parks decried the action against her as censorship. She filed a discrimination complaint and a lawsuit – and won.” [NPR]
SPORTS
“Women’s basketball: Iowa defeated Michigan State, 76-73. Caitlin Clark, Iowa’s star guard, unleashed a buzzer-beating 3 to win the game.
Allegations: Jimmy Kimmel threatened to sue the Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers for insinuating that he would be named in documents from the Jeffrey Epstein case.
N.F.L.: The league fined the Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper $300,000 for throwing a drink on a Jacksonville Jaguars fan during a game.
Soccer: The Spain star Jennifer Hermoso gave evidence in court against Luis Rubiales, the former federation boss who kissed her on the mouth after her team’s World Cup win.” [New York Times]
England’s newest sports sensation is a 16-year-old darts prodigy.
Luke Littler after winning a semifinal match at the World Darts Championship in London yesterday. (Kin Cheung/AP)
“Who? Luke Littler, who says he started playing magnetic darts at 18 months old. Today, he could win arguably the world’s most prestigious darts tournament on his first try.
How he did it: Littler says his age gives him an edge — he’s too young to drink. He said of his opponents: ‘They wake up with sore heads in the morning, and I’m fine.’”
Read this story at Washington Post
Young lover in Robert Doisneau’s Paris kiss photograph dies aged 93
Françoise Bornet’s embrace with then boyfriend in 1950 became one of the most famous images of the city
Françoise Bornet and her husband in April 2005 at the Dassault auction house in Paris where a print of The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville sold for more than €150,000. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty
“It was one of the most famous kisses of the 20th century – a postwar clinch that became a 1980s poster phenomenon, bringing fame and court battles.
Françoise Bornet, the young lover immortalised in the French photographer Robert Doisneau’s The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville, has died aged 93.
If her name was virtually unknown, Bornet’s stance in an embrace with her then boyfriend in central Paris in the spring of 1950 became one of the most famous images of the city.
Bornet, who at the time went by her maiden name, Delbart, was a 20-year-old drama student when she and her fellow acting student boyfriend, Jacques Carteaud, were spotted in a cafe by Doisneau. He had been commissioned by the American magazine Life to produce a series of photos illustrating love in Paris.
Bornet later told French TV: ‘He said, ‘I’m Robert Doisneau, I find you both charming and wondered if you would accept to kiss again in front of my camera.’ They took several photos with him in different Paris locations.
Last year, Bornet, living in Normandy told La Dépêche d’Évreux: ‘I was with my boyfriend. We couldn’t stop kissing. We were kissing all over the place, all the time. Robert Doisneau was in the bar, he asked us to pose for him.’
Doisneau, who died in 1994, was always open about having staged the photo and he was lauded for his ability to compose and capture a scene.
The photo was published in Life magazine and swiftly forgotten. But it had a revival in the 1980s when it was transformed into posters and postcards capturing the romance of Paris, followed by a frenzy of merchandise from duvet covers to shower-curtains, calendars and mugs. Thirty years after the photo was taken, it came to represent a kind of black and white nostalgia of Paris and a monument to young love and spontaneous passion.
By then, Bornet, who worked as an actor, had married a different man after separating from Carteaud. He had also married and become a wine-maker.
When the photograph featured on the cover of the French culture magazine Télérama in 1988, several French couples claimed they were the lovers photographed in the street and went to court over rights to their image, but the cases were thrown out of court.
Bornet was confirmed as the model in the picture, but was not awarded any money for image rights because she was considered to be unrecognisable, her face obscured by the kiss. She told French media at the time she was upset that other couples had come forward claiming to be her and Carteaud. “It was as if they had stolen my memories – and they were delightful memories of youth, pleasant and tender,” she said.
In 2005, she sold a copy of the original photo given to her by Doisneau, which was bought at auction and fetched the then very high sum of more than €150,000 (£130,000).
Carteaud, who lived in central France, died several years ago. When he was 65, after reading an article about the commercialisation of the photograph, he called Le Monde lamenting that this piece of photographic history could be made all about money.
In a career spanning decades, Doisneau captured everyday scenes across Paris and its banlieue, and across France, as well as projects further afield such as Palm Springs in the 1960s. He told the publication Entre Vues in 1990: ‘The world that I tried to show was a world where I would have felt good, where people were kind, where I found the tenderness that I want to receive. My photos were like proof that world could exist.’
Doisneau’s work in Paris and Palm Springs, including The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville, are part of an exhibition in Nice, Robert Doisneau: Le Merveilleux Quotidien, running until 28 January.” [The Guardian]
“Lives Lived: Frank Ryan was a star quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in the 1960s. He also earned a doctorate in math, taught at Yale and brought computers to the House of Representatives. He died at 87.” [New York Times]