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Dina Temple-Raston is a correspondent on NPR s Investigations team focusing on breaking news stories and national security, technology and social justice.
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I ll Be Seeing You, a four-part series of radio specials for the network that focused on the technologies that watch us. Before that, she served as NPR s counter-terrorism correspondent for more than a decade, reporting from all over the world to cover deadly terror attacks, the evolution of ISIS and radicalization. While on leave from NPR in 2018, she independently executive produced and hosted a non-NPR podcast called
Sometime before the NBA regular season, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told NBA commissioner Adam Silver that his team wasn’t going to play the national anthem before home games. And why would it, given the pandemic? There were no fans, and the players certainly wouldn’t miss it. Silver said fine.
And for 12 preseason and regular season games, no one noticed. Then last week, Tim Cato of the Athletic did notice. Cuban confirmed his decision, and the NBA defended it, saying that, “Under the unique circumstances of this season, teams are permitted to run their pre-game operations as they see fit.”
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I grew up loving the Boston Red Sox and if you didn’t, I ask that you hang on a moment, because I promise I am talking to you, too. Fandom is something fierce that lives inside many of us in different ways, creating shared emotions, if not shared love, for a team.
The news that the Red Sox offered up Andrew Benintendi to Kansas City further broke the part of my heart that has been devoted to Boston baseball. My teenage daughter, who lives equidistant between Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, has bravely worn her Boston garb whenever she felt the occasion required it. She has accepted the consequences for wearing your team on your sleeve while in enemy territory, once being told by a math teacher to go stand in the hall while she wore
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JOHNSTOWN Dr. Brandon Beck of Westchester County thinks everyone literally every human being walking the face of the Earth has untapped potential.
And the 2000 Johnstown High School graduate hopes his new book that’s currently climbing up the Amazon charts helps them realize that. Mixed with stories of famous people and personal anecdotes, the publication is catching people’s attention.
“I try to cast as wide a net net as possible,” the 39-year-old Beck says.
In December, the Sleepy Hollow teacher published his first book “Unlocking Unlimited Potential.” Beck is currently a fifth grade dual language English teacher for the Ossining Union Free School District. He is also a professor at Manhattanville College’s Foundation of Bilingual Education.