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When songwriting is necessary Daniel Hales. STAFF FILE PHOTO Writer and poet Daniel Hales following the release of his new book, “¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English,” in Greenfield. STAFF FILE PHOTO Published: 4/1/2021 9:15:17 AM The new album “Unstable Oscillators” from Greenfield-based musician Daniel Hales is a compilation of three EPs that he has completed since the pandemic hit. Recorded under the name of Selah haleS (that’s not a mistype), this music is darker and more personal than we’ve heard in Hales’ previous work wit...

This week we launched the latest project to emerge from the Lowy’s Institute’s Australia’s Security and the Rules-Based Order project, a debate feature on  America and the Rules-Based Order. It’s a textbook example of constructive public debate. Each of the six expert participants state their case plainly and respond directly to objections and counter-arguments. Mercifully, none of them are pre-occupied with definitions.  It’s tempting to think of definitions as a pre-condition for debate. We have to agree on what we are talking about before we can argue the merits. But I think o...

Six experts debate America's approach. Introduction Read more President Donald Trump's foreign policy was often criticised for the damage it did, not just to immediate US interests, but also to the very structure of post-war international relations. After the Second World War, Washington drove the establishment of new international institutions, centred on the United Nations and what became the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. This thickening system of international organisations, rules, and norms — commonly referred to as the "rules-based order" — is widely credited with havin...

Print Caring for her wife during the pandemic has been difficult for Cheryl Knapp, as friends and family aren’t able to visit and lend a hand as often as they once could. The Escondido resident started dating Sue Whitfield, now 80, soon after they met at a Christmas party in 1983, while Knapp was using a leg brace and holiday-decorated crutches to recover from a mountaineering accident. Whitfield told Knapp that anyone who could make their crutches look festive must have a good sense of humor, a trait the pair mutually shared. “She also, in jest, asked me to dance, which of course I could...

police released this photograph of the man suspected of abducting vi ripken, the 74- year-old mother of baseball great cal jr. police say ripken was taken from her home tuesday, bound inside her car, and driven around harford and baltimore county for almost 24 hours, before the man dropped her off almost four blocks from her house. >> described him as a white male. we believe him to be tall. age rage between -- we're thinking now between the mid- 30s and early 40s. wears glasses, we believe. the last picture that we have of him that you'll see in the photograph. he was wearing a whit...