Nevada Debate Could Be A 'Make Or Break' For Bloomberg, Analysts Say -
npr:
He isn’t on the ballot in Nevada’s caucuses, but billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be on the national debate stage for the first time, joining five other Democratic candidates Wednesday night during the debate in Las Vegas. He qualified after surging in the polls.
Bloomberg is expected to endure heavy attacks from his opponents, and his performance may be a crucial test of his candidacy, political experts say, and for the party’s 2020 nominating fight.
(Source: NPR)
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On this day, 19 February 1954 the Brazilian footballing legend and dictatorship-resistor Sócrates was born. Playing for Corinthians, a historically working class team, Sócrates co-founded the Corinthians Democracy movement opposing the brutal US-backed dictatorship.
In 1982 they won the state championship with “Democracia” on their shirts.
When he moved to Italy and was asked which Italian he respected the most, Mazzola or Rivera (football players of Inter and AC Milan, respectively), he responded: “I don’t know them. I’m here to read Gramsci in original language and to study the history of the workers’ movement” (referring to Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci).
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The Ancient Egyptian goddess Nephthys.
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