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Both recently trained at Mouratoglu's academy and she Cori "CoCo" Gauff is only 14!
Chun Hsin Tseng & Cori Gauff took home the junior singles titles on Saturday.
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 9, 2018
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All the other countries said the G-7 summit was successful. I guess that was after Trump left.
In a huge blowup to end the G7 summit, Trump refuses to sign communique, citing “Justin’s false statements at his news conference.”
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) June 9, 20180 -
1 hour ago, Soaplovers said:
Given the kind of life Iva had.. I could understand her being a downer... and her all too brief pairing with Kirk made her come alive. The only other time Iva came alive was when she won the cruise and got a make over and had the time of her life. Considering that she was raped by whom she thought was her cousin, had a baby at 13/14, gave the baby up, and basically ran away from home.. I'm surprised she was only lethargic. While I didn't like who she ended up with, he seemed like a nice and steady guy... and that was what was needed in her life..imho.
When people mention Sam, I'm hoping everyone meant the first Sam... the tall, sarcastic Sam and not the sappy recast.. right?
Oh, of course I realize why Iva was 'put-upon', given the kind of backstory the character had, it would be strange if she had never seen her that way.
What I take issue was the constant drumbeat of misery, especially when it seemed that the character had taken a different path.
It just seemed like dumping her into an abyss of misery repeatedly was a way of creating something to do with the character at a time when story may have been 'thin' for her.
Iva was never going to be a giddy character, even when she was with Kirk, she could be dour and tough and always pragmatic and she didn't need to be suffocated under a blanket of misery to achieve that. In fact, she had more of an edge in her early days interacting with the Kirk character than I'd ever seen her before or since on the show.
EDT:
By the way, I come from a long line of women who endured very hard lives (at least one is a rape survivor herself). Maybe because their lives were so tough, they made time and space to experience joy.
Now, had Iva been bi-polar or diagnosed with clinical depression, that would have been a good aspect to explore and would have made perfect sense for going back and forth but it was never explored so I'm only left to assume that someone (maybe at P&G) wanted Iva in a near constant state of dour misery.
Personally, I don't enjoy watching women constantly being tortured by life. Personally, life is hard enough as a woman in this world and as a Black woman? Whew!
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Aww.
🤗 and 😘@p2hugz @nmahut #RG18 pic.twitter.com/R5QJmOtHzv
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 9, 20180 -
2 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:
Tom Wiggin even brought a slight spark of life to that drippy Iva.
IMO Kirk was Iva's best pairing. In the very beginning they had that witty, sharp dialogue that I used to love to hear from HBS and GM's Tom and Margo (what we writers would call 'The Billy Wilder Effect'). They even had a bit of that combative repartée, the way John and Lucinda sometimes had. They were dynamic and in the beginning, Iva didn't have to play the put-upon 'heavy' as she had in other other relationships. It was a big mistake to pull them apart without them finding their way back to each other.
If Kirk and Iva were going to be involved in a triangle (of sorts), I would've rather Marland wait for Sam, Lucinda's sister. Given Lucinda and Iva's acrimonious history, Sam becoming the interloper to Kirk and Iva's fraying relationship would've added extra interest.
1 hour ago, P.J. said:Hey, I loved Kirk and Iva!! I still remember their first kiss.
That pairing of Iva and Kirk put Iva in a light I had not been used to see her before--they sizzled. IMO none of Iva's other pairings had that kind of sizzle. I didn't even know the Iva character was capable of producing those kind of sparks!
1 hour ago, vetsoapfan said:Yes, he brought some life to her. They were good together. I still chuckle when he had to had to correct her garbled way of pronouncing "vulnerable," LOL. Didn't she pronounce it "VUN-ER-LABEL" or something? Hilarious. It was funny too, when he blew Iva and Lisa air kisses and Lisa make desperate sweeping motions with her hands to block them.
Wow, is there video online? I'd love to see that, LOL.
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OMG at this photo.
This is like a Renaissance painting. pic.twitter.com/uafGu2ctrx
— golden state warrior blond (@goldengateblond) June 9, 20180 -
Simona saw Wozniacki get hers and Sloane before that, so Simona was determined this year.
The first two sets were very competitive and the third set was more about Simona holding off any nerves that might have showed up but Sloane wore herself out and Simona had more in reserve having had long runs on Chatrier before.
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After all the depressing news out there this week, boy would I love there to be a never-before uploaded episode from the 80s appear on You Tube! That would be such a gift.
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Just breaking on @MSNBC: Paul Manafort has been hit with a second superseding indictment. https://t.co/fGa40YJjt7
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 8, 20180 -
Apologies if this was posted previously, but Tika Sumpter has booked a lead role. Is Sonic the Hedgehog really that popular though?
Tika Sumpter Lands Lead Role In 'Sonic The Hedgehog' Live-Action/Animation Hybrid Film At Paramount
As for Rome Flynn, no doubt, it pays to be a resident of Shondaland.
Rome Flynn Promoted To Series Regular For 'How To Get Away With Murder' Season 5
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16 hours ago, Juliajms said:
He comes across like an old fool. I'm not sure if he was always like this. It's like Trump has given a big chunk of people permission to show their inner loon. It's truly disturbing. They lie with impunity and believe there are "alternate facts".
Giuliani always came across as an a$$hole (e.g. the brutal way in which his Law & Order agenda dealt with POC) but he was able to maintain his reputation of some integrity because of his prosecutions of the mob in NYC.
16 hours ago, Khan said:Frankly, whatever respect I might have held for Rudy, I lost it the day he chose to announce publicly his separation from his then-wife, Donna, without bothering to tell her first. Seriously, what kind of asshat are you to do that even to a wife you probably couldn't stand?
I never had any respect for him.
Black and brown people caught absolute hell during his regime and working class New Yorkers lost economic ground during his mayoral years.
I suspect the tourists loved Giuliani because he capitalized on a downward trend in crime (that had already taken effect before he became mayor) and convinced them that the city had become "safe" because of him, while he helped Disney-fy Times Square (a policy that Mario Cuomo's administration actually laid the groundwork for) .
As someone who had lived in NYC and got to read of and see the abuses of the Giuliani regime up close, I was glad that the city would finally see him out and I knew I would never vote to elect him for any public office--not even dog catcher.
If anything surprises me, it's the level of greed and ingratiating behavior that he has exhibited. I never knew that Giuliani could lick someone else's boots with such alacrity as he has with Trump.
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Esquire Hires Reporter Ousted by The New Yorker in MeToo Scandal https://t.co/gmiomEdreZ pic.twitter.com/hBHndRFF0o
— TheWrap (@TheWrap) June 8, 20180 -
Between that and Giuliani's comment about Kim supposedly getting down on his knees and begging for the summit between the US and North Korea to go on, I suspect that Giuliani has become quite the liar.
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1 hour ago, Faulkner said:
Wow at Halep coming through strong over Muguruza! She wants that French Open title!
She's gonna have to fight Sloane for it, LOL. I hope to see a good battle and not what I just saw in the 2nd SF.
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I am still mostly indifferent about the entire C-gate situation (though I already stated that I have never used the word and don't like it) because I assert that both these women are as far from marginalized as one can get and both can surely take care of themselves but I came across this on social media and thought it was interesting and I know there was strong debate about this situation in this thread, so perhaps others may find this interesting too.
This is how Samantha Bee opened her show tonight. pic.twitter.com/OVhx8vPZnV
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 7, 20180 -
Oops this page has become so monster that my eyes are liable to glaze over when I see links by themselves.
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I wonder if this will get back to Kim.
WATCH: Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's attorney in the Russia investigation, says Kim Jong Un "got back on his hands and knees and begged for" the resumption of the US-North Korea summit, "which is exactly the position you want to put him in." pic.twitter.com/JVAmg21NkH
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 6, 20180 -
Is it possible that the rain delay might benefit Schwartman as well as it will Rafa? Yeah, probbably not.
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4 hours ago, DRW50 said:
They're probably also scared of the money trains running out if Democrats regain any power. Any time I watch (not that often) I can feel how addicted they are to Trump and the GOP, even those who try to tsk-tsk and feign outrage.
It's hard to believe it took this many years. I know there were a few part Native American members of Congress but that isn't really enough.
Rodella sounds awful from everything I was reading last night. Her husband was in hot water, and she was involved in all kinds of decisions like blocking gay marriage bills, she was in big with the corporations, etc.
They don't even know what they want, other than to look like big men.
I guess you saw that moron who will likely be the next Speaker (McCarthy) blindly defending Trump's tariffs.
I don't think most voters are going to blame Trump or the GOP, sadly, but I did read that the Democratic vote was up heavily in Iowa yesterday, one of the places hardest hit by the trade war.
Meanwhile Medicare and Social Security are ticking away and we are focused on alienating anybody and everybody around us.
I read that McCarthy's district is on a list of some GOP areas targeted to be flogged by tariffs. Let's see how that affects his political fortunes.
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By the way, the deadline for a NAFTA "deal" to be voted on this year (with a Republican-controlled Congress) has run out.
Mexico hits U.S. with tariffs: pic.twitter.com/rncSK7jlmh
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) June 6, 2018Also, it seems to be the height of insanity for the U.S. to be trying to negotiate separate trade deals with all these countries.
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Though I pretty much detest most things Yahoo!, this is really news to me!
Props to @RichardGrenell, now facing calls for expulsion after being the U.S. ambassador to Germany for less than a month. https://t.co/7Fk2IZ7kNa
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 5, 20180 -
Manafort needs to have his bond revoked and be sent to prison.
The Republican party has truly cemented its status as the party of white supremacists.
White supremacist James Allsup was elected precinct committee officer for the Whitman County, Washington Republican Party after the GOP left the spot uncontested for four days. https://t.co/qx46AEkCPG
— Lily Herman (@lkherman) June 5, 20180 -
Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump. Then he reveals it was Obama https://t.co/0zQ0HpiCj2 pic.twitter.com/bBgnlNzcC8
— 10News WTSP (@10NewsWTSP) June 4, 20180 -
LOL
John "One Slam Quarter Final at 33 Years Old" Isner was supposed to be Rafael Nadal's toughest competition. I don't understand what went wrong?? https://t.co/qe6fbQ2mKd
— Matthew (@MRisingStar18) June 4, 20180
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