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‘A Wild Card’: Son of Uganda’s President Jostles to Succeed His Father – The New York Times
‘A Wild Card’: Son of Uganda’s President Jostles to Succeed His Father
Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba has been positioning himself as Uganda’s next leader. But his provocative tweets have unnerved Ugandans and put his father in a bind.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/world/africa/uganda-president-son-muhoozi.html
He has boasted that he could capture the capital of neighboring Kenya in two weeks. He has offered a dowry of 100 cows to marry Italy’s new female prime minister. And he has claimed that the majority of “non-white” people around the world supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The Enduring Metal Genius of Metallica | The New Yorker
The Enduring Metal Genius of Metallica
On the road with the band in its forty-first year.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/the-enduring-metal-genius-of-metallica
For Metallica, the idea was never to seduce an audience, but to push it away. The fans who stuck around—who perhaps understood this as a kind of love—became devoted, and received devotion in return.