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A week in which a soccer tackle becomes a law-school question and a parking spot sells for $990K
REPURPOSED: The tackle that forced Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah off the field in the Champions League final. Syrian Facebook pages showed part of a first-year law exam at the University of Damascus, the BBC reports. The question asks why the tackler can’t be held to account from a criminal law perspective.
AIRED OUT: Whether bras should be compulsory for Quebec students. The minister responsible for women’s issues says schools should open a dialogue, in response to news that students at a girls-only school went on a braless protest. A teenager who wasn’t wearing a bra was told to cover up.
KNOCKED BACK: The buyer of a single Hong Kong parking space, for a total of about $990,000The five-by-2.5metre spot, attached to a downtown apartment block, broke the local record. The spot in the Ho Man Tin area topped the $830,000 mark set in 2017 in Sai Ying Pun on Hong Kong Island.
WAKING UP: A Fox News military analyst, to the dangers of Fox — as he sees it. Ralph Peters, who left the network in March, told CNN Fox is doing a “great deal of damage” to the U.S. The staunch conservative had shocked the industry with a goodbye letter that accused Fox of “assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law.”
OUTLIVED ITS PURPOSE: A resolution making English the official language in Carpentersville, Ill. The 2007 measure to discourage illegal migration only caused trouble, the Chicago Tribune reports. Many Spanish speakers left, though after a gang crackdown, some returned. Today, it’s 50-percent Hispanic.
SILENCED: Kelly Sadler, the White House communications aide who made a jibe about Sen. John McCain. She no longer works in the administration. Her comment that McCain’s opposition to CIA director nominee Gina Haspel didn’t matter because he’s “dying” sparked condemnation — but not from the White House.
RECOVERING: An 8-monthold baby in Nanaimo, B.C. Kenzie Pyne was in her backyard when she put a poisonous caterpillar in her mouth. After black track marks appeared on her mouth, she was taken to hospital, and doctors plucked off spines from her tongue and cheek. The culprit: a silverspotted tiger moth caterpillar.
CATCHING UP ON Z’S: A misspelled bridge in New York City. The state Senate has unanimously passed a bill that to correct the spelling of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which has been written thusly for 50 years. But it should have two z’s — Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered New York Harbor in 1524.