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Moving towards peace and solidarity through sport
It was cold, very chilly, the evening of the Opening Ceremony of PyeongChang 2018. But spirits were lifted when delegations from North and South Korea marched into the stadium, unified, raising hopes for peace on a peninsula lengthy divided and sparking faith that activity could assist deter, if not diminish, a geopolitical confrontation crackling with anxiety of nuclear doom. In current heritage, this scene – in fact, this spectacle from the 2018 Online games, which then observed the blended North and South Korean women’s ice hockey crew competing with each other – marked a vivid illustration of what the Olympic Constitution can make explicitly very clear is the aspirational…
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Inside moving exhibits at L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum
Jennifer Yates is directing traffic today — a routine happening as part of her job as head registrar at the Petersen Automotive Museum. This late January afternoon, however, traffic is especially gnarly — and not because it’s a Friday. Several valuable vehicles are arriving at — or leaving — the museum today, a coincidental calendar smashup that has Yates ping-ponging between projects. First, there were the Hetfield Collection cars, donated to the museum in 2019 by Metallica’s James Hetfield, Yates says while striding up and down South Orange Grove Avenue, a side street onto which the museum’s car elevator deposits vehicles from the mechanics shop below. Those 10 customized cars…
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