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The author s mother and 2Courtesy of Luis Alberto UrreaIdeasBy Luis Alberto UrreaJune 11 stanley cup , 2023 7:00 AM EDTUrrea is the author of The Devil s Highway and The House of Broken Angels. His new novel is Good Night, IreneMy mother was the only American in our uproarious Mexican family. She didnrsquo;t speak Spanish, she didnrsquo;t like California, yet she often was the life of the party. When we gathered, she laughed easily and often, even when she didnrsquo;t understand the jokes. Her elegant manners delighted my relatives, and when she served them coffee in her antique de stanley cup mitasse cups, it was the most exotic thing in the world to them. Her name was Phyllis, but they called her Feliciana ndash; which roughly translates to The Joyous One.In my childhood, the Mexicans seduced me with bullfights, handmade tortillas, and the perpetual gossip and tall tales that only tias and abuelitas can pull off. My mother, however, enchanted me with Dickens, Twain, and stories of a fairy tale kingdom called New York, where she had grown up. The fact that I am a writer shows she won, that her constant tending of my lite stanley cup rary interests set the path and ultimately paid off. The fact that I have spent my career writing about the borderlands and my family therein is an irony I have wrestled with.My mother died before my first book was published in 1993, and itrsquo only now, 17 books into my career, that I understand it was perhaps all an apprenticeship to earn the right to tell her story. I owe h Vime This Is What the Web Might Look Like Without Jerks
Photo Illustration By Neil Jamieson for TIMEBy Simon Shuster/KyivJuly 7, 2021 3:12 PM EDTOn the secon adidas samba d night of his visit to Kyiv, Erik Prince had a dinner date on his agenda. A few of his Ukrainian associates had arranged to meet the American billionaire at the Vodka Grill that evening, Feb. 23, 2020. The choice of venue seemed unusual. The Vodka Grill, a since-defunct nightclub next to a KFC franchise in a rough part of town, rarely saw patrons as powerful as Prince.As the party got seated inside a private karaoke room on the second floor, Igor Novikov, yeezy who was then a top adviser to Ukrainersquo President, remembers feeling a little nervous. He had done some reading about Blackwater, the private military company Prince had founded in 1997, and he knew about the massacre its troops had perpetrated during the U.S. war in Iraq. Coming fac af1 e to face that night with the worldrsquo most prominent soldier of fortune, Novikov remembers thinking: What does this guy want from us It soon became clear that Prince wanted a lot from Ukraine. According to interviews with close associates and confidential documents detailing his ambitions, Prince hoped to hire Ukraine combat veterans into a private military company. Prince also wanted a big piece of Ukrainersquo military-industrial complex, including factories that make engines for fighter jets and helicopters. His full plan, dated June 2020 and obtained exclusively by TIME this spring, includes a roadm |
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