Some news items you might have missed: • AP News: Naval Academy plebes took two hours, 19 minutes, and 11 seconds to accomplish this year’s Herndon Climb – scaling a greased obelisk and swapping out a cup with a cap marking the end of their plebe year. Video at the link. • PEOPLE: Following controversial remarks made by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker in a commencement speech, the NFL has distanced itself from him saying in a statement: “His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.” https://twitter.com/people/status/1790866762054918388 • New York Times: President Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to two debates, one on June 27 on CNN and one on Sept. 10 on ABC News. The Biden campaign has proposed a format with just a moderator (no live audience) and microphones that automatically cut off when a speaker’s time limit elapses due to Trump’s habit of ignoring debate rules. • NBC News: A Florida teenager was told she couldn’t attend prom because she wore a suit, which was in violation of her charter school’s dress code. https://twitter.com/NBCOUT/status/1790873629980287134 • Axios: House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) appearance at Donald Trump’s criminal trial on Tuesday is dismaying the House Democrats who saved his job less than a week ago. Dems probably won’t be coming to his rescue again. • Into: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mega-hit CATS gets reinvented as CATS – The Jellicle Ball. But this version is reimagined through the lens of ballroom culture. Co-director Bill Rauch says he began by considering the song ‘Memory’ in a queer context: “I thought about it in terms of an older gay man in a bar, and just thought, Wow, those lyrics and that music would be so moving in that context.” “And then I began to actually spend time with the material and realized, of course, it’s not a bar, it’s a ball — because Cats is literally a competitive ball.” https://youtu.be/E0KLtBSsL38?si=lP7mrNmvY07le1_B
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