Trump Told Mexico to Stop Migrants From Reaching the U.S. So Far, His Plan Is Working | The Dispatch
Pressured by President Trump, Mexico beefed up security on its border with Guatemala. We were there as the first migrant caravan of 2020 tried to pass.
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January 27, 2020
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Walk Run Cha-Cha: How a Couple Found Love on the Dance Floor | Op-Docs
The Oscar-nominated Op-Doc "Walk Run Cha-Cha" profiles Paul and Millie Cao, who reunited in California after the Vietnam War. Forty years later, they are rediscovering themselves on the dance floor.
In an accompanying essay, director Laura Nix writes, "Faced with middle age, Paul and Millie chose to reinvent themselves again. After decades of delayed gratification, this time they focused on what gives them joy. As you’ll see in this Op-Doc, dance opened up a world of self-expression and pleasure for the couple, sparking a transition from responsible professionals to flamboyant performers pursuing their creative dreams.
On the face of it, a film about middle-aged people dancing might not seem political. But my decision to tell a story about Paul and Millie’s life in the present, and not solely focus on their past, was intentional. Films about refugees and immigrants are often focused on the point of entry, when the newly arrived are at their most vulnerable. But it’s essential for us to hear stories about what happens next.
Paul and Millie are refugees from Vietnam. Paul and Millie are also working professionals, parents, dancers and American citizens who have lived in California for over 40 years. As with many Americans who started their lives in another country, their story embodies resilience and courage. Love and longing. Separation and reunion. These themes are visually reflected in the dance itself, in their tender glances, when he lifts her to the sky, the yearning in their gestures — their ability to transform adversity into beauty."
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January 23, 2020
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Watch How ‘Uncut Gems’ Creates Action Thrills at a School Play | Anatomy of a Scene
The setting of this scene from “Uncut Gems” is a school production, but the real drama is in the audience. The lead character, Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a jewelry store owner, has recently acquired a rare gem, but he’s also accumulated some debt along the way. In this scene, during a school play he’s attending with his family to watch his daughter perform, some not-so-nice men have come to collect on that debt.
In their narration, the directors Josh and Benny Safdie discuss how they use a shoulder-tap gag to create a fearful moment, shifting the tone of the sequence and heightening the stakes exponentially in a matter of seconds.
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January 17, 2020
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Ken Burns Argues One Vote Can Change History
Harnessing the power of its new Democratic majority, the Virginia legislature is poised to vote this week to become the 38th of the 38 states needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, which would make women’s rights explicit in the Constitution. In the video Op-Ed above, the filmmaker Ken Burns compares this historic moment with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote 100 years ago.
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January 15, 2020
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I Was the Next Colonel Sanders. KFC Had Other Plans. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs
It was lunchtime and H. Salt was empty. “How is this place still in business?” I remember thinking. The fish must be amazing, a cult favorite. I ordered a two-piece. It wasn’t. I needed to know more.
An initial Google search revealed that this shop was the last gasp of a once-sprawling fish-and-chips empire with hundreds of locations that started with an immigrant’s secret family recipe, flourished into an eight-figure deal with Colonel Sanders and ended in collapse.
It took several years and the research help of friends to track down Mr. Salt. We found him in a remote retirement community in Southern California’s desert. The rest you can see in the film before you.
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January 13, 2020
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Iran Shot Down a Ukrainian Passenger Plane. Here's How it Happened. | Visual Investigations
Iranians have taken to the streets in protest after the government admitted, following three days of denials, that it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet. Here’s everything we know about that seven-minute flight.
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January 13, 2020
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How ‘Just Mercy’ Gets Close to Its Characters | Anatomy of a Scene
Two death row inmates seek a moment of solace and reflection in this scene from the drama “Just Mercy.”
The film is based on the memoir of Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer who has devoted most of his career to getting justice for those who have been wrongfully convicted or denied a fair trial. Here, Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) is in the cell adjacent to Herbert Richardson (Rob Morgan), whose execution date is imminent. As Herbert loses hope, Walter has him do a breathing and visualization exercise.
Narrating the scene, Cretton cites a thought from Stevenson’s book about not being able to fully understand a problem unless you get close to it. “There is power in proximity,” Stevenson has said in lectures. Cretton mirrors this idea in the way he shoots the scene, through a pair of tight close-ups on each character. The scene was shot with two cameras simultaneously so that the conversation between the characters on either side of the wall could be captured in a more free-form way.
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January 10, 2020
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There Aren't Many Women Coaching College Sports, Here's Why | NYT Opinion
Title IX, passed in 1972, transformed American sports — it decided girls deserved the same opportunities as boys to play sports. From then on, men and women in college had to receive equal treatment on the playing field and equal funding for their athletic programs. Now the United States produces many of the best female athletes in the world.
But that equality stops at graduation.
Before Title IX, women were head coaches of more than 90 percent of women’s college teams. Passage of the law flooded women’s sports with money and created many more jobs, many of which went to men. Now about 40 percent of women’s college teams are coached by women. Only about 3 percent of men’s college teams are coached by women.
That means that men have roughly double the number of opportunities to coach. It only gets worse higher up the administrative ladder: 89 percent of Division I college athletic directors are men.
Without equal opportunities to lead, women don’t.
The pioneering female college coaches in the Video Op-Ed above explain how coaching is no different from any other C.E.O. or leadership role — teams could win more games by including the other half of the population and leveraging their talents.
If we can’t fix the leadership gender gap in sports, where can we fix it? Sports are entertainment, and they should reflect our values at their most unvarnished. We pass laws that make our daughters feel empowered while they are girls, and sell sneakers through ads with names like “The Girl Effect.” We put girls in sports so that they learn the best person wins. We teach them they’re in a meritocracy — until we leave them on their own come adulthood.
And so girls and boys grow up being led by men. Guess who they come to believe are the real leaders?
We all know the trope: When a woman doesn’t lead well, it’s evidence that women can’t lead. When a man doesn’t work out, he wasn’t the right fit. Women need to be twice as good, often while working twice as hard, to stay in the game. A lot of women leave. And when you let an entire category of people disappear from your talent pool, everyone suffers.
By not diversifying, college teams are quite literally leaving points on the field.
Adding women to leadership roles improves the overall performance of a team, across fields. According to a Harvard study, gender-balanced teams perform better than male-dominated teams. A 2019 Harvard Business Review study found that “women outscored men on 17 of the 19 capabilities that differentiate excellent leaders from average or poor ones.” Another analysis of gender studies shows that when it comes to leadership skills, men excel at confidence, whereas women stand out for competence.
Absolute parity between the numbers of male and female coaches isn’t just a goal for the sake of a goal. We should worry about why these ratios and regression are as striking as they are and whether there’s a chance we might be keeping them this way.
Other sectors have made significant progress toward gender parity at the leadership level. Some industries have increased female leadership when C.E.O.s follow a version of this playbook: publicly call for change, set realistic data targets and demand to be held accountable.
Nine years ago, only 13 percent of the largest 350 publicly traded companies in Britain had female leadership. Together, they publicly pledged to achieve 30 percent, and by making their data transparent, they celebrated reaching “the 30 Percent Club” in 2019. Norway took a more blunt approach with quotas, and the N.F.L. adopted the Rooney Rule in 2003 that requires teams with a head-coaching vacancy to interview a minority candidate. That has helped increase the number of minority coaches by 20 percent, according to one study.
The N.C.A.A. in general and college sports conferences, like the Big 10 and the SEC in particular, could borrow from these models. (This report ranks schools according to the percentage of female coaches they employ.)
Think of all the championships being left on the field by limiting the talent pool to half the population. That’s why university presidents, alumni and fans should demand realistic, data-based metrics and hold schools accountable, just as they do with their teams on the field. Seismic change starts at the top with university presidents, athletic directors and the N.C.A.A.
Today we raise our little girls to follow their dreams and to excel. That is, until they become women and expect to be paid for it.
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December 31, 2019
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A Secret Look Inside a Chinese Labor Program for Uighurs | Visual Investigations
China is relocating Uighurs and other Muslim minorities to urban areas as part of a contentious labor program. The Times obtained rare footage taken inside one.
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December 30, 2019
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Taylor Swift Tells Us How She Wrote 'Lover' | Diary of a Song
Using exclusive voice memos, video and interviews, Diary of a Song reconstructs how Taylor Swift turned a late-night idea into “Lover,” her fourth track to be nominated for the songwriting award at the Grammys, and her first without a co-writer.
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December 24, 2019
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You’re Being Watched Right Now | NYT Opinion
The surveillance state is the stuff of dystopian novels and futuristic thrillers. Or, as revealed in the Video Op-Ed above, it’s here now. With ad trackers on our phones, facial recognition cameras on our streets and N.S.A. agents listening in on our phone calls, Big Brother is watching.
Throughout 2019, The New York Times Opinion department’s Privacy Project has been trying to make the conversation about privacy a little less boring, a little less complicated and a lot more real.
We keep hearing, “I’ve got nothing to hide” or “I can’t actually do anything about it.” But when the government fails to protect your privacy, it’s up to you to set your limits.
It’s time to decide: Are you really O.K. with being watched?
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December 20, 2019
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Key Moments From the Sixth 2019 Democratic Debate | NYT News
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December 20, 2019
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How ‘Little Women’ Throws a Dance Party | Anatomy of a Scene
There’s a moment in Greta Gerwig’s new film adaptation of “Little Women” that ignites the screen with as much energy as a fire that sets ablaze a character’s dress in the scene prior.
Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) is at a party with Theodore “Laurie” Laurence (Timothée Chalamet). He asks her to dance. But she’s accidentally scorched a part of her dress and doesn’t want other guests to see. Laurie takes Jo outside, and they have their own mini-dance party on the front porch bathed in the light of the larger party inside.
They dance in ways that are refined, silly, playful and buoyant all at once. The moment, choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes, has a bit of a punk-rock rebellion quality to it, but also keeps with the time.
“I wanted it to feel both totally modern and period accurate,” Gerwig said during an interview at The Times.
“I didn’t want them to be doing dances they wouldn’t necessarily know. But I did want it to feel joyful and young, like kids dance.”
Gerwig said the idea for this dance came from a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that features Gilda Radner and Steve Martin, where the two meet in a nightclub and trip the light fantastic.
“For our film, we wanted it to be this shimmery moment that feels like maybe it almost didn’t even happen,” she said.
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December 20, 2019
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Trump's Snake Poem Is Really About Him | NYT Opinion
Dating back to his days on the campaign trail, President Trump has often recited a poem called “The Snake,” as a warning about the dangers of welcoming refugees and immigrants into the country. In the Video Op-Ed above, I show how the parable is much more instructive when applied to Trump’s political rise. From his racist birther conspiracy theory to being forced to pay $2 million for using his charity for his own political gain, anyone paying close attention knew the kind of president he would be.
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December 19, 2019
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I Was Poised to be the First Black Astronaut. I Never Made it to Space. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs
This is the story of Ed Dwight Jr., who was invited by his country to train to be the first African-American astronaut. Back in 1963, it was hot news. But the United States never sent Dwight to space. For decades, he has maintained that he was discriminated against during his time at the Aerospace Research Pilot School, a prerequisite to NASA run by the legendary pilot Chuck Yeager.
Dwight is now a prolific artist, building memorials and creating public art honoring African-American history. His footprints cannot be found on the moon. But his fingerprints can be found on sculptures across the country.
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December 19, 2019
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We're Britain's First Female Rock Band. This is Why You Don't Know Us. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs
It’s hard to say what, exactly, was in the water in Liverpool in the early 1960s that wound up producing the Merseybeat sound and hundreds of groups of varying success. Four teenagers caught the scene by surprise and found screaming fans at every turn. Their names were Mary, Sylvia, Pam and Val.
It wasn’t only their sound that turned heads. They were The Liverbirds, Britain’s first all-female rock ’n’ roll band. Sitting down with surviving members Mary McGlory and Sylvia Saunders, you’d never know these two exceedingly charming Scouse (that means they come from Liverpool) matriarchs rocked a tour with The Rolling Stones. Lent their instruments to The Kinks. Rolled joints for Jimi Hendrix.
John Lennon himself told them that girls don’t play guitar. Well, John, they did. Imagine that.
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December 18, 2019
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I Was in The Black Eyed Peas. Then I Quit. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs
In the mid-1990s, the singer and songwriter Kim Hill met a young rapper who suggested they start making music. That rapper’s name was will.i.am, and his group was a rising Los Angeles underground hip-hop crew called The Black Eyed Peas. The rest is history — or is it?
Hill found herself at a crossroads in 2000 and decided to quit the group and find her own voice, only to look on as The Black Eyed Peas reached global stardom with earworms like “I Gotta Feeling.” Having missed out on what every performer dreams of, does Hill regret her decision?
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December 17, 2019
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What Does the Rise of Homemade Guns Mean for Gun Laws? We Made One To Find Out. | NYT
Virtually anyone can buy a kit online to build a gun from parts — without a background check. That raises questions about the future of gun regulation.
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December 16, 2019
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How ‘Bombshell’ Takes an Uncomfortable Elevator Ride | Anatomy of a Scene
And you thought you’ve had uncomfortable elevator moments.
In this scene from “Bombshell,” about the women at Fox News who were harassed by the chairman and chief executive Roger Ailes, the characters are mostly silent. But the moment speaks volumes.
The fictional Kayla, played by Margot Robbie, has just been the victim of harassment by Ailes and is summoned back to his office. She is joined in the elevator by Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) and Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman).
“This was a very important scene because it’s the only time in the whole movie when all three women are in the same place,” the movie's director, Jay Roach, said in an interview.
He noted that while the women are all experiencing similar harassment issues, they don’t feel comfortable speaking to one another here. “The whole scene is about how these women are divided from each other, even though they’re all in this same tight space,” he said.
In his video narration, Roach discusses how he used cues from the score and specific camera shots to amplify the tension of the moment.
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December 13, 2019
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A.I. Is Making it Easier to Kill (You). Here’s How. | NYT
A tank that drives itself. A drone that picks its own targets. A machine gun with facial recognition software. Sounds like science fiction? A.I. fueled weapons are already here.
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December 13, 2019
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For the 3rd time in American history, the Senate is considering whether to remove a sitting president. We photographed the House managers prosecuting President Trump and the legal team defending him. In the prior 2 presidential impeachment trials, the House members selected to prosecute the cases were white men. But the group chosen by Speaker Nancy Pelosi includes 2 African-Americans, a Latina and 3 women. On the other side, President Trump's defense team includes well-known prosecutors, including Ken Starr, who pursued the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and Alan Dershowitz, a celebrity lawyer who has defended O.J. Simpson and Jeffrey Epstein. To hear how the opposing legal teams view impeachment in their own words, tap the link in our bio. @erinschaff took these photos.
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We sat down (again) with some of the Democrats running for president — but this time with a whole new list of 20 questions for them to answer, including whether they think Barack Obama made any mistakes as president and what’s the last book they read. Watch our Story to see more from the candidates with just a week to go before the first votes in the Democratic presidential primary are cast next Monday, Feb. 3. And tap the link in our bio to watch the candidates answer all 20 questions.
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Jason Polan, an incessant sketcher whose whimsical drawings and art projects made him one of the quirkiest and most prolific residents of the New York art scene, died on Monday. He was 37. @jasonpolan’s signature project for the past decade or so was “Every Person in New York,” in which he set himself the admittedly impossible task of drawing everyone in the city. By the time he published a book of that title in 2015 — which he envisioned as Vol. 1 — he had drawn more than 30,000 people. Jason had been a regular contributor to The New York Times since 2008. Among his many contributions to The Times were these drawings — a selection from the 505 sketches Jason made of different ways to read a newspaper.
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“We live as long as the memory of us is alive,” a handwritten note in one of the barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau read. It was 75 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, when Soviet forces swept across Poland from the east and liberated Auschwitz, the camp complex where 1.3 million were enslaved — and 1.1 million among them systematically murdered — during World War II. But before the Soviets could arrive, the Nazis marched some 56,000 weakened prisoners out of the camp, in the dead of winter, with an estimated 15,000 shot or dying of cold, hunger and illness along the way. A Memory March held last week followed the main route of the death march of 1945, during which participants traced the paths of the victims and visited the monuments and graves dedicated to the lives lost in the Holocaust. To read more, tap the link in our bio. @macieknabrdalik took these photos.
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Yarkand remains a cultural cradle for Uighurs, a mostly Muslim minority in China’s far western Xinjiang region. But their way of life is under intense pressure. Uighurs have for three years endured a sweeping campaign to turn them into obedient followers of the Communist Party, to weaken their commitment to Islam and to shift them from farms to factories. Up to a million or more Uighurs have been sent to indoctrination camps since 2017, but the Uighers in Yarkand appear resilient, holding onto customs woven from their history as farmers, merchants and Muslims living on the edge of deserts. To read more from our dispatch in Yarkand, a city that was effectively closed off to foreign journalists in 2018, tap the link in our bio. And follow @cn.nytimes to read our coverage in Chinese. @gillessabrie took this photo of Uighur men watching a movie at a teahouse in Yarkand.
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Tonight Lil Nas X, Rosalía and Taylor Swift are all nominated for top awards at the Grammys. In our series #DiaryOfASong, the artists explained to our pop music reporter @joecoscarelli how they wrote some of their most iconic songs. Tap the link in our bio to watch the full video and follow @nytimesfashion for coverage of the #Grammys.
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Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash in California. He was 41. He and his daughter, Gianna, were among the passengers killed in the crash. The Los Angeles Lakers star retired in 2016 and was an 18-time All-Star who won 5 NBA titles and 2 Olympic gold medals, and was voted the league’s most valuable player in 2008. Kobe was 17 years old when he was picked 13th over all in the 1996 draft by the Charlotte Hornets, who promptly traded him to the Lakers, the only organization for which he played in his professional career. He ranks 4th on the NBA’s career scoring list, behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone and LeBron James. In retirement, Kobe had expanded his purview, winning an Academy Award in 2018 for his animated short film “Dear Basketball.” This is a developing story. Tap the link in our bio for the latest updates. Photo by Harry How/Getty Images.
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Tonight Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Bon Iver are all nominated for top awards at the Grammys. In our series #DiaryOfASong, the artists explained to our pop music reporter @joecoscarelli how they wrote some of their most iconic songs. Tap the link in our bio to watch the full video and follow @nytimesfashion for coverage of the #Grammys.
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John Mulaney starts his Sundays by taking a walk with Petunia, his French bulldog. From his West Village apartment, the “Saturday Night Live” alum and his pup usually start with a Starbucks run: “I’ll pick her up and take her into Starbucks, pretending I don’t know you can’t do that. It works if I come in looking distressed, as if I understand nothing about society.” To check out the rest of how @johnmulaney spends his Sundays, tap the link in our bio. @saranaomiphoto took this photo.
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Decades ago, Armenian scientists built a high-elevation center to catch and study cosmic rays. It once was one of the bustling centers of physics, devoted to the study of high-energy particles thrown from exploding stars, black holes and other astrophysical calamities light-years away. But once physicists learned how to create these particles themselves, stations like the Cosmic Ray Research Station became mostly obsolete. Now they are maintained for long stretches by a skeleton crew of 2 technicians and a cook, waiting for news that could change the universe. To read more, tap the link in our bio. @yulia_grigoryants took these photos.
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What’s new to learn about baking chocolate chip cookies? As this recipe shows: potentially a lot. A few new tips and tricks take these classics to the next level. One easy step involves banging the pan on the counter a few times during baking, causing the cookies to "fall." This produces rippled edges that shatter in your mouth, but a center that is soft and full of chocolate. To get the recipe, tap the link in our bio. @tlr_lifesquared took this photo.
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Bowen Yang is Saturday Night Live’s first Chinese-American cast member. He is also one of the first openly gay comedians on the legendary comedy show, along with Kate McKinnon. Yang has made a mark on @nbcsnl playing roles like Kim Jong-un (for which he learned his lines in Korean), Andrew Yang and a character he created on “Weekend Update” called “Trade Daddy,” the catty Chinese trade representative negotiating with the Trump administration. To read the full profile on the cast member who was voted “Most Likely To Be On SNL” in high school, tap the link in our bio. @celestesloman took this photo.
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