<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-8a2ab689-7fff-b3a2-831a-2a35fcecf305"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Today’s Issues group is meeting at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church.  For this Sunday, 8/2/2020, the group will discuss two issues from the New York Review of Books:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">From the Daily NYR, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Krithika Varagur, “</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XMzHoo7AiSdzkSBQLc7IYYwWzYJQrR0WzSAmoWZpEn4/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After George Floyd, Who Will Police Minneapoli</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">s?” a discussion of policing in the ‘defund the police’ era.  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">From the July 23 issue, page 52, “</span><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/23/scandal-drug-supply-bottle-lies/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Daniel J. Kevles: The Scandal of Our Drug Supply</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,” a review of </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Katherine Eban</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Both essays can be read online without a password, just click on the titles above.  Please do the reading and join our lively discussion.  Everyone is welcome!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We meet in the RE building parlor following social distancing guidelines, please wear a face mask.  If anyone would like to join the discussion through Zoom, let me know and I’ll set it up.  </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div>