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Q: After four years of taunting and torturing fellow Republicans , Ted Cruz is shedding his just-say-no persona in the Senate for a new identity : Team player . 
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- a man Cruz once derided as a liar and an ally of Democrats -- is counting on the Texan to help navigate an Obamacare repeal bill through the Senate with virtually no margin for error . 
As a trusted voice of the conservative wing of the GOP and conduit to the House Freedom Caucus , Cruz is fast emerging as a pivotal player in the Republican bid to do away with the landmark Democratic health care law . 
But after receiving so much blowback for that and many other episodes , there 's nary a Cruz critic in the Senate Republican Conference nowadays . 
Cruz 's work on health care has been uncharacteristically low profile so far . 
It began with a private dinner in mid-February at the upscale D.C. steakhouse Capital Grille with the more compromise-minded Alexander , who once chided Cruz for calling McConnell a liar on the Senate floor by noting that one thing "you learn in Kindergarten is to respect one another ." 
Alexander and Cruz agreed to assemble a group of GOP senators to prepare for the eventuality that the House would send them a health care bill riddled with flaws that could not pass the Senate as written . 
But when it comes to passing a new health care law , Republicans believe the inclusion of Cruz and his close ally , Sen. Mike Lee -LRB- R-Utah -RRB- , could pay critical dividends by building support among conservative groups and the House Freedom Caucus . 
"One of the challenges when the Obamacare bill was in the House , was that early on was that the different parts of the party were not talking to each other ," Cruz said in an interview in his office . 
Collaborative and inclusive are not typically words associated with Cruz . 
Now that President Barack Obama is out of office , Cruz said his mission in the Senate is no longer to be the "loyal opposition ." 
"Different circumstances call for different approaches ," said Cruz , who is gearing up to run for a second term next year in a closely watched race . 
Cruz 's leading role has shocked some of his colleagues . 
The group that Cruz helped develop is , in some ways , a substitute for the traditional committee process . 
"We have skin in the game ," Cruz said . 
Still , there 's concern among some more centrist senators that the end-product could appeal too much to Cruz and not enough to the dozen or so Republican senators who have grave concerns about slashing Medicaid and removing protections for preexisting conditions . 
Clearly he believes Lee and Cruz are crucial ; but some GOP sources said there are deep doubts among senators that Collins or Sen. Rand Paul -LRB- R-Ky . -RRB- 
Though GOP leaders believe by getting Cruz involved they are minimizing the possibility that Cruz will later demolish their repeal efforts , the Texas firebrand is n't on the same page about everything . 
Cruz wants to go as big as possible , and if Senate rules prohibit his idea , he believes Vice President Mike Pence should simply overrule the parliamentarian . 
"The parliamentarian merely advises , the vice president decides ," Cruz said . 
But on almost every other front , Republicans say , Cruz is being highly productive .

A: Ted Cruz
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Q: The billboard on 42nd Street near Times Square  was half a block long. Scrawled in rainbow colors was the title of an innovative new play  “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.” And adorning that 1977 billboard was a portrait of a young black woman in a do-rag: the playwright Ntozake Shange .
 Shange’s  rise to international fame and  her  sudden disappearance — followed by decades of physical and mental health challenges — are part of one of the most dramatic lives in Broadway history. Now   Shange  reflects on these events and more in a new collection of poetry called “Wild Beauty.”
In 1975   Shange  had arrived in New York from California with  her  dancer friend Paula Moss and a satchel of poems.  She  and Moss began reading and dancing to  Shange ’s poems in New York cafes. The next thing  Shange  knew   she  was being whisked off by theatrical producer Woodie King Jr.  who told  her  what  she ’d really written was a play. After a few weeks of working with King and others   Shange  winnowed  her  poems down to the voices of seven women  who remain nameless but can be identified by the colors of their dresses.
Author Ntozake Shange (Adger Cowans)
Miraculously  she typed out her first new poem in years  an overview of her whole life. Titled “these blessings ” it appears in her new collection  “Wild Beauty ” which contains more than 60 new and previously published poems  all of which are also translated into Spanish by Alejandro Álvarez Nieves. The bilingual edition was  Shange ’s idea  reflecting her lifelong concern with the African diaspora throughout the Americas.
There is no question that  Shange  is a black writer. Not only does she write in a style that mimics the sound and syntax of black speech  but much of her material is drawn from the daily realities of black life. No poet since Langston Hughes has insisted so forcefully on black people’s right to simply be:

A: Ntozake Shange
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Q: One quick way to understand the agreement British Prime Minister Theresa May struck with the European Union on Friday â which effectively guarantees that the United Kingdomâs exit from the trading bloc will change so little that there will be no need to police its new border with the EU in Ireland â is to look at how very unhappy it has made pro-Brexit extremists.
Farage  Banks  and other âBrexiteersâ have spent months talking up the prospects of a free trade deal with the United States as a replacement for EU membership. But  as Irelandâs leader Leo Varadkar pointed out  by committing the U.K. to keeping its trade standards in line with the EU   May  had made  it  nearly impossible to strike free trade agreements (so-called FTAs) with nations like the U.S.  which have more lax health and safety regulations.
Congratulations to  Theresa May  for agreeing to absolutely everything the EU requested from the start but taking 8 months of potential trade negotiating time to do it â Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) December 8  2017
 Theresa May  has basically just scrolled straight to the end of the document and ticked the box saying  she  has read the Brexit Terms and Conditions. â John O'Farrell (@mrjohnofarrell) December 8  2017
May  who voted against Brexit in last yearâs referendum  now faces the tricky task of holding on to the support of the so-called Brextremists in  her  Conservative party during the final phase of trade negotiations that could result in the U.K. leaving the EU but getting a form of associate membership  like that enjoyed by Norway or Switzerland. Since  she  took office after the referendum   May  appears to have kept the peace in  her  divided party by stringently refusing to propose any concrete plans for what kind of deal  she  is hoping to strike with the E.U. The fact that  her  party has been avoiding hard conversations  intent on satisfying the narrow majority of Britons who voted to leave the EU without having ever developed an actual plan for how to protect its economy after Brexit  was reinforced on Wednesday when two senior ministers admitted as much in testimony to parliamentary committees. David Davis  who leads the newly created ministry for Exiting the European Union  was asked to provide details on the dozens of impact assessments he previously said his department had produced to determine how leaving the EU would affect up to 57 sectors of the British economy. To the surprise of many observers  Davis  who had previously described the studies as going into âexcruciating detail â suddenly admitted that no such papers existed.

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Theresa May
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