Many style guides, including the one used by this magazine, now capitalize the “B” in “Black”: a person is Black; a culture is Black. “The point was to denote and to define and to dignify, to bring the diaspora of dispersed Africans, former and present, into the hall of recognition enjoyed by the proper-noun ethnic categories,” Doreen St. Félix writes, in this week’s Critic’s Notebook. “Everyone knows what it means to capitalize ‘Black,’ ” Félix continues. “But how does it feel? On your tongue, on the page? If we act like affect isn’t what truly rules how we talk to, and around, one another, we won’t get to the whole of the matter.” Read Félix on diaspora warring and the complexities of Black identity: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tFiEyF

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Putin Orders Cut in Gas Sent Via Ukraine as Disruptions Spread
MOSCOW, Jan. 5 -- Russia said Monday that it is sharply reducing the amount of natural gas it ships to Europe through Ukraine, deepening its fuel embargo of the former Soviet republic as supply disruptions spread to other countries and a top Ukrainian official warned of "catastrophe" for the pipe...
(By Philip P. Pan, The Washington Post)

Metro Posts Alerts for Bus Riders
Metro has begun posting service-disruption information for Metrobus on its Web site as a way to improve communication with riders on its more than 350 bus routes. The agency has been posting such information for rail riders for years.
(By Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post)

Aside from the disruption and trauma the practice can cause, Graff warns that the pictures potentially violate child pornography laws that ban sexually suggestive pictures of underage children.
除了這種行為可能帶來的關係破裂與創害，葛拉夫警告，這種照片也可能違反兒童色情法，該法禁止未成年孩子的性暗示圖片。

None of the legal messiness is surprising given the nature of the business, said Gerald Peters, an art dealer in Santa Fe, N.M., who said he had bought paintings from Art Capital. “The game they have to play is rough,” he said. “But the service they are providing is real, and there’s demand for it.”

Messy Washington Tests ‘the Professor’

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Lawrence H. Summers, the chief White House economic adviser, has had a rocky week. “Politics are hard to predict,” he said in an interview.

A Shift in South Africa
A ground-breaking democratic election elevates a potentially problematic leader.
(The Washington Post)

紐約時報
Patients here were more likely to get appointments quickly for elective surgery than those in nearly all the other countries. But access to primary care doctors, the mainstay of medical practice, was often rocky. Only half of the American adults were able to see a doctor the same day that they became sick or the day after, a worse showing than in all the other countries except Canada. Getting care on nights and weekends was problematic.

problem
noun [C]
1 a situation, person or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with or solved:
financial/health problems
Our main problem is lack of cash.
I'm having problems with my computer.
No one has solved the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.
The very high rate of inflation poses/presents (= is) a serious problem for the government.
When is the government going to tackle (= deal with) the problem of poverty in the inner cities?
[+ ing form of verb] Did you have any problems (= difficulties) getting here?
I'd love to come - the only problem is I've got friends staying that night.

2 a question in mathematics which needs an answer:
We were given ten problems to solve.

3 problem child/family, etc. a child, etc. whose behaviour is bad

problematic
adjective (ALSO problematical) ━━ a. 問題の, 疑問の, 不確かな; 未決の.
full of problems or difficulties:
Getting everyone there on time might prove problematic.

problematically
adverb

messiness
Meaning #1: a state of confusion and disorderliness
Synonyms: mess, muss, mussiness
Meaning #2: the trait of being untidy and messy
Synonym: untidiness

mess (UNTIDINESS) Show phonetics
noun
1 [S or U] Something or someone that is a mess or is in a mess, looks dirty or untidy:
He makes a terrible mess when he's cooking.
Jem's house is always in a mess.
Go and clear up that mess in the kitchen.
Ian can't stand mess.
I look a mess - I can't go out like this!
My hair's such a mess today!

2 [S] a situation that is full of problems:
She said that her life was a mess.
I got myself into a mess by telling a lie.
The company's finances are in a mess.

3 [S] a person whose life is full of problems they cannot deal with:
After the divorce he was a real mess and drinking too much.

4 [C] an animal's excrement:
Fido left another mess on the carpet.

mess
verb
1 [T] MAINLY US (UK mess up) INFORMAL to make something untidy:
Don't you dare mess my hair!

2 [I] to leave excrement somewhere:
Next door's dog has messed on our steps again!

messy Show phonetics
adjective
1 untidy:
a messy kitchen
messy hands/hair
His bedroom's always messy.

2 producing or causing dirt and untidiness:
Eating spaghetti can be a messy business.
Vicky cooks really well but she's rather messy.

3 describes a situation that is confused and unpleasant:
A war will be a long and messy business.
They had a bitter, messy divorce.

messily

rocky
adjective
1 unable to balance very well:
After two months in a hospital bed, I felt a bit rocky on my feet.
See also rocky at rock (STONE).

2 uncertain and difficult and not likely to last long:
Their relationship got off to a rocky start.

disrupt
verb [T]
to prevent something, especially a system, process or event, from continuing as usual or as expected:
A heavy fall of snow had disrupted the city's transport system.
The meeting was disrupted by a group of protesters who shouted and threw fruit at the speaker.

disruption
noun [C or U]
The accident on the main road through town is causing widespread disruption for motorists.

disruptive
adjective
causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing as usual:
His teacher described him as a noisy, disruptive influence in class.