Gone are the days of Roy Hodgson, England’s ‘yes man’ as labelled by a disgruntled country after the embarrassing exit from Euro 2016, which led to the subsequent resignation of the former Liverpool boss. Southgate has instilled a belief in his side that they can go on to win a major trophy for the first time since 1966, and his group of fearless young lions only have one goal now that qualification is secure....
But Nyerere’s personality was irresistible. Absolute power never corrupted him. He always obeyed traffic laws when driving around Dar es Salaam, stopping at traffic signals; earned $8,000 a year in pay during his best year, and forgot to collect a government pension. His chosen honorific was Mwilimu, which means teacher; his great moments were articulating an idealistic post-independence vision for Africa. He won victories that have no price tag–under his direction the country adopted one language, Swahili, and defeated a neighboring tyrant, Idi Amin of Uganda....
But in the car, Lindsay, 11, remembered coming down the stairs on a weekend morning to watch TV by the twinkling lights, and her younger brother, Noah, who started out the trip opposed to a tree, said quietly, ““Couldn’t we just have a little one?” Of all the difficult emotional, theological and familial issues raised by Ricci’s conversion, this one alone remained unsettled. In one small part of Ricci’s soul, it’s Christmas, and she wants her tree....
In a display of unprecedented unity, the letter—which calls for peace between the world’s Christians and Muslims—is signed by no fewer than 19 current and former grand ayatollahs and grand muftis from countries as diverse as Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Iraq. It is addressed to Christianity’s most powerful leaders, including the pope, the archbishop of Canterbury and the heads of the Lutheran, Methodist and Baptist churches, and, in 15 pages laced with Qur’anic and Biblical scriptures, argues that the most fundamental tenets of Islam and Christianity are identical: love of one (and the same) God, and love of one’s neighbor....
Button was flying tail-end Charlie in a three-plane formation over Arizona on a sunny April morning two weeks ago, just about to drop that first 500-pound bomb, when he suddenly broke formation and headed northeast, toward Colorado. He failed to answer radio calls or flick a switch that would have made his plane easy to track on radar. In northern Arizona about 20 minutes later, some schoolboys saw the A-10 poke down through the clouds, bank into a half-circle and then disappear again....
Chichvarkin belongs to a select but growing club of megamoguls from emerging-market economies whose triumphs in the business world have won them a newfound celebrity status. Unlike their predecessors, who often kept a low profile for safety, or to avoid suspicion that their gains may have been ill gotten, the new celebrity CEOs aren’t afraid to flaunt what they’ve got, or leverage their own PR for further gain, à la Donald Trump or Britain’s Richard Branson....
The first protest was staged in 1959 by Minneapolis Lakers forward Elgin Baylor during his rookie season. That year, Baylor and his teammates traveled to Charleston, West Virginia to play the Cincinnati Royals, but on arrival he and several other Black players on the Lakers’ roster were denied entry to the Kanawha Hotel. According to the Charleston-Gazette Mail, upon arrival, the hotel’s front desk clerk said, “The three colored boys will have to go somewhere else....
So much for the war against drugs. While the DEA has successfully targeted top traficantes, the drug business has continued to flourish at the grass roots. The Bolivian economy is addicted to coca, which provides 350,000 jobs at home-and accounts for 35 percent of the world’s output. Two thirds of that crop comes from the Chapare, where the DEA is considered the Devil himself. At a recent gathering, campesinos charged that Bolivian police steal their coca only to sell it to traffickers themselves and accused Americans of destroying their means of livelihood by dynamiting roads used to bring their crops to market....
In recent years, other planes have crashed with numbing regularity. But this one captured the attention of the world for a simple reason: the Concorde, with its supersonic abilities and sleek design, has always been a celebrity of the skies. Its enduring allure, even after so many years, is the reason the final moments of Flight 4590 were captured on film from several angles–no other plane gets such attention from amateur paparazzi....
It’s a nice sentiment, anyway. Yet many rank-and-file members are far less optimistic that either George W. Bush or Al Gore will have the political pull inside the Capitol to bring a suspicious, divided Congress together. The postelection wrestling match between the presidential candidates has only intensified the bitterness on the Hill, further dividing the two sides. “There will be no lion lying down with the lamb,” says Rep. Jim Moran, a Virginia Democrat....
Any parent will know you barely sleep for the first 18 years, but if you’re having particular trouble adjusting to the new routine, help is at hand. Tuft & Needle, who sell everything sleep-related from duvets to dog beds, are looking for willing volunteers to join their Sleep Ambassador Program. Some 15 sleepy parents will be able to join the six-week course, focused on prioritizing “self care” and “teaching them how to take back control of their sleep....
As such, we’ve broken down character tiers based on the character’s impact of the story, the character’s personal development, and their effectiveness as a companion in combat. So, S Tier represents characters who’ve done this to a high degree throughout their time in the franchise, whereas D Tier falls completely short of all this. B Tier is the biggest as the most “average” of the bunch. The entirety of the Dragon Age timeline is also being considered but characters are (noted) by which game they appeared as a companion in and in no particular order....
MORE: Patriots have never seen Tom Brady play better than this In the post, Brady does a questionable impression of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson while sitting on, wait for it — a bunch of rocks. “Hey Rock, what kind of sleepwear you sleeping in? It doesn’t matter what kind of sleepwear you’re sleeping in!” Brady exclaims, before telling the former WWE star that he’s sending him a set of his new Under Armour pajamas....
It has been a long time since I last watched cricket. I feel disconnected, like a batsman halfway down the crease as the ball soars above his shoulder, missing his terrorized face. It has been precisely 8 days. For the past 8 days, I have done some things which I had not thought about while I was watching cricket. There was the England tour, then they came here to return the favor, then West Indies came to make us feel better, then Sehwag did something crazy and then this, this huge break from cricket....
Given the fact that he leads a military regime, General Musharraf’s first concern was his own military brass. Since 1979 the Army has promoted fundamentalism in Pakistani society, and since 1996 it has been the Taliban’s biggest supporter abroad. So just as American planes started bombing Afghanistan on Oct. 7, Musharraf mustered support among key generals to reshuffle the top command. One hard-liner, Lt. Gen. Muhammed Aziz, was shifted from his post as the power-ful corps commander in Lahore to a cere-monial position as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff....
Stein isn’t the only Harold Stassen on the charity fund-raising circuit. Scores of perennial also-rans say they’ve been left behind by the United Way system. In 1990 charities outside the United Way’s domain collected only about $200 million of the estimated $2.1 billion raised in the workplace; the United Way received the rest. But the recent forced resignation of United Way of America head William Aramony could create a window of opportunity for the charitable underdogs, many of which represent women, minorities and environmental concerns....
This year, however, the chosen theme is drawing scrutiny, due to its overarching motif: “Stop ICE.” Splashed across one side of the Milwaukee County Transit System bus in question is a mural depicting officers detaining immigrant families. Meanwhile, another part of the bus wrapping provides advice on how community members can evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities, should agents come knocking on their door. The bus art project was sponsored by the Milwaukee Art Museum as part of an ongoing teen ArtXpress program....
The lives of Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong and David Sarnoff were as improbable as any radio melodrama. De Forest, a shameless self-promoter of dubious ethicality, invented the vacuum tube that made radio practical-without ever quite understanding how it worked. The discoveries of Armstrong, a brilliant if naive idealist, formed the basis for virtually all radio reception today. Sarnoff, an impoverished Russian immigrant who rose to the presidency of RCA, hit upon the notion of mass broacasting....
“Walden” by Henry David Thoreau. It got me thinking hard about American attitudes toward the natural world, and the relationship between the two. “Changes in the Land” by William Cronon. This helps you see that the landscape is a historical creation, not just nature. “The Art of the Commonplace” by Wendell Berry. His essays show the choices you make in everyday life have political consequences. “Homer’s Odyssey”. I understood, for the first time, how a book written years ago could teach you how to live....
