“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. Every detail is incredibly telling and reveals a huge amount, but there’s a wonderful simplicity to Tolstoy’s fiction. “The Portrait of a Lady” by Henry James. It shows that moments of revelation emerge out of the murkiness that is life. “Zeno’s Conscience” by Italo Svevo. There’s a terribly unreliable narrator, but in the end, something true comes out of it; we’re all too busy interpreting....
The first night of the 2021 WWE Draft will take place on the October 1 edition of SmackDown on FOX. The second night will take place on the October 4 edition of RAW on USA Network. The two-night event will see the WWE main roster shaken up as superstars are assigned to either the red brand or the blue brand. It hasn’t been currently confirmed if the newly revamped NXT 2....
It’s the final day of the 2018-19 season and we are a point behind the leaders. But irrespective of what happens today, I think it’s time someone put into words what it has been like with you at the helm of Liverpool Football Club. Over the past decade and more, being a Liverpool supporter has not been easy. There have been some major lows that I and millions of fans of this great club have had to witness....
This feat has eluded the likes of Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Wesley Sneijder, Iker Casillas, Frank Ribery, Wayne Rooney and so many more who tried to compete but were completely shadowed by the extraordinary feat of this absolute aliens. This year has been amazing for Luka Modric in each sense, third consecutive UEFA Champions League for him with Real Madrid and FIFA World Cup finals with underdogs Croatia which they eventually lost....
Clinton wrongly implied that Obama had little or no accomplishments to his credit. Obama recited a list of achievements at both the state and federal level, which we found to be accurate. Obama used an outdated and probably inflated figure to support his argument that Clinton’s “mandated” health care plan would exempt a large number who currently lack insurance. Obama falsely claimed, again, that Bill Clinton’s labor secretary said his health care plan reduced costs more than his opponent’s....
His appearance at Stamford Bridge saw him make his fourth start in three weeks and he looked much sharper as a result. He fired in a double to put himself just two goals behind Eden Hazard and Alvaro Morata in Chelsea’s scoring charts this season on 10 strikes. Chelsea ran out 3-0 winners on the afternoon with Marcos Alonso adding a trademark free-kick in the second half, while Antonio Conte gave a debut to academy starlet Callum Hudson-Odoi....
I clean the box, hoping that next spring our bluebirds will come back to raise yet another brood. Around March, the pair returns to our snow-covered yard in the high mountains of Colorado. All summer, the brilliant-blue male and subtle-colored female perch on our swing set, rooftop or the railing of our deck. To us, their soft calls and chirps have come to mean summer. My two young children watch the birds snatch grubs from the flower bed, dive-bomb after flying insects or sway in the wind on sagebrush twigs....
Duro Barroso was little known, or even noticed, at the time. Many accounts of the Azores meeting didn’t mention the host’s name. Last week, however, Duro Barroso was back in the news in a way that ensures he won’t be forgotten. The unassuming 48-year-old lawyer emerged from a bloody selection process as the compromise candidate to succeed Romano Prodi as president of the European Commission, the bureaucratic engine of the European Union....
A moment ago I was–like every other urban commuter–swimming through the soup of afternoon traffic. Suddenly, a puff of black smoke explodes from the slow lane. Then, motion. Or echo of motion as motorists struggle to get out of the way of a car shooting full throttle across seven lanes of traffic. It hits the center divider with enough force to send the vehicle 10 feet into the air. The subcompact lands on its back, flames immediately unleashed from inside....
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, otherwise known as the CDF, is the former Holy Inquisition. The word “holy” is a bit ironic, frankly. These are ordinary human beings who are struggling to do a good job, but in the modern world. I wrote a book in 1993 called “Women at the Altar” just when the debate on the ordination of women was a key topic of conversation, particularly in the United Kingdom....
Like most Latin American photographers of his day, Chambi made his living shooting portraits for the local elite in Cuzco. But, as Ranney discovered, he also had a splendid wandering eye. The calendar is a sampling of his portfolio of majestic landscapes, Aymara and Quechua Indians, and the quotidian splendor of life on Cuzco’s streets. Chambi’s oeuvre is all the more remarkable given his limitations; he worked with a simple box camera, exclusively in black and white, used no artificial lighting and recorded the images on emulsified glass....
This year has been anything but normal, including in the world of national politics. And as lawmakers in Washington, D.C., continue to be thrown curveballs just months away from a major presidential election, Newsweek took a look back at some of the wackier, more light-hearted moments that have occurred in Congress this year. Row, row, row your…vote? Representative Greg Stanton’s watery background on his video conference screen appeared fishy to his colleagues in Washington....
The next day Cooper drove to the offices of the Philadelphia medical examiner to face Rodney once again. This time, though, he got no closer than a whispered identification. Instead of entering a chilly, harshly lit room of slabs, Cooper waited in a bare office equipped with a desk, two chairs and a closed-circuit, black-and-white monitor. The screen rolled over once and there was Rodney, swaddled in a sheet, eyes tightly closed....
At 26, Karenna, a law student, has quietly joined the Gore campaign’s inner circle. As the eldest of his four children, she can speak with authority on women and the Gen-X set, but she also chimes in on a wide range of strategic and policy issues. In past campaigns she helped prep her dad for debates and used her writing skills (developed partly in a stint at Microsoft’s online magazine Slate) to hone his speeches....
Born in 1961–22 managers ago–the Los Angeles, then California, now Anaheim Angels are one of only six teams (with Detroit, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Montreal and Tampa Bay) that have not even made the playoffs in the last 13 seasons. They have never been to a World Series. They were one pitch away in 1986, but the pitch became a two-out, two-strike, two-run Red Sox home run. It sometimes seems as though the Angels play 162 road games because scads of people who come to their 81 home games in Orange County, home of transplants, used to live where the visiting team is from, and they root for it....
John Fox, Jim Caldwell, Chuck Pagano and Jack Del Rio joined former New York Giants coach Ben McAdoo in unemployment as the Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Indianapolis Colts and Oakland Raiders opted to start fresh. Bruce Arians called it a career as the Arizona Cardinals coach retired and, with six jobs now available, we rank them in order of which will be the most attractive. Detroit Lions There has been little exciting about the Lions for some time, but they have the pieces to be a serious contender....
ANTHONY TOWNSEND COFOUNDER, NYCWIRELESS Like many ideas that changed the world, this one began on a college campus. As a graduate student in urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late ’90s, Anthony Townsend, through his friends at MIT’s renowned Media Lab, became turned on to the possibilities of what we know today as Wi-Fi. On his return to New York City in 2000, Townsend became obsessed with the idea of free, shared wireless connectivity in public spaces....
