At first glance, George Bush the Elder is the epitome of the carefree retiree, happily “out of the loop,” alarming his loved ones by skydiving on his 75th birthday. But those who know the Old Man know the goofy-stuntman act isn’t all there is to the former president. In ways public and private, he is an active hand on deck of his son’s presidential campaign: less than a captain, to be sure, but far more than a dotty kibitzer....
Swift has spoken in-depth about her feud with Scooter Braun and her former music label, Big Machine Label Group, in the past year. Now, the conversation has pointed directly at the awards show. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the AMAs: Scooter Braun Buys Big Machine Braun, who managers singers Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato and Justin Bieber, acquired the majority rights to Big Machine Label Group in June....
Even those involved in the effort to stage the World Cup in America admit to a huge challenge. The potential for failure on a grand scale–sparsely filled stands, scant attention from the media, broadcasts on obscure cable stations–is great. “We’re on a missionary enterprise,” said former secretary of State Henry Kissinger (now vice chairman of the tournament’s organizing committee) last week. “We’ve got to make this sport as popular in the United States as it deserves to be....
Having previously resisted calls to follow - or at least mimic - the AFC’s 3+1 foreign player rule that sees one spot restricted to players from other AFC member nations, FFA has finally flagged a change to the rules. From the start of the 2018-19 season, A-League clubs will be allowed five imports in their playing squad but one of those spots will have to come from another Asian country....
LEGO boasts a pretty clean gaming resume with plenty of products that do a good job of adapting pre-existing IPs. Taking on a litany of beloved characters, settings, and tales and handling them with the utmost respect is hard. With such a lofty reputation comes an eagerness from fans to adapt their favorite properties. Scooby-Doo is absolutely one of them, and the landscape of gaming as well as the franchise’s absence on the medium means a new title is long overdue....
Questioning Cuba, this same Chinese expert claimed: “from time to time, there are alleged political factors behind the concept of human rights.” He then asked “what is the response of Cuba to the politicization of human rights in the implementation of the Convention Against Torture?” China is hardly in a position to make any recommendations on human rights to Iceland, while calling out the Cuban regime is a case of the pot calling the kettle black....
An Important Book you haven’t gotten around to reading: Any excellent new book that helps assess the challenges of global climate change … even if it’s by Al Gore. The book you most care about having children read: “Italian Folktales” by Italo Calvino. My kids would not tolerate anything like Grimm’s fairy tales; they were too dark and depressing. But there was something playful about the Italian fairy tales that they adored....
The experimental procedure, called photo-refractive keratectomy (PRK) and performed only by ophthalmologists, uses a new “excimer” laser to treat moderate degrees of nearsightedness (myopia). Glasses and contact lenses correct myopia by bending or refracting the light entering the eye so that it strikes the retina precisely. PRK does the same thing by changing the shape of the cornea (the eye’s clear protective covering). Controlled by computer, the excimer laser used in PRK emits short, high-energy pulses of cool ultraviolet radiation....
According to an exclusive report by Variety, the movie is being produced by 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content. It will be spearheaded by the trio of Erik Barmack, Roberto Grande, and Joshua Long. Ever since the first game was released on the Playstation 2 in 2005, it has gone on to become Sega’s second best-selling series after Sonic the Hedgehog. The central plot centers around the character of Kazuma Kiryu, who in the first game, was sentenced to jail for ten years for a crime he did not commit....
“Call It Sleep” was an astonishing projection of the mind of a small boy, David Schearl, growing up in the slums of New York’s Lower East Side. Roth picks up his autobiographical hero (now called Ira Stigman) in 1914, when the family moved to the mixed Irish-Jewish enclave of Harlem, and takes him to 1920 when he is 14 years old. Ira is a youth of many “stigmas”–his anxiously burgeoning sexuality, which leads to a quasi-incestuous episode with his earthy mother, his rejection of his Jewishness amid the tauntings and beatings of the Gentile boys....
Getting a taste of Olympic glory will prove more daunting. When she was chosen in 1982 at 15, Baraki was one of the youngest women ever to play on the national team. Now she is a 35-year-old mother of three, and has picked up a basketball three times in the past 10 years–including during a recent shoot-around with a NEWSWEEK correspondent. (She had to remove her burqa first.) Baraki is 20 pounds heavier than during her playing days and has lower-back problems....
343 Industries has been in charge of the Halo license ever since Bungie split off from Microsoft to make its Destiny series. Bungie helped put Xbox and Halo on the map with its acclaimed Halo trilogy, and it delivered an excellent closing chapter to its era with Halo: Reach. Ever since then, Xbox and 343 Industries have been trying to keep Halo as the face of Xbox. While franchise fans have stuck with the IP through thick and thin, 343 Industries’ Halo era has been rife with controversy ever since it began....
Hill’s follow-up performance against undermanned Lamar of the Southland Conference was more of the same, only this time the stats weren’t as eye-popping because his minutes were limited against the FCS opponent. MORE: Week 2 photos | Winston’s short day | Barrett’s tough outing | Kessler emerges — When Hill exited the game with 7:13 left in third quarter, the sophomore was 17 of 26 for 283 yards and four touchdowns — one more than his total against South Carolina....
With that, American control of Chrysler came to a startlingly abrupt end. When Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corp. announced their $36 billion “merger of equals” in 1998, it was hailed as a marriage made in heaven. At the time, Chrysler was the world’s most profitable and cost-efficient carmaker, while Daimler was renowned as the planet’s premier luxury carmaker. DaimlerChrysler became the new model for a global automotive powerhouse and its stock soared into triple digits, forcing rival automakers into mergers of their own....
RELATED: Pokemon GO: A Thousand-Year Slumber Special Research Guide Mew is among the most powerful Legendaries in the Pokemon franchise, so hardcore Pokemon trainers like to include Mew in their team lineups. And even in Pokemon GO, players can add Mew to their team lineup to face off other Pokemon in the GO Battle League. But, the only way players can register Mew into their Pokedex is by completing A Mystical Discovery Special Research quest....
By taking a look at the creatives, tones, and history behind some of its most famous animated features, Ghibli’s wide and storied output of almost two-dozen feature films can be better approached for newcomers of all ages. RELATED: Hideo Kojima Would Be the Perfect Director for a Studio Ghibli Game Classic Miyazaki Films: The Core of Studio Ghibli When most people think of Studio Ghibli, the director Hayao Miyazaki immediately springs to mind as the studio’s creative soul, and with good reason....
While the initial sales for the GameCube were better than its competitors, it was missing some technical features available in the Xbox and PlayStation 2, including the inability to play DVDs. The GameCube saw strong sales on its exclusives, which is to be expected, but it underperformed when it came to cross-platform games from publishers like EA. Developers began pulling their support for the GameCube due to loss of sales in 2003, and Nintendo even stopped producing the console for nine months in 2003 as they tried to offload the surplus....
Two days after Election night, Danforth and his wife, Sally, were on their way to the Caribbean. Enjoying Margaritas by the turquoise sea in Cancun, the Danforths expected the week to themselves, far from the electoral struggle of friends back home. But before they finished a second drink at La Maroma, a hostess told Danforth he had a call. It was Don Evans, the Bush campaign chairman. “We want you to represent us in a federal challenge to the constitutionality of the manual recount in Florida,” Evans said....
What is taking so long? By now it’s well known that the small Boulder, Colo., Police Department wasn’t equipped to handle a complex and high-profile murder case. But a NEWSWEEK investigation reveals that the police made errors surprising even for a department unfamiliar with finding a killer–and may have overlooked evidence supporting the possibility that an intruder killed JonBenet. What’s more, facts gathered on a tour inside the Ramsey house–and gleaned from the police report taken the day of the murder–indicate that much of the information leaked to the public about the case is simply wrong....
