Trump, like Ventura? Dudes, your day has come again
A look at Donald Trump’s constituency, and what it might have in common with Jesse Ventura’s in 1998.
A look at Donald Trump’s constituency, and what it might have in common with Jesse Ventura’s in 1998.
We must pay for alternatives to jails and prisons.
There are societal consequences to targeting Planned Parenthood.
Land use did the damage; much of it can’t be undone. In some parts of the state, however, there’s still hope.
Lee Abbamonte is known as the youngest American to have visited every country in the world. His second claim to fame should be “most efficient packer.” Unless he needs expedition gear or a suit, the 36-year-old New Yorker totes a 22-inch Osprey Meridian wheeled bag and a North Face backpack. The two pieces accompany him on trips short (a long weekend in Dewey Beach, Del.) and ultramarathon (two months circling the globe).Read full article >>
Two hours trying to rock a screaming baby to sleep in a rainstorm had left me feeling a bit fragile. So I staggered to a café to meet some friends, sat down, and burst into tears. Not subtle, droplets-meandering-down-cheeks tears. Not even a cinematic slide-down-a door moan. Nope. These tears were big, ugly, and accompanied by the kind of howls you'd normally associate with labour. Even the baby momentarily stopped screeching to watch.
When Asked by friends and relatives how she is, Melanie invariably replies, "Very busy," "Up to my neck in it" or, with a mock-exasperated shrug of her shoulders, "Whizzing about all over the shop." Pressed for details about the unusually rapid pace at which life seems to move here on the outer reaches of Godalming, Surrey, she will happily itemise the catalogue of pressing demands on her time: the urgent request from Cassandra to ferry home her belongings from uni; the 11 people expected for... Читать дальше...
The fourth wall is the imaginary structure that runs across the front of a stage, allowing actors to inhabit their own world and ignore the audience – as if there is a wall between them. It's also the name of photographer Klaus Frahm's series of shots of theatres across his native Germany. Only in his work, the fourth wall is very visible: it is the auditorium itself.
Nitin Patel, the number two in the state cabinet and the state government spokesperson, who was under verbal attack from a few Patidar leaders, wrote an open letter stating that he is not against any community's reservation movement.
Around 5,000 security personnel, including about 3,000 from CRPF, SPG and NSG, will keep a hawk’s eye on the Gaya Gandhi Maidan where PM Narendra Modi will address his second Parivartan rally in Bihar on Sunday.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is nearing an agreement to buy Precision Castparts Corp. in what could be the company's largest purchase ever, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. The purchase of Precision Castparts, which makes aircraft components and energy-production equipment, could be announced as soon as next week and be valued at more than $30 billion, assuming typical premiums for mergers, the newspaper said. Precision Castparts' market... Читать дальше...
Marcus Mumford faced a sea of smiling, dust-caked faces as the sun dipped behind the trees on the Polo Field on Friday. Holding court at the Outside Lands music and art festival in Golden Gate Park, the front man for the British rock band Mumford & Sons had a hard time containing his enthusiasm after what felt like a perfect opening day. “I think this is one of the best festivals we've played, ever,” he said, shortly before leading the audience in a bounce-along rendition of the hit single “Believe.
Glennon Engleman had family, a respectable position in his St. Louis community, and meaningful work as a dentist.
One year after the death of Michael Brown, “Ferguson” has become shorthand for destruction or resistance.
With a strong third-place finish, Chris Buescher remains first in the Xfinity Series championship standings following Saturday's Zippo 200 race at Watkins Glen.
Just as the Patidars' demand for OBC status gets shriller, the Gujarat Commission for Other Backward Classes has stated in its reply to an RTI query that it is already collecting information about the most backward communities in Gujarat.
Some key figures must prove encore performances.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The South's first historically black university is suspending its band director days after band members protested tuition aid shifted to other Shaw University students. Multiple media organizations report the Raleigh school on Saturday suspended band director Charles Brown with pay while administrators investigate his behavior. University officials said the move is a personnel matter and unrelated to reallocating band scholarships. Band members protested outside Shaw's administrative... Читать дальше...
One of the most prestigious awards of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) for distinguished scientific contribution — given biennially on the birth anniversary of Vikram Sarabhai — will be conferred on Professor T V Ramakrishnan this year.
Frances Kelsey, a Canadian doctor at the FDA known for her tenacity in keeping the dangerous drug thalidomide off the U.S. market, has died at age 101.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A drone worth more than $14 million that was being remotely piloted from Ellsworth Air Force Base was intentionally crashed last year somewhere over the Middle East following a mechanical failure, according to a report from the U.S. Air Force. The report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board was released July 30. It says the MQ-9A Reaper drone made by General Atomics experienced a starter-generator failure during flight, the Rapid City Journal reported (http://bit.ly/1gTf6of... Читать дальше...
Ghee made from the milk of Gir cows, and organic vegetables and grams — a spectrum of such wholesome products is available at the Vastrapur organic market set up by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
Match of the Day's Alan Shearer believes it would be "fantastic" for the player if he moved from Everton to Chelsea.
The leaders of the Patidar (Patel) quota movement are determined that they will hold a rally on the Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad on August 25 whether or not the administration gives them permission.