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Erin McDermott has been named the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, Harvard announced today.

Important issues sometimes divide our nation, but one area where most of us share common ground surrounds is the belief that warrantless secret spying on Americans is unjust. Soon, the Senate is scheduled to vote on the USA FREEDOM...

Netflix and ESPN's brilliant 'The Last Dance' laid bare the extent of Michael Jordan's gambling habits in episode six over the weekend. It was centred around the 1993 Eastern Conference Finals.

IT IS ONLY IN the second half of Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s poignant and exquisite memoir about ballet (and other causes of female pain), What You Become in Flight, that it dawns on the reader — or on this reader, at least — that she’s invoking the word “flight” in two senses: the balletic sense of […]

On the eve of the great holiday, many foreign politicians distinguished themselves with special cynicism, commenting on Victory Day. Members of the German Bundestag also excelled. The chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, speaking about the day of the liberation of Germany, accused Russia of aggression, of cyber attacks, of violating the […]

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President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has chaired a videoconference and paid particular attention to the work being carried out in the country to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

The speedster offers better handling than before.

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has underlined the need for greater multilateral cooperation, including the need to improve the global trading system, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff said on 7 May. Speaking at a webinar hosted by the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, DDG Wolff said trade will play an important role in Africa’s economic recovery from the crisis, particularly through increased intra-African trade.

In remarks delivered to a virtual meeting on 7 May hosted by the Foreign Trade Authority of Saudi Arabia, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff said governments must step up international cooperation to respond to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the multilateral trading system, this includes addressing measures to deal with the global health emergency, cooperation to support the needed economic recovery, and assuring the system is more resilient and effective in underwriting future global economic growth. Читать дальше...

One of the main reasons why the coronavirus-induced price slump feels so odd is that it is accompanied by a prolonged price war that has simultaneously dropped crude differentials, in many instances to levels unseen in the past 8-10 years. The price war was started by Saudi Arabia’s national oil company Saudi Aramco mid-March when it cut its April prices by $6-7 per barrel month-on-month, in a move that was at the time perceived as Riyadh’s claim to safeguard or even increase its market share come what may... Читать дальше...

Two contrasts as starting arguments for designing.

Around the midway point of every Top Chef season, the contestants are split into teams and asked to execute a pop-up restaurant in just two days. It’s a point of pride among the contestants who make it through this checkpoint in the season, and a fan-favorite challenge with unpredictable outcomes. The show has only…

If you received a stimulus check made out to a deceased relative, or a direct deposit into one of their accounts that you control or even if you and a deceased spouse received a joint stimulus payment, the IRS is requesting that you return the money (or half of it, in the case of a joint payment). But how do you do…

In the spirit of World Password Day, we encourage all creators to bolster the security of their Google accounts. Unfortunately, over the past several months we've seen a rise in the hijacking of YouTube channels. We take account security seriously and, in addition to continuously improving our monitoring and systems, want to help creators keep their accounts safe by encouraging them to take these three steps:

1. Create a strong password and never share it or reuse it on other sites.

After a lengthy stint at ESPN, former NFL Pro Bowler-turned-sports commentator Marcellus Wiley expressed his desire to pursue greener pastures at Fox Sports in 2018. I was a big fan of his previous show, SportsNation, and looked forward to him expanding upon his unique skill set of league experience, eloquence—though…

It could take up to two years and at least $250 million in extra funding to address the extensive backlog of elective surgeries postponed in B.C. since the peak of its pandemic, the provincial government announced Thursday.

Ok, hear us out.

Until fairly recently, there was talk of a major “villain problem” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Early movies had disposable villains who had few motives beyond your stock-in-trade desires to destroy the world, universe, or villains that were killed by the end of their respective appearances, never to return. Loki was an exception here, though the character’s continued presence was largely based on being an anti-hero.

As the article linked above points out... Читать дальше...

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This summer is the fourth anniversary of the dunk that nearly broke the Internet. But it wasn’t the first time (or the last) that DeRozan called on his fickle friend.

Space Force chief, Pentagon tech leaders, and the Armed Services chairman led calls to reconsider the controversial license for Ligado.

Emily Ladd continues to develop her role as a team member since Indiana University South Bend.