Johan Cruyff's 'Soccer Tips' From 1980 Are Still Elegantly Apt
Cruyff, who died today, is revered and remembered not just an athlete, but also as a philosopher of the game.
Cruyff, who died today, is revered and remembered not just an athlete, but also as a philosopher of the game.
Morning sun bathed the slope behind the house in golden light as I inventoried my stock of future firewood. I leaned on the window sill, coffee in hand, looking into the woods on our three acres for blowdowns after the…
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It doesn't matter if someone's brilliant and worldly or stupid and naive — everyone's susceptible to con artists.
In her book "The Confidence Game," writer and psychologist Maria Konnikova dissects the psychology of the con, and she finds that while everyone is potential prey, there are signals the ideal victim gives off.
"There's one thing in particular that makes anyone, intelligent or not, a good victim," she told Business Insider. "And that isn't a personality trait. Читать дальше...
Johnny Depp replaced Jeff Yagher after the first episode of 21 Jump Street, Louie Anderson almost played Cousin Larry on Perfect Strangers, and Riff Regan was Willow in the unaired pilot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Half the cast of Gilligan’s Island turned over after the pilot.
It's the daytime stars' time to shine. The nominees for the 43nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were announced on The Talk on Thursday, with Ellen DeGeneres, Judge...
Radovan Karadzic, nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia,” was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after being found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity over atrocities that Bosnian Serb forces committed during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995.A special U.N. court in The Hague, Netherlands, found the 70-year-old guilty of genocide over his responsibility for the Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and ...
One of Richard Nixon’s top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 22-year-old interview recently published in Harper’s Magazine.”The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer ...
Former Eagles and Patriots fullback Kevin Turner died on Thursday at the age of 46. Turner was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, in 2010 and started a foundation that worked to research the disease and possible links to brain trauma in athletes. A message from his father Raymond is posted on the foundation’s website. “Myra…
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When you do a movie as giant as “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” the press tour is so long and spans multiple countries in such a short time, that actors are asked to react to the film’s reception before general audiences have even seen it.
That’s what happened when Yahoo Movies UK sat with the film’s cast and director Zack Snyder, and asked them what they thought of the negative reviews the film is getting (it currently has a 32% rating on Rotten Tomatoes).
“What is going to really matter... Читать дальше...
The bill was yuge — but The Donald didn't bring cash.
CALLAWAY, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have evacuated a small town in northwestern Minnesota after a freight train collided with a propane truck that caught on fire.
Time Warner, 21st Century Fox and the Weinstein Co. joined the campaign Thursday to pressure Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to veto what critics are calling an "anti-LGBT" bill.
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s Syria envoy on Thursday set April 9 as a "target date" for indirect peace talks to resume in Geneva, saying he is encouraged by the fact that "no breakdowns, no walkouts" tripped up the latest…
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Time Warner, 21st Century Fox and the Weinstein Co. joined the campaign Thursday to pressure Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to veto what critics are calling an “anti-LGBT” bill.The Weinstein company said it would end its plans to film a biopic of Richard Pryor in the state later this year. The movie is to be directed by Lee Daniels and will star Oprah, Eddie Murphy, Kate Hudson and Tracy Morgan.”The Weinstein ...
The Office premiered 11 years ago today.
When Michael declared bankruptcy, but Oscar shut him down.
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When Michael signed up for online dating.
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When Kevin stayed up all night to make his famous chili, but he dropped it on the ground.
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WASHINGTON -- There's one big rule for the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum: Don't talk about the World Forum.
Читать дальше...New Browns quarterback Robert Griffin III said he worked “an hour after every practice” last season to stay ready and that he’s “just appreciative and ready to compete” in a conference call with Cleveland-area reporters Thursday, a few hours after the Browns officially announced that they’d signed to a Griffin to a two-year deal. At…
WASHINGTON - Federal officials are encouraging generic drugmakers to develop painkillers that are harder to abuse, the latest in a string of steps designed to combat abuse of highly-addictive pain drugs like codeine and oxycodone.
Privacy watchdog alleges internet group has not properly applied ‘right to be forgotten’ worldwide
Mohamed El-Erian's says Latin America's largest economy must seize the opportunity to undertake deep reforms.
In his strongest and most passionate comments to date, Vice President Joe Biden called on Senate Republicans on Thursday to consider the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy left by the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia and not “abdicate their responsibility.” He expressed concern about a “genuine constitutional crisis” that he said would be born out of the “dysfunction of Washington.” Biden warned about the perils ...