“My view is still very much the same as it was in 1982 [when he published “Prophesy Deliverance!” championing “an Afro-American revolutionary Christianity”],” says West. But now “I think . . . there is a sense among . . . Americans that they’re living in a decaying civilization . . . And in such a moment they’re willing to listen to anybody.” In truth, West has written a book quite different from his early works....
Following a long stream of delays in the film industry, including 2 previous postponements of its own, A Quiet Place Part II has now changed its targeted release date to September 17, 2021. This decision came in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases around the U.S., prompting Paramount to err on the side of caution once again and move its highly-anticipated sequel further back to the fall. RELATED: Uncharted Movie Delayed Until 2022...
He didn’t have the biting tongue that makes fans cheer. He didn’t display the don’t-mess-with-me swagger. No, he just appeared as a sack of sadness tied up with a little bit of hope that buckling into a race car would allow him to get his life to a little bit back to normal. In front of the cameras, it didn’t seem possible he could feel any normalcy at all this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway....
The A's dealt the left-hander and cash to the Colorado Rockies for lefty Drew Pomeranz and minor league right-hander Chris Jensen on Tuesday. Two-time AL West champion Oakland had been looking to move Anderson, who is due to make $8 million this season and has a $12 million contract option for the 2015 season. That includes a $1.5 million buyout. The 25-year-old Anderson was the Athletics' starter on opening day this year....
The former Tennessee governor has a far better chance to succeed than his predecessor at Education, Lauro Cavazos, who will be remembered for nothing, other than that he did nothing memorable. Like Reagan’s education secretary, William Bennett, Alexander is skilled at building consensus and bending bureaucracies at his will. He also has plenty of experience dealing with teachers’ unions and education administrators, and, as former president of the National Governors’ Association (he directed its five-year study of education reform), he has strong relationships with state leaders across the country....
But several pro-choice groups are nervous that his record isn’t speaking loudly enough—that, on the contrary, it’s been overshadowed by his reputation as a maverick who bucks the party line. Their fears are bolstered by a new Planned Parenthood survey, conducted in 16 likely battleground states, which shows that 23 percent of McCain’s female, pro-choice supporters mistakenly believe he shares their views on abortion. An additional half of the respondents said they did not know enough to describe his position....
O’Brien, the mother of 6-year-old twins, may not fit most people’s stereotype of a serious gamer, but she’s not the only one hooked on casual videogames. In recent years downloads on sites like Yahoo! Games and pogo.com have become a furtive pastime among bored office workers, insomniac moms and chronic procrastinators. Like the Froggers and Ms. Pac-Mans of yesteryear, games like Bejeweled and Mystery Case Files take little skill to learn but are challenging enough to keep players fixated on their screens....
The wanted man is Iraqi Minister of Culture Asad Kamal al-Hashimi—and his case is a typically tangled and bloody example of the Iraqi government’s weakness and the blurred lines of authority even within the fortified district, where soldiers, ambassadors, contractors and Iraqi leaders share space. Iraqi police are still reportedly seeking Hashimi after failing to catch him in a raid of his house on Monday. However, his suspected flight to the Green Zone has complicated the hunt....
The proposal, known as the Enterprise for the Americas Iniative, promises closer economic ties with Latin American nations–and ultimately raises the possibility of a common market for the entirre Western Hemisphere. In the more immediate future, the plan opened the door for debt forrgiveness, a tack taken by commercial banks but so far resisted by the government. While the Reagan administration used the stick of debt to compel nations to give support to the contra cause, Bush is asking those nations to reform theur economies–to move away from what he called “the statist economic policies that stifle growth” and toward free markets....
Eventually the six gunmen were chased into the desert and killed. They called themselves the Battalion of Havoc and Destruction, and one of their stated aims was to win the freedom of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric now serving a life sentence in an American prison for plotting to blow up New York City landmarks. The Luxor killers belong to a new breed of terrorist: religious fanatics who regard the wanton murder of innocent victims as a legitimate form of holy war....
David Walker is getting ready to do just that. The GAO chief, who now says he will sue to get the documents, insists he wasn’t looking for a showdown with Cheney. Last summer two House Democrats asked the GAO to probe whether the energy task force was unfairly influenced by industry lobbyists. Walker complied, sending the White House a sharply worded “demand letter” requesting all notes and minutes of its meetings....
The brilliance of Lucas Moura Trailing by an away goal, it was never easy for Spurs to turn the match into their court. They needed someone to step up in the absence of Harry Kane. The team from North London wasn’t having a pleasant run in the Premier League. Taking only 3 points out of a possible 12 made their fans more desperate. The Brazilian stepped up when they needed him the most....
In about 10 minutes, the words ‘Gaizka Mendieta’ appeared on the screen and I shut the lid of my laptop like Freddy Krueger was threatening to jump out of it. Whipped my phone out and rang up a colleague and fellow calcio crank Anirudh Menon and within the next 10 seconds, we’d decided that we’re going. Keep ’em all at arm’s length- the hook, the line, and the bloody sinker, because we are going....
Persona 3 introduced Social Links to the Persona franchise, and the mechanic has been a large part of the two proceeding games. The protagonists of the games form these bonds with other characters as the players invest in spending time with these characters and exploring the world the game has to offer. By leveling up Social Links, players are able to fuse higher level, more powerful Personas that they can collect to combat the Shadows the characters come across....
There were early glimmerings last February, when the Canadian Trucker Convoy pitched working class truck drivers against a “laptop class” demanding ever more restrictive COVID-19 policies. You saw it as well in the victory of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who ran on parents’ rights in education and went on to win both suburbs and rural areas. You can see it in the growing support of Hispanic voters for a Republican Party, which increasingly identifies as anti-woke, and pro-working class....
STUFFColorful Printer What’s the point of having a snazzy-looking iMac if your printer is still an ugly beige blob? Epson aims to fix your color-coordination problems with its new Stylus Color 740i ink-jet printer ($249 after a $30 mail-in rebate). The hatch door comes in blue, with optional covers in the other iMac colors (lime, tangerine, grape and strawberry) for $14.95 each. Perhaps more important for Apple users, the Stylus 740i supports USB, which is a new type of peripheral jack found on the iMac and Power Macintosh G3 as well as newer PCs....
Just put his year-long suspension aside for a minute and watch this great moment A-Rod had on Friday. After smashing a home run out of Fenway Park in Boston, the Yankees slugger handed off his batting gloves to an unsuspecting fan in the crowd. MORE: A-Rod an All-Star snub | Every team needs a bat dog | Brian Dozier’s walkoff homer Your browser does not support iframes. Do you see the joy on that young man’s face?...
The Raiders will move to Vegas for the 2020 season and Gruden, hired as the team’s head coach last month, said it was sad to see the team relocating. “What will they have once we go?” Gruden asked in an interview with Sports Illustrated. The Athletics, who have won four World Series since moving to Oakland in 1968, were quick to answer that question by saying they were going nowhere....
