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The first part can’t be answered with any authority, but the second part appears to be true and kind of confirms the first part. MORE: A-Rod teased Mets interest with Fallon Reports on Tuesday said J-Rod is recruiting Quogue Capital founder Wayne Rothbaum for their ownership group. Rothbaum co-led a group with her former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush that wanted to buy the Marlins in 2017. Sportico reported that Rothbaum has submitted an application to MLB but would prefer to be just an investor rather than a controlling partner....

The day had begun badly eight hours earlier, when I traveled with two other reporters to the town of Zormat. Our aim was to interview a local Afghan commander, Naim Faruki. Zormat is a rambling collection of shacks on the road to Shahikot, the target of B-52 bombing raids in Operation Anaconda. Nearby hillsides are tarred black with bomb scars, and the locals are a well-armed, suspicious–and suspect–lot. We quickly learned that Faruki had been arrested 12 days earlier by American forces....

There are currently eight people listed under the term, “editors,” at the top. This is followed by a list spelling out some familiar roles at a literary magazine (managing editor, editor at large, senior editor) and some less familiar roles (Paris editor, London editor, assistant London editor). Then there are the “special consultants,” the “contributing editors” and finally the “advisory editors,” all with a clump of names beneath them, many of them familiar....

Other CIA paramilitary officers did have horses, however. And they rode them to victory, in an improbable, partly planned, partly improvised assault on the Taliban that combined high-tech and ancient modes of war. The CIA’s success in Afghanistan–the agency’s ability to get on the ground quickly, join up with Northern Alliance fighters and guide U.S. Special Forces teams to the enemy–came as a surprise and a relief to many intelligence experts, inside and outside the government....

DiCaprio, now 18, didn’t get serious about acting until he was 14 (“I was too involved with being a kid”). He played a homeless boy on TV’s “Growing Pains” and a lead role in the movie “Critters 3,” which he’d rather not discuss. He read for " Boy’s Life" seven times, but once cast, DiCaprio says, he felt “an immediate connection” with director Michael Caton-Jones. “He has this amazing ability to convey quite complex emotions,” says Caton-Jones....

With so many suit requests being made, and many of the demands being for obscure looks, there is a good chance that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will leave out some outfits that fans might have wanted. However, while Insomniac Games only has the time and resources to create a certain number of suits, a costume creation mechanic would allow the community to make and share popular designs that are missing from the upcoming game....

While inflation and the economy dominated voter concerns, and despite running against a historically unpopular Democratic president, Republicans greatly underperformed expectations. The message that Republicans should take away from the midterms was well-articulated by The Wall Street Journal editorial board: “Americans are unhappy with Democratic governance, but they aren’t sold on the GOP as an alternative. What can the GOP do to begin to regain the trust of the American center?...

An ecstatic Punia said, “The semi-final bout was the tough one against the America, I had lost to him in the Junior Championships as well, hence when I was 4-4 I was quite nervous, but I’m very happy that I finally won the gold medal. It was very disappointing to not medal at the event, but I gave my 100 % and thankfully I got the job done.” The Haryana-based wrestler became only the third Indian to become cadet world champion, since the tournament inception in 2011....

Another sure way to seize attention in Israel is to level accusations of racism. And that’s exactly what the Ethiopian protest amounted to. The list of grievances by the Ethiopians, many of whom came to Israel in two dramatic airlifts in 1984 and 1991, is a long one. They complain of weak education, poor housing; a disturbing number of suicides in the army and discrimination by the Orthodox rabbinate that makes them feel like second-class Jews....

In last week’s vote on the 1992 Pentagon budget, the House did indeed cut back the Strategic Defense Initiative, including all funds for “Brilliant Pebbles,” the scheme to put 1,000 small missile killers in orbit. But overall missile defense spending for 1992, at $3.5 billion, was a cool $1 billion than what the House voted last year. Meanwhile, a deal is being brokered in the Senate to get bipartisan support for an SDI program stripped of space weapons and scaled back to counter only limited missile strikes....

Konami has overall been very quiet regarding the series getting any new games. Meanwhile, many Silent Hill fans have been waiting with patience for any kind of news regarding the series’ future. RELATED: Horror Games Like The Medium Are Filling Vacuum Left By Silent Hill The only piece of Silent Hill news fans have gotten recently was the recent inclusion of Cheryl Mason and Pyramid Head as guest characters in the hit multiplayer horror title, Dead by Daylight....

“There are many places in Moscow where young people can have fruit drinks and relax,” he offers, a bit tamely. OK, how ‘bout the fun stuff? Well, we could go to Dolls, says Vlad, loosening up. It’s dark, pulsating and saunalike. No chance of running into Dad here. But no dancing, Jenna and Barbara–that’s reserved for the strippers. Next stop? The Up and Down Club, a dinner destination for the rich and glitzy....

In September, federal agents arrested a 30-year-old Sudanese taxi driver named Mekki Hamed Mekki on immigration violations in Greensboro. A former airline pilot for Sudan’s national carrier, Mekki yesterday pleaded guilty to three minor immigration infractions in a Winston-Salem, N.C., federal district court, and the plea bargain deal was immediately sealed on the presiding judge’s orders. Last month federal authorities also arrested a 36-year-old Moroccan national named Abel-Ilah Elmardoudi at the Greyhound bus terminal in Greensboro....

Several international firms conducted virtual interviews this year owing to the global pandemic. Among them, US IT giant Cohesity has offered the highest package of $200,000, which is a whooping Rs. 1.5 Crores. IIT Bombay also witnessed several selections made by Optiver for role of trading, software and Quant research. These positions are for their Amsterdam and Sydney offices. As reported by Times Of India, domestic recruiters like Qualcomm picked 11 graduates from IIT Bombay and 8 from IIT Madras....

Bush was feeling his way toward what became the ending and big applause line of his stump speech: “To usher in the responsibility era… to restore honor and dignity to the Oval Office.” During the primaries, Bush occasionally sounded Clintonian about his past. Last January in New Hampshire, my colleague Howard Fineman and I interviewed Bush aboard his campaign bus. The subject turned to his two college-age arrests, one for stealing a large Christmas wreath from a hotel, the other for ripping down the Princeton goal posts after the Princeton-Yale game....

Recent, breathtaking Ukrainian military gains may be unsettling Russian politics. Hardliners are casting blame, and some low-level minions are calling for President Vladimir Putin to resign. Regime change has long seemed only a distant prospect, but perhaps no longer. The West may need to reassess its defensive posture toward such change. On March 26, President Joseph Biden said Putin “cannot remain in power,” but then he backtracked, saying he was voicing only “moral outrage....

The new story lines reflect that approach. In one, an unfamiliar woman suddenly materializes in a village, asking a local resident for food and water. She’s fled her home fearing an outbreak of war, and her family has found shelter in a ruined fort. But the abandoned building is surrounded with land mines, so locals call a team to help clear them away. In the end, the newcomers emerge from the minefield safely....