Is there a tad of hyperbole in all this? You bet, and it’s getting out of hand. Yes, the Information Highway is coming. Eventually it will indeed transform the way Americans work, entertain themselves and learn. But soon? No way. Deep technical and financial potholes lie ahead. Insiders say it could be a decade before the most-talked about information and entertainment services reach most U.S. homes. Even then people may not want them....
House Democrats are moving swiftly in their impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. As they do so, longtime Washington lawmakers have receded into their partisan corners, determined to convince the American people why now—and not decades ago—they’re right about whether a sitting president might need to be removed from office. This time around, Democrats say the president has crossed the line and has committed impeachable offenses by pressuring a foreign leader to investigate a political opponent....
Having enjoyed the longest boom in U.S. history, Americans feel entitled to their optimism. In the abstract, most people may recognize that the business cycle isn’t dead. But in practice, they seem to believe that Greenspan can disarm almost any conceivable danger. Jobs, incomes and profits will grow, just as they have for nearly a decade. The adulation is well captured in the title of Washington Post writer Bob Woodward’s new book on Greenspan: “Maestro....
The comparison to the doomed festival stemmed from glitches that interfered with an app used to report the results of the caucuses. The process has drawn the ire of many still waiting to confirm a victor during Monday’s caucuses. In a press release on Tuesday, the Iowa Democratic Party said they plan to release results “as soon as possible later today.” According to the press statement, the app was only returning partial data, but the paper documentation that caucusgoers used to submit their choices is being used to compile accurate data....
RELATED: How Were The Dinosaurs In Jurassic Park Made In 1993? Surviving the relentless world of The Isle only becomes more manageable once a dinosaur matures and develops, growing into a full-fledged adult. Yet, reaching this stage of life takes a considerable duration as dinosaurs need time to grow. The longevity of this process poses the most significant difficulty to reaching maturity, furthering the demand of surviving the adversarial environment....
I was chosen recently to appear for jury duty. Amidst a pandemic; as an essential worker, the timing could not have been worse. Jury duty is what one opts-out of, not into. It is the mandatory civil obligation that seems to be almost everyone’s least favorite activity. I came to realize, isn’t it time we update the jury selection process as a whole? The rules are as follows. A jury of your peers....
His pals Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty have been there to see it, as well as the younger generation: Matt Dillon and directors Wes Anderson and David O. Russell. Woody Allen, he says, is peeved that Evans hasn’t given him a screening yet. “Mark Wahlberg called 20 times for an invite.” The movie, which is built around the abridged audiotape Evans recorded of his 1994 autobiography of the same name–an audio that became a cult item in Hollywood–has made him hot and hip again....
The Los Angeles Lakers need to get healthy and soon. That is all. Joking, I can’t post an article this short. But this isn’t an unpopular opinion. Everyone knows that the team needs to be at full strength. When you think about it, the team hasn’t been at 100% all season. Up until mid-December, the team had been exceeding expectations while having key pieces missing but since then, it’s been just ridiculous....
The Fool is generally viewed as a positive card, although it can also symbolize risk, a need for caution, or self-reflection. The Fool’s element is Air, and the planet is Uranus. The Fool card’s Zodiac sign is Aquarius, and its key date is the first day of spring. The Major Arcana refer to the 22 trump cards in a tarot pack. The Major Arcana cards represent key life lessons, influences, or themes that are impacting your path through life, and they’re generally considered the most important in a tarot reading....
While these three cases have received the majority of headlines, an additional case, the Shawne Alston case, lurks in the background. MORE: Student-athlete compensation fight continues | Game-changing litigation Alston case seeks damages for past cost of attendance costs On March 5, 2014, attorneys representing former West Virginia running back Shawne Alston proposed a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA and the Big 5 conferences (SEC, Pac 12, Big 10, ACC and Big 12)....
The show is being spoken about among fans and video game talk shows as one of the best in years. With the Game of the Year category coming down to a two-horse race, everything else surrounding the show was just as entertaining. The show also held different giveaways on some of its streaming platforms like Twitch and Steam that helped draw even more viewers to the show. Those efforts to incentivize viewership paid off for The Game Awards as they blew passed expectations....
Fear of lost jobs among U.S. autoworkers has made the North American Free Trade Agreement a political hot potato in some presidential primaries. But south of the border, Mexican businessmen are worried about losing their shirts. They say they still face too many Third World handicaps–such as poor infrastructure, technology and education–to be competitive with the First World. The commerce group that represents Mexican business in the NAFTA talks is suddenly urging the negotiators to recognize the “disparity” between Mexico and the rest of North America....
Given the evolved Barry Goldwater, the incorporation into mainstream politics of some of what were then regarded as his most outlandish ideas, and a once hostile establishment’s own devolution into a kind of chuckley affection for the man, it will be hard for those who were not around to imagine what it was like in the summer of ‘64. It was war, and it was hysteria – hysteria on the part of Goldwater’s hard-core John Birch Society-type supporters who believed the country had already been secretly seized by the KGB, and hysteria from the other direction on the part of many of his opponents in both parties who saw Goldwater and his entourage as wanna-be storm troopers....
In response, two progressive Democratic lawmakers have authored legislation cracking down on tax evasion. The new Internal Revenue Service figures compiled by Syracuse University researchers show that in the last eight years, there has been a 72 percent drop in the number of audits of those making more than $1 million. In all, 98 percent of those making more than $1 million did not face an audit last year....
To the men, standing in the blackness that night, the mission ahead seemed almost impossible. The team was to find and win the trust of an elusive Northern Alliance commander they knew virtually nothing about and whose language they didn’t speak, supply his ragtag team of fighters and then, with his help, storm a key Taliban stronghold, the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif. After wresting control from the enemy, they were to restore order and help local leaders begin rebuilding the ravaged city....
The Group of 5 conferences still get a carrot to stay with the Power 5. It’s big, green and brings approximately $12 million to $15 million to each of those conferences annually as a result of ESPN’s $470 million deal with the new College Football Playoff. That number goes up for the Group of 5 conference that earns a spot in one of the six playoff bowls each year....
Tony’s walks on the wild side were limited to picking up an old electric guitar, a throwback to his days with a student band (called, presciently, Ugly Rumors). His wife Cherie Booth was a high-flying barrister who earned more than $500,000 a year from her law practice. About her, the newspapers could find nothing to sink their talons into, except for vaguely New Age sensibilities, a sometimes-puzzling fashion sense, and an 8-shaped smile that cartoonists loved....
And most of them were groomed by the organization, rising through the ranks and learning how to lead and race the Hendrick way. Chad Knaus, Alan Gustafson and Steve Letarte all worked their way through the system at Hendrick and now are successful crew chiefs for Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Crew chief Kenny Francis came to Hendrick with driver Kasey Kahne.) MORE: Pocono picks | Ives prepared for big challenge | Hamlin motivated by penalty...
Let me explain. Cheney, the former chairman of Halliburton, the big oil-services company, took early retirement Wednesday, taking lots of Halliburton stock and stock options with him. Halliburton stock tends to move in tandem with energy prices, because higher oil and natural-gas prices are good for Halliburton’s business. The potential conflict is obvious. People have made a fuss about Halliburton’s giving Cheney 400,000 options and 140,000 shares that he would have had to forfeit in a normal early retirement....
According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the U.S. now has over 400,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 13,000 deaths. The country’s mortality rate is currently 3.2 percent. However, when divided up by state, Washington, where the first confirmed U.S. case of COVID-19 case was discovered, has the worst death rate among states with more than 5,000 confirmed cases. There have been 403 deaths and 8,682 confirmed cases in the state, which means 4....
