Well, they get boring if, like me, you don’t give a rat’s hindquarters about dresses. The broadcast itself will be boring–although the presence of host Steve Martin will at least keep me on my toes. The awards will be boring, too. “Chicago’s” gonna win everything, folks. And even the “upsets” will be boring. After all, is it really an upset if Daniel Day-Lewis beats Jack Nicholson when everyone knows he’s the only person who has a shot at the upset?...
Radiologist Johan Stipp was being questioned by defense lawyer Barry Roux on Friday, a day after Stipp described how Pistorius knelt at Reeva Steenkamp's side and struggled in vain to help her breathe by holding two fingers in her clenched mouth. Pistorius shot Steenkamp in the bathroom of his home before dawn on Feb. 14 last year. He says he fired after mistaking Steenkamp for an intruder; prosecutors allege the Olympian intentionally killed Steenkamp after a loud argument....
CONCACAF champions Mexico take on Joachim Low’s 2014 World Cup winners at Sochi’s Fisht Stadium, with the make-up of their opponents’ squad having proved one of the talking points of the tournament. ‘Mexico more than just Chicharito’ Low left a host of star names including Mesut Ozil, Toni Kroos and Thomas Muller out of his squad, giving them a close-season off before next year’s World Cup and bringing younger and fringe members of his playing group to the fore....
In the friendlier group are several prominent social scientists, including anthropologist Margaret Mead and sociologist David Riesman. Miss Mead believes that many traits we call masculine and feminine are merely inherited stereotypes. Like spokesmen for women’s lib, she proposes that men share child-rearing and domestic chores and that women be encouraged to learn aggressive, masculine pursuits. Riesman thinks that the movement will become very important during the ’70s. “The situation of women has improved in all sectors,” he says, “and improvement, as always, leads to heightened expectations....
The program, to be sure, is superb. And in many ways it makes the home personal computer as productive as the PC you use at work. The trouble with the Quicken cult is that users spend too much time tracking those nickels–and not enough time on more important concerns, like drafting wills. Many users are so dazzled by what it can do that they ignore what it can’t. Quicken should be just one part of a broader plan....
That feeling has grown more palpable now that Chavez appears to have outlasted the two-month strike against his rule. Led by businesses and unions, the strikes had crippled the oil industry and brought the economy to a crawl, yet failed to push Chavez into early elections. Now strikers are heading back to work fearful that the president’s latest moves reflect a desire to take revenge against business as a whole....
These days Sweden has a new new face of IT–Gunilla Alsio, bespectacled and graying, a fiftysomething grad student and mom making her first foray into high tech. Alsio worked for eight years as an ergonomics consultant, and her invention grew directly out of her practical experience. Her company, Senseboard Technologies, is now struggling to launch the Virtual Keyboard–an innovation in keyboardless typing that takes the stress out of repetitive stress injury....
In a post shared on Reddit in October, one of the woman’s three children, under the username u/Constant-Cicada-5769, wrote that their mom married another man two years after their dad died and moved them all 18 hours away from their home to be with him. Her new husband had two children, who were rejected by their mom and grandparents because they came from an egg donor and she didn’t consider them hers....
A pod of 36 whales was found washed-up nearly two miles down the Farewell Spit beach in Golden Bay, in the north of New Zealand’s South Island, on Thursday, the country’s Department of Conservation said on Facebook. The beach is a notorious spot for marine wildlife strandings. Rangers from the department rushed to gather volunteers and workers from marine mammal protection charity Project Jonah New Zealand to assess the dead whales and attempt to get any survivors back into the water....
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Long War Journal, which has been tracking war in Afghanistan for years, estimates that as of Sunday the Taliban controlled 212 districts in the country. It reports that the government controls 70 districts, while some 116 districts are being contested. After the United States, NATO and our Afghan allies spent 20 years fighting to create a post-Taliban country, the evidence is growing that we have lost....
Ozil scored with an impressive chip during the Gunners’ 4-1 win on Saturday as his team continued their strong run of results since switching to a 3-4-3 system. The formation sees the Germany international and Alexis Sanchez line up behind a lone striker, Olivier Giroud playing the role against Stoke, and the trio combined to score all four of Arsenal’s goals at the bet365 Stadium. Coutinho and Sturridge star for Liverpool...
Fleck, who has been connected to several high-profile coaching positions, addressed rumors his coaching tenure at WMU is nearly over — albeit in a noncommittal way. MORE: Perfect playoff scenarios “You keep that out of your life. You need to row every single moment,” Fleck told ESPN after the game. “And it takes a very strong-minded team and a very strong-minded person to do that, but that’s what we’re teaching our kids and I can’t be any different in what I’m teaching them....
Officials said doctors and nurses are having to perform “waiting room medicine” on waiting patients. Geisinger is operating at 110 percent capacity in its nine hospitals located in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. A quarter to over half of admissions are unvaccinated COVID patients, Dr. Jaewon Ryu, Geisinger’s president and chief executive officer, said. Citing the increasing number of cases and percentage of positive tests, he expects the situation to worsen in the upcoming weeks....
Vittar, age 28, is beloved in the global drag community and has 3.1 million followers on Twitter. Her music is mostly in Portuguese, but that doesn’t stop crowds in the U.S., and all over the world, from singing along—or trying to, at least. Newsweek sat down with Pabllo Vittar ahead of her historic set at Weekend 1 of Coachella 2022. She’ll take the stage once again this coming Saturday, April 23....
When Sandoval failed to reach base in Game 3 of the 2014 World Series, against the Royals, he came back the next day and had two hits, driving in two runs on a tiebreaking single that sent the Giants on their way to a series-tying rout. It was 11-4 when it was over, 10 straight runs scored by the home team after Kansas City drove starter Ryan Vogelsong from the game in the third inning....
Stanford (11-2) raced out to a big lead in its first game with Arizona State this season and had its way with the Sun Devils again early in the rematch, building a 28-7 lead early in the second quarter. Gaffney did most of the damage, scoring on a 69-yard run on the Cardinal's second play and a pair of 1-yard runs. MORE: Week 15 photos | Scores | Auburn wins SEC title...
First, the consensus choice: No. 12 Oregon (5-1) already has a two-game lead in the North division and can make a case for the Playoff if it wins the rest of its games. That means the Ducks must defeat No. 25 Washington in Seattle on Saturday. Road trips to Los Angeles (USC) and Tempe (Arizona State) are the biggest obstacles if the Ducks defeat the Huskies. MORE: ‘We’ve lost our swagger’ Pac-12 decline belies ‘Conference of Champions’ moniker...
PHOTOS: Cheerleaders | Week 3 imagesHow they rank 1. Oregon 2. Stanford 3. UCLA 4. Washington 5. Arizona State 6. Arizona 7. Washington State 8. USC 9. Oregon State 10. Utah 11. Colorado 12. California MORE RANKINGS: ACC | Big 12 | Big Ten | SEC RISING: After a stellar freshman season, Oregon QB Marcus Mariota looks better than ever in 2013. He’s a more accurate thrower, his passes have more velocity and he’s still a serious threat in the quarterback run game....
