Preston White, a 30-year-old case manager who has worked in the Wisconsin welfare system for five years, declined to have a panic button. And he kept telling himself not to take the insults personally, though he had to admit he was tired of being t reated, as he put it, ““like a punching bag.'' The next woman in line to see Preston on this late afternoon in March 1996 could have been attractive to him, under different circumstances....
Los Angeles dominated once again in Monday night’s Game 4, defeating Utah 118-104 to even the series, but the offense wasn’t the story. This time, the Clippers cranked up the defensive intensity. MORE: NBA Twitter reacts to Leonard dunking on Favors Bojan Bogdanovic scored the first bucket of the contest to put the Jazz up by two points with 11:40 on the clock. Utah scored just 11 points the rest of the opening period, as Clippers players flew around the court and disrupted the Jazz’s offensive flow....
The verdict shocked media lawyers, who denounced the outsize award as dangerous to the press’s First Amendment rights. ““This is not consistent with the notion of a strong media,’’ says Sandra Baron, executive director of the Libel Defense Resource Center. The Journal said it would ask a judge to set aside the award, and many lawyers think it has a good shot. A majority of libel judgments are reversed on appeal, or the awards reduced....
Gonzaga’s Chet Holmgren and Duke’s Paolo Banchero – the consensus top-two prospects in the 2022 NBA Draft – go head-to-head to give us a rare showdown that occurs far less frequently than one might think. MORE: 2022 NBA Mock Draft – Will Banchero or Holmgren go No. 1? With all the different paths to the NBA these days, we hardly ever get to see the two best pro prospects in the world take the floor against each other prior to the NBA (excluding high school and AAU, of course)....
There aren’t many such steps left. The two sides talk peace, but both are shopping for arms, NEWSWEEK learned. Another war over Kashmir–the last was in 1965–could be catastrophic. India has exploded a nuclear device and Pakistan is developing a bomb; both could deliver such weapons. A group led by President Bush’s deputy national-security adviser returned “alarmed and discouraged,” last week from a regional tour, said a U.S. official. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will take up the deepening crisis at their summit this week, a senior Bush aide said, adding: “The kindling is dry....
If a season-ticket holder like Goebel doesn’t, chances are you won’t, either. Most Yankee campers, like their counterparts in every other spring-training facility, are former minor-leaguers, guys who couldn’t make it out of double-A ball and left the game years ago. In the pinstripes made famous by Gehrig and Ruth, they jog past a centerfield billboard advertising Mickey Mantle’s Week of Dreams Baseball Fantasy Camp. If they note the irony, they don’t mention it....
The NMHC’s review of data collected from 13.4 million apartment units in the U.S. revealed a 12 percent decrease in the number of apartment households that paid rent, compared with last month, which saw 81 percent pay their rent through March 5. Around 82 percent were reported to have paid rent around the same time last year, NMHC reports. “The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in significant health and financial challenges for apartment residents and multifamily owners, operators and employees in communities across the country,” said the president of NMHC, Doug Bibby....
HomestarRunner.com, the gold standard of Flash animation, posts weekly toons of its puckish hit character Strong Bad responding to real fan mail. There’s a reason they call him the site’s “criminal element.” MilMillington.com offers a dry-as-dust list of things a Brit and his girlfriend argue about (“She really overreacts whenever she catches me wearing her underwear”). So funny it’s being made into a movie. Tired of reading? Orisinal.com has oodles of cool games; its hypnotic, nonviolent offerings kept us clicking for hours....
The new poll by The New York Times and Siena College asked respondents who they trust when it comes to information about the novel virus, showing that just 26 percent said Trump was a reliable source. Conversely, 84 percent said that medical scientists were a trustworthy source of information, while 67 percent listed Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Among Republicans, Trump’s base of supporters, 66 percent said they trusted the president....
Bird did not want his action Thursday to be viewed as firing head coach Frank Vogel. His contract expired following the 2015-16 season, and Vogel will not receive a new one for 2016-17. So those are the semantics of the transaction. MORE: Seven candidates for Pacers | College coaches that could jump to NBA The immediate evaluation: This is so very, very dumb. At the close of the Pacers’ first-round playoff series with the Toronto Raptors, in which Indiana as the No....
The Brazil international has scored five goals and set up a further three in 11 Premier League games for Jurgen Klopp’s men this season. While many will look to emulate the 25-year-old for his bombastic technique and effectiveness, one unexpected copy cat is his Liverpool teammate Ragnar Klavan. On international duty with Estonia ahead of Sunday’s World Cup qualifying match against Belgium, the defender attempted to battle the cold by taking a lesson from Firmino....
The Pittsburgh Steelers. Barring catastrophic injury to star players, the spoiler isn’t going to come from elsewhere within the division. Cincinnati’s also-ran status was reinforced Sunday during Pittsburgh’s 29-14 home win. Baltimore entered Week 7 with the NFL’s 31st-ranked offense and could hit rock bottom after gaining just 208 yards in a 24-16 loss at Minnesota. And Cleveland remains a winless laughingstock after a 12-9 overtime flop vs. Tennessee....
Yeltsin - Fires his prime minister, fights impeachment, stumbles. Absolut-ly out of control. Zhu Rongji - After embassy hit, China’s moderate P.M. slammed as Yankee lover. Watch your back. Rubin + Outgoing Treasury sec. walks on Wall Street water. Fed chairman in 2000? Summers + Rubin’s successor brilliant but still seeking gravitas. Tuck in your shirt, Larry. GOPs - Run for cover on gun show sellout. CW predicts soft-on-NRA image will finally hurt....
Bob Kinnear, the leader for the TTC union, called the proposed redesign "absolutely awful." More from the National Post, which posted spec photos of the red, white and blue golf shirts: “Born-and-bred Torontonians, we’ve got to support our team,” Mr. Kinnear said in an interview Monday, noting he has spoken with TTC chief executive Andy Byford on the matter: “If you’re in Manchester, you don’t wear the colours of Liverpool....
Seeking medical care can be stressful for anyone, but if you were born female or are presenting as female, you may face what’s called the “gender pain gap.” Compared to people born male or presenting as male, people trying to access healthcare as women face significant challenges not just in diagnosis and treatment, but in being heard and having their pain taken seriously in the first place. I experienced the gender pain gap firsthand....
The Senate has struck a deal to allocate $10 billion for COVID funding, a far cry from Biden’s requested $22.5 billion. The relief package, which has not yet cleared Congress, will go towards replenishing testing, treatments, and vaccines. Missing from the budget: aid to poorer countries still digging out from underneath the pandemic. But the U.S. doesn’t get out of the pandemic if the world doesn’t. Right now, many parts of the world are where the U....
Two months ago, we wrote that “asking houses of worship to briefly suspend large gatherings is neither hostile toward religion nor unreasonable in light of the threat.” For us, so long as those reasonable restrictions on our otherwise-precious civil right to religious liberty were temporary and evenly applied, the threat posed by COVID-19 supported reasonable intervention by state officials. Unfortunately, some government officials quickly stepped over that reasonable and respectful line....
The Cardinals and the Cubs will kick things off on ESPN2, with first pitch scheduled for 8 p.m ET. All of the 28 remaining teams will open the season on April 6, with four games scheduled to appear on the ESPN family of networks. When is opening day 2015? Opening day schedule for all 30 MLB teams (all times ET) Opening day 2015: Starting pitchers for each team | ESPN’s early Sunday Night Baseball schedule | ESPN’s opening day coverage...
