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This franchise has come a long way since starting out as the expansion Mighty Ducks of Anaheim two decades ago. Like many Southern Californians, they reinvented themselves along the way, recasting themselves as the Anaheim Ducks and shedding an identity that infuriated many hockey purists. MORE: Game 7, 8 ET, NBC, CBC, TVA | Odds and pick | Series in images | Video highlights The Ducks’ current run provides a perfect opportunity to take an inside look at the transition from “Mighty Ducks” to simply “Ducks,” and to imagine what might have been....

Stamp speculation usually means buying collector-quality issues and seeing whether they rise in price. But starting this spring, the U.S. Postal Service will offer you a new way to play the stamp market: the Forever Stamp. It’s a stamp that will forever be good for mailing up to one ounce of first-class mail, no matter how high the cost of stamps rises. These new issues are scheduled for their initial public offering at about the same time the price of a first-class stamp is scheduled to rise to 41 or 42 cents—the price hasn’t yet been determined—from the current 39 cents....

Thomas doesn’t officially take over until this week, yet his troubles already have disturbed the quiet work of the court. The electronic images of Thomas and Hill blared in offices throughout the building as secretaries, law clerks and the justices themselves tuned in the Senate mudfest. NEWSWEEK has learned that two conservative justices who watched the hearings told their clerks that they thought Thomas lied to the Judiciary Committee....

For years, it seemed the Bronx would never recover from the devastation of the 1960s and 1970s, when entire blocks burned to the ground and longtime residents fled in droves. The population in the local district that includes Bielma’s shop fell 44 percent between 1970 and 1980. But the Bronx is on the rebound. And immigrants are the driving force. According to the latest Census data, the population of the Bronx now stands at 1....

And such victories mean a lot, both to the players, as well as the people of a war torn country like Afghanistan. Their team’s seemingly improbable victories gives them hope. It shows them that if their cricket team can do it against all odds, then they can do it to. Most of which, are inspired by one man. Not too different from India during the 90s. Though India’s and Afghanistan’s is a far fetched comparison, their stories with respect to their countries’ cricket teams, aren’t too different from each other....

According to one such analyst, current estimates place the release of the miniature iPad as coming this October, sporting an 8GB hard drive and a price tag of $299. The reports may seem a bit dubious and speculative, but reports of a scaled-down version of Apple’s tablet have been circling for a while now. In April a source close to Apple explained that the iPad Mini was being tested internally without a set manufacturing plan, with later reports claiming that the devices would even be sold at a loss to force competition out of the market....

Let’s start with an obvious question. In the aftermath of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, who do you think was responsible? It was almost certainly the work of Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda’s Pakistani allies. Al Qaeda has been trying to kill Ms. Bhutto for decades. She has been the target of assassination attempts by Al Qaeda before. They were most likely responsible for the attack on her when she first returned to Pakistan....

Now with pre-orders open to the mass public, Analyst group Cowen and Company says that Star Wars: The Old Republic could not only recoup expenses - but also Force Push the gates wide open with a potential 3 million units in sales during the inaugural year - doubling the sell-though estimates that were recorded just six months ago. Currently, The Old Republic is trending “well or better” than other heavily anticipated titles such as StarCraft 2 and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - which both sold over 4 million units each in their opening year....

Market and research consulting firm Strategy Analytics expects the Vita could sell 12.4 million units by the end of 2012 if a price drop is enforced. Sony Computer Entertainment UK head, Fergal Gara, has said that a price drop is “not currently” on the company’s radar and that we shouldn’t expect a price drop anytime soon. Strategy Analytics believes that we will see the same thing that happened in Japan with high initial sales of the Vita, but a big drop off will occur....

What should be noticed is that if we compare Liverpool’s 2017/18 and 2018/19 season, they are extremely different from each other. This season’s Liverpool side was more drilled, more patient, and had much greater squad depth. But the key area where the difference can be seen is in the change of tactics that were adopted by Klopp this season. Jurgen Klopp is known for his amazing attacking philosophy, which lays its foundation in gegenpressing....

Up until Elimination Chamber last year, Strowman’s booking was fine. His only setback was losing to Brock Lesnar at No Mercy, but he recovered from that quickly. At the 2018 Royal Rumble, Lesnar pinned Kane, not Strowman to retain the Universal Championship, which protected Strowman. Then came the Elimination Chamber. In the match, Strowman eliminated The Miz, Elias, John Cena, Finn Balor, and Seth Rollins before being eliminated by Roman Reigns....

Why is red ‘sus’ in Among Us? You could blame game marketing for that reason. People have always used red to be a color that signifies danger. The flashy red signs that occur when there’s a sabotage, or when dead bodies are reported, always reinforce the fact that red is indeed dangerous. It’s more of a psychological thing. The way the color red is portrayed makes people wary of the red player....

Now, the Airship map has made another appearance, this time at the ID@Xbox Indie Showcase event. Innersloth, the developer behind Among Us, showed off another look at the Airship map, which should shake up the way each round plays out quite a bit. RELATED: Fall Guys Adding Among Us Skins As most readers will likely know, Among Us had an absolutely massive surge in popularity during 2020, thanks to content creators on platforms like Twitch and YouTube....

The Welsh-born of Ghanaian descent stole the headlines on Wednesday with a Man-of-The-Match performance against Bournemouth in the League Cup. Despite a booking as early as the second minute, he lasted for the entire duration as the Blues registered a 2-1 win over The Cherries in the quarter-final fixture. “You dream of making debuts for Wales and for Chelsea and moving to Chelsea in the summer, the team I supported as a kid, they are like dreams come true,” Ampadu told the Blues’ official website....

The Empire Builder train 7/27 derailed near Joplin, Montana, at around 4 p.m. local time (6 p.m. ET) with approximately 146 passengers and 16 crew members onboard, Amtrak said in a statement. The train consisted of two locomotives and 10 cars, with seven of those cars derailing. “Amtrak is working with the local authorities to transport injured passengers, and safely evacuate all other passengers,” the statement said. “Amtrak will provide additional details as they are available....

The high court voted 7-2 to reverse court rulings in Texas and other Republican-led states that struck down the law’s individual mandate provision. The decision was a major victory for supporters of the health care law and marked the third time Obamacare has survived a major challenge in the Supreme Court. The ruling also had the unexpected support of Barrett, who Democrats argued would threaten the Affordable Care Act (ACA) if confirmed....

The Trainwreck star took part in Vanity Fair’s polygraph test feature where she was grilled about many aspects of her acting career, personal life and indeed, her jokes. Back in 2016, Schumer was accused of stealing other comedians’ jokes in a now-deleted thread on Twitter. At the time, three female comedians—Wendy Liebman, Tammy Pescatelli, and Kathleen Madigan—shared their frustrations and made claims that Schumer had stolen material and used it in her stand-up specials....

The controversial lecturer said on Tucker Carlson Today on Friday: “I think there is just a tremendous amount of resentment and shame of non-Western peoples against Western peoples for Western peoples’ outsized achievements and contributions. I mean, it’s really unbearable. “Leaving aside American Blacks, who I think do feel that resentment and shame and envy. I mean it is this unholy brew of sentiments.” In 2019, a Pew Research Center study found that 69 percent of Black people said it helped a lot to be white in America in order to get ahead....

The scene embodies the traits that make Lee one of Korea’s most provocative directors: family dynamics, characters with disabilities and an unflinching look at Korean society. Local critics have long praised the director’s literary, uncompromising style. But with his third film, “Oasis,” released in August, Lee, 49, has moved beyond art-house popularity to build a following among mainstream Koreans. Indeed, when the movie went head-to-head with the country’s biggest summer hit, “Minority Report,” it pulled in a healthy $7 million in a little more than a month....

On a beautiful sunny day, John Howard, then the Prime Minister of Australia, suddenly broke into a trot and his six bodyguards instantly switched to light-jog mode. Moments ago, the PA system had announced that the new man in was the one he referred to as “Laksmin”. Howard hurriedly made his way through a strolling, slightly puzzled crowd and towards his box seat at the 2004 Sydney Test. Affairs of state were going to have to wait....