At 75, the senior senator from North Carolina doesn’t get many chances like this anymore. For the last two years he’s been chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in the unaccustomed role of insider. He’s agreed to be charmed by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. He’s cooperated with the Clinton administration on some key matters, relenting on paying U.N. dues and allowing the ban on chemical weapons to proceed....
On the Portuguese side, Cristiano Ronaldo, the immaculately groomed, handsomely paid Real Madrid striker who recently added a fragrance to his list of sponsorship deals. For Iceland, bearded, red-faced midfielder Aron Gunnarsson who carries off the rugged Viking look to perfection and plays his club football in the second tier of the English league with Cardiff City. On an historic night in St Etienne, it was Gunnarsson who emerged as the morale victor after his team, representing a country of just 330,000 people, deservedly took an unlikely point against the group favourites....
The Poland international, 29 remains in excellent form for the Bundesliga leaders, scoring 18 goals in 21 games in all competitions so far, but he has urged the club to bring in another attacker to take pressure off of him . Lewandowski has also criticised former coach Ancelotti for a string of muscle injuries Bayern have struggled with this term, and Heynckes is also disappointed with his predecessor. The 72-year-old says Ancelotti’s bad planning in the summer transfer window have left the Bavarian side thin up top and feels it will be a difficult issue to address in January....
The Foxes, struggling in the Premier League relegation zone with one win from eight matches, sacked Craig Shakespeare on Tuesday and have placed Michael Appleton in caretaker charge for Saturday’s trip to face the Swans. Rumours have emerged suggesting Ancelotti - who departed Bayern Munich last month after a 3-0 Champions League defeat to Paris Saint-Germain - could be in line to take over at the King Power Stadium....
Among Us came out over two years ago, but it has seen a huge boost in popularity during the months of August and September. The game provides players with a Mafia-like social manipulation experience, where they try to complete various minigames around a space ship while rooting out one or more imposters. Those imposters attempt to sabotage the ship and murder their crewmates. RELATED: Among Us: How to Get All Halloween Hats...
Among Us has announced a collaboration with Scream, including a stream of the game that pits actors from the movie against various streamers. The Among Us x Scream crossover will also include cosmetics, naturally, with fans soon able to get their hands on a Ghostface costume for their crewmates. Release date and pricing information for the Scream cosmetics in Among Us have not been announced at the time of this writing beyond that they are “coming soon....
Los Armeros are looking for their third consecutive win in the league and climb further up the table. With three wins and a draw from six games, they’re currently in sixth place, level on points with Mirandes. Having been relegated from La Liga after seven years in the top-flight, Gaizka Garitano’s side are determined to get right back up in the first division. They’ll be hoping to gain all three points once again against relegation-battling Amorebieta, who are second from bottom....
“She’s my best friend… my other sister,” singer-songwriter Juliette Ashby tells Newsweek. “She may have been a worldwide star, which she is, but for me she is just Amy and I miss her—everything about her. “It’s like I’ve lost a limb [from] my body, to be honest. The pain doesn’t get any easier. Time isn’t a healer. I guess you just keep breathing and life carries on, even if you are never the same again....
John Prine did have a brilliant idea: revisit great duet numbers with the likes of Lucinda Williams and Iris DeMent. He even gets George Jones’s onetime sidekick Melba Montgomery to reprise two of her own songs, including the 1963 “Let’s Invite Them Over”–the closest Nashville has come to the topic of spouse swapping. But neither Prine’s wry, alt.-country sensibility nor his ragged-but-right voice does the idea justice. He was shooting for second-take spontaneity and bemused affection; what comes across is casual condescension....
Fans might not experience feelings of joy when they find out that the sequel to the 2015 Pixar smash, as announced by @PuckNews on Twitter ahead of the D23 expo, won’t be seeing the return of Bill Hader (Barry) as Fear or Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project) as Disgust. Pixar began as an offshoot of Industrial Light and Magic, better known as ILM, the major Hollywood effects studio started by George Lucas so he could add the effects to his original Star Wars films....
In October 2020, Netflix released a seven-episode mini-series called The Queen’s Gambit. The Queen’s Gambit follows Beth, a young chess prodigy who must overcome addiction and sexism to become one of the best Chess players the world has ever seen. The fictional series is based on Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel of the same name and features some amazing writing, acting, and cinematography. The show’s accurate and often loving depiction of Chess has triggered a resurgence of popular interest in the sport, and that resurgence has taken place on Twitch as well....
It’s a mark of your character that you saw a bus headed Cameron Bancroft’s way and knowingly threw yourself in front of it. You were well aware of the fact that you weren’t in a position to save your young team member; nevertheless, you decided to share his pain and humiliation. In my cricket-crazy country, your arch-foe Virat Kohli is the light of everyone’s life. He is the flag-bearer of Indian cricket’s hopes and dreams....
Now after ten years, IPL is no longer just a cricket league, it’s a festival now, which is celebrated all over the world. Its impact has been such that every other cricketing nation now has a franchise based T20 league in their country, yet none has been as successful as the IPL. Australia’s Big Bash comes the closest, but with Indian players not participating in it, its viewership is still not quite like the IPL’s....
India have played South Africa twice out of last three Tests that have played at the venue and while the 2004 Test was a long and boring draw – with 1145 runs being scored in two and a half innings – as the teams piled up a truckload of runs, the one in 2008 was played on a rank turner and got over inside three days. The chief groundsman at the Green Park, Shiv Kumar, though, has reasons to explain such a drastic change....
In an interview, one analyst said that he expects the Switch’s strong success to carry on for several years yet. Atsushi Hosokawa, the founder of industry analysis firm Media Create, said that the Switch is finding success across all demographics. This is a big positive for the console’s long-term success, explained the analyst, as only the Nintendo DS product line has been able to do this so far. Hosokawa also revealed, “We expect [the Nintendo Switch] life-cycle to be seven years,” which would mean that Nintendo would discontinue the console in 2024....
The labor action—the largest against the automaker since 2007—entered a tenth day on Wednesday with no word of a potential settlement between GM and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. “If the strike lasts through the end of the year it will reduce fourth-quarter GDP by 0.2 of a percentage point. If the strike extends into next year, then the economic damage could become more significant,” Moody’s said in a research note....
The 61-year-old former Davis Cupper replaces S.P. Misra, who was fired after 8 top players from the team made it clear that they were not happy with the prevailing conditions in the Davis Cup setup. The decision was said to be taken at the AITA’s Executive Committee meeting in Goa. He has been appointed for a period of a little over a year and a half till the end of 2014....
