Art critic Peter Plagens’s first novel, Time for Robo (Black Heron. $24.95), is what you’d expect from a guy whose first NEWSWEEK piece compared Cezanne to Ernest Tubb–a surreal waltz across space, time and cultures. Ex-hoops star Robo is a lost soul in search of Dad and the meaning of life. Our narrator, by the way, is a computer that quacks like a duck.
While conservatives may have hoped to attain an even larger majority in the nationwide series of votes that took place Tuesday, securing enough to take control of the lower chamber of Congress would give Republicans added influence in affecting the administration’s outlook on key hotspots across the globe. Key among these are a strained bilateral relationship with China, Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, and uncertainties over Iran, with whom resurrecting a nuclear deal seemed perhaps more unlikely than at any time during Biden’s presidency....
Speaking publicly for the first time since his suspension was reduced last Friday to 162 games, Rodriguez changed his tune about the situation, telling reporters it could be beneficial in helping rest his body. "I think in the year 2014, the league could have done me a favor because I've played 20 years without a timeout," Rodriguez said, according to The Associated Press. Rodriguez made his comments in Spanish at the opening of the Alex Rodriguez Energy Fitness Center in Mexico City....
The newspaper reviewed a 15-page synopsis of A-Rod’s interview at a Drug Enforcement Administration conference room on Jan. 29. He was talking to federal agents and prosecutors who granted him immunity in their on-going probe of the now-shuttered clinic. — Sporting News select each MLB team’s most infamous moment “Yes, he bought performance-enhancing drugs from Biogenesis of America, paying roughly $12,000 a month to Anthony Bosch, the fake doctor who owned the clinic,” the newspaper reports in its summary of Rodriguez’s interview....
Much to the chagrin of Yankees management, Alex Rodriguez keeps moving up MLB’s all-time charts. A-Rod hit a towering home run off Rays starting pitcher Nate Karns in the second inning Friday night at Tropicana Field. Your browser does not support iframes. MORE: Alex Rodriguez in photos | O’s fan who turned back on A-Rod says slugger ’the worst' According to MLB Advanced Media, the blast was estimated at 471 feet and is the longest in the majors this season....
The Yankees slugger was touring the halls of Congress on Wednesday when he slipped in to a Trade Promotion Authority meeting, according to the New York Daily News. Luckily for Rodriguez, the House Ways and Means committee seemed excited about his unannounced drop in. “Well, I was fortunate to get an offer. How can you turn that down? It was a fun day,” Rodriguez said. “Just like any American, it was great to see Capitol Hill and to see where all the laws were made....
What will be remembered is Chavez as he seemed-and perhaps really was-in the 1960s: a secular saint in the tradition of Gandhi, whose autobiography was one of his inspirations. Chavez, too, was a vegetarian and an ascetic-even in later years, no one accused him of a secret taste for decadent luxuries-but unlike the upper-caste lawyer Gandhi, he didn’t have to impersonate one of the dispossessed. In 1937, when he was 10, his family was forced out of Arizona and into “Grapes of Wrath”-era California as migrant workers....
So begins yet another murky episode in the saga of the Democrats’ campaign-cash scandals–and this one has a particularly troubling twist. That is the fact that Tamraz, who as a backstage player in Middle Eastern politics has a long association with the CIA, tried to use his old friends at Langley–and his new pals at the DNC–to roll the National Security Council staff. ““The NSC is the high temple of the foreign-policy establishment,’’ a former official says....
The catch was, A.J. McCarron was the established star QB of Robinson’s team. He just was on the other side in practice drills, drills in which the quarterback’s jersey always is a different color so nobody gets confused and lays a glove on him. MORE: SN’s latest mock draft | Stunning photos from the NFL Combine “My freshman year, when I got there, I wasn’t used to not hitting the quarterback,” Robinson said Friday at the NFL Scouting Combine....
But the two men haven’t been laughing–or even talking–since the mayor blew up three weeks ago over the controversial exhibition, “Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection.” Giuliani threatened to cut all city funding to the museum–$7 million a year, about one third of its operating budget–unless the show was canceled. The mayor was especially outraged by “The Holy Virgin Mary,” a painting by Chris Ofili, who used, among other materials, elephant dung....
But 10 minutes later everything changes. Fernandez arrives at the portal to Costa Rica’s new information economy. The lawns are well manicured, the security checkpoint is manned by uniformed guards and 10-foot-high barbed wire surrounds two gleaming chip-production facilities. This is the three-year-old plant of Intel, the world’s largest maker of silicon processors, the brains of the world’s PCs. In the past, citizens of this onetime “banana republic” in Central America might have treated Intel as a Yanqui imperialist, an exploitative multinational....
Both riders ended up in the gravel when Crutchlow lost control on a wet track and collided with the Ducai rider in FP1 at Motegi on Friday. Honda man Crutchlow and Lorenzo exchanged words as they walked away before the Spaniard made a visit to the medical centre for a check-up. Lorenzo was relieved to avoid doing damage and accepted the Englishman’s apology, but felt the incident should not have occurred....
The idea of universal basic income has been popularized in the past several years, with support for such policies growing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. If Los Angeles County in California approves the plan, it would become the largest county in the country to launch a universal basic income pilot program. County supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Holly Mitchell have put forward the proposal, which would provide $1,000 payments to 1,000 residents for three years, local television station KTLA 5 reported on Thursday....
Neymar “es intransferible”, “se quedará al doscientos por ciento” y “no creo que nadie pague su cláusula” es la postura que el club ha adoptado, por boca del portavoz, el vicepresidente deportivo y el secretario técnico del club en cuanto al futuro de Neymar Da Silva, cada vez más caliente. Sin embargo, si el jugador está descontento y llega un club que pague su cláusula de rescisión, en la zona noble del Camp Nou tendrán poco que decir al respecto....
Experts agree that losing weight successfully may result in partial or complete back pain relief. Dr. Andre Panagos, physiatrist and director of Spine and Sports Medicine in New York notes, “every single patient in my clinic who loses a significant amount of weight finds their pain to be vastly improved.” The reason for this, Panagos explains, is that if you are heavier than your ideal weight, your muscles will need to work harder in order to help you accomplish everyday tasks....
Now, not only has Capcom finally decided to bring the sequel to the PC, but they’re bringing it in 3D! I’m not sure how this is going to look, as I haven’t attempted to play any games in 3D yet, but it may make the experience that much more engaging. Or make you throw up, one or the other. Joking aside, this is especially interesting news for me because I always had trouble with the controls while playing on the PS3, and I never tried to play Extreme Condition on my computer when they re-released that one on PC....
Lost Soul Aside has been tracked by fans for quite some time, as it was first revealed in 2016. However, a recent 18-minute gameplay trailer for Lost Soul Aside has helped the game take off. The anticipation for the game is building, and now the community knows the game will be releasing on the PlayStation 5 as well as the PlayStation 4. RELATED: Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade Co-Director Explains Yuffie’s Moogle Hood...
As any intrepid explorer of the human world will tell you, dehydration is one of the biggest threats to survival. There are times mentioned throughout each book when the characters seem in desperate need of food and water, and it looks as though they will surely perish if they don’t quickly gain access to these essential commodities. RELATED: How Do The Lyrics Of The Misty Mountains Song Predict Thorin’s Fate?...
Luckily for Frodo, she never gets the chance with him, because his most loyal and true companion battles to protect him, even though he fears he may already be too late. Shelob is an unusual creature, because despite her cruel and evil nature, she seems to have no heed of the alluring voice of the ring. Many of the evil creatures in the world go straight for Frodo, like the Watcher in the Water outside the Mines of Moria, or the cave troll he gets stabbed by in the underground tunnels, as if they can sense that he is the one who holds some sort of evil enticing object, even if they don’t know exactly what that object is....
The woman, who was known to ask for money in front of a bank in the neighborhood of La Florida and at a nearby supermarket, purchased the winning ticket in a tobacco shop on Thursday. She was reportedly familiar with the shop, often popping in to pass the time and asking passers-by for spare change that she would sometimes invest in lottery tickets, hoping to improve her situation. But the ticket she bought last week for the Spanish BonoLoto lottery was like no other she had purchased before: this one had all six matching numbers necessary to win the lottery’s first prize—a total of 1,271,491 euros ($1,300,631)....
