USA Faces Same Risks Ancient Rome Faced in Caesar's Day (First column, 3rd story, link)
Mr. Garrison was never supposed to be President
Manchester United forward in squad for England friendliesAnthony Gordon, Cole Palmer and Phil Foden offer competitionGareth Southgate has warned Marcus Rashford his place in England’s Euro 2024 squad is by no means guaranteed, with stiff competition looming from the next generation of wide attackers.Rashford has been back in the England fold, when fit, since being recalled for the 2022 World Cup after a year-long absence. His domestic form has been patchy, though, while he was disciplined by...
England’s players and staff are set for an incredible time at their base camp for Euro 2024, situated near Leipzig in East Germany. The Golfresort Weimarer Land has been picked for Gareth Sou
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Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory in a fake contest marks the latest phase in a transition from authoritarianism to outright autocracyOne of the curiosities of the Soviet Union was the serious weight its leaders attached to holding elections. In a dictatorship, why bother? Academic studies concluded that ensuring a 99% vote share for the only candidate on the ballot was a useful tool for civic mobilisation, and a way of isolating and intimidating anyone who aspired to a real democratic...
The defense minister received 96.2 million votes in his third run for the nation’s top office.
Shareholders may welcome the change in direction, but the chief executive’s predecessors used similar tacticsHein Schumacher, Unilever’s new-ish chief executive, has already dialled down the worthy corporate sermons on social purpose. Now he’s ditching the ice-creams, including the famous names of Wall’s, Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s, and shedding 7,500 jobs elsewhere. Is this the hard-headed change of direction that shareholders, muttering about a sleepy share price and complacency in the boardroom...
Vice President Kamala Harris is being called to resign from her position in order to give President Joe Biden a better chance at reelection. Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post editorial board penned the opinion editorial published Friday. Parker wrote a similar recommendation to Sarah Palin, John McCain’s presidential pick ahead of the 2008 election. […]
The journey to bringing the classic hugot movie to the stage actually took seven long years
There's a stigma in the state that New Mexico is often shows up at the bottom of a lot of national lists; but now, a new ranking from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests the Land of Enchantment is the best in the country at running elections.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There is a new most expensive drug in the world. Price tag: $4.25 million The news: There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs as much as a Brooklyn…