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Serena Williams has been dominating women’s tennis so much this year that I don’t know of any sports analyst who gave Victoria “Vika” Azarenka, her opponent in today’s U.S. Open final, any chance of winning. And Serena proved them right. In fact, the only thing that surprised anybody was that it took her three sets… Read more.
Evidently, nobody was surprised on Saturday when the New England Patriots released Tim Tebow. Which makes this apparent end to his NFL career all the more ignominious – considering that virtually everybody was hailing him as the league’s savior just three years ago, during his rookie season. Apropos of which, remember this almost blasphemous, all-cap… Read more.
In an interview with the Associated Press and his state TV on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated for the first time that he is not averse to backing U.S. strikes to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons. Although, perhaps this was just his way of trying to soften up Obama before… Read more.
His mind is probably still in hospital, and his soul, I pray, long gone…. This is why I was so bemused by the way South Africans rejoiced when Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital on Monday. Hell, the euphoria was such that one newspaper, The New Age, led its readers to believe that this joy was… Read more.
You’d think Nyad stood a realistic chance of making it this time. In fact, even though she made it farther than ever before, she still had more than 33 of her [110]-mile swim to go. Still, given that Nyad thought she could do this at 63, it would not surprise me if she deludes herself… Read more.
Members of both the U.S. Congress and UK Parliament deemed debate over military strikes against Syria so important that they interrupted summer vacations to participate. I felt obliged to do the same. Here’s my question for every member of Congress and every member of the global community: What message will we send if a dictator… Read more.
In a rare show of unity, the United States and Russia are calling on the United Nations to investigate claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on Wednesday to kill over 1000 people, including women and children. All indications are that the United States is trying to enlist a coalition of nations willing to… Read more.
For decades conspiracy nuts have been competing with paranormal kooks to divine what top secrets the U.S. government was hiding within the confines of Area 51. Area 51, of course, is the place – located about 125 miles northwest of Las Vegas – that was to The X-Files what Washington, DC is to House of Cards.… Read more.
It would be an understatement to say that Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former president and army chief, is experiencing a fall from grace worse than that of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former president and army chief. Especially given that while Egyptian authorities are now scheming to set Mubarak free, Pakistani authorities are scheming to imprison Musharraf for… Read more.
