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Truth be told, my feelings of mercy are such that – after the United States scored four improbable goals in the first sixteen minutes of this match – I switched to The Forsyte Saga on PBS. Not to mention that I picked Cameroon to win. For the first time since 1999, the FIFA Women’s World… Read more.
The people of Greece have presented the European Union with the greatest political crisis in its history after voters decisively rejected years of further austerity and effectively challenged Brussels to throw a member state into the economic abyss. The Syriza-led government in Athens celebrated what it called a victory of democracy over economic ‘terrorism’, as… Read more.
Giving whole new meaning to “open wide … and swallow, baby”…. Read more.
Bree Newsome, the woman who climbed a flagpole and removed a Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol, said she wanted to help America reconcile with its racist past. Newsome, 30, was arrested Saturday after using a harness to climb up the Columbia grounds 30-foot flagpole as officers yelled for her to come down. She was handcuffed… Read more.
‘In case you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of people here,’ Bernie Sanders said a bit awed as he took the stage in front of nearly 10,000 in a coliseum here. Sanders has been attracting outsize crowds wherever he takes his unlikely presidential campaign: Five thousand came out for his kickoff rally in his… Read more.
Reports are that Phil Mickelson consorts with high-stakes bookies. Remember the breaking news that Tiger Woods cavorts with high-priced prostitutes? Well, this news about Mickelson is far more shocking. Phil Mickelson gambling like Tiger Woods cheating Nearly $3 million transferred from golfer Phil Mickelson to an intermediary was part of ‘an illegal gambling operation which… Read more.
NBC has cut ties with business mogul Donald Trump, whose show The Apprentice has aired on the network since 2004, over Trump’s recent derogatory statements about immigrants. According to a statement, the network is ‘ending its business relationship’ with Trump, noting the annual Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants and The Apprentice will no longer… Read more.
Wimbledon got underway at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club yesterday. It is generally regarded as the most prestigious of the four major Tennis championships (aka Grand Slams). Truth be told, I have never understood why. I understand regarding it as the oldest – given that it was founded in 1877. But even that seems hardly… Read more.
Greek banks and the stock exchange will be shut on Monday after creditors refused to extend the country’s bailout and savers queued to withdraw cash, taking Athens’ standoff with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to a dangerous new level… In the early hours of Saturday, Tspiras asked for extra time to enable… Read more.
Despite angry rhetoric and accusations of ‘blackmail’, negotiations were continuing in Brussels to find a last-ditch compromise to keep Greece in the euro zone to avoid a political train-wreck, economic chaos and financial market disruption. (Reuters, June 26, 2015) Time to give it up Europe. Besides, in a country famous for its ruins, leaving its economy in ruins might… Read more.
