Army Capt. Sean McQuade calls such arguments “absurd.” As a lieutenant, McQuade led the platoon that fought Habib Jan. He and two of his soldiers were awarded Silver Stars for heroism in that fight. He is proud of their stories and wants them known. “Their story needs to be told,” he said, “but it’s not.” According to the story, in six years of war about 350 men and women have received the Silver Star....
The Defender is among the more highly sought after models. Classic.com currently lists the top price paid at auction for a first-generation Defender 110 (1984 to 2016) as being $480,914 with an average list price of $58,741 for the six that are currently for sale on the site. Mecum Monterey recently brought the gavel down on a 1989 Defender 110 for $187,000. Companies around the world are capitalizing on the hot market, offering to outfit vintage Land Rovers, and duplicate new models with high-end upholstery, bespoke jewelry and Magic Metal....
As hard as the player ran to the sideline, it wasn’t hard to guess that would be the outcome.
During their win over View Park in the LA City Section playoff, 57-52, Narbonne (Harbor City, Calif.) wore uniforms with pink letters and numbers for breast cancer awareness. According to the LA City Section rules, teams are only allowed to wear uniforms with their school colors. If they want to wear a different color, they must first submit a waiver. The team’s coach, Victoria Sanders, was unaware of the rules requiring a waiver....
But the new facility may not get much use. Justice officials were dismayed when they recently discovered language in last year’s crime bill that they had previously overlooked. It requires that federal convicts be executed by the method prescribed by the state in which the crime was committed. Many states use the electric chair or the gas chamber, not lethal injection; four permit hanging, and two – Idaho and Utah – allow firing squads....
Move over, cubic zirconia. Make way for Saks Fifth Avenue. The medium that once played to Joe Six-pack has begun to court the brand-conscious. Even fashion designers and electronics manufacturers are taking their wares to the tube, in the form of program-length " infomercials" or shows on home-shopping networks. Three weeks ago, Saks announced that it will design an hour-long program for QVC, the network headed by former Fox TV chairman Barry Diller....
But at the moment, you’re blocking traffic because your car’s power steering quit right as you were turning into a parking space. It’s panic time. Do you stay with your car until a tow truck arrives but miss your first college class and risk falling behind from day one? Do you abandon your disabled car and inconvenience every other student trying to get to class? Can you even afford to fix your car?...
MORE: Top 40 college players | Top 16 programs since 2000 Dunn’s girlfriend told a 911 operator Sunday afternoon he hit her in the face and choked her, telling the dispatcher, “My boyfriend hit me really bad.” “My lip is bleeding and I have a black eye,” she added. The 911 call was obtained by the Columbus Dispatch and, while Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer didn’t say why the senior running back was dismissed, it would seem the alleged assault was a factor....
Teachers, school counselors and therapists who treat adolescents say they are seeing more and more girls like Crystal - desperate teenagers who will do just about anything to get a boy. Some, like Crystal, are daughters of divorce, eager for any kind of relationship with a male. Others are responding to peer pressure to be sexually active, and to the barrage of explicit images on television and in advertising. Girls will latch onto provocative entertainers like Madonna as role models, says Gail Elizabeth Wyatt, a professor of medical psychology at UCLA, and end up “playing a stereotypical role of a highly sexualized woman....
The question is, as another round of public sex scandals unfolds, where are these women today? The confessions of Eliot Spitzer, David Paterson (the man who, on the same day he replaced Spitzer, admitted to past affairs) and, more recently, the allegations against Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, pale when compared with tales of the Russian empress. Yet while there has been a spate of men caught with their pants around their ankles in recent years, political scientists scratch their heads when asked to come up with a female equivalent for the men–Spitzer, former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey–the New York tabs have dubbed “Luv Guvs....
The Giro d’Italia (Tour of Italy) is the first of Europe’s three biggest cycling events, making up the triple crown of cycling alongside the Tour de France and Vuelta a España. MORE: Watch Giro D’Italia live with fuboTV (7-day free trial) This is the 102nd edition of the great Italian race, which first began in 1909. This year, Giro will start in Bologna — for the first time in 25 years — with an 8-kilometer (6-mile) individual time trial....
A federal complaint charging Paige Thompson, the alleged hacker, says that the exfiltration on Capital One information took place between March and April, when it was posted on GitHub. Capital One was notified on July 17 that its information had been published on GitHub. The 28-page lawsuit filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California asserted that GitHub “actively encourages (at least) friendly hacking.”...
The state’s governor apparently doesn’t agree. Florida’s popular Republican Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed McCain on Saturday. The endorsement clearly caught the Giuliani campaign off guard. In early January invitations went out for Orange County’s GOP Lincoln Day Dinner, promising remarks by Giuliani and a “special appearance” by Crist. But on Saturday night only Giuliani showed up. And while Crist did attend a Lincoln Day Dinner, it wasn’t Rudy Giuliani’s: the governor spent Saturday night in Pinellas County with McCain....
Richard Nixon promoted his own image makeover by addressing the Oxford Union in 1978. Current Union president Paul Kenward, a 22-year-old modern-history student, cited the Nixon precedent in announcing that Simpson was scheduled to speak next week. He said he was “honored” to invite O.J., which he did at the suggestion of the ex-athlete’s London PR man. “The only debate about this took place in my own head,” said Kenward....
When you have glaucoma, you may need one or more eye drops every day to help keep your intraocular pressure down. Keeping track of those different eye drops and using them properly can be challenging. Glaucoma surgery may eliminate the need for some of those eye drops. Diagnosis Related to Glaucoma Surgery A diagnosis of glaucoma is needed to have glaucoma surgery. Glaucoma causes a progressive problem in the optic nerve....
The U.S. decision does however require the rest of us to think boldly. It is welcome that the WHO has announced its own review of the crisis, led by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. In 1944 the Bretton Woods conference reconceived the post-second world war economic architecture. The war was not over, but post-war planning had begun. We need similar ambition today....
Wise men to whom we should listen respectfully (such as George Soros) are saying this is the end of the 60-year post-World War II supercycle, and the secular abyss looms. However, after living through (and surviving) nine panics over the past 45 years, my intuition is that we are close to the end of this one, and that markets around the world are poised for a rally that could be as violent as the decline....
Days after Hong Kong Stars team members Celina Lin, WeiYi Zhang and Dung Guo enjoyed success at the APPT Macau Poker Cup, a trio of New York Rounders and a London Royal each won important events held in Las Vegas over the weekend. MORE: McKeehen wins WSOP Main Event We kick things off at Bally’s Las Vegas where the World Series of Poker were holding Circuit tour events there for the first time....
Most of the rock intelligentsia–the hardcore music geeks in their 20s and 30s (like me) who parlayed their obsessive love of The Smiths and Minor Threat into a career writing about music made and marketed for teenagers–will raise their formerly pierced noses at Phish’s return to the scene. This is, after all, a band whose fan base is described (not totally inaccurately) as being “trustafarians”–white trust-fund babies who affect dreadlocks and tattoo their Saabs with GOT POT?...
At least that’s the impression one gets from a back-to-back reading of Paul Andrews’s Microsoft tome, “How the Web Was Won,” and Po Bronson’s pointillist Valley guide, “The Nudist on the Late Shift.” Bronson sees Silicon Valley not just as a contemporary gold rush but a magical land where everybody from bankers to clerical workers speak the babble of bandwidth and red herrings. Bronson’s subjects come to the Valley not simply for riches and glory, but in the grip of some neoprimal urge, like eels heading to the Sargasso Sea at spawn time, or Richard Dreyfuss in “Close Encounters” drawn to the mashed-potato mountain....
