Articulate and personable, Gantt long ago demonstrated his crossover appeal. In 1983 he won the first of two terms as mayor of Charlotte, then three-quarters white, with 52 percent of the vote. But he will have a harder time making inroads among the “Jessecrats”–rural, white conservatives who register Democratic and vote Republican in national contests. Both Gantt and Helms recognize that such voters will be key to the outcome next November....

Dear Jim, I’m a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where I spent two of my three years studying the Constitution, property rights, contract law and federalism with you in Charlottesville. We studied important things that our Founding Fathers thought about and debated in the 18th century and that we’re still debating today. I’ve been reading with great worry about efforts by students and faculty alike to remove the statue of Thomas Jefferson that stands in front of the Rotunda and remove all positive references in official university communications about the man who founded our beloved university....

An Important Book that you admit you haven’t read: I read lots of classic novels, but what I’m more bothered by is my inability to keep up with great stuff that’s being written now. I’d love to get around to reading “What Is the What” by Dave Eggers. Everyone says it’s great. A classic that, on rereading, was disappointing: “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes. It’s great, but I haven’t been able to get through it again....

Aaron’s body was found at his Lancaster, California home on Saturday, November 5, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death has not yet been disclosed. His older brother, Nick, 42, of Backstreet Boys, has led the tributes to his younger brother in an emotional Instagram post. Nick called Aaron his “baby brother” but also reflected on their at-times “complicated” relationship. The elder brother also nodded Aaron’s own personal struggles, writing: “Addiction and mental illness are the real villains here....

There is growing curiosity around Azizah (meaning “dear, strong and noble”), the first and only American magazine for Muslim women. The glossy quarterly caters to a multiethnic readership–Taylor is an African-American from Trinidad; the creative director Marlina Soerakoesoemah is Indonesian; writers are of all nationalities–and offers smart stories on everything from birth control to surviving 9-11 backlash. Azizah also features profiles on professional Muslim women and tips on fashion, recipes (“There’s Nothing Quite Like Rice”) and gardening....

It is only practice, of course. But swish. Top of the key. And swish again. Right corner. It’s terribly disorienting. Swish. It’s only been six weeks since M ‘c revealed his illness but the rumors have flown every which way, freezing out the truth, which is: he has no symptoms and is on AZT without side effects; his wife and unborn child are unaffected; he has been placed on the president’s commission on AIDS and he’s signed a book contract for a reported $5 million; he plans to keep his spot on the U....

More than 20 years ago, Miller’s son published a photo-rich biography, “The Lives of Lee Miller,” that created new interest in that almost-forgotten life. Since then, there have been many exhibitions of her work and more than half a dozen books. Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise optioned her story for a film, but their marriage wrapped before the project began. Now an expansive new show, “The Art of Lee Miller,” which originated in London, just opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through April 27)....

The chain of events after Election Day has far from followed the usual expected routine. Below, Newsweek looks at five questions surrounding concession, the transition and inauguration. Will Trump Make a Concession Speech? Well, that would require the president conceding. Trump has not done so despite multiple news networks assessing Biden as the winner with 306 Electoral College votes, surpassing the 270 majority needed to claim the presidency. The Trump campaign’s efforts to alter state outcomes have failed thus far....

The Portuguese coach claimed that City players just needed “a little bit of wind and they fall”, clarifying his remark after initially saying that “one thing that I don’t like a lot is that they lose their balance very easily”. But, ironically enough, referee Michael Oliver’s decision to book Ander Herrera for going down too easily under a Nicolas Otamendi challenge in the second half gave United their second yellow card of the season — after Antonio Valencia against Tottenham in October — for such unsporting behaviour....

You can smell death in Mostar. On the streets the stench of rotting corpses mingles with the odor of excrement and garbage. The public park has been converted into a cemetery, with some 75 fresh graves. A short sprint across one of the town’s many “sniper alleys” and you come to the chaotic Ratna Bolnica Hospital, where men, women and children writhe on soiled sheets, hideously wounded. A sister and brother, Selma Handzar, 9, and Mirzad, 8, lie next to each other....

Prince’s Ecuador trip was a model of vacation productivity. In 13 days, including travel time, she improved the lives of the villagers and exposed her daughter to a different culture and a society on the other side of the worldwide gap in wealth. Bergh got a cardiovascular workout walking to the fields to harvest corn, they all saw a new part of the world—including the Galápagos Islands, where they spent five days at a luxury eco-resort—and Hadley fulfilled her high-school community-service requirement in a way that will look great on her college applications....

Naltrexone is nothing new. Researchers learned 20 years ago that it could rob drugs like heroin and morphine of their pleasurable effects, by covering the receptors they attach to in the nervous system. The DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. started marketing the drug as Trexan in 1984, after studies showed it could help heroin addicts avoid relapse once they had been through withdrawal. Since then, however, several trials have shown that problem drinkers have just as much to gain from the treatment....

There’s a new kind of homelessness in the city, and a new kind of hunger, and a new kind of need and humiliation, but it has managed to stay as invisible as those sleepers were by sunup. “What we’re seeing are many more working families on the brink of eviction,” says Mary Brosnahan, who runs the Coalition for the Homeless. “They fall behind on the rent, and that’s it, they’re on the street....

Kahane soon discovered the girl’s dance career was short and tragic. “[It was] like something out of Emile Zola,” says the opera’s ballet master, Patrice Bart. Kahane recounted the tale to the ballet’s director, Brigitte Lefevre, who was so moved she commissioned Bart to create a full-length ballet based on it. The three-act work, “La Petite Danseuse de Degas,” runs through May 9 at Paris’s Palais Garnier. Van Goethem was the middle of three daughters of a widowed washerwoman who lived behind the then new Garnier opera house....

Metallica fans will be delighted that the band’s forthcoming CD, “St. Anger”–the first new material from the quartet in six years–is loud, brutal, relentless and unlistenable to almost anyone but Metallica fans. The guys in the band, meanwhile, are just delighted that it exists. Hetfield’s three months out of commission topped off a grim few years that would’ve crushed a less resilient group. In 2000 Ulrich waged a disastrous battle with the Web site Napster, during which he released the names of 300,000 Metallica fans (many now ex-fans) who’d used the site to download the band’s music....

The man behind the remarks, Miloon Kothari, was one of three individuals appointed to the Navi Pillay-led open-ended ‘Commission of Inquiry’ against Israel last year. Created purportedly in the wake of the 2021 conflict between Hamas and Israel, to investigate supposed “underlying root causes” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the resolution establishing the commission did not even mention Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror group sworn to Israel’s destruction, which fired almost 4,500 rockets at Israeli civilians....

They’d better be. By the time the Olympics begin in Atlanta this summer, the high rollers of the corporate world will have anted up more than $1 billion to link their names and products to the Olympic Games. There are 10 Worldwide Sponsors, 10 Centennial Olympic Partners, about 20 regular Sponsors and more than a hundred licensees. The Atlanta Games will beast an “official” scouring pad and timepiece, two official game shows– “Jeopardy!...

To demonstrate his point, McCallum had turned in 1996 to a sophisticated computer-modeling program designed to simulate terrorist attacks against each of the country’s nuclear labs. NEWSWEEK has learned that in every one of the scenarios that the computer devised, the hypothetical terrorists succeeded in penetrating security at the Rocky Flats weapons factory near Denver and blowing up some of the highly radioactive plutonium used to make bombs. In 80 percent of the simulations, the attackers were able to get through the razor wire and security checks and walk out with enough plutonium to build a nuclear bomb–or poison millions of people with the radioactive dust....