McDermott’s plucky heroine is certainly up to the challenge. Pretty, smart, caring, good with kids and animals, wise beyond her years–she even stares death right in the eye. There’s not much that she can’t take on and conquer. Not that she has to: when trouble does cross her path, McDermott simply brushes it out of her protagonist’s way. One of this novel’s more charming conceits is that life is not like a fairy tale....
Man City injuries, suspensions and line-up vs Liverpool Celtic lead second-placed Rangers by a whopping 16 points atop the Scottish Premiership, having played a game less. Rodgers’ side ran out convincing 5-1 winners at Parkhead in September, and have dropped just two points from their 19 league outings this season. Although favourites to triumph over their old foes on Saturday, Celtic will be free of the weight of expectation, according to Rodgers, who believes that Rangers will be under severe pressure to deliver in front of their home fans....
This is yet another factor in Gorbachev’s struggle with a restive military leadership. Western analysts believe that a showdown looms between Gorbachev and hardliners who want to preserve the country’s military-industrial base. As the White House prepared for the Moscow summit, officials faced the question: does the military still stand with Gorbachev? A pure military coup is only a remote possibility. More likely is a “constitutional” coup in which commanders join with right-wing civilian factions (such as the KGB) to force Gorbachev out....
The European Team of the Season so far The 62-year-old was relieved of his duties as national team boss just 67 days into his reign after he was caught on video stating that there are ways to get around the Football Association’s rules on third party ownership. The former West Ham boss returned to football this week when he was chosen to succeed Alan Pardew in charge of Crystal Palace....
Yohan Cabaye handed Palace the lead before the break with a fine finish before Christian Benteke wasted a gilt-edged chance to make it 2-0 when he missed a penalty. Palace were made to pay after the break when Troy Deeney levelled the scoring from the spot and Allardyce rued his side’s profligacy in front of goal. “It is two points dropped for me. In some ways that is encouraging in your first game, away from home,” Allardyce told Sky Sports....
Mark Douglas Burns, 69, is alleged to have committed the violent assaults from 1991 to 2001. A press release from the Clearfield City Police Department says that DNA played a key role in identifying Burns. Collection of DNA evidence during the investigations, which spanned the course of 25 years, aided a renewed focus on the case, which came in 2015 as multiple agencies collaborated with a true crime television show, Cold Justice: Sex Crimes....
Police identified Rodolphe Jaar alongside four others as suspected armed and dangerous fugitives that allegedly took part in Moïse’s killing on July 7 in his home, the Associated Press reported. Jaar speaks English, was born in Haiti and does not have U.S. citizenship. He was indicted in a South Florida federal court on cocaine conspiracy smuggling charges in 2013. Jaar’s attorney revealed at his 2015 sentencing hearing that he was a confidential informant for the U....
Maybe all this was because Allen Iverson was considered to be an exceptional basketball prospect. Or maybe it was because Iverson, on Nov. 27, 1994, was considered to be a story. It might even have been a little because Iverson and the Georgetown Hoyas were playing against Arkansas, the defending NCAA champion. MORE: Full Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2016 Not long after the game ended with the Razorbacks a comfortable winner, however, Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson led us all to understand what we had witnessed as Iverson made his debut on the national basketball stage....
Allergy Skin Testing Many parents believe that their kids have to reach a certain age, like when they start school, before they can get tested for allergies. This is mostly because they think allergy testing, especially skin testing, is painful. There is no age limitation for performing percutaneous tests. However, most clinicians rarely test children younger than six months of age, and skin testing in these infants would be limited to a few select foods, such as milk, soy, and egg, or household inhalants based on the infant’s clinical history....
The new pro football league has another four-game weekend with two games on Saturday and two on Sunday. Surprisingly in Week 1, we saw more impressive defensive feats even though the league’s rule cater more to the offensive side of the ball. We’ll see if the offenses can get things going a little more this week. Before we dive into each matchup, let’s take an overall look at the games we have this weekend....
The central U.S. has been hit by a wild winter storm, and freezing weather is expected to continue over the Christmas weekend. And while many animals migrate south to wait out the colder months, others have developed strategies to withstand the snow and ice. “Alligators deal with cold weather mainly through brumation, which is sort of the reptile version of hibernation,” Adam Rosenblatt, an ecologist and alligator expert at the University of North Florida, told Newsweek....
The Tigers are 13 games into what has long been billed as a program-resurrecting season. They’re 10-3 in new coach Cuonzo Martin’s first year, but the result of that 13th game is going to sting for a while. DECOURCY: Michael Porter Jr. arrival rebooted Mizzou hoops — and gave fans another kick in head The Tigers lost to their rivals from a bordering state — no, not that state — in the annual holiday showdown in St....
1. Alshon Jeffery can ball. 2. Alshon Jeffery is fast. 3. Alshon Jeffery has strong hands. MORE: Week 13 in photos | Week 13 scoreboard | Mike Glennon fail | Referee celebration Through three quarters of play, Jeffery has ten receptions for 234 yards and two touchdowns. The 234 yards breaks the Bears' franchise record for single game recieving yards, which Jeffery set earlier this season against the New Orleans Saints....
We all know that the trouble starts early, with bored, unsupervised kids hanging out after school–the time when most crimes by young people are committed. Nearly 600,000 black males are currently serving time in prison, while only 40,000 will earn a college degree. Murders committed by black male teenagers are up 52 percent since 2002, which doesn’t take us back to the bad old days of crack in the 1990s, but is scary all the same....
The senator’s timing seems off in a way that might be admirable if it weren’t so politically clumsy. McCain trashed President Bush when he was popular—and now champions him when he’s down. The trashing angered many Republicans, who could never fully trust McCain again after his apostasy on tax cuts, torture and a dozen other issues where he always seemed to be highlighting his independence from Bush on TV. And promoting success in Iraq seems at odds with the facts on the ground: the “significant progress” McCain said he saw came when the average daily death toll of Iraqis was higher in March than in February....
Now they—and all of Giuliani’s critics—are about to have a 55-hour treasure trove of material to work with. It’s as if a revealing but non-legally-incriminating version of the tapes of Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon were out there for everyone to hear, hiding in plain sight before they got to the White House. The story about the tapes in The New York Times on Friday will likely create a market for recordings of “Live From City Hall … With Rudy Giuliani,” a weekly radio program that ran from 1994 to 2001 on radio station WABC-AM in New York....
The Warriors are the very reason that Gentry has the blues he’s had these last few weeks — or, heck, the last two years. When Gentry joined the Pelicans following that championship 18 months ago, he brought with him the promise of a full transformation of the way things had been done in New Orleans, the promise of a high-scoring Warriors-style offense and a versatile, switch-heavy Golden State defense that would vault the Pelicans from a happy-to-be-here playoff team into the West’s elite....
Then came the electrifying radio dispatches and word-of-mouth reports that the Japs, as they were called, had bombed Pearl Harbor. Overnight, isolationists became converts to intervention, stirred in part by the eloquent call to service from Franklin Roosevelt and in part by the great tidal wave of gung-ho patriotism that swept across the land. Pearl Harbor had enraged and unified a country, committing the United States to a common goal....
“Over here” is Bailey House, a residence for homeless people with AIDS. In 1986, after lobbying by the AIDS Resource Center (ARC), the City of New York bought a renovated six-story hotel on Christopher Street-and turned it over to ARC. The AIDS epidemic had created a new kind of social institution. Residences such as Bailey House, which is funded by both public grants and private money, are neither nursing home nor leper colony....
