Just over 12 months ago, you’d need to search frantically within the boxing community to grasp any sort of insight on Ritson. Fighting exclusively in Northern England and Southern Scotland, levels below anything that resembled a grand promotion, Ritson paid his dues in hotel banqueting suites and public hire function rooms. He entered the ring against Lonsdale belt holder Robbie Barrett last October a somewhat stranger to the masses, but a devastating secret to those who had nurtured him from his career’s inauguration....

The Spaniard’s reign on the clay of Roland Garros has been unprecedented and has been one of the surest things in tennis history. It continued on Sunday with Nadal’s straight sets victory over Dominic Thiem that gave him his 11th French Open title, good for the most at a single major in the Open Era and tying Margaret Court for the most in tennis history. MORE: Nadal dominates Thiem in 2018 French Open...

Let it be said at once that ““The Lion King’’ is a great show, not just for the parents and kids who will flock to it (just as they did to the 1994 movie, which raked in more than $750 million wordwide) but for anyone drawn to a landmark event in American entertainment. The Disney organization (and especially its theatrical production chief, Thomas Schumacher) deserves credit for guts in this enterprise....

Originally from Mexico City, Escandon, 42, is a former clay artist who still keeps a studio in the crater of an inactive volcano in Mexico. She and her husband own a Hispanic advertising firm in Los Angeles, but she spends most of her time writing. Shunning the term ““magic realism,’’ she prefers to call her work ““magical reality.’’ ““You go to Latin America and you see magic everywhere,’’ Escandon says....

Cronenberg happily obliges. This cool, hallucinatory meditation on addiction, writing, sexual ambivalence, mind control and bugs is designed to test the tolerance, and sometimes the stomach, of the toughest audience. But “Naked Lunch” is also, in the darkest sense, a comedy. It’s important to remember that Burroughs’s nightmare vision was delivered in the droll, tough-guy parlance of a stand-up comedian working a room in Club Hell. A word to the wise guy: if this movie doesn’t make you chuckle, you’re in for a very long night....

Susan Rothenberg, 48, a short, trim woman with a grown-out gamin haircut, a big disarming smile and a rare if not unique reading of just about zero on the pretentiousness scale, performed that civic function in the early l970s. “Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings,” a concise, 70-piece retrospective exhibition at Washington, D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum through May 9, demonstrates just how important her good deed was. (The show originated at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery and travels to St....

Sheik Muhammad is a rare voice of intellectual honesty in the Muslim clerical world. One of the less-noted pitfalls of merging mosque and state is that interpreting the Quran often has more to do with politics than genuine scholarship. This is especially true in countries like Egypt, which keep a firm grip on the official version of religion in an attempt to marginalize those who want to replace the secular state with an Islamic one....

On Tuesday, the state reported 1,096 new confirmed cases of coronavirus. With the exception of 966 new cases on Monday, Florida has seen new daily cases surpass 1,000 cases six times in the past seven days. The state saw a one-day high last Thursday of 1,419 new daily cases. Over the course of the pandemic, Florida has recorded 66,000 total COVID-19 cases and 2,765 coronavirus related deaths. Newsweek reached out to Florida’s Department of Health’s Division of Disease Control and Health Protection for comment but did not hear back before publication....

Over the past two decades, other countries–particularly Japan and Germany–have developed curricula emphasizing advanced math and science in order to give their students the skills necessary to compete in an increasingly technological global economy. During the same period, American schools have swung from one extreme to another, from the open classrooms of the ’70s to the back-to-basics movement of the 1980s. Says the University of Wisconsin’s Thomas Romberg, an expert in worldwide math education, “We’re acting as if America is still an agricultural society, and that all the mothers are home with their children....

The royal welcome–and unconventional sweeteners–were all part of Brown’s campaign to transform Oakland, the gritty, “other” city by the bay, into a technology center. With commercial real-estate prices 25 percent lower than in San Francisco and nearby Silicon Valley–and with relatively affordable housing stock–Oakland has made itself an increasingly attractive location for start-ups. More than 300 companies, ranging from unknown biotech outfits to webvan.com, the struggling Internet grocery service, have come to Oakland since Brown, California ex-governor and two-time presidential candidate, became mayor in 1998....

It’s not hard to see why. For years, Arab-Americans have been virtually invisible in presidential campaigns. In 1984 Walter Mondale returned campaign contributions from Arab-American leaders to avoid alienating Jewish voters. In 1996 Bob Dole canceled a meeting with Arab-American activists for similar reasons. But in this year’s tight race, Arab-Americans are reveling in newfound power. Their votes could prove decisive in key states like Michigan, Ohio and New Jersey, where many of the country’s 1....

Let’s examine why, in addition to business reasons, it’s important morally and socially to please those who accompany their partners when they buy that merchandise. We are forbearing. We provide moral support just in case our companion wants some advice (even flit is usually ignored). We are security symbols when the two of us go into the parking lot. If need be, we stand as a credit confirmation. If the salesclerk has some doubts, they vanish as she or he sees us standing stolidly beside the shopper....

The cranial bones, including the parietal bones, will remain separated through infancy. They eventually grow together until they are connected after 18 months. They will stay that way through adulthood. Anatomy of an Infant’s Skull An infant’s skull is made up of bony plates, sutures, and fontanelles. The sutures act as flexible joints that allow the skull to mold during birth. They also allow the brain to grow during infancy....

Is this some kind of a dumb joke? Not to Charles Southwood, the 53-year-old head of Death Tobacco. He says the product is more than just a smokable pet rock-he hopes it will persuade smokers to stop. “In most polite society,” he says, “people would no more smoke than chew tobacco, but most advertisements present the opposite view”-Of people enjoying themselves. Still, Southwood is obviously not hoping to put himself out of business....

“Into the Den” came about when Humphrey discovered that a 1993 George Romero horror movie, “The Dark Half,” was filmed in the Pittsburgh house where he was raised. He rented a tape of the film, played it on his monitor and froze the images he liked–mostly rooms. Humphrey erased the actors and replaced them with distorted fragments from a family album he’d stored in the computer. A laser printout was the study for the painting....

NEWSWEEK: What made you want to blow yourself and other people up six years ago? I was motivated by all the suffering that was going on around me, and at the time it seemed the right thing to do. Palestinians were getting killed inside their own homes, farmers were unable to work on their own lands, innocent children were being oppressed. All of this created an atmosphere of violence....

With the help of Julian Mitchell’s script, Altman makes you see the brothers as two sides of one organism, struggling to get by and straining to give rise to a new kind of painting. As Vincent, Tim Roth takes you into the painter’s isolation; by the film’s end, we can see in his eyes that Vincent has no company but his own fervor. Paul Rhys shows that what burns in Vincent burns in Theo, too, wrecking his attempts to be a family man and a suave esthete....

When I first heard that the war had begun, I thought of President Bush. In a movie, people run around during a crisis, picking up telephones and yelling instructions. In a real crisis, the top people are very much alone. Many officials head for the foxholes, occasionally throwing out memoranda designed to absolve them of responsibility for their actions. Usually there are only two or three people willing to make tough decisions....

Rose and Ginny are two of three daughters of a powerful and revered Iowa farmer named Larry Cook (Jason Robards). The third daughter, Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), has become a lawyer in the city. The tragic events in Smiley’s novel, as in ““Lear,’’ are set off when the patriarch quixotically announces his plans to divide his land among his three offspring. But Smiley turns Shakespeare on its head–for the heroines here are those arch-villainesses Goneril and Regan, and the Lear figure is a malevolent patriarch who has inflicted ghastly psychological damage on his children....