During the Chiefs’ matchup against the Chargers, the former NFL MVP attempted to toss the ball to receiver Marcus Kemp without looking at his target from the Los Angeles 29 — a move he has patented through the years. As the ball bounced up and out of Kemp’s hands, Chargers rookie cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. dove through the air to intercept the pass. The early interception from Mahomes was his second of the season....
Kathleen and Richard Borz, Rico’s parents, almost always refuse to comment and hang up the phone. Like the growing number of Americans who go overseas to fulfill their dreams of parenthood, they believe that adoption–especially from an impoverished country–is inherently a good thing for the child. But critics of Guatemala’s adoption system, including Rico’s biological parents, who want him back, describe his adoption as a crime. “To know that somebody is out there thinking that we were dupes in a scheme to take their children, or that we had an active role in it–that’s upsetting,” says Richard Borz....
Emerson College, a private college in Boston, conducted the poll in conjunction with 7 News. The college is conducting a continuous poll of New Hampshire voters in the eight days leading up to the state’s primary election on Tuesday, February 11. Poll respondents were asked, “Regardless of who you’re going to vote for, who do you think is going to be the Democratic nominee?” About 40.5 percent of New Hampshire voters polled said that they believed Sanders would be given the Democratic Party nomination and go on to face President Donald Trump in the November general election....
These days Mendoza is doing even better. Of Argentina’s 26 provinces, it’s one of the few that is flourishing. That’s a relative term in a country that suffered through a major depression in 2001 and 2002, but the province is showing that some places in woebegone Argentina can manage their debt, attract foreign investors and create jobs. Though remote, Mendoza boasts one of Argentina’s lowest unemployment rates (9.3 percent, 40 percent lower than the national figure of 15....
Amsterdam? Maybe. But Tokyo? Long known for its no-nonsense drug enforcement, Japan is in the midst of a psychedelic summer. Most of the fantasy fuels remain legal because of loopholes in local drug laws. Even contraband is easily procured. Nearly every weekend barefoot ravers flock to the slopes of Mount Fuji to trip all night and view the peak at dawn. Could this be the country that jailed Paul McCartney in 1980 for stashing marijuana in his guitar case?...
As I read Flinn’s file last winter, I saw an officer who, within days of arriving at Minot Air Force Base, was having sex with an enlisted man. Then she had an affair with the husband of another enlisted person, lied to investigators and disobeyed an order. She knew better. Flinn was a graduate of the Air Force Academy and had served nearly four years of active duty as a lieutenant....
California preparer Carol Thompson tells of clients who were dunned $9,000 by the IRS when they outspent their earnings on luxuries. The IRS grilled the couple on their restaurant meals, vacations, clothes and cars, and measured them against Labor Department household-spending data that pegged the couple as high earners. But they weren’t tax cheats; they were just big spenders, buying the good life on credit cards and not with taxable income....
But these are the Mets and dysfunction is a feature, not a bug, as the front office showed Thursday night. That means there’s a possibility Cohen could walk away from the bargaining table a second time. MORE: Mets, Marlins player place BLM shirt on home plate prior to walkout Here’s a tip for Fred and Jeff Wilpon: Don’t give Cohen an excuse to bolt again. Take his money and run....
Inevitably, anger over the present scandal has reignited calls for a married clergy and the ordination of women. Obviously, the middle of a crisis is the wrong time to consider fundamental change–especially since this pope is of a closed mind on both counts. Worse yet, he has discouraged the kind of conversation necessary to any major decision within the church. But if the American bishops are really pledged to “transparency” in their relations with the laity, they should encourage serious study of these and other concerns that affect the entire Catholic Church....
Writing in the National Post in Canada, for instance, there was Cam Cole, whose column, headlined “ Why the New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez’s latest apology comes up empty ,” was actually pretty level-headed by A-Rod coverage standards, saying that the letter “wasn’t entirely disingenuous.” MORE: 29 teams that should not trade for A-Rod Right above that line, Cole wrote, “Absent a handwriting expert, it is impossible to say whether that was A-Rod’s own penmanship,” noting the one way in which a handwriting expert might — might — actually be useful....
From a business perspective, the patch have been a huge success, breaking all previous records for a new prescription product. In seven months, the three currently available brands–Habitrol, sold by Ciba-Geigy; ProStep, by Lederle Laboratories, and Nicoderm, by Marion Merrell Dow–have raked in sales of $480 million, with $1 billion expected by the end of the year. Demand has been so intense that manufacturers can’t keep up with it–and a fourth brand, Nicotrol, made by Parke-Davis, will make its debut July 15....
He was talking about his back, not his game. One day into his most recent return from injury, that’s what mattered to him. Woods opened with two straight bogeys, made five more bogeys in a seven-hole stretch around the turn at tough Congressional and finally found his groove late in the opening round of the Quicken Loans National for a 3-over 74. Woods was tied for 83rd — only 19 players had a higher score — and he will have to score better Friday if he wants to avoid missing the cut for the first time in two years....
For the second straight game, Oakland’s speedy leadoff hitter guessed right. MORE: Remembering Mr. Padre | What if: 1994 strike season | Yankees honor Martinez Crisp singled in Alberto Callaspo with one out in the 10th inning and the Athletics beat the Red Sox 2-1 on Saturday to extend their winning streak to five games. “I was taking the approach they were going to come right after me,” said Crisp, who also drove in the game-winning run during Friday’s 4-3 win....
The answer, they decided, was to be together. They spent a year studying Scripture on their own and setting up house in a cozy trilevel in the suburbs. They found a new church, where they attended Bible study, joined prayer groups and went to potluck suppers at the pastor’s house. They remained closeted at first, but last spring they called the pastor with a brave request. They were lesbians, they told him, and they wanted, finally, to live their Christian lives honestly....
What the 29-year-old Welshman does have is a gorgeous, unforced voice that can produce anything from a feral growl to a shimmering, baby’s-breath pianissimo, and an infectious stage presence. He moves with an athlete’s grace and energy. Trade the Manchester United soccer-team cap he wears offstage for a Dallas football helmet and he’d look right at home on the Cowboys’ front line. Audiences respond not just to his musicianship, but to his naturalness and his sexiness....
They aid in developing brand trust by allowing the customer to see what the company has to offer as a resolution. Marketing initiatives that are effective and well-managed are essential to an organization’s growth because they help the firm get the attention of prospective consumers. Types of Marketing Campaigns Marketing is a broad area that includes sectors such as search engine marketing, social media marketing and content creation, among others....
Bentley has gone through its own lifesaving experience in the past eight years. A threadbare relic from the days when Britannia ruled the automotive high road, Bentley was reborn when it was acquired by Volkswagen in 1998. Yes, VW, the Beetle car company. What would the oh-so-pedestrian “people’s car” maker know about august Anglo automobiles? Plenty, it turns out. VW injected nearly $2 billion into Bentley, overhauling its Crewe, England, factory and developing the new Continental car line that it cleverly priced at the low end of the über-luxury-car market–between $150,000 and $200,000....
I was 11 years old when I first heard “God Bless America.” Now, to me, this was a very strange Irving Berlin song because I knew my father as this jazzy, sophisticated or earthy vernacular writer of songs like “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” and “Cheek to Cheek.” And then it began creeping up on me. I came to understand that it wasn’t “God bless America, land that we love.” It was “God bless America, land that I love....
But Belgrade still isn’t Warsaw or Prague, circa 1989. Yugoslavia was always a case apart. Its communism was homegrown, not imposed by the Kremlin, and the Yugoslavs nurtured an independent streak. Once the world changed, Milosevic was more cunning than old guards in other countries; he turned the disintegration of Yugoslavia to his advantage by playing to Serb nationalism. Opposition leaders Vuk Draskovic and Zoran Djindjic have at times tried to outdo Milosevic at appealing to ethnic pride–and hatred....
