President Kennedy faced a foe more relentless than Khrushchev, just across the Potomac: the bellicose Joint Chiefs of Staff argued for the deployment of nuclear weapons and kept pressing to invade Cuba. A presidential historian reveals that Kennedy's success in fending them off may have been his most consequential victory.
In 2011, University of South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier refused to talk to reporters while Ron Morris of The State — McClatchy’s paper in Columbia, SC — was in the room. The coach complained that the sports columnist was a “negative guy.” [The coach did the same thing last year. But he won't have to this year. ...] “The publisher of the paper has removed Ron from any coverage of the football program, which down there is akin to the Washington Post not letting Dan Balz write about government,” one of Morris’s former colleagues told me. “Effectively, he’s being forced out at the behest of the football coach, with the publisher not standing up for him.”
“The publisher of the paper has removed Ron from any coverage of the football program, which down there is akin to the Washington Post not letting Dan Balz write about government,” one of Morris’s former colleagues told me. “Effectively, he’s being forced out at the behest of the football coach, with the publisher not standing up for him.”
Male orangutans plan their travel route up to one day in advance and communicate it to other members of their species. In order to attract females and repel male rivals, they call in the direction in which they are going to travel. Anthropologists at the University of Zurich have found that not only captive, but also wild-living orangutans make use of their planning ability.
"Celibacy is not an institution but look, it is also true that you can discuss (it) because as you say this is not a dogma, a dogma of the church," Archbishop Pietro Parolin said in response to a question during an interview with Venezuelan newspaper El Universal.
A California judge has ordered the once-hip adolescent chain boutique Abercrombie & Fitch to pay a quantity of dollars to Umme-Hani Khan because this is America, damn it, and sometimes we get it right. Ms. Khan, a Muslim, “had interviewed wearing a headscarf and … her job was to fold clothes in the stockroom, where she wasn’t visible to customers” (of course), but still Abercrombie & Fitch decided to fire her, as their “Look Policy” (gross) says you can’t wear stuff on your head unless it looks sexy (it doesn’t actually say that, but probably, right?) Abercrombie & Fitch, what are you doing? [...] Let’s try to think this one through from Abercrombie’s perspective, to see if there’s any rationale that doesn’t end with how they’re dicks. Hmm… We want our employees to be attractive and wear clothes with a certain look, and we don’t think anyone looks good in a headscarf, and we can’t carve out an exception for religious beliefs because what if some non-Muslim games the system and wears a headscarf and our absolute authority over our employees’ appearances is undermined because we are dicks.
Let’s try to think this one through from Abercrombie’s perspective, to see if there’s any rationale that doesn’t end with how they’re dicks. Hmm… We want our employees to be attractive and wear clothes with a certain look, and we don’t think anyone looks good in a headscarf, and we can’t carve out an exception for religious beliefs because what if some non-Muslim games the system and wears a headscarf and our absolute authority over our employees’ appearances is undermined because we are dicks.
An eight-month Texas Observer investigation found that during the past six years, Houston civilians reported officers for “use of force”—the department’s term for police brutality—588 times. The Internal Affairs division investigated each complaint and dismissed all but four. More surprisingly, HPD rarely believes even its own officers when they claim to have witnessed unjustified violence against citizens. In the same period, Houston cops reported other officers for excessive force 118 times. Internal Affairs dismissed all but 11. In total, Internal Affairs sustained just 15—or 2 percent—of the 706 police abuse complaints the past six years, according to department records the Observer obtained through public information requests.
More surprisingly, HPD rarely believes even its own officers when they claim to have witnessed unjustified violence against citizens. In the same period, Houston cops reported other officers for excessive force 118 times. Internal Affairs dismissed all but 11.
In total, Internal Affairs sustained just 15—or 2 percent—of the 706 police abuse complaints the past six years, according to department records the Observer obtained through public information requests.