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It’s an affair you’d rather read about than live through. Kate, the girlfriend, is a jealous, unloving writer who’s on to Daniel before anything has actually happened, and descends into a zinfandel-fueled rage. Meanwhile, Iris’s husband, an investment banker named Hampton, pays more attention to racial slights (both real and imagined) than he does to his wife. After months of chatting with Iris and a few cups of coffee, Daniel takes Ruby over to Iris’s house to play with her son, and gets stuck there overnight in a snowstorm....

Despite Francis Fukuyama’s infamous opinion, history certainly did not end. The imperial collapse was an unintended consequence of Gorbachev’s desire to humanize socialism and save the USSR. He utterly failed in both tasks, but Russia and other Soviet republics were liberated from the Communist nightmare, and the world gained 30 years of relative peace, which is now coming to an end. Gorbachev, who began his career as a combine harvester operator, did not need to launch the monumental reforms of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) that lead to the USSR’s demise....

While jihadi groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) present a threat to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate on one front, a number of rebel groups are also locked in combat with rulers of Afghanistan, who are still unrecognized by the international community. The actual strength of these organizations remains a matter of dispute, especially given their geographical and geopolitical isolation, but their common goal of overthrowing the Islamic Emirate makes them a lingering challenge for the Taliban’s project to legitimize and secure their lasting control over Afghanistan....

That’s because Zoom users on Mac have been complaining about a bug that keeps the microphone on after leaving a meeting since December 2021. Find out more about Zoom’s Mac bug and how you can fix it. Zoom May Be Recording You on Your Mac Zoom has acknowledged a bug that appears to cause the microphone on Macs running macOS Monterey to stay on even after leaving a meeting. Mac users have been complaining about the issue on Zoom’s community forum since December 2021, after the release of Apple’s Monterey software....

Geeta got married in the traditional way at her ancestral village in Haryana. As reported in One India, Aamir, who was dressed in a white kurta-pyjama, black bundi, and red safa visited the wrestler’s house and wished her a blissful married life. In his attire, Aamir looked his part as the “ladkiwala,” i.e. from the bride’s side. Sakshi Tanwar, the actress, Nitesh Tiwari, the director, and Sanya Malhotra accompanied Aamir as he showered the bride-to-be with gifts....

According to the Boston Globe, Bradley’s grant of immunity was revealed in a legal filing in federal court in Florida, where Bradley is suing Hernandez for shooting him in the face in 2013 after the pair argued in a Miami strip club. MORE: Images from the Aaron Hernandez investigation It is unclear if Bradley will testify against Hernandez when he goes on trial at the end of the year for allegedly gunning down Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in Boston’s South End in 2012....

But before he was released, HBO opened the third episode of the season showing Maybin in a far different environment than the football field: an art studio. That national audience for his artwork, which can be purchased on AaronMaybin.com, was a platform to reach a number of new interested buyers. Maybin compared it to having a big game on a national stage when he spoke to Sporting News by phone on Thursday....

This led to a serious backlash from just about everyone on the planet and forced the reigning NFL MVP to miss his team’s game against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Rodgers’ fiancée, Shailene Woodley, has not spoken about the vaccination situation with her soon-to-be husband, but when a British news outlet, the Daily Mail, snapped several pictures of who they believed to be Rodgers out in the community in Brentwood, California, grabbing a coffee, Woodley got involved....

Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay dodged a season-changing bullet in Thursday’s Thanksgiving home game against Chicago, which was a lot closer than expected. MORE: Best Brett Favre stories you’ve never heard | Packers retire Brett Favre’s No. 4 at halftime vs. Bears Rodgers was banged up after scooping up the ball off the wet Lambeau Field turf with about 5:00 left in the third quarter. While being brought down by Bears pass rushers Lamarr Houston and Willie Young, it appeared that Houston’s helmet caught the left non-throwing arm of Rodgers....

Chances are, the NFL world hasn’t seen the last of Rodgers in a Packers uniform, but Rodgers’ comments Tuesday on “The Pat McAfee Show” aren’t helping ease the anxiety of some Green Bay fans hoping to see No. 12 again next season. In a lengthy interview with McAfee, Rodgers elaborated on his comments after the NFC championship game, when he mentioned that his future with the Packers is “uncertain” at the moment:...

Romo swapped football for a commentary role with CBS following his retirement three years ago, while earlier this year Brees reportedly signed a contract with NBC to begin his broadcasting career once he retires. Rodgers, however, all but ruled out transitioning from the field to the commentary booth. “I’ve given a lot to this game,” the Green Bay Packers quarterback said during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday night....

Kohli, who had a mediocre series by his standards against Australia, has 877 points in the latest rankings while AB de Villiers, who leapfrogged both Kohli and David Warner to the top spot, has 879 points, two more than Kohli. With this, de Villiers has spent 2124 days at the top of the ODI batsmen’s rankings, which is the second most by any batsman after West Indies great Vivian Richards, who was the number one for 2,306 days....

But instead, the former USC quarterback and 2004 Heisman Trophy winner, “respectfully declined” invitations from the show each time he was asked. MORE: NFL players’ wives and girlfriends Leinart told Fox Sports Radio’s “Outkick the Show” on Tuesday that he was approached about “six or seven years ago.” He was again approached last fall by “a couple of Bachelor scouts” while walking around Manhattan Beach, but again “respectfully declined” despite being an “avid viewer of the show....

On January 12, the Supreme Court reinstated that requirement, over the objection of medical organizations. The ruling put us right back where we were: Among the 20,000 medications regulated by the FDA, mifepristone is the only one that requires an in-person pickup. The decision was heartbreaking to us, and felt unfair. Patients taking objectively more dangerous drugs are not forced to appear in person during a raging pandemic. But despite this setback, abortion care has transformed—in a good way—during COVID-19....

Wenger on worst away losing run Arsene Wenger and Sam Allardyce have had some fantastic battles over the years, particularly in the first half of the Frenchman’s reign at Arsenal where Bolton Wanderers took the mantle of bogey team for the Gunners. Times have changed since then and Allardyce’s last league win over Wenger in the Premier League was in May 2010 with Blackburn Rovers. Monday night’s game drew similarities with the recent implosion against West Brom at the Hawthorns, where Arsenal dominated possession yet conceded clear-cut chances and were punished by the set piece prowess of their opponents....

Biglia suffered the injury in his right leg on October 31 and missed Milan’s last-gasp victory over Udinese in Serie A on Sunday as the Rossoneri evaluated the severity of the problem. Scans confirmed surgery was required to fix the issue, and Biglia was operated on in Finland on Thursday. Biglia’s operation was a success, Milan confirmed in the build-up to their Europa League clash with Real Betis, but he faces a lengthy recovery....

On Friday, October 27, Monrovia Football Academy will send 15 student-athletes, four staff members, and one pro bono videographer to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire to participate in our first ever international tournament. This is a momentous occasion. For the first time in the Academy’s history, our student-athletes will test their ability against competition beyond Liberia. The tournament has been organized by Ivoire Académie of Abidjan. It will run from Monday, October 30 to Sunday, November 5, and it will include football clubs and academies from six different West African countries: Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone....

When Monrovia Football Academy opened in October 2015, we decided not to build a home. Our approach was to evolve first – to generate our own energy and establish a culture of excellence that would eventually travel with us. Only then – when the Academy would have discovered its true identity – would we build a home. Here is why. Monrovia Football Academy was founded with two parallel missions – to empower Liberia’s future leaders, and to promote a more equitable, collaborative, and locally-driven approach to ‘development’....