The fiasco was a blow to President Andres Pastrana, who took office six months ago, pledging ““change is now.’’ He declared a curfew and sent in 4,000 troops, who clashed repeatedly with roving gangs of looters even after relief supplies began to reach the majority of victims. Restoring the city, at a cost of some $500 million, could take years. Building trust in Pastrana’s government may be even harder.

The real test among studio execs is whether a movie appeals to all four “quadrants.” It sounds like some algebra equation you forgot the week after high school graduation, yet it’s not that complex. Just take the moviegoing public and divide it in fourths: Men older than 25. Men younger than 25. Women older than 25. Women younger than 25. Those are Hollywood’s four quadrants. The age split is arbitrary-it’s the number used by the National Research Group, which does market research for the major studios....

“I actually always thought he would be found guilty because it’s sort of a cultural makeup call,” Jackson said in response to Tuesday’s guilty verdict. “I’m not happy. I’m not pleased. I don’t have any sense of satisfaction. I don’t think this is the system working. I don’t think this is a good thing.” Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was found guilty on all three counts—third-degree murder, unintentional second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter—by the jury after nine hours of deliberation....

The Quote Speaking on MSNBC, Reid said Tuesday night: “I was really struck tonight, and I have to say not in a good way, by the use and, in my view, misuse of the White House. They surrounded themselves with the trappings of the power that in theory they were given by the American people. These are not monarchs. This is not their property. You know, this was not an episode of Cribs....

Maddow recently interviewed the commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lieutenant General Todd Semonite, regarding the hospital construction work they’re doing on behalf of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump thanked Maddow for “putting our military on full display,” despite lashing out at the “Fake News” media in at least a half-dozen tweets between Friday and Saturday....

Speculation is rife that even an alternate Spider-Man or two may even pop up from their respective Universes to lend the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s version of the character a hand in defeating the multiversal bad guys. While a popular concept in science-fiction tales for decades, the concept of a multiverse actually originates from science theory, with many researchers speculating that other universes may exist alongside our own. There was a time when the word “universe” was used to describe everything in existence, but the more we have learned about our universe in the field of cosmology, the more we have begun to wonder if it could be part of a larger patchwork of universes....

The catastrophe, which claimed the lives 23 people including a number of the famous ‘Busby Babes’ team, was a dreadful chapter in the storied club’s history and is still felt to this day. A number of survivors are still involved with the Red Devils and supporters regularly pay tribute to what is widely regarded as one of the finest teams in the club’s history, struck down in their prime....

Snuka had been arraigned on charges of murder in 2014, kicking off a trial that was, to put it mildly, a complete circus. Argentino, his girlfriend in the early 1980s, was found dead in 1983 under circumstances that were deemed to be extremely suspicious at the time. She had been beaten to death in a manner suggesting a male had murdered her, but police did not have enough physical evidence against Snuka to proceed at the time....

These auditory hallucinations might be alarming, but they aren’t a sign of mental illness. They are probably due to your auditory system and brain producing its own music because of the loss of hearing. While it is disturbing for some people, many people get used to it or even come to like it. Who Gets Musical Ear Syndrome? Musical ear syndrome is believed to be somewhat common in older people with hearing loss, but it can occur with those who lose their hearing at any age....

Nighttime TV has more series than ever dominated by black characters, from NBC’s “Rhythm and Blues”-about a white deejay at a black radio station-to Fox’s “Martin”-Starring the comedian Martin Lawrence as a talk-radio host. (A key reason is economics: a 1990 Nielsen study showed that black households are watching TV in record numbers, averaging nearly 70 hours a week, compared with 47 hours for nonblack households.) But not everybody calls that progress....

But while it’s fun to mock network stars (and I do it all the time, petty basic-cable player that I am), the producers of the Emmys faced a dilemma plaguing all network television execs at the moment. Going through with the event might have seemed self-indulgent, even disrespectful. Not going through with the broadcast might have seemed like a submission to terrorism (though as of now Al Qaeda is not targeting “The King of Queens”)....

The 24-year-old is currently unbeaten since joining the Gunners from Valencia this summer, having formed a solid partnership alongside stand-in skipper Laurent Koscielny in the centre of defence. Mustafi considers it a small part of his job to give back to the supporters by putting everything into his performances on the pitch. “You have to respect the fans a lot,” the German told Goal. “They’re not earning the money we are earning and pay to come into the stadium, sometimes away trips, plus transport....

Whether or not Barack Obama can win his party’s nomination, there’s no doubt that he’s entrancing young Democrats. That trend has sparked comparisons to the iconic youth movements of the 1960s—not least from the campaign, which calls its youth wing “Generation Obama.” David Morey, an Obama advisor, says the young people supporting Obama are, in a sense, the ideological descendants of the protestors of the 1960s. “They’re just not wearing tie-dyed shirts, listening to rock and roll and taking acid,” he says....

Never will I forget the moment when the officers released the lever off a container from Australia. The stench of rancid milk bottles filled with dead maggots was nauseating. I was disgusted by not only the sight and smell but also the fact that the plastic waste had traveled thousands of miles, crossing the ocean, to reach my country. When China banned the import of all types of plastic waste on December 31, 2017, countries in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, immediately became an alternative destination for disposal of garbage from developed nations....

Exhausted after a workweek, I’ll be on autopilot, watching some basketball game between two college squads. My son prances into the room and immediately wants to know who’s winning. At his insistence, I explain that gold and black is Purdue, green and white is Michigan State. Based simply on color preference, he begins cheering wildly for the Boilermakers. Within minutes, he is utterly distraught at some perceived bad break for his newly chosen team....

I personally oppose abortion, and I view this victory as a reward for the years of dedication and loyalty and hard work put in by millions pro-life activists. The fight isn’t won, though; the fight over abortion rights now returns to the states and will continue. But there’s another issue that demands the attention of truly pro-life activists: the death penalty. I realized long ago in a conversation with my pastor that being pro-life is about the totality of life, not just the beginning of life....

The nurses have turned the operating room upside down. They’ve emptied all the “biological” waste baskets, searched the floor, rustled all the sterile drapes and recounted the used lap pads. Additional help has been summoned to the room while I am looking in the chest for the missing pad and seeing only the patient’s steadily beating heart. Everybody in the room knows that prolonging the operation has a deleterious effect on the man who has entrusted us with his care....

I’d been trying for weeks to come up with an idea for my next book. And then suddenly the idea came: Why not write about a celebrity reporter who signs up as a hospital volunteer so she can gain access to a reclusive movie star? The heroine would be motivated totally by her career until she learns that in helping others, we help ourselves. Sounded like a winning premise for a romantic comedy with an uplifting message and a plot where high jinks could ensue....

Such is the lot for someone with Crohn’s disease. Since being diagnosed in my early 20s, I’ve had to schedule trips and activities around what I put into my body and my proximity to a bathroom. Why? Crohn’s causes my body to attack food as if it were bad and, when I eat, dispatches white blood cells to deal with the “intruders” accordingly. That in turn produces chronic inflammation of the digestive tract, pain, and diarrhea....

Nine months later, his father placed an advertisement in a local state-owned newspaper publicly disowning him and disavowing his actions. “Pyae Lyan Aung has been a source of problems and disappointment,” a lawyer for his father said in a statement. Pyae Lyan Aung’s story is just one example of a growing number of Myanmarese families that have been forced to disown their own children for their support of the country’s pro-democracy movements....