“When was the last time you ate buffalo mozzarella?” NEWSWEEK asked center-left candidate for prime minister Walter Veltroni on a dusty campaign bus rumbling through the Sicilian countryside last week. “A couple of days ago,” said the mild-mannered former mayor of Rome. “I’m not afraid. Our world today is a world that embraces fear—and that is what scares me.” His tone may be quiet, but after 30 years in politics he knows how to stay on message....
Other cities have already tested the waters. In 1992 Baltimore hired a private company to manage nine of its 177 schools. By wresting control of schools from unions and civilservice employees, privatization tries to meet parents’ demand for accountability in the classroom: if the managers don’t meet goals, they’re fired. (Similar sentiment spurred the referendum in California that proposed giving every student a voucher that could be used for tuition at private schools; it was defeated last week....
RELATED: The Best And Worst Things About Tales Of Arise Artes can be unlocked in battle or through a grid with Skill Points. Like experience points, Skill Points are gained through battle and especially side quests. Players can unlock new Artes or passive boosts such as AAA, which makes it so players can survive a death blow. There are a lot of good Artes to unlock in the grid but let’s focus instead on these passive Skills in the world of Rena in Tales of Arise....
The Walking Dead spin-off has an interesting premise, with each episode being an hour-long standalone set in the world of the original series. The series has also tapped an all-star list of directors, with Haifaa al-Mansour from Good Lord Bird, Deborah Kampmeier from Star Trek: Picard, and Tara Nicole Weyr from The Wilds each directing one episode. Series producer Michael Satrazemis from The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead is set to direct three episodes....
Another senior Taliban commander, who would only speak on condition of anonymity for security purposes, tells NEWSWEEK that the South Korean government paid at least $4 million for the missionaries’ release and that it delivered the cash to the insurgents in the Pakistani frontier city of Quetta. The commander said the Taliban were aware that U.S. and Afghan intelligence were closely watching the hostage negotiations that were taking place between South Korean and Taliban officials inside the compound of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Ghazni province and decided to outsmart them....
Baghdad, March 3, 2007. The Iraqis find themselves caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, as one official put it, meaning between the United States and Iran, or vice versa, depending on their point of view. Few governments have ever been in an odder diplomatic vise. Can a planned Baghdad conference including both Tehran and Washington help to loosen this grip? The Shia parties that dominate the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have long-standing ties to Iran; most of their leaders at one time or another were exiles there, and during Saddam’s regime most of them could look only to their fellow Shia in Iran for support....
Serious question: who was the better Luigi? Eric Jokisch or Kevin Kiermaier?
2021 seems to be the year that is witness to the revival of collectible cards, especially from Nintendo video game titles. Animal Crossing: New Horizons released Sanrio Amiibo cards in the United States, all of which have completely sold out in Target stores. And aside from re-releasing classic Pokemon TCG cards, The Pokemon Company partnered with fast food chain McDonald’s to include exclusive Pokemon cards as part of their Happy Meals....
Ahead of the solitary Test against India in Hyderabad, Bangladesh speedster Taskin Ahmed has said that it would be a good feeling for him if he took the wicket of India captain Virat Kohli in the game, starting on Thursday. “India have very good batsmen and the top order is very strong. It is always challenging to bowl against the top batting line up which has (Virat) Kohli in it....
Software synths can easily sound as good as hardware that costs many times the price. And if that hardware is also digital, instead of relying on analog circuitry, then the differences are probably undetectable. And yet, musicians continue to buy big synthesizers, line them up on racks in their studios, and lug them along to gigs. Why? “Some of the applications currently available on the market are comparable to, if not better than, the hardware equivalent....
Saturday’s 56-55 comeback win over NC State was Syracuse’s 10th win decided by single digits, and six of those have come in conference play. We can all complain that the ACC is a mediocre league beyond the top five teams in the standings, but Syracuse has gotten every team’s best shot because it entered league play unbeaten. And it has turned away all 12 opponents to date. In those six ACC games decided by single-digits, Syracuse has needed some clutch baskets to win the games, but most impressive has been the team’s defense....
Such a reversal would include halting intervention in Syria’s internal affairs, withdrawing U.S. troops deployed without Damascus’ permission, and stopping the exploitation of oil and gas resources, the mission said. It would also include ending assistance to the Syrian Democratic Forces, a largely Kurdish force seeking greater autonomy in the country’s northeast, as well as aid to other non-state actors engaged in the civil war, according to the mission....
India picked Rahul Chahar and Varun Chakravarthy as leg-spinning options in their T20 World Cup squad but heading into the team’s last game against Namibia, Chahar is yet to play a match. The Men in Blue have preferred Chakravarthy, who has played in three of India’s four games but has been wicketless. Pointing to the success of leg-spinners in the T20 World Cup 2021, Chopra stated on his YouTube channel:...
Speaking in a video on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra said the Kiwis, despite being the second-ranked team in Group 2, aren’t a “gun T20 side” and lack the required batting firepower. He remarked that if they proceed to the semi-finals, England (the first semi-finalists from Group 1) will “chew them raw”. Aakash Chopra said: Aakash Chopra, however, added that New Zealand are still better placed than Afghanistan to win today....
Pakistan finished atop the Super 12 Group 2 table with 10 points, having won all five of their matches. The Aussies, on the other hand, lost one game and ended up finishing second in the Group 1 table with eight points. Pakistan vs Australia Match Details Match: Pakistan vs Australia, 2nd Semi-Final, ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 Date & Time: 11th November 2021, 7:30 PM Venue: Dubai International Stadium, Dubai...
Jadeja, who played just two games in the recently concluded T20I series against the West Indies, is part of the 15-member Indian squad for the Asia Cup 2022 to be played in the UAE from August 27. The spin-bowling all-rounder is also favored to be in the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup to be staged in Australia later this year. In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra reflected on the spinners who could be picked in Team India’s squad for the global event....
Is Nine Keys Enough for Texting? If you now have a smartphone with a full keyboard, do you remember when you tried to send an SMS message on your old clamshell phone? It was T9 that made composing messages on a tiny device possible, bringing text messaging and email to mobile devices in a way that was never effective before. True — most cellphone users now have smartphones (A Pew Research study reports that, as of 2019, 81 percent of U....
That isn’t to say that the relationship has been perfect. Taco Bell made headlines four years ago with a PS Vita contest controversy, when people who thought they had won the contest were sent notices later saying that their codes were invalid. However, the promotions have been a success for the most part, and Taco Bell and Sony are back at it again. Sony announced today via its official PlayStation blog that the company will be offering a Limited Edition Gold PlayStation 4 Console Bundle....
Li has two career wins over the Chinese Taipei ace with her last victory coming at the 2019 Japan Open and the North Eastern Warriors shuttler would aim to repeat against PBL’s joint-costliest player, Tai. “I have fond memories of playing here two years ago. We have a strong squad and are confident of putting up a good show,” said Tai. Sai Praneeth, who has been retained by the Bengaluru franchise, will be coming to the league fresh from his historic bronze medal win at the World Championships....
Fosun Pharma, a Chinese company, holds the BioNTech distribution rights for Greater China, which Beijing claims covers Taiwan, the AP said. The two companies, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. and Hon Hai Precision Electronics, said they purchased the doses through Fosun Pharma and will ship them directly to Taiwan’s anti-disease agency from a German factory. Taiwan has been mostly successful in controlling the pandemic but has faced difficulties in accessing enough vaccines for its population....
