I was 25 years old at the time, the same age as Professor Hill when she worked for Judge Clarence Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. I was only six months into my job as an on-air reporter for a network affiliate in Philadelphia. Like Professor Hill, I, too, lacked a resume. I, too, loved my job. On the day in question, a station news executive and I traveled by train to New York so that I could receive a George Foster Peabody Award for my work on a documentary on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s visit to China....

True members of the Brotherhood of the Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe tells us, aren’t supposed to use words like death, danger, bravery and feat: The code is understated; cool. They get themselves into “a hell of a corner” and then “luck out of it.” So did Scott O’Grady last week, though afterward, he “couldn’t quite understand what all the fuss was about,” he told his sister, Stacy. He wasn’t hurt too badly, he said; just a couple of little burns and some hunger pangs....

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During those tumultuous times, the two sides shared one common goal: the “Malayanization” of art and culture. The British colonial powers thought that promoting indigenous culture would win the hearts and minds of the local population in its anti-communist war—the first step toward greater cohesion among the region’s diverse ethnic communities. At the same time, the left-wing youths they were fighting supported Malaya culture as the path toward independence....

What if the Worldwide Leader in Sports were to abandon NFL game rights when its eight-year “Monday Night Football” deal expires in 2021? The NBA has been on fire for ESPN this season. The network says game viewership is up 18 percent through the first 30 games of the 2017-18 season. As of Dec. 15, the NBA on ESPN was averaging 1.811 million viewers vs. 1.532 million during the comparable period last year....

Through Ashley’s courageousness to keep fighting and remain positive, she has inspired Wade to give everything he has while dog sledding on the trail.

Carey has it in his favor that outside Australia Kelly is best remembered as the title character of an old Mick Jagger movie. This leaves the author room to improvise. It also leaves him with quite a bit of explaining to do about historical background, biography and the lot. He handles this deftly, by slowly slipping in facts but never slipping in too many. That is, he makes impenetrability work for him, as in this passage: “He were a dirty liar it were his great hobby and profession he done it continuously like a man might pick his nose or carve faces on a bit of mallee root just to pass the time....

TV: Airing four nights a week with no reruns, the WWF seldom takes a breather. “Raw Is War” has been cable’s highest-rated regular show for 48 straight weeks. “SmackDown!” is UPN’s top- rated show. More than half a million fans plunk down $30 a month for pay-per-views. Stock: Despite a recent stone-cold price, the WWF is still valued at over $1 billion. Blockbusters: WWF auteurs have penned two recent New York Times No....

Douglas Costa handed Bayern the lead early in the first half and the Bavarians created a number of chances to add a second. They failed to double their lead, though, and were eventually fortunate not to concede a late equaliser as Wolfsburg applied pressure in the final 10 minutes. Barca book place in Copa final “I am satisfied with our performance during the first 80 minutes,” Ancelotti stated at a news conference....

Bayern appeared to be on their way to a 1-0 defeat in the German capital following Vedad Ibisevic’s first-half strike, only for Robert Lewandowski to level the scoring in the sixth minute of stoppage time - with referee Patrick Ittrich having allocated five minutes of additional play. Lewandowski makes Bundesliga history Hertha were furious after conceding the late goal, but Ancelotti feels Bayern more than deserved their equaliser. “We knew that a difficult game awaited us,” Ancelotti said at a news conference....

Feng shui, which means wind and water, may be new to the Stutzmans, but the ancient art has been practiced since at least the fourth century B.C. It is a mixture of the mystical and the practical; a belief that powerful earth forces affect your life, and that by moving your desk, for example, you can be more properly aligned with them. Its age-old principles fit in nicely with New Age tenets....

Scientists say the depiction of mythical half-human creatures may suggest some sort of abstract, religious or spiritual thinking among these early artists who created them. A team led by Maxime Aubert and Adam Brumm, both from Australia’s Griffith University, first found the rock art in 2017. During a rock art survey of the limestone caves in in south Sulawesi, one of the researchers noticed what appeared to be the entrance to a cave higher up that had never been seen before....

It was not his “blunt” (read: rude) language. Adlai Stevenson and Madeleine Albright also used the U.N. as a bully pulpit to lacerate enemies of freedom. Nor were his critiques of the U.N. entirely unwelcome. Any foreign minister who has gotten lost wandering the gloomy, grubby, low-ceilinged corridors of U.N. headquarters in New York and dared to question what real work was being done sympathized with his calls for U....

Bentley had been handed the script by his newly acquired agent. “I was just blown away. I knew I had to meet the director. I didn’t want him to see me on tape. I had to show him that I understood the feeling of this script,” the 21-year-old actor says. “There was something about this movie. We got lucky on this one.” Suddenly Bentley finds that he’s no longer the pursuer, but the pursued....

The challenge is simple: come to a Hawks home game, take the ball away from Hot Sauce within 24 seconds and win the prize. The key word there is simple, not easy. It hasn’t happened yet, and Hot Sauce is set on keeping it that way. “I’m not messing around out there. If a fan beats me, they’re going to earn it,” Hot Sauce said. “These are some expensive tires, and they’re really good....

Madrid were rocked on Friday when Portuguese newspaper A Bola claimed the 32-year-old no longer wanted to play in Spain amid scrutiny over his tax affairs, a story that sources close to the player have seemingly since confirmed to other international news outlets. Calderon: Ronaldo to Utd is possible Ronaldo’s representatives have strongly denied an accusation that the forward concealed earnings and defrauded the Spanish tax authorities out of €14....

Cancio (20-4-2, 15 KOs), who by day works at a gas company in Oxnard, Calif., pulled off the stunning upset at the beginning of February by fourth-round knockout. Join DAZN to watch Cancio vs. Machado 2 and 100+ fight nights a year The fight looked like it wasn’t going to make it out of the first round when Machado (21-1, 17 KOs) dropped Cancio to the canvas with a short uppercut....

The Padres will get a package led by elite first base prospect Josh Naylor in return, according to multiple outlets. ESPN was first to report that a trade involving Cashner was in place. The seven-player trade also included Miami pitchers Jarred Cosart, Carter Capps and minor league pitcher Luis Castillo heading to San Diego. In addition to Cashner and Rea, the Marlins received 25-year-old pitcher Tayron Guerrero from the Padres....

In a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James, Cuomo’s attorney, Rita Galvin, requested that an investigation be opened into the “unlawful disclosure to the New York Post of grand jury information relating to Governor Cuomo and the strong evidence that Albany County Sheriff Craig D. Apple was the source of that unlawful disclosure.” The letter alleges that it was Apple who disclosed to the New York Post that several subpoenas had been issued in relation to the allegations made by Brittany Commisso, a former executive assistant to Cuomo....