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With two rounds of matches completed in the 2018/19 Premier League season, we challenged Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville to make their predictions. The Monday Night Football duo were challenged to tell us who will win the title this season,…
A delicious thought experiment: If you could host any four women from history to your private dinner party, whom would you invite? More important, what would you serve? Victoria Flexner, the twenty-nine-year-old founder of Edible History, a New York-based supper-club-cum-test-kitchen…
Earlier this week, the Recording Industry Association of America—the trade organization that periodically bestows sales certifications—updated its calculations, which resulted in a reshuffling of the top-selling album of all time: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was unseated, once again, by “The Eagles:…
Opening the 35th MTV Video Music Awards, on Monday night, the twenty-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes seemed close to rending his cut-off muscle tee, which was rapidly becoming soaked against his skin under a dramatic torrent of stage rain. But,…
Iran has repeatedly sought to reduce dependence on the US dollar via a package of measures, including increased trade using the euro and other currencies as well as the establishment of a secondary currency market. Tehran has taken the US…
The government of Baishan, in northern China’s Jilin Province, was forced to apologize on Friday after a People’s Liberation Army drill accidentally tear gassed the downtown area of the city, sending residents to the hospital in droves. The city’s publicity…
