Day: March 26, 2023

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Let’s get this out of the way. Dawn Staley, pride of North Philly, is a fairly transcendent figure right now, beyond her own sport, maybe beyond sports entirely. Staley is not merely chasing a second straight NCAA title with her top-ranked, now 35-0 South Carolina Gamecocks. There is higher ground at stake here. Saturday afternoon inside Bon Secours Wellness Center, UCLA caused all sorts of defensive disruption in the NCAA Sweet 16. The result? South Carolina 59, UCLA 43. On the John Chaney scale? A real thing of beauty. Afterward, UCLA coach Cori Close said South Carolina h… Read More “Mike Jensen: Sorry Temple fans, Dawn Staley is on higher ground chasing history at South Carolina”

On Wednesday, March 22, the Federal Open Market Committee of the U.S. Federal Reserve held its second meeting in 2023. At the first meeting, the central bank boosted the short-term Fed Funds Rate by 25 basis points, pushing it to 4.50% to 4.75%. Between early February and the late March meeting, the markets began to experience some of the fallout of tight monetary policies. Rate hikes in 2022 and early 2023 and quantitative tightening at $95 billion monthly played a role in two U.S. bank failures. UBS had to take over Credit Suisse on the global landscape as the bank faced liquidity issues. At… Read More “The Fed Speaks- Inflation Remains the Enemy”

JUPITER, Fla. — There is this pesky mini refrigerator in Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol’s office that has presented a problem throughout spring training. Marmol will be in the middle of his pre- or post-game remarks, and the machine will kick on, making an awful racket. At times, he has unplugged it. On Saturday, he let it run. The grinding of the machine synced up nicely with the topic, an offense the manager says is ready to make noise. “I could care less if we get the (preseason) attention for it,” Marmol said. “Other than, when the lights come on, I can’t wait to see it and go toe-to-toe … Read More “Ben Frederickson: Are people sleeping on this Cardinals offense? Oliver Marmol thinks so.”

Eve Tawfick discusses fashion in her monthly Baffling Britain column… Fast fashion outlets have exploded with clothes that will take Millenials back to those hazy, dude-filled days of Charmed, Buffy and Kate Moss at her greatest. Heroic chic aside, Y2K fashion was an eclectic mix of fairycore tops with bell sleeves and cargo trousers. Hit shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer have fan pages dedicated to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s on-set wardrobe alone. Micro dresses, thigh high boots and leopard print camisoles to name a few. The ladies of Charmed pranced around San Fran in little more than ty… Read More “Certain elements of Y2K need to make a comeback”

By The Conversation Anthony Veal, University of Technology Sydney A little more than a century ago, most people in industrialised countries worked 60 hours a week – six ten-hour days. A 40-hour work week of five eight-hour days became the norm, along with increased paid holidays, in the 1950s. These changes were made possible by massive increases in productivity and hard-fought struggles by workers with bosses for a fair share of the expanding economic pie. In the 1960s and ‘70s it was expected that this pattern would continue. It was even anticipated that, by the year 2000, there would be a “… Read More “4-day Work Week Trials Have Shown ‘Resounding Success’. Is It Sustainable?”