Clearly, Larry McDonald did not die at the hands of Soviet planners. The most important explanation for his tragic demise has to do with recent revelations about his clandestine activities. An earlier relationship between McDonald and President Reagan had started to surface before the crash. Their...
But then he seems to have the skills of a career criminal, so I guess he also did other crimes? This isn’t a good start, and it gets worse. From there, it’s not clear why Scott is in this movie. He’s recruited by Hank Pym to steal some super tech from evil guy Darren ...
This hasn’t been an incredibly productive process, but I did get an interview where one of the interviewers asked me, with the sort of air of someone asking something incredibly obvious, “so, describe your home lab for me.” This is actually a fair question! Someone in my field could ...
However, the PFA did not govern well and was unpre- pared for war with Armenia. The no longer popular PFA was overthrown in a coup in 1993, and Haidar Aliev assumed power. He ended the war in 1994 by signing a ceasefire, acknowledging the de facto independence of the disputed territory...
A South Korean man was sentenced to one year in prison for binge eating and getting too fat. It isn’t always illegal to get fat in South Korea, but it is if you do it to dodge mandatory military service, which is what this guy did. His friend, who created the weight-gain plan,...
their example, which resonated with me. Chance was a guest one night and it was obvious that he was one of the leaders in the veteran’s community. He was challenging other veterans to get up and move around, challenging them to do as he did and challenge themselves physically and ...
television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes from 1978 to 1986. After leaving the cast of Diff'rent Strokes, Plato attempted to establish herself as a working actress, with mixed success: she worked sporadically in made-for-TV movies and in independent films, and did voice-over work. At the age of...
hot takes. Instead, you'll find well-thought, stat-driven video essays that highlight teams, individual players, and even long-standing basketball conspiracies. If you like "7 Stories That Prove Larry Bird Was the Greatest Trash Talker of All Time," "Did David Stern Fix The 1985 NBA Draft...
but basically, I did attend a One Law congregation up until about a year and a half ago, when I finally concluded that One Law was not a viable expression of a non-Jew’s faith in the Jewish Messiah. Watching my wife explore her own Jewish identity was a major eye-opener for me in...
In the first telling of my personal narrative, I did not consider including what had led me to a point where I began to embrace my identities and become proud of my heritage as Korean. There were many factors that led me to be who I am today. The reason for leaving out the informatio...