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This is not the first image overhaul for Mrs. Clinton. During the campaign she submerged her careerist credentials and emphasized her role as wife and mother after focus groups showed that voters didn’t even know she had a child. White House strategists call the process an “evolution.” But it is a very deliberate one, as Mrs. Clinton’s interview and travel schedule attests. She chose Parade, a low-risk, high-impact Sunday-newspaper supplement, as a forum to reinforce her thoughts about the need for accountability, social responsibility and self-discipline....

RELATED: Games With Underrated Multiplayer Modes The games below all live on in the memory of older gamers who were loyal to the Sega console line. By the time the Dreamcast came around, some titles were even letting players jump online. Though all these titles are more than 20 years old, modern gamers can still find a lot of joy from their multiplayer modes. The Master System has no titles on this list, but a couple of the Genesis games here are also on Sega’s first home console....

It’s a tricky business, writing about Ireland, a country where myth–and now, marketing–have been used to great effect. It’s not just the long shadows of Joyce and Yeats a writer has to fear, but the dangers of cliche in an era when Irish culture is big business. Kits for build-it-yourself Irish pubs are sent across Europe, and “Riverdance” has played Boise, Idaho. “For entertainment value, it’s easy to slip into the stage pattery,” says Doyle....

The NBA has its Final Four. It certainly does not disappoint. Boston’s win over Philadelphia on Wednesday night brought down the curtain on the postseason’s second round — one that wasn’t exactly loaded with drama, since it was the first time since 2002 that none of the NBA’s four conference semifinal series went past five games. Cleveland swept Toronto, while Houston, Golden State and the Celtics all prevailed by 4-1 counts....

The next space race is underway. The market for commercial space tourism is expected to generate more than $1 billion in annual revenue by 2020, according to a study released in June by Research Reports International, a market-research firm based in Evergreen, Colo. Billionaire entrepreneurs like Branson and Microsoft’s Paul Allen are looking to fill that demand, partnering with governments to build launching pads and training facilities around the globe, and thrill seekers are already lining up to buy tickets....

Little Nightmares burst onto the gaming scene in 2017 as a cult-classic indie game. The mix of charm and horror, thanks to a unique art style and premise, made the game a must-play for many. Fast forward to 2021 and Little Nightmares 2 reviewed very well as the successful follow-up. The triumph of those first two games has apparently made it so that Bandai Namco would like to see the series turned into a brand....

With so much of the story being about Nathan Drake and his companions, whether it be his lost time with Sam or his closeness to Sully, it makes sense that villains often get the short end of the stick in the many Uncharted games. Still, as franchises like Far Cry have shown, a memorable villain can elevate a narrative and make it far stronger than it would have been otherwise....

As a journalist, I harbor serious doubt about each of the most likely nominees. But with Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain, I feel that I’m dealing with known quantities. They’ve been in the public arena for years; their views, values and temperaments have received enormous scrutiny. By contrast, newcomer Obama is largely a stage presence defined mostly by his powerful rhetoric. The trouble, at least for me, is the huge and deceptive gap between his captivating oratory and his actual views....

Still, many gamers call the next Grand Theft Auto title GTA 6. Although many players eagerly await its arrival, Rockstar Games has yet to release much information on it. The gap in the release dates between GTA 5 and its single-player sequel is substantially longer than the release dates between any previous Grand Theft Auto games. GTA 5 had its first trailer 11 years ago Many younger gamers may like to meme on GTA 5 and constantly call out Rockstar Games for milking it, but such sentiment didn’t exist nearly 11 years ago....

Walker appeared on CBS This Morning with Gayle King on Wednesday. “What would justice look like for you and for Breonna?” King asked. Walker responded, “Breonna Taylor sitting right next to me.” Taylor was a 26-year-old EMT fatally shot by the Louisville Metro Police on March 13 after officers entered her apartment while the couple was asleep. Walker told King that he was “a million percent sure” that the police didn’t identify themselves before entering, prompting him to grab his gun and shoot in self-defense....

There are still three days to go until veteran Sandy Lyle plays the first official shot of this year’s tournament. But plenty is happening around one of the world’s most feared courses, with the big guns in town practising for the third major of the year. Here are some of the things you may have missed via our daily diary. “IS THAT TIGER WOODS, DAD?” “Yes son, yes it is....

Jamie Foxx’s portrayal of an ex-slave who trains to become the fastest gun in the South and goes on a blood-soaked rampage through the plantations of Mississippi is the ultimate historical revenge fantasy. There’s no movie quite like Django Unchained. But, as with all of Tarantino’s other movies, it borrows heavily from previous films. RELATED: What Separates Spaghetti Westerns From Regular Westerns? Just as his World War II epic Inglourious Basterds was named after a 1978 Enzo G....

Released on January 6, 2023, The Pale Blue Eye was one of those films that remained in the memory for a long time, but failed to make a mark somewhere deep inside. Its utterly engaging nature and character were the catalyst for something really solid. Its setting, tone, and lighting also matched the mood that the film was supposed to deliver. More elements succeeded in the two-hour-plus ride than did not....

One of the key drivers behind these downgrades is certainly the failure to pass the proposal’s desperately needed investments in America’s child care system. As President Biden and leaders in Congress work to resuscitate the proposal, its early learning investments—both child care and universal preschool—cannot be left on the cutting room floor. Indeed, Senator Manchin’s own statements suggest these policies could help persuade him to return to the negotiating table....

We are now enjoying a ““peace dividend’’ from the end of the cold war, which–more than Clinton or Gingrich–subdued budget deficits. In fiscal 1998, defense spending will total about $266 billion, or roughly 3 percent of national income (gross domestic product). A decade ago, it was 6 percent of GDP. The difference amounts to an additional $260 billion. You can quibble. Perhaps defense budgets would have dropped even if the cold war hadn’t ended....

Netanyahu and his coalition partners have taken their time putting together their governing coalition. Most observers now expect the new government to be sworn into power by December 10. But opponents of the incoming government at home and abroad—particularly in the U.S.—have rushed to preemptively demonize it and delegitimize the policies the victorious parties championed before their election. Slanderous allegations that Netanyahu and his coalition partners are racist, homophobic, extremist, fascist, misogynist, and xenophobic are nothing new....

The film has rightfully brought Wang back to the forefront of big screens everywhere, as she is an incredible talent who deserves more starring roles than she currently gets. But many fans will probably recognize her in another film about heroes: the 2000 wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. RELATED: Everything Everywhere All At Once Review Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was an anomaly in international cinema. During a time mass audiences didn’t usually go to the theater to see an international film, this film succeeded and became a legend of its own....

The White House backed off. But senior military sources say that after the November election debacle, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta persuaded Defense Secretary William Perry to trim the DOD’s closure plans in key states. The sources say the navy wanted to shut the Portsmouth, N.H., shipyard, but in a January radio interview Clinton assured state residents that it would be spared. The air force plans to close at least two of its five maintenance depots in California and Texas have also been scotched, the sources say....

Some people say the new era looks a lot like the old era, in that Fordice is quite conservative. Other people say it wasn’t ideology, it was truck-stoppery that won for Fordice: he is “more comfortable at the truck stop” than the incumbent he beat. The incumbent went to Harvard Law School. Even worse, given today’s climate, he was an incumbent. That was enough to beat a bunch of people last week....

Quietly, the agents prepared to make what they call a “keyed entry.” The key: a battering ram. Crashing through the door, the Feds rushed to the bedroom, where they handcuffed the couple, who had jolted awake but were still in bed. At about the same moment across town, Patrice Lumumba Ford, another suspected member of the group, stepped out of his apartment to discover eight federal agents with guns ordering him to the ground....