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“I think she taught me how important it is to not be scared to speak publicly, actually, and to be fearless,” said Jones. “I’ve found public speaking difficult in the past, despite being an actor. That’s something I’ve had to work incredibly hard at. And it was playing Ruth when I finally thought, ‘Right, you’ve […]

“I think she taught me how important it is to not be scared to speak publicly, actually, and to be fearless,” said Jones. “I’ve found public speaking difficult in the past, despite being an actor. That’s something I’ve had to work incredibly hard at. And it was playing Ruth when I finally thought, ‘Right, you’ve […]

The Los Angeles Rams badly needed to end their losing streak. Luckily for them, they had the opportunity to face the Arizona Cardinals. Even with RB Todd Gurley ruled out before the game, the Rams went on to defeat Arizona 31-9 with strong defense and improved offense. Coming into the contest, I thought the Cardinals […]

One of their technical advisers explained that because the “original internet, the ARPANET, was never designed to grow and expand the way it did,” says Johnston, the internet has evolved like “a city that’s built on top of itself, like Rome or Istanbul, where you have the ancient city deep underground and you have the […]

“It was Christmas Day 1969, and I was a graduate student at UCLA. Just a few months downstream of an Army tour in Vietnam, I was still readjusting to normal, civilian life. A classmate and his wife had invited me to their apartment to share Christmas dinner. Since they lived only a few blocks away, […]

They were always the same, those family Christmases. My father and his brothers would huddle around the liquor cabinet in the dining room, downing shots of Don Q rum, talking loudly. The women gathered in the living room, chattering about their children, a chorus of joys and some laments. The children in question, meanwhile, banged […]