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Ellis made the commitment in style, too, with this slick video production: The 6-2 Ellis, the No. 25 player in 247Sports.com’s Top 247 ranking, told the website that Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski sealed the deal during Ellis’ official visit to Durham in late October. MORE: Jay Bilas on Zion Williamson: ‘Never seen anyone like him’ “I just felt like Coach K has the best vision for me as well as getting to my other dreams as being a pro and stuff like that....

She knew that shortly the others would notice, not that Vanessa had left her father’s party, but that the light in the room had suddenly faded, and though it was still late afternoon and not yet dusk, they would see that the sun, because of the looming proximity of the Great Range, was about to slip behind the mountains. The Second Tamarack Lake was deep and long and narrow, like a Norwegian fiord, scraped by glaciers out of the north- and south-running Great Range of steep, granitic mountains, and the view from the eastern shore of the Second Lake at this hour in high summer was famous....

Then the midwife, turning back to the small scrap of humanity, looked closely at him and exclaimed, ‘Dead! Stop a minute, he’s alive enough, sure!‘¹ And so he was: tiny, weak, hardly expected to survive for long, but not dead yet.² He was so feeble that his future remained doubtful. For five weeks he was kept at home, and then he was taken to be christened in church. And, although, as Hardy himself put it later, ‘he showed not the physique of his father’, he was named Thomas Hardy after his father and his grandfather....

The alleged phenomenon of the Bridezilla spawned numerous newspaper articles that recounted her exploits with gleeful censure. The New York Times told of one bride who had demanded that her attendants all color their hair the same shade of blond; another who had procured a swatch of the purple wallpaper from the hotel suite in which she would be spending her wedding night so that her florist could find blooms that were an exact match; and another who insisted, before a barefoot beach wedding, that her husband’s groomsmen all endure a pedicure....

But the show will always go on, and given the era we’re in I don’t have much doubt that others will step up into the forefront, picking up the slack that’s been left behind. There’ll surely be some noise in the form of Snake Oil salesmen that attempt to sneak in on a burgeoning product, but as long as you’re looking in the right areas there should be plenty of reliable conduits of hockey analysis around....

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar tweeted Booker’s comment just minutes after he said it. “I have a lot of respect for the vice president,” Booker said. “He swore me into my office. He’s a hero. This week I hear him literally say that ‘I don’t think we should legalize marijuana.’ I thought you might have been high when you said it.” “Marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people,” Booker continued, “and the war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people....

Reading a Sebald book is like nothing else. Confronted with his strange, intoxicating brew of fact and fiction and digressions on everything from European train stations to the lives and times of certain moths, you wind up not knowing what to believe, or who. Everything–history, one’s personal mental health–is called into question. It’s even hard knowing what to call the books themselves. Each is composed with a kind of droll melancholy....

Two new books consider this history. “Dot.con,” by The New Yorker’s John Cassidy, is a well-reported take on the bubble which reminds you what happens to people who forget the past. By contrast, in “Going Wireless,” Jaclyn Easton actually needs you to suspend disbelief. A radio-show host, Easton writes about a world where wireless technologies like cell phones and pagers connect customer to front office to back office to warehouse, saving time and making money… just like things were supposed to happen in 1995....

Knight completed a Sugar Bowl-record 32 passes for 348 yards and four touchdowns, and No. 11 Oklahoma took down third-ranked Alabama, 45-31 on Thursday night. Knight's completion percentage entering the game was 52.2. He had completed 47 passes all season, before a breakout performance in which two of his TDs went for more than 40 yards. Oklahoma (11-2) needed him to play that well in the 80th Sugar Bowl, the first in which quarterbacks for both teams threw for more than 300 yards....

While speaking to reporters after meeting with Biden, Johnson said, “It’s a big breath of fresh air,” regarding his discussions with the U.S. president. “It’s new, it’s interesting and we’re working very hard together. We went on for about an hour and 20 or so. It was a long, long, good session. We covered a huge range of subjects,” Johnson said, according to France24 News. Johnson added, “It’s wonderful to listen to the Biden administration and to Joe Biden, because there’s so much they want to do together with us, from security, NATO, to climate change....

But no more. Sarajevo today is the very image of a thriving European capital, chockablock with chic restaurants and upscale art galleries. Cranes punctuate the skyline, erecting offices and putting a new face on, among many other things, Bosnia’s postmodern Parliament, ruined during the war. Strolling the cobbled streets of the capital’s ancient Old Town–a twisty maze of bars and tourist shops selling everything from Turkish coffee sets to T shirts reading i’m muslim, don’t panic–Causevic is positively boosterish....

In a translated version of the video’s caption, the poster @solah5817 writes “we only want our rights.” Though it is not clear where the video was taken, many commenters suggest reaching out to “MOM” or the Ministry of Manpower which is a part of the government in Singapore that is responsible for labor and workforce policies and standards in the country. “I cannot say I pay or don’t pay,” the boss said in the video....

One of the employees took to Reddit to share their discontent at the situation, writing that their boss does this to “make a point.” The Reddit post reads: “They already don’t pay us any money because we’re servers who only make money from customer tips.” Details about the employer and employee are not revealed, and they could not be identified. Since being posted to the social media platform on January 19, the discussion has amassed 1,500 comments....

At least that was thought to be the case, but a change in that mandate has Minnesota Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau a bit agitated. The Wild are in Columbus to take on the Blue Jackets in the first game for each team following the All-Star Game. For the Wild, their lone representative, forward Eric Staal, spent the weekend in Tampa Bay, as did Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski....

Martin was a senior when two students gunned down 12 of their classmates and a teacher at the high school in Littleton on April 20, 1999—just two days shy of her 18th birthday. Along with 59 other students, Martin barricaded herself in a teacher’s choir room office for hours as the sound of gunfire rang outside the door. Now a 39-year-old teacher in Denver, Martin struggled in the years that followed, she told Newsweek in a phone interview....

The match felt like it was over before 15 minutes were up thanks to two early goals by Arsenal’s Martin Odegaard. First he finished off a rebound after a sensational team movement that started with a thrilling run by Gabriel Jesus. Minutes later Odegaard powered home a ball that made its way into the box thanks to a Ben White cross from the right. Arsenal center back William Saliba scored the best goal of the afternoon with a curling second-half shot that nestled into the top right corner....

BCS bowl games Rose Bowl: Ohio State vs. StanfordOrange Bowl: Michigan State vs. ClemsonSugar Bowl: Auburn vs. UCFFiesta Bowl: Fresno State vs. Oklahoma StateBCS National Championship: Alabama vs. Florida State MORE: 2013 upsets | Week 13 photos | BCS analysis The rest of the bowls New Mexico Bowl: Arizona vs. San Diego StateFamous Idaho Potato Bowl: Toledo vs. Texas StatePoinsettia Bowl: Boise State vs. BuffaloBeef O’ Brady’s Bowl: Colorado State vs....

Saturday’s Gildan New Mexico Bowl (2 p.m. ET, ESPN) in Albuquerque pits two teams who would figure to be genuinely happy to be playing in a postseason game at all: favored Washington State, which hasn’t been in a bowl since 2003; and Colorado State, which is making its first postseason appearance since 2006. As is to be expected from a Mike Leach-coached team, Washington State (6-6 SU, 9-3 ATS) has a strong and persistent passing game....

The guns were .30 caliber M1 rifles, a military-style weapon. They were ordered legitimately by a gun collector but never arrived at the collector’s door. Instead, they sat inside the Chester High School loading dock over the weekend. CBS News reported that staff thought the boxes contained textbooks, since the first day of school was this week. Staff were surprised when they opened the box and discovered six weapons instead....

To do that, he has to limit the distractions ahead of the Nov. 24 fight in Macau. So that rules out a visit to the areas most devastated by the deadly typhoon to the north of where he's in a training camp at General Santos, in the southern Philippines. It's a heart-wrenching decision but his handlers, including veteran trainer Freddie Roach, have insisted it is for the best. MORE: How to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan...