No Justice, No Football on a Missouri Campus
PhotoA former University of Missouri player, L’Damian Washington, spoke to current players Sunday from his car in Columbia.CreditAugust Kryger for The New York TimesCOLUMBIA, Mo. — Students at theUniversity of Missourihave been demonstrating for weeks for the ouster of the university president, protesting the school’s handling of racial tensions. But their movement received a boost over the weekend when dozens of black football players issued a blunt ultimatum: Resign or they won’t play.Fueling the anger were a series of on-campus incidents: racial slurs hurled at black students and feces smeared into the shape of a swastika on a wall in a residence hall. What many students viewed as a slugg..>> view originalNew York library making a big stink over toilet paper theft | Fox News
The Morrisania (Bronx) branch of the New York Public Library. (Credit: NYPL)(NYPL The New York Public Library)A branch of the New York Public Library is trying to flush out toilet paper thieves,DNAinfo.comreported.It seems the rash of toilet tissue theft has become so common at the Morrisania branch in the Bronx that library staffers put up a sign warning readers that “stealing is punishable by the law.”"If you are caught stealing the bathroom tissue from dispenser, you will be barred permanently from all New York Public Libraries," the sign reads.The sign also warns that the restroom will be inspected "immediately after each person leaves" to see if any tissue is missing or if the dispenser..>> view originalDelusional de Blasio is bringingNYCback to the 1940s
Smokestack lovers, rejoice — 1940s New York City is coming back!Thanks to Mayor de Blasio and a bunch of City Council members, who excitedly announced an “Action Plan to Grow 21st Century Industrial and Manufacturing Jobs in NYC,” we can soon re-live the era of all-night factories and 24-hour workers’ cafeterias.Bring back battleships at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, apparel for the world from the Garment District and electrical products like the ones my dad made at Murray Manufacturing Co. on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn!Of course, nobody builds ships here anymore. Most of the “apparel industry” moved to Asia and Murray’s factory was last seen around 1970 when the firm took 500 jobs to lower-tax V..>> view originalYale's Halloween Advice Stokes a Racially Charged Debate
Weeks of simmering racial tension atYale Universityboiled over in recent days into a heated debate over whether the administration was sensitive enough to concerns about Halloween costumes seen as culturally offensive, students and adminstrators said.Peter Salovey, the president of Yale, said he had been left “deeply troubled” by a meeting he held with students of color last week who were “in great distress.” Many said they did not believe the university was attuned to the needs of minority students.“The experiences they shared went beyond the incidents of the last few days,” he saidin a statement. “Their concerns and cries for help made clear that some students find life on our campus profo..>> view originalFirst 'Crossover' Auction at Phillips Yields $66.9 Million
PhotoWillem de Kooning’s “Untitled XXVIII” sold for $11.4 million, the highest price at Phillips’s auction on Sunday night in New York.CreditThe Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society, (ARS), New York, via PhillipsA new type of sale at Phillips on Sunday night began a week of big-ticket auctions of contemporary, modern and Impressionist art in New York that is projected to fetch at least $1.4 billion at three auction houses.Phillips’s inaugural sale of “20th Century & Contemporary Art” combined works by well-known living artists with pieces by some of Modernism’s canonical names. Containing some 24 works whose sellers were guaranteed minimum prices, either from Phillips or f..>> view originalGame Details
New York Red BullsDC UnitedFTLeg 2Aggregate: 2 - 0Game DetailsRed Bulls advance to the next leg of the MLS playoffs, courtesy of a stoppage-time goal by Bradley Wright-Phillips.HARRISON, N.J. -- Even without Bradley Wright-Phillips' goal two minutes into injury time, the New York Red Bulls would have advanced to the MLS Cup Eastern Conference finals.Yet the strike settled it without any doubts, giving New York a 1-0 victory over D.C. United Sunday and a 2-0 aggregate win in the two-leg series to put the Red Bulls within one step of the MLS Cup championship game.It was the second straight year New York has beaten its I-95 rival in the eastern semifinals, but it took 92 minutes to settle it fo..>> view originalBacked by Nail Salon Owners, a New York Legislator Now Fights Reforms - The New York Times
PhotoAssemblyman Ron Kim, left of center, and Sangho Lee, president of the Korean American Nail Salon Association, at lectern, at a news conference in May.CreditNicole Bengiveno/The New York TimesIn a packed hall in the Bronx a few months ago, Ron Kim, a New York State assemblyman, stood clutching a ceremonial pen in his left hand, the other extended into the crowd as labor advocates, politicians and immigrant rights workers thronged to shake it. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had just used the pen to sign into law a bill protecting nail salon workers from labor abuses and potentially dangerous chemicals. It was a measure that Mr. Kim, who represents the mostly Asian enclave of Flushing, Queens, had s..>> view originalWhy Kobe Bryant's Last Game in New York Should Bum Out Knicks Fans
If Kobe Bryant played his final game at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, and every sign points to the Laker great retiring at season's end, then it must have ...>> view originalHollywood Is Producing Higher Highs, Lower Lows
PhotoThe year has been largely defined by box office successes like “Spectre.”CreditJonathan Olley/MGM Pictures/Columbia Pictures/EON Productions, via A.P.For months, American moviegoers have either been going big or staying home.And if they keep behaving that way, 2015 may set new marks for both hits and misses — while leaving a hole in the middle, where Oscars are typically born.“Spectre,” the latest James Bond thriller, took in about $73 million in ticket sales at domestic theaters over the weekend, giving Hollywood one of its biggest openings of the year, even though sales were down sharply from those for “Skyfall,” the previous Bond movie. “Spectre,” the most expensive 007 installment e..>> view originalGiants Escape With Victory and Remain Atop NFC East
PhotoThe Giants’ Odell Beckham Jr. had key third-down catches and nine receptions over all.CreditMike Ehrmann/Getty ImagesTAMPA, Fla. — Trying to take the measure of the Giants’ season is like watching a leaf blow across a windswept landscape. Swiftly, the Giants have ascended, climbing to startling heights, and just as suddenly they have plummeted, grimacing through stomach-churning nose dives.Often, all of that has happened in the course of one game.It was more of the same in the Giants’ 32-18 roller coaster of a victory over theTampa Bay Buccaneershere Sunday.But just past the midpoint of the team’s schedule, as the N.F.L.’s fall season lurches toward the drive for winter playoff berths,..>> view original
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