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Things here are bustling, to put it mildly. Traffic crowds the streets and boulevards. Luxury-goods stores, frowned upon in the years immediately after the 1979 revolution, stand open and inviting—especially to foreigners, even Americans. Jewelry, leather handbags, knockoffs of Western designer brands—all are available by the boxful. And despite the savage crackdown on dissent being reported widely in the Western media (a headline in The Washington Post last Saturday read “Iran Curtails Freedom in Throwback to 1979”), there is little evidence of it on the streets....

Mexico will be looking to get over the proverbial hump, having reached but not advanced past the Round of 16 in each of the last seven consecutive World Cups. In the quest for that goal of reaching new heights, El Tri are looking for someone to take control of their national team’s destiny, and one man who will be critical to that pursuit is Hirving Lozano, the man fans endearingly call “Chucky....

Like other brothers of powerful politicians who became magnets for negative publicity-Billy Carter and Donald Nixon come to mind-the political klieg lights have not been kind to Roger Clinton. In New York, celebrating his brother’s primary victory, Clinton reportedly shoved a nightclub guitarist for telling Gennifer Flowers jokes. Clinton denies the brawl, but says he told the guy: “Listen, you fat s.o.b., you’re talking about my brother. Keep your mouth shut or I’ll shut it for you....

A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released Friday found that Wolf and Cuccinelli had been improperly appointed to their positions. When DHS Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen resigned in 2019, those who were promoted afterward followed what the GAO referred to as “an invalid order of succession.” Under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Neilsen’s successor, Kevin McAleenan, should not have been given the title of acting secretary and did not have the authority to pass the title to Wolf when he assumed the office....

Glaciers, which were first formed 10,000 years ago, were essential to the formation of Yosemite’s landscape. Now only two glaciers remain in the park—the Lyell glacier and the Maclure glacier. The Lyell Glacier, which lies on the slopes of Mount Lyrell, in the Sierra Nevada range of California, is the largest glacier in Yosemite National Park. It was discovered in 1871 by John Muir. But it is rapidly disappearing and could be gone entirely by 2050, a new study by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has found....

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, was the first Democratic president. But the first real campaigner was a popular former general from Tennessee, Andrew Jackson. Even in the 1820s, opposition newspapers pried into the details of his marriage. When he won, Jackson threw a huge party for anyone who wanted to come to the White House. Another general, William Henry Harrison, hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe against the Indians, ran the first “image” campaign in 1840....

MORE: Get FantasyAlarm.com’s online draft guide | Top 25 players But lately, many fantasy owners have made the switch to on-base percentage instead of average, as it’s a much more all-encompassing tool for measuring a player’s ability to not make outs – which, let’s face it, is really what we’re trying to measure with that category. If this is your first year playing in an OBP league – or even if you’re a vet but all the rankings you see are for batting average leagues – it can be tough to properly evaluate which players have considerably more or less value in OBP formats....

The league isn’t going to fine or suspend Redskins defensive lineman Chris Baker for laying out Eagles QB Nick Foles during the runback of an interception that wasn’t an interception. MORE: Week 3 photos | SN Power Rankings | STEELE: Redskins start the fight, Nick Foles finishes it “Baker didn’t do anything wrong with that hit,” league VP Troy Vincent told The Washington Post on Tuesday “When you look at the (targeting) rule, he didn’t do anything illegal....

Murray — outstanding in the first two rounds, average in the Eastern Conference final, then benched — will start Game 6 in Tampa on Tuesday. Pittsburgh is down 3-2 after dropping two consecutive to the Lightning. MORE: How every team could trade for P.K. Subban “We don’t have the luxury of (allowing) players to play through things. We have to win a game. We have to win a hockey game....

Overview Start with basic definitions of the types of health plans. Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) HMOs require primary care provider (PCP) referrals and won’t pay for care received out-of-network except in emergencies. But they tend to have lower monthly premiums than plans that offer similar benefits but come with fewer network restrictions. HMOs offered by employers often have lower cost-sharing requirements (i.e., lower deductibles, copays, and out-of-pocket maximums) than PPO options offered by the same employer, although HMOs sold in the individual insurance market often have out-of-pocket costs that are just as high as the available PPOs....

Now a new source of help is at hand. Last week the first book of its kind was published–“Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding” by psychologist Fugen Neziroglu and colleagues at the Bio-Behavioral Institute in Great Neck, N.Y. The book gives a step-by-step approach. (Begin by organizing rather than tossing, and divide the cleanup into manageable tasks.) Neziroglu has no illusions that the book alone will cure people. But it can help sufferers make inroads and may open them to the idea of formal treatment....

“The New York Post has long fostered an ugly, toxic conversation on their front pages and social accounts, but these posts are more disgusting and vile than usual,” Hochul’s campaign said in a statement, posted by press secretary Jen Goodman. “The New York Post needs to immediately explain how this reprehensible content was made public. While the Post has made its preferences very clear in the New York Governor’s race, there is no room for this violent, sexist rhetoric in our politics....

One thing that should be considered is how pitchers performed within their own eras. Jack Morris often was pumped up by his advocates as the best pitcher of the 1980s. The problem with this was that it was not true, and the Baseball Writers’ Association of America recognized this in not voting Morris into the Hall. In fact, from a wins above replacement standpoint, Morris was not among the top 10 pitchers of the 1980s....

It was impossible for the strongest military in the world to secure Iraq’s vast borders. And, as of next month, the job will belong to Fatih and his ragged comrades. The U.S. Army’s Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, which guards 500 miles of rugged semidesert along the Syrian, Saudi and Jordanian borders, is pulling out at the end of the month. Other U.S. Army troops are leaving Iraq, too, including the 101st Airborne Division, which controls 100 miles of the Syrian border and Iraq’s frontier with Turkey....

‘The Blue Jean’ by Alice Harris A fascinating celebration of the American classic; $35. Scandal Boot Candie’s This season’s boots are laced up and hog-tied, like this pair in cream suede; $89.95 at nordstrom.com. What Shall I Wear? 1969 board game that answers that universal question with a race round the board; $75 at chelsea-girl.com. Non-Iron Dress Shirts Brooks Brothers No matter how nice the shirt, by 3 p.m. it looks like it’s been balled up in your closet....

Sea turtles were declared endangered in the United States in 1973, and eating them has been illegal in Mexico for a decade. But along the coast of the Baja peninsula in western Mexico, the turtle is the equivalent of the holiday ham (with purported Viagra-like powers, too), and it is eaten in most households at least a few times a year. Last week the poachers–small-time fishermen hunting for their families, as well as organized smugglers who send turtle meat as far north as Los Angeles–were thought to be out in full force preparing for Easter, the biggest turtle-eating holiday of the year....

Holm told television station KOB in her hometown of Albuquerque, N.M., that fighting three times in an eight-month span may not have been for the best. MORE: Relive Holm’s stunning win over Rousey “I was pushing pretty hard through the last couple fights and maybe that took a toll on me, not just physically but mentally,” she told the station. “I’ll focus on some things I need to get taken care of outside of the fighting world....

Over the last two weeks, for example, prognosticators have been saying that Chris Klein’s “Rollerball” would somehow open ahead of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Collateral Damage” this weekend. None of them have even seen the films. With that kind of foresight, shouldn’t these people be out at the races picking ponies? If the seers had the same kind of research at the track that they enjoy at the studios, they just might....