A little-known Charles Dickens book called “Hard Times” was written during the Industrial Revolution as a statement against its diminishment of beauty and the resulting hardness of life. Mr. Gradgrind ...

If I start a new job, I would still get paid as long as it doesn't violate ethics rules, which is unlikely to be a major consideration for my position. While I apply, I have some travel lined up.

Before then, I’d just let people know the odd thing, talking about my ‘stalker’ in air quotes, still trying to laugh it off. As we began discussing the idea of making a podcast with the BBC ...

The actress said she began "screaming and wincing" after making a leap from Fenway Park's Green Monster wall in order to film her character's barefoot sprint through the outfield.

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“Fortunately, I still have my voice, because then I’ll have a full Tommy.” Tommy, of course, is the name of The Who’s celebrated 1969 rock opera, later made into a film, about a man named ...

But the erosion of genuine media ownership still feels like a problem without a good solution in sight, and gamers are starting to make more noise about it. "2024 was the year gamers really ...

I will turn 75 this July, and I'm still working — not by choice, but by necessity. Despite dedicating over 60 years of my life to the workforce, my pension is not enough for me to survive.

Just over two weeks after that, I took a call from a consultant in Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital who told me my physically robust ... s lifetime, but it still came down to choices and ...