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Writer-director Meadows knows this turf intimately: the story has deep autobiographical roots. He knows there were skinheads, like Woody and his friends, who had no truck with racism or the National Front. Then there were those like Combo (Stephen Graham), fresh out of prison, who turned their rage against immigrants and vowed to “take England back.” The impressionable Shaun, drawn to power and looking for father figures, switches his allegiance to the charismatic Combo, and “This Is England” takes a scary, violent turn....

Don’t worry, there’s plenty of offensive talent in this game as well, so here are the names and numbers you’ll need to know. MORE: How to watch the Final Four Key to the Matchup – South Carolina Everyone knows South Carolina has a vicious defense, but the extent of the havoc the Gamecocks cause is pretty remarkable. The Gamecocks forced 68 turnovers in the first four rounds of the NCAA Tournament (17 per game), which is the most by any team through that stage over the last 10 years....

The monument of Confederate General A.P. Hill and his remains, which are buried beneath the statue, will be removed, according to procurement documents. The city announced on Wednesday that Newport News-based Team Henry Enterprises bid $1.5 million on the project and was awarded the contract, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The upcoming removal of the final major Confederate statue stemmed from efforts that began in the summer of 2020, when the U....

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This planting is not the action of a strong, confident consensus. It is the action of a nervous, beleaguered sect, whose members feel their certainty draining away and want desperately to find validation in the agreement of their neighbors. This kind of brittleness is endemic on every side of American life in 2021. No faction is exempt. Coping with deep-seated ideological pluralism has never been an easy task; moving it from local communities to a disembodied digital sphere brings us a new, confoundingly difficult problem....

Andres Serrano, dressed in black, stood in The BlumHelman Gallery in Santa Monica contemplating the Reverend Wildmon’s American Family Association. Six months after the minister and his followers began attacking “Piss Christ,” Serrano got out his camera, dunked a bust of Jesus in milk and water and shot “White Christ.” He thought the people who were upset with him wanted a pure Christ they could call their own. So he gave them one....

Sen. Barack Obama is offering himself to the nation and the world as a young Jedi of bring-us-together negotiation and diplomacy. But if he expects to have a chance to use those skills on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il and the Castro regime, he has to show he has the chops to pacify even tougher foes: Hillary and Bill Clinton. As Obama grinds (not sprints) toward locking up the Democratic nomination, his next goal is clear: to make the Democrats’ Denver convention in late August a pageant of reconciliation....

For Hillary, the idea is not to let antiwar activists corner her in Iowa and New Hampshire; for Rudy, the goal is to avoid humiliation at the hands of pro-life activists. More generally, these New Yorkers want to run as close to the political center as they can. It’s a very sensible goal, of course—if they can get away with it. All the other candidates in both parties are, to one degree or another, pursuing the opposite strategy: looking to play “small ball,” scratching out singles in the early-inning states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada....

Edwards: The big question on the Democratic side is who John Edwards will support now that he’s dropping out of the race. I’m told that Edwards’s decision was very closely held, meaning he and his wife alone knew the score. As of Tuesday morning, he still had an ambitious schedule planned in the Super Tuesday states. But Tuesday afternoon he notified his staff that he wanted to go to New Orleans instead....

The five explosions were detected by researchers at the Institute of Seismology at the University of Helsinki. They determined that the blasts took place in the Gulf of Finland near the Russian town of Vyborg, which is located close to the border with Finland and a roughly three-hour drive east of the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Timo Tiira, director of the institute, told Newsweek that four explosions took place between 9:35 a....

John and Chris Burton from Dunedin were on board the Sergey Diaghilev docked at Oktyabrskaya Embankment in Russia’s second city St. Petersburg as part of an 11-day trip sailing to the Russian capital, Moscow. A fire broke out on the neighboring four-story river cruise ship, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, around 5.30 a.m. on Thursday. Around 320 people, including 240 passengers and 80 crew members, had to be evacuated from the burning boat, Russian agencies reported....

On September 16, seven firefighters from North Attleboro and Foxboro, Massachusetts, were on a Southwest Airlines flight when a passenger started to turn gray during a medical emergency. The firefighters believed that the man was experiencing symptoms of a possible seizure and became completely unresponsive. North Attleboro Fire Captain George McKinnon told WBZ-TV on Tuesday that as soon as he and his partners realized that there was an issue, “our training kicked in....

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The explosion occurred at the fireworks factory in the town of Hendek, in the northwestern Sakarya province, on Friday, July 3. Videos on local news sites and social media appear to show multiple fireworks setting off and smoke billowing from the factory in the wake of the blast. Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted that two people have died and at least 73 people have been injured in the explosion....

The school’s interim athletic director presented a new, balanced budget to the Board of Regents on Thursday, saying the dismissal of football coach Brady Hoke and athletic director Dave Brandon “caused us to have a deficit of about $7.9 million” for the 2014-15 fiscal year. MORE: Trouble at Texas | Michigan launches recruiting website | Still no decision on early signing period change According to Hackett, the 2015 deficit is the first time in 10 years the university has been in the hole....

We were sold a pie in the sky ideal that the days of one game wrecking a season were over. It took all of two years to change that. MORE: First-and-10 items 2 through 10 Now one play — one flippin’ play — can change the course of a playoff hunt. One crazy, you’ve got to be kidding me play, where a prayer of a lateral on fourth and forever somehow flew backward 10 yards, got knocked down and bounced — BOUNCED!...

The Associated Press reports that Sean Conroy, 23, of the Sonoma Stompers tossed a 7-0 victory in his first start with the team that is part of the independent Pacific Association of Baseball Clubs. Conroy struck out 11 and allowed three hits over nine innings, according to the AP. MORE: Every MLB team’s best ever home-state player | Giants pitcher: Christians should be more accepting of gays “He wanted to be that guy, and coming out here and doing this shows you what kind of man he is,” Tim Livingston, the team’s radio broadcaster, said after the game, according to the AP....

Here’s a look at pitcher rankings, saves sleepers and weather warnings. Today’s action gets underway at 1:05 p.m. ET in Miami with the Braves-Marlins. READ MORE: Be the next FanDuel millionaire! | SN Fantasy | Daily lineup splits | DFS Playbook (early) SP RANKINGS 1. Max Scherzer, WAS at SD 2. Felix Hernandez, SEA vs. BOS 3. Zack Greinke, LAD vs. COL 4. David Price, DET at STL 5. Gerrit Cole, PIT at CHC 6....

BOOKMARK: Sporting News Fantasy SPLITS TO KNOW Freddie Freeman is 10-for-21 (.476) with two homers and four doubles against R.A. Dickey. If Victor Martinez (knee) is back in the Tigers lineup, don’t hesitate to start him. He’s 15-for-29 (.517) with three homers and three doubles against Chris Sale. Ryan Howard is just 3-for-20 (.150) with seven Ks against Jordan Zimmermann. Matt Adams (1.667 OPS), Matt Carpenter (1.280), Yadier Molina (1....