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Well, that's nice to think about anyway. But Arum's words created no good will with the other side. In particular, it was his suggestions fans boycott Floyd Mayweather's next fight to build pressure for Mayweather to fight his man, Manny Pacquiao. Asked if they want it, boxing fans would say something like: "Yes, please." But putting it the way he did, Arum elicited this response from Richard Schaefer, honcho of Mayweather's management company....

Genia is one of many parents nationwide who have lost custody due to a controversial concept known as parental alienation. Under the theory, children fear or reject one parent because they have been corrupted or coached to lie by the other. Parental alienation is now the leading defense for parents accused of abuse in custody cases, according to domestic-violence advocates. And it’s working. The few current studies done on the subject consider only small samples....

B.W., PENSACOLA, FLA. Under federal estate-tax rules, you’re taxed on combined gifts and inheritances that exceed $600,000, with this exception: you can make annual $10,000 tax-free gifts to each of as many people as you want. John Gardner, a tax manager at the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand, has three ideas for you. (1) Give your daughter a $10,000 interest in the house each year. You’ll have to execute a deed each time....

PATEL: Why did you want to make a film of “The Mystic Masseur”? MERCHANT: All its characters are wonderful. It is Naipaul’s most accessible novel, a human book set in Trinidad, with a protagonist who takes you on a journey. I wanted to be part of that journey. It’s the only Naipaul novel made into a film. Was it difficult to get permission? I wrote to his agents but there was no response, so I wrote to Naipaul directly....

KARYN FALLON, PEMBROKE, N.H. Tell them to send their stockbroker some flowers. He has saved them, and you, a potful of trouble. Your parents could indeed make your children joint owners by adding their names to the stock certificates, New stock certificates would be issued at no or minimal charge. But what if your parents wanted to sell? They’d need the children’s permission (all joint owners must sign), and minors can’t legally give permission....

Rudy Giuliani, trained for combat by the toughest press corps in the world (in New York), won the debate here in a few ways: by mentioning Hillary Clinton’s name every few seconds (a guaranteed applause line), by smacking down Ron Paul on the question of whether America had ever been attacked (“Where were you on 9/11?”), and by mixing it up with Romney on the question of who cut taxes and spending more (in fact, neither one of them is a real conservative on either matter)....

Symptoms Finger osteoarthritis produces several signs and symptoms. You may experience any combination of the following: Sensation: Pain, soreness, and aching around your finger jointsMotor effects: Stiffness, limited range-of-motion, or decreased grip strengthVisible signs: Swelling or nodes, which are enlarged, hardened bumps around your joints, known as Bouchard’s nodes (middle joint of the finger) and Herberden’s nodes (joint near the fingertips) With finger osteoarthritis, your pain is most severe when you begin using your hands for physical activity, diminishing as your activity progresses....

Johnson is a learned beekeeping hobbyist, who arrived with appropriate resources to manage the swarm of insects that had infiltrated the backseat area of a person’s car on Sunday afternoon. After safely removing the bees from the vehicle, which was parked outside a Las Cruces supermarket, fire department officials said that Johnson relocated the swarm to his personal property. “After blocking off the immediate area to ensure the safety of nearby shoppers, Las Cruces firefighters called upon the services of off-duty firefighter Jesse Johnson who, in his spare time, is a beekeeper,” the department said in a statement on Monday....

Nescopeck Volunteer Fire Co. firefighter Harold Baker described to The Citizens’ Voice newspaper of Wilkes-Barre his horror upon realizing that the fire to which he was responding had trapped members of his own family. Baker told the paper that the fire’s 10 victims were all related to him and he expected their remains to soon be recovered. The fire broke out after 2:30 a.m. Friday in the small borough of less than 2,000 residents in eastern Pennsylvania, the Voice reported....

Alex Rossi now wears a heart pin on his uniform awarded for saving someone with CPR—his dad, Spokane Fire Department firefighter of 29 years Mike Rossi. The young Fire Distinct #10 firefighter told KHQ 06: “This [pin] was awarded to me from my district. They hand these pins out when someone saves someone with CPR. “So they gave me this for saving my dad.” Alex Rossi was called upon to help his father in the early morning of December 27, 2021....

In the sports world that’s existed since George Steinbrenner settled down and let Joe Torre run the Yankees awhile, there has been no job so tenuous as coach of any men’s national soccer team. MORE: Gold Cup images | Blame Klinsmann for loss | Or was it bad luck? | His focus: improvement It sometimes is more convenient to measure one’s tenure in days, not years. This hasn’t always led to great success in international competition....

Signs and Symptoms of a Fracture Persistent pain and swelling following an injury warrants a trip to the doctor. When the body doesn’t look the way you expect it to, it’s known as a deformity. Deformities can come from swelling or bruising. Most of the time, they come from broken bones or joint dislocations. When a bone has been moved out of its usual position, the anatomy just looks wrong. That’s a deformity....

In May the IRS denied 501(c)(3) status to the Texas-based prayer group Christians Engaged because it encourages its members to vote for state and national leaders. The federal agency specifically noted in its rejection that the group supports Republican candidates. In its letter, IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Stephen A. Martin concluded the group does not qualify as an organization described in IRS Section 501(c)(3) because it is not operated exclusively for religious and educational purposes....

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Saturday that he had been informed by the U.K Health Security Agency (UKHSA) of two cases of the Omicron variant. “The two cases are linked and there is a connection with travel to southern Africa,” he tweeted. “These individuals are self-isolating with their households while further testing and contact tracing is underway,” he added. In follow-up tweets, Javid said that as a precaution, additional targeted testing would take place “in the affected areas—Nottingham and Chelmsford—and sequencing all positive cases....

The CIT posted pictures of two individuals on Thursday on its Twitter page and showed the weapons the soldiers allegedly had on them. “Press officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Anatoliy Shtefan has published photographs of what appear to be captured Russian soldiers,” the caption said according to a Google translation. The caption went on to say that the alleged prisoners were with tanks in the Belgorod region in Russia in the days preceding the invasion and, on Thursday, they were located on the outskirts of Kharkiv....

The officials, who served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, said in a statement that they supported the bill and it would not increase taxes on families who earn less than $400,000 a year. The Democratic legislation is supported by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, but Democrats will need the support of every one of their senators to pass the bill using budget reconciliation....

Determining the right amount of equity to offer depends on several factors, including future business implications and what each employee brings to the team. Below, a panel of Newsweek Expert Forum members detail what leaders should remember when deciding how much equity to offer early-stage, non-technical hires in a tech company. 1. Level of Commitment One way to get the best from people and retain talent is by building long-term commitment via equity....

Yovanovitch appeared before the House Intelligence Committee for a public hearing and was the third witness to testify to Congress this week about the Ukraine controversy. On Wednesday, diplomat William Taylor and State Department official George Kent gave damning testimony against the president. Yovanovitch was appointed ambassador under several different presidents, both Republican and Democrat, and began serving in Ukraine in August 2016. In May 2019, she was abruptly removed from her post even though, she says, her bosses assured her she’d done nothing wrong....