A California teacher of the year finalist will face time behind bars after cops caught him trying to pay for sex from a officer posing as a 13-year-old boy.
Fabian Hürzeler speaks to TNT. “Every game is an opportunity to make it better than the last game … a good opportunity to get back on track … to keep focussing on our performance … enforcing our habits … stick to our principles … to go to a big stadium against a big opponent and try to have the belief to win this game … it’s important to keep focusing on the small margins … defensive stability … the belief that we can go to every stadium in the world and play our style of play … courage in possession and out of possession … we have quality … we are capable of beating everyone … confidence … key principles … our players have to trust in ourselves … it is do or die so we have to go all-in … a great opportunity to go to the next round.”
He also stresses his belief in 17-year-old Harry Howell, who only made his full Premier League debut last week against Crystal Palace, and is making his first FA Cup appearance tonight. “We all have trust and belief in him … he showed a good performance against Palace and Villa so deserves to be on the pitch … we all see a guy who is really looking forward to this game … a lot of courage and belief in his own quality … I hope he plays a good game tonight.”
The prime minister also used his speech at the Munich Security Conference to underline the UK’s commitment to Nato as he spelt out the ‘urgency’ for a closer UK defence relationship with Europe
New Yankees starting pitcher Ryan Weathers, who arrived in a January trade with the Marlins, takes a swing at some spring training Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.
With Brazil entering the joyous throes of Carnival, Alpine ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen just gave it another reason to celebrate: an Olympic gold medal at the Winter Games
Who needs enemies when you have family. “The Hills” star Stephanie Pratt has brutally turned on her brother Spencer over his run for Los Angeles mayor. The TV personality launched into a series of attacks on the mayoral candidate on Saturday morning, condemning a vote for him as a “vote for stupidity.” She warned he...
Love has long been framed as a pursuit of the young, but this narrative lags behind reality
As Valentine’s Day approaches, we are once again flooded with the usual suspects: roses, chocolates, sophisticated dinners and glossy ads featuring young heterosexual couples staring earnestly into each other’s eyes. The problem isn’t just that this version of romance is exclusionary – though it is – it’s that it’s profoundly out of step with how love is actuallybeinglived, negotiated and reimagined in contemporary Australia.
Culturally, love has long been framed as a pursuit of the young. From Romeo and Juliet to Normal People, from Bridget Jones to When Harry Met Sally, romantic fulfilment is depicted as something you secure early; ideally before your knees give out or your mortgage locks in. The message is consistent: find love in your twenties or thirties, settle down, and then coast (emotionally paired and narratively complete) until death do you part.
Lisa Portolan is an academic. Her latest book is 10 Ways to Find Love … and How to Keep it. She will appear in ‘Heterofatalism’ at the All About Women festival at the Sydney Opera House on 8 March
There was a language barrier, a mother who burned their letters and a record label manager who disapproved. But Kerry Cox and Hitomi were madly in love
In my early 20s, I quit my job in New Zealand and moved to Sydney to study martial arts. In 1982, after competing in the World Pugilist championships in Hong Kong, I hitchhiked around Japan for a month or so, then headed for Korea via ferry in January of 1983. I’d heard air fares were cheap from Korea. No internet back then!
While boarding, I was approached by a very attractive Japanese woman, with limited English, who told me that if I bought one box of bananas and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black label, I could pay for most of my trip in Korea. These items were very much in demand back then.
In the new novel “Royal Spin,” a young American politico gets a job at Buckingham Palace, working to help the Royal Family address a raft of unflattering headlines. It’s a classic fish out of water story that also feels completely believable considering that the real-life Palace is currently dealing with some sordid revelations of its...
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