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☆ Subrata Roy, ‘bad boy billionaire’ and chief of India’s Sahara Group, dies
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Subrata Roy, the founder of Sahara, once one of India’s largest conglomerates, died on Tuesday, his company said in a statement. Roy died in a Mumbai hospital following “an extended battle with complications arising from metastatic malignancy, hypertension, and diabetes,” the statement said. It was founded by Roy in 1978 and operates in sectors including real estate, banking, manufacturing and media. Considered one of the country’s most flamboyant tycoons, Roy rubbed shoulders with the Indian elite, including Bollywood superstars and high-profile politicians. “Heartbroken to learn about the passing of Sahara Shri Subrata Roy,” former Indian Olympian PV Sindhu wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Persons: CNN — Subrata Roy, Roy, ”, Subrata Roy, Anupam Kher, ” Roy Organizations: CNN, Indian national cricket team, Formula, Securities and Exchange Board of India, India’s, Reuters, Netflix, Bad, Sindhu Locations: Mumbai, Sahara India, London, New York, Sahara, Lucknow

☆ Opinion | Welcome, Speaker Johnson, to the Worst Job in Politics
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Benjamin Domenech | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The wide range of ideological support was not enough to save Mr. McCarthy, whose fall instead becomes part of the story of our political transformation as a country. In the not-too-distant past, political parties contained a wide range of ideologies united by a party machine, which kept them together despite regional interests and wildly different priorities. Now the big sort is ending — but there is no replacement for the party machinery to maintain coherence. This is far more true of the right than the left, but it’s happening on both sides. Fund-raising operations gave party establishments some power, but they no longer had the ability to dictate outcomes automatically.

Persons: McCarthy’s, McCarthy, Nancy Mace, I’ve, Tony Gilroy’s, Michael Clayton, ”, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, “ I’m, Mr, Clooney, “, you’re Organizations: California Legislature Locations: California, South Carolina

CNN —Booker Prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for allegedly seditious comments made over a decade ago, after a top official in Delhi said there was enough evidence to lay charges. Two of the accused, Kashmiri separatist leader Sayed Ali Shah Geelani and Delhi University lecturer Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani, have died since the initial complaint was filed. Sheikh Showkat Hussain, a former international law professor at the Central University of Kashmir, is still facing charges alongside Roy. In her 2010 speech, posted online, Roy spoke about Kashmiri efforts to seek justice, in part for the mass exodus of Hindus from Muslim-majority Kashmir in the early 1990s amid increasing violence. The decision, which Pakistan condemned as “illegal,” ratcheted up tensions between the two countries and over Kashmir.

Persons: CNN — Booker, Arundhati Roy, Roy, Booker, Narendra Modi, India’s, Modi’s, V, Saxena, Governor’s, Sayed Ali Shah Geelani, Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani, Sheikh Showkat Hussain, Roy ., Modi, ” Organizations: CNN, Indian, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Capitol, Police, Azadi, Delhi University, Central University of Kashmir, abetted Locations: Delhi, Kashmir, New Delhi, Mumbai, British, India, Muslim, Pakistan

☆ USC’s Shaky Defense Could Mean the Fall of Troy’s Title Hopes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Laine Higgins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It has been 12 years since the so-called “Game of the Century,” when No. 1 Louisiana State beat No. 2 Alabama in a defensive slugfest that ended 9-6. It might as well have been 12 decades based on how differently the game is played these days.

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☆ Rory McIlroy says two heated rows with US caddies fueled Ryder Cup win
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Rory McIlroy has said that two heated rows with American caddies left him wanting to “make it hurt” for Team USA, as Europe channeled rage into results to regain the Ryder Cup on Sunday. After confronting LaCava on the green, hostilities reignited in the course’s car park as the 34-year-old got into an angry exchange with another Team USA caddie, Jim “Bones” Mackay. McIlroy confronts LaCava, caddie for Cantlay (right). “I don’t think it just motivated me, it motivated the entire team … we wanted to go out there and make it hurt for them,” McIlroy told BBC Sport. “Everything will be fine,” McIlroy told reporters.

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Political Cartoons View All 1176 Images“Dave (Sampson) of European Golf Design made a course fit for drama,” Marco Simone superintendent Lara Arias said in a recent interview. “What’s good about Marco Simone is it’s got a lot of long holes, a lot of short holes. It’s got a lot of left, lot of right, lot of up, lot of down. Still, she is leaving 6 ½ feet of native grass inside the ropes at a height of five inches. That's because a colony of nutria, amphibious rodents, live on the Marco Simone grounds and have been known to roam the fairways.

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☆ A Paper Route Funded James Ellroy’s Pulp-Fiction Addiction
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Texas A&M Agrees to $1 Million Settlement With Journalism Professor
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Stephanie Saul | More About Stephanie Saul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Texas A&M University acknowledged on Thursday that top university officials, fearing criticism from conservatives, had made “significant mistakes” in their failed effort to hire a prominent Black professor to run the university’s journalism program. It said it had reached a $1 million settlement with the professor, Kathleen McElroy. Then, following complaints about her hiring from university regents, they changed the terms of her contract. What had started as an offer of a full faculty position with tenure was reduced to a one-year appointment with no tenure, the university’s report says. Dr. McElroy, who had run the journalism program at the University of Texas and was formerly an editor at The New York Times, announced in July that she would not take the job, less than a month after Texas A&M had held a public signing ceremony to welcome her, complete with balloons.

Persons: Kathleen McElroy, McElroy’s, Dr . McElroy Organizations: Texas, M University, University of Texas, The New York Times

He would pour some coffee into a bowl of rice, and that would be the boy’s breakfast. No one from the Navy ever stopped the old man and the young boy. Some mornings, his grandfather would take Roy back across the dirt road into the jungle to pick papayas, lemons and coconuts. He would thrash a course into the thicket to collect firewood from the slender trees — tangen tangen in CHamoru, the language of the Indigenous inhabitants of Guam, which Roy’s grandmothers and grandfathers were. “We’re taking care of it because we hope, one day, in the future, our land will be returned to us.”

Persons: Adrienne Hurst, Dan Farrell, Roy Gamboa, Roy, skipjacks, ” Roy, “, ” Organizations: Spotify, Big Navy, U.S . Naval Base, Navy Locations: Guam, CHamoru

☆ Brian Harman powers to 2023 Open Championship victory, clinching first career major
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

CNN —Brian Harman won the 151st Open Championship on Sunday, sealing the first major of his career in dominant fashion. When Faldo birdied at the subsequent hole, Hoch's hopes of a first major win similarly went up in the air. David Cannon/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images Lorena Ochoa, US Women's Open (2005) Ochoa secured a top-four finish at the 2005 US Women's Open. Not when you led at the final hole. A par at the final hole would have been enough to put the American into the playoff, but an agonizing missed putt [pictured] epitomized her painful afternoon in San Francisco.

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☆ Texas A&M President Resigns Amid Fallout Over Journalism Program
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Remy Tumin | More About Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Texas A&M University said on Friday that its president would retire “immediately” after fallout surrounding political pushback of a new director of its journalism program because of her work promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. The president, M. Katherine Banks, submitted a letter of retirement late Thursday, the university said in a statement. At least one conservative Texas A&M alumni group, the Rudder Association, said it had filed a complaint about Dr. McElroy’s appointment because of her advocacy work. Dr. McElroy told The Times that the terms of her employment had been revised to offer her a one-year contract. She elected to return to her tenured position at the University of Texas.

Persons: “, Katherine Banks, Kathleen McElroy, McElroy Organizations: Texas, M University, University of Texas, The New York Times, Rudder Association, Times, The Texas Tribune Locations: Texas

☆ The Open: Towering Georgia Tech amateur Christo Lamprecht powers into early share of lead
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —At six feet, eight inches tall, amateur golfer Christo Lamprecht towered over most of the field at the Open Championship even before he teed off Thursday. He’s in uncharted waters, but seeing his name atop the leaderboard was not surprising to Lamprecht. A two-time winner on the PGA Tour, the 30-year-old’s best major finishes both came at The Open, as he tied 12th in 2016 and 2021. 3 Jon Rahm, who will need a big response if he is to add to his Masters triumph in April. It puts the American on track to miss the cut at three of the year’s four majors, with a tied-65th finish at the PGA Championship the only time he made the weekend.

Persons: Christo Lamprecht, England’s Tommy Fleetwood, Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo, Lamprecht, Stuart Franklin, Andrew Landry, ”, “, “ It’s, Fleetwood, Stuart Kerr, Nick Faldo, ” Fleetwood, ” Grillo, Emiliano Grillo, James Baker, Oisin Keniry, Oisin, France’s Antoine Rozner, Spain’s Adrian Otaegui, Brian Harman, Stewart Cink, Wyndham Clark ., Royal Liverpool’s, Matthew Jordan, Jordan Spieth, Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy’s, –, McIlroy, Richard Heathcote, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas ’ Organizations: CNN, Georgia Tech, Liverpool, Amateur, PGA, Tour Communications, European, Royal, Fleetwood, PGA Tour, The 151st, Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Getty, Royal Liverpool, PGA Championship Locations: Merseyside, Hillside, ” Merseyside, HOYLAKE, ENGLAND, Argentina, Hoylake, England, Spanish

Eight years later, before Rory McIlroy’s victory, a forecast for thunderstorms led to a two-tee start for the first time in Open history. And when Shin played there in 2012, poor weather led to the third and fourth rounds being condensed into a single day. “But it’s going to be wet or it’s going to be very wet. Its men’s Open champions later included Bobby Jones and Peter Thomson. The 151st Open, Shin predicted, “will be the beginning of another history.”No.

Persons: Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy’s, Shin, Hoylake, ”, ” Martin Slumbers, Harold Hilton, Bobby Jones, Peter Thomson, “ Organizations: Tiger, Royal Liverpool, 151st, Royal Locations: Royal North Devon, Royal

☆ Rory McIlroy’s ‘shot of the year’ clinches epic late victory at windy Scottish Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Rory McIlroy delivered a sensational finish to triumph at the Scottish Open on Sunday, birdieing the final two holes to snatch victory from home hero Robert MacIntyre. A first ever triumph in Scotland sees the 34-year-old become the first player to win The Scottish Open, The Irish Open and The Open Championship, which returns to Royal Liverpool for the first time since 2014 – the year of McIlroy’s last major triumph – on Thursday. McIlroy celebrates with his mother Rosie after triumph at the 2014 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. “The Scottish Open will be up there with the event I want to play for the rest of my life. “But it’s not to be just now, and plenty of years ahead … Rory McIlroy’s potentially the best in the world, and he showed why today.

Persons: Rory McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre, “, –, McIlroy, Jared C, Tilton, MacIntyre, Scot, McIlroy lasered, Jon Rahm, ” McIlroy, Rosie, Andrew Yates, Wyndham Clark, ” McIroy, “ I’ve, Octavio Passos, ” MacIntyre, … Rory McIlroy’s, ” Organizations: CNN, Scottish, Renaissance, Irish, Royal Liverpool, Getty, PGA Locations: Scotland, Royal Liverpool, Merseyside, AFP

☆ Rory McIlroy says he’d rather retire ‘if LIV Golf was the last place on Earth to play golf’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Rory McIlroy said on Thursday that he would rather retire than compete on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour even if it “was the last place on Earth to play golf.”Four-time major winner McIlroy has been a vocal opponent of the breakaway golf tour ever since it came into existence a few years ago, threatening the very foundations of the sport. “If LIV Golf was the last place to play golf on Earth, I would retire. “I’d play the majors, but I’d be pretty comfortable.”CNN has reached out to LIV Golf and the PGA Tour to offer them the right of reply. Earlier this week, witnesses – including PGA Tour Chief Operating Officer Ron Price and Jimmy Dunne, a company board member who helped broker the deal – faced scrutiny from committee members over the deal. “As long as I get to play golf, I’m happy.

Persons: Rory McIlroy, LIV, “, McIlroy, LIV Golf, ”, Tiger Woods, –, Ron Price, Jimmy Dunne, Richard Blumenthal, Price, Dunne, Sen, ” Dunne, ” McIlroy, Gregory Shamus, Randall Stephenson, ” Stephenson, Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman, Khashoggi, Salman, ’ ’ McIlroy, I’ve, there’s Organizations: CNN, LIV, PGA, Scottish, Saudi Public Investment Fund, LIV Golf, US, Homeland Security, Governmental Affairs, Connecticut Democrat, RBC Canadian Locations: Saudi, American, Connecticut, Saudi Arabia

☆ The Match 2023: Learning on YouTube, trash talk and charity: it’s NBA vs. NFL this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“I try not to overcomplicate things, especially this close to The Match, you just want to play your game,” Thompson explained to reporters. “Last night I watched Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy’s tutorial on the scoring shots, so I learned some things. Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesAnd like previous editions of The Match, there has been plenty of trash talking between the two parties already. “Getting real inspired by what I see on the TV, Pat,” a laughing Curry says while swinging a golf club. Carmen Mandato/Getty Images“As far as the pace of play, it’s perfect for Travis because that’s how, that’s how he usually plays anyways.

Persons: Klay Thompson, Steph Curry –, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, “, ” Thompson, I’ve, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy’s, teeing, Ernie Johnson, of Famer Charles Barkley, Trevor Immelman, Draymond Green, Von Miller, Mahomes, Curry, Michael Reaves, ”, “ It’s, Kelce, Steph, Klay, Pat, that’s, “ We’ve, we’ve, I’m, Wynn, “ I’m, ” Mahomes, he’s, Carmen Mandato, Travis Organizations: CNN, Golden State Warriors, Kansas City Chiefs, NFL, Wynn Golf Club, of Famer, Golden Bear, Club, YouTube, Chiefs, Super, “, Raiders, Pro, NBA, Coors, TNT, Warner Bros, HBO, TBS Locations: Las Vegas, Vegas, United States

☆ Wyndham Clark wins 2023 US Open, clinching American’s first career major
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Wyndham Clark won the 2023 US Open to claim his first major title on Sunday, edging Rory McIlroy in a nail-biting finale at Los Angeles Country Club. Ross Kinnaird/Getty ImagesFor McIlroy, US Open champion in 2011, a nine year wait for a fifth major title continues. The 34-year-old has now finished inside the top-five at 10 major tournaments since winning The Open and PGA Championship in 2014. Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesUnfortunately for Clark however, up ahead McIlroy was showing the sort of final round composure befitting of his glittering résumé. Heading into the week, McIlroy had twice as many major titles as Clark had made major cuts – yet the world No.

Persons: CNN — Wyndham Clark, Rory McIlroy, Clark, Lise Clark, Clark teared, “, ”, “ I’ve, There’s, Ross Kinnaird, McIlroy, ” McIlroy, Rickie Fowler, –, Clark –, Xander Schauffele, Sean M, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Smith, Fowler, Min Woo Lee, Tommy Fleetwood, Matt Fitzpatrick, Brooks Koepka, Richard Heathcote, Ezra Shaw, birdieing, Viktor Hovland’s, Harry, McIlroy bogeyed, Clark steadied, caddie John Ellis Organizations: CNN, Los Angeles Country Club, PGA Tour, Northern, PGA, Fleetwood, Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Getty Locations: Denver, American

☆ US Open: Records tumble and hole-in-ones fall as Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele lead breathless first round
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Two record-breakers, a pair of hole-in-ones, and a sea of low scores: Los Angeles Country Club served up a Hollywood blockbuster with a thrilling first round at the US Open on Thursday. The pair of hole-in-one’s highlighted a day of widespread low scoring, as birdies rained down around the North Course. Thursday’s 71.34 scoring average marked the lowest ever recorded in a first round at the US Open, beating the previous low of 72.29 at the 1993 tournament. Fowler’s 10 birdies marked the most ever recorded in a US Open round. “I joked a bit earlier, I think the USGA will be a bit frustrated that the number was that low today,” Scheffler told reporters.

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☆ Serena and Venus Williams invest in golf with franchise ownership in Tiger Woods' new competition
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Now, Serena and Venus Williams are turning their talents to golf. A head-spinning week of revelations in the golf world continued Thursday as the Williams sisters’ Los Angeles Golf Club (LAGC) were announced as the first franchise of the TGL – Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s tech-infused stadium golf competition set to launch in January 2024. LAGC is the first of six franchises set to compete in the TGL, a competition formed in partnership with the PGA Tour. TGL/TwitterOn Twitter, Ohanian announced that his and Williams’ daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., would be a co-owner in LAGC. Twelve PGA Tour players have been confirmed to feature, including Woods, McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, and Collin Morikawa.

Persons: Serena, Venus Williams, Williams, Woods, Rory McIlroy’s, Alexis Ohanian, Mike McCarley, Ohanian, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr, “, Amy E, Price, ”, LIV Golf, McIlroy, Mike Ehrmann, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa Organizations: CNN, Angeles Golf, Ohanian, National Women’s Soccer League, Angel City FC, LAGC, PGA Tour, Twitter, Olympia, TMRW Sports Locations: Ohanian, Angeles, LAGC, Saudi, Palm Beach , Florida

☆ Opinion | Put ‘Succession’ in the TV Pantheon
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Then, too, the show’s judgment on elites can be read in two distinct ways, one more left-wing and one more right-wing. This consciousness came with varying levels of self-delusion, and none of these shows fully forgave their protagonists in the end. But the possibility of redemption existed for them at least notionally, and I think that’s why “Succession” seems like such an outlier among its peers. I think this critique is partially fair, and that, along with the strengths I described above, there is a savage superficiality to some of the characterizations in “Succession” that’s beneath the psychological level achieved on other famous TV dramas. When it comes to the desire for redemption and honesty and love, though, I’m not sure “Succession” is as barren as Phillips seems to suggest.

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☆ Opinion: The ultimate ‘Succession’ lesson
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. Walt Handlesman/Tribune Content AgencyIn a much more ominous vein, the theme of survival dominates the HBO show “Succession,” which is coming to an end Sunday. She’s so caught up in beating her brothers at the succession game that she can’t see this baby as anything but an obstacle.”“Ultimately, this storyline is a perfect encapsulation of the larger tragedy that is ‘Succession,’” Bodenheimer added. The contest for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination heated up last week with the official entry of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former President Donald Trump’s strongest challenger in the polls.

☆ Do You Have What It Takes to Be Kendall Roy’s Assistant?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Callie Holtermann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Nagel said she had enjoyed learning to solve the problems of the ultrarich. The dog spent a week at sea being doted on by Ms. Nagel and the ship’s crew while the family ignored him. A week later, Ms. Nagel said, she found a family ashore to adopt the Pomeranian. “She starts to want to speak her mind a little more this season, but she’s still an assistant,” Ms. Canfield said in an interview at the Season 4 premiere. Other onscreen assistants expose viewers to workplace sexism (Julia Garner in “The Assistant”) and racism (Rex Lee in “Entourage”).

☆ Modi inaugurates controversial new parliament building in India
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

A cyclist rides past the construction site for the new Parliament building in January 2021. Controversial projectThe new triangular parliament building is part of a major overhaul of New Delhi’s colonial-era administrative center dubbed the Central Vista Redevelopment Project. The rush was widely thought to have resulted from hopes of opening the parliament building by the 75th anniversary of Indian independence in August 2022. Capacity is also limited — a concern magnified by growing calls to increase the number of MPs sitting in India’s parliament. A photo of the parliament's interior taken during a visit to the building by Modi earlier this year.

☆ On ‘Succession,’ Striving Is The Worst Insult of All - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The Roy children’s individual ambitions are sometimes risible, but we’re never asked to question why they would be ambitious in the first place. What’s not acceptable, within the moral logic of the show, is the ambition of those characters who were not born into money and power but want to achieve them. In an episode midway through the final season, Tom admits to Shiv that he cares about these things. I do.” He tells her, “If you think that’s shallow, why don’t you throw out all of your stuff for love? “You’re a hick,” she says, “your whole family is striving and parochial.” Striving — that’s the biggest insult of them all.

☆ Roman and Kendall Roy’s ‘Succession’ Pads Hit the Market — for Real
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Ronda Kaysen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If Roman Roy were a real person, he wouldn’t live on the Upper West Side. So said a real-life real estate broker recently. Fans of the show were there with Roman (played by Kieran Culkin) during a recent episode when he solemnly brushed his teeth the morning after a devastating plot twist. Daniella G. Schlisser, the real-life associate broker with Brown Harris Stevens and a listing agent for the apartment, said that if Roman were a real person, she would redirect him south, probably to TriBeCa, where he might receiver a warmer welcome. Given his winning personality, she’d advise him: “No one’s going to talk to you here — you won’t make any friends” in the family-oriented Upper West Side.

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