We Trust the Staff: When a Church Committee Makes an Unexpected Discovery

[ad_1] SEARCHby Michelle Huneven I am not into any organized religion, but if there is a church for me, the progressive Arroyo Unitarian Universalist Community Church (referred to as “Awk” by its members) as described in Michelle Huneven’s fifth novel “The Search”. it can be. There is very little God here—just (mostly) respectful exchanges of …

Gas Prices Force Biden into An Unexpected Embrace of Fossil Fuels

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Biden took office by pledging to tackle the planet’s climate crisis. But partly because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, rising gas prices prompted the environmentalist president to do the unlikely thing: embrace oil. On Tuesday, Mr. Biden traveled to Iowa, where he announced that the Environmental Protection Agency would temporarily lift …

50 Years Ago, James Brown Takes an Unexpected Scene: Rikers Island

[ad_1] A stage and folding chairs for the audience were set up in front of the hall. Caldwood watched Brown rehearse before the concert. “He acted like he was on Broadway or elsewhere,” said Caldwood when Brown criticized something a band member had done wrong. “They didn’t say anything, they just did whatever he said.” …

A Fascinating Page Turner From An Unexpected Topic: Federal

[ad_1] There’s something undeniably gratifying in a gracefully crafted morality tale—and business reporter Christopher Leonard has written a good one, even if you suspect that its full form isn’t quite as smooth as it sounds. “Lords of Easy Money” is a fascinating and repulsive story about the Federal Reserve – yes, you read that right. …

An Unexpected Match of a Book: Fernando Pessoa and Airplane Crashes

[ad_1] pilot impostorby James Hannaham In this fun and diverse collection, novelist James Hannaham (“Delicious Food,” “God Says No”) uses an unlikely pairing of contemporary life, such as the works of Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa and the history of plane crashes. The jacket copy tells us the situation: In December 2016, on a flight from …

The UK Prepared for a Business Crisis, But Encountered an Unexpected Situation

[ad_1] like this government doubles army of so-called study coacheshelping people on unemployment benefits find jobs. He hired 13,500 more coaches, a larger force than ranked after the Great Recession of 2008. Finally, The fallout was much less severe. After the British Treasury extended the leave programme, unemployment reached 5.2 percent in December and has …

Charlie Watts, The Unexpected Spirit of the Rolling Stones

[ad_1] On a superficial level, Charlie Watts had always seemed like the weirdest Rolling Stone, someone who never quite fit in as a member of rock’s most Dionysian force. Watts, the band’s drummer since 1963, had a quiet, even sullen, public personality, while his bandmates developed an attitude of immoral indifference. He avoided the limelight, …