Jinn of Quality and Risk

Uzbekistan's Iroda Tulyaganova demonstrates a fairly bizarre forehand, against Spain's Arantxa Sanchez. Not sure this has been the actual reason for prominently featuring this image in news pages. 

My girlfriend invited me to see this play at the Shakespeare Globe, London. The play, actors, setting, and weather (remember, this is London) were all very pleasant. Remember that old sweetheart called "Twelfth Night"? No, not the overdecorated, overeager stage productions that have been going under that name recently, all dressed up in the latest fashions and academic theories. What I'm talking about is the simple and complicated comedy that was first performed four centuries ago and remains one of the most engaging romances ever written. [NYT] 

Born on August 29, 370 years ago, John Locke gave a voice to the Enlightenment belief in the middle class and its right to freedom of conscience and property. In 1690 he published his "Two Treatises on Civil Government" and rightly became known as the leading philosopher of freedom. The American Declaration of Independence, penned by Thomas Jefferson, echoes Locke's arguments for reason and freedom. 

Gone, a relic of the past, dead as a doornail, breathless, buried. According to police reports, one-way publishing was killed off by a technology -- weblogs -- [that] reshaped journalism forever. [Ray Ozzie]