The James Logan Courier

By Sanhita SinhaRoy (MCT)

Equality comes to tennis.

With college basketball brackets on many minds, one major sports announcement was nearly lost: French Open officials recently announced they would award equal prize money to men and women throughout the tennis tournament.

The news is welcome and long overdue. It brings the French Open in line with the other Grand Slams, including Wimbledon, which announced in February it would equalize pay. The U.S. Open introduced it three decades ago and the Australian Open a few years back.

By Bill Gibron
PopMatters.com(MCT)

He has the magic touch. Either that, or Hollywood is so bereft of visionaries that his ideas must be copied – in some cases, literally – in order for motion picture innovation to be captured. Of course, it's Frank Miller that everyone is talking about – again. The celebrated comic book artist first came to the attention of film fans when his "Dark Knight" take on Batman was reference over and over again as the inspiration for Tim Burton's reboot of the famed superhero. Then Robert Rodriguez did the illustrator one better, actually giving him a co-director credit on his all-CGI take on the "Sin City" series. It was that unique post-modern noir, a combination of real live actors and carefully crafted digital backdrops that argued for Miller's arrival as a major influence in the world of cinema.

By Frances Robles
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Seven months ago, Fidel Castro was considered all but dead. These days, he's reported to be taking long walks with old friends and calling other presidents to discuss global warming.

To hear National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon tell it, Castro is in fact preparing for a comeback. Last week Alarcon said to foreign correspondents in Havana that Castro would be in "great shape" to run for president of the Council of State, his official title.

"I'd nominate him," Alarcon said after a National Assembly session.

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Mary Flannery O'Connor (b. March 25, 1925, Savannah, Georgia – d. August 3, 1964, Baldwin County, Georgia) was an American author.

Flannery O'Connor was the only child of Edward F. O'Connor and Regina Cline O’Connor. Her father was diagnosed with lupus in 1937; he died on February 1, 1941. The disease was hereditary in the O'Connor family. Flannery was devastated, and almost never spoke of him in later years.

Read Everything That Rises Must Converge at Flannery, A Review by David Abrams, free from ToxicUniverse.com.