Many of the keepsakes we used to hold in our hands now exist as data on digital devices. What happens when the data disappears?

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Riff: The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg

During a recent University of the District of Columbia basketball practice, Nigel Munson spotted a teammate open underneath the basket and whipped him the ball. Unfortunately, the player was unprepared for Munson’s pass and the ball glided through his hands and out of bounds. Read full article > >

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Nigel Munson finds home with UDC basketball after a long journey

A game after being limited to a season-low point total, Hollis Thompson found himself with the ball in his hands and the game on the line Wednesday. And, without a second thought, the junior swingman delivered for the Georgetown men’s basketball team. Thompson scored eight of his 16 points in the final 3 minutes 21 seconds, including a three-pointer with 24 seconds remaining. Read full article > >

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Georgetown vs. Marquette: Hoyas erase 17-point deficit to topple Golden Eagles, 73-70

SEATTLE — The release of Nike’s new Air Jordan basketball shoes caused a frenzy at stores across the nation Friday as scuffles broke out and police were brought in to stamp out unrest that nearly turned into riots in some places. Shoppers stood in long lines through the night to get their hands on a retro version of one of the most popular models of Air Jordans ever made. The fights were reminiscent of violence that broke out in the early 1990s on streets across America as the shoes became popular targets for thieves. Read full article > >

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New Air Jordans cause shopping frenzy; customers pepper-sprayed in Wash., arrested in Ga.

The bookend plays of the Washington Redskins’ most recent loss to the New England Patriots also could bracket their season. In the first quarter, quarterback Rex Grossman dropped back to pass in his own end zone, was drilled by New England defensive end Andre Carter, dropped the football and yielded a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, trailing by just seven points, Grossman looked for veteran wide receiver Santana Moss inside the Patriots 5-yard line. The ball hit Moss in the hands, popped out the other side, and was intercepted. Read full article > >

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Redskins have longest active turnover streak in NFL

America’s departure from Iraq leaves a shattered country marred by sectarian conflict and political dysfunction, whose future, for better or worse, is in the hands of its people.

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End for U.S. Begins Period of Uncertainty for Iraqis

There is something a bit hokey and ridiculous about the way Holland Taylor is leaning between the Wild West-style swinging doors inside Hill Country barbecue, posing for a photo that seems to imply she’s about to barge through that wooden gate and demand in a drawl that everybody put their hands where she can see them. Read full article > >

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In one-woman show, Holland Taylor pays tribute to Ann Richards

Currencies are like ghosts — you can never quite get your hands around them, yet they can haunt an economy’s growth rate or an investor’s portfolio forevermore. Perhaps that is because the value of a dollar or a euro is at best a guesstimable number — dependent on the present moment’s madness of crowds and popular opinion, or the next minute’s rationality of longer-term fundamentals. Relative annual price swings of 10 to 20 percent vs. alternative choices are commonplace. And this appears to be the case for the euro when compared with the dollar, pound, yen and perhaps even the upstart and tightly controlled Chinese yuan. It could go up or down — anywhere, really — based upon this week’s policy decisions involving the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, the G-5 central banks and, of course, the markets’ herd-like interpretation of them . Read full article > >

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The euro may fall — and take the U.S. recovery with it

In “The Descendants,” George Clooney plays the scion of an old Hawaii family with many troubles on his hands.

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Movie Review | ‘The Descendants’: ‘Descendants,’ With George Clooney – Review

It was unclear if the university would allow Joe Paterno to coach till the end of the season. His immediate future was in the hands of Penn State’s Board of Trustees.

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Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Is Fired

Three children have died in recent years, allegedly at the hands of parents who had a child-rearing book by the preacher Michael Pearl, who advocates physical punishment.

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Deaths Put Focus on Pastor’s Advocacy of Spanking

After what allegedly happened to “Victim 2,” a boy estimated to be 10 years old, in the same room where Penn State football players shower, it’s near impossible to keep reading the grand jury’s report . By “Victim 8,” numbness turns to anger. You want to scream at the traumatized graduate assistant coach in 2002 and janitor in 2000 who saw and didn’t stop it, according to the report released by the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office. You want to grab hold of and shake those who reported the crime only to their superiors, washed their hands of responsibility and then let it go, treating a kid’s life as if it were a football that slipped through their hands. Read full article > >

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If Jerry Sandusky allegations are true, Penn State and Joe Paterno deserve part of the blame

In 1986, Bob Wieland, who lost his legs in Vietnam, completed the race in about 98 hours on his hands.

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Bob Wieland’s Athletic Accomplishments Continue to Inspire

At the hands of his victims.

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‘World’ Hacker Claims ‘Persecution’

Here in the heartland, Vladimir Putin’s revelation that he would take the presidency back from Dmitry Medvedev, essentially plucking the March election out of the hands of voters and installing himself as ruler for years to come, should have left the opposition more impotent than ever. Instead, its members have picked themselves up and gone into quiet rebellion, doing their best to pretend that imperious Moscow doesn’t exist. Read full article > >

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Russia girds for next Putin presidency as some look past it