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Carlos Hyde leaves the field to get evaluated for a concussion during a Week 2 loss in Pittsburgh last year.

Carlos Hyde leaves the field to get evaluated for a concussion during a Week 2 loss in Pittsburgh last year.

2. Running backs: With his running style, how durable is Carlos Hyde going to be? There are plenty of big, violent runners that could be paired with Hyde including Tampa Bay’s Doug Martin (223 pounds) Lamar Miller (225), Chris Ivory (222) and former Oregon Duck LeGarrette Blount (250)

2. Running backs: With his running style, how durable is Carlos Hyde going to be? There are plenty of big, violent runners that could be paired with Hyde including Tampa Bay’s Doug Martin (223 pounds) Lamar

San Francisco 49ers' Carlos Hyde leaps over Baltimore Ravens' Courtney Upshaw in 1st quarter Niners' 25-20 win during NFL game at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, October 18, 2015.

San Francisco 49ers' Carlos Hyde leaps over Baltimore Ravens' Courtney Upshaw in 1st quarter Niners' 25-20 win during NFL game at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, October 18, 2015.

SANTA CLARA, CA - SEPTEMBER 14: Carlos Hyde #28 of the San Francisco 49ers rushes with the ball against the Minnesota Vikings during their NFL game at Levi's Stadium on September 14, 2015 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

SANTA CLARA, CA - SEPTEMBER 14: Carlos Hyde #28 of the San Francisco 49ers rushes with the ball against the Minnesota Vikings during their NFL game at Levi's Stadium on September 14, 2015 in Santa Clara,

Colin Kaepernick (7) hands off to Carlos Hyde (28) in the first half of the 49ers game against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, October 22, 2015.

Colin Kaepernick (7) hands off to Carlos Hyde (28) in the first half of the 49ers game against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, October 22, 2015.

San Francisco 49ers running back Carlos Hyde (28) is tackled by Seattle Seahawks defensive end David King, left, and defensive tackle Ahtyba Rubin during the second half of an NFL football game in Santa Clara, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco 49ers running back Carlos Hyde (28) is tackled by Seattle Seahawks defensive end David King, left, and defensive tackle Ahtyba Rubin during the second half of an NFL football game in Santa Clara,

Carlos Hyde (28) looks up at the scoreboard in the final seconds of the second half of the 49ers game against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, October 22, 2015.

Carlos Hyde (28) looks up at the scoreboard in the final seconds of the second half of the 49ers game against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, October 22, 2015.

San Francisco 49ers running back Carlos Hyde (28) is tackled by Seattle Seahawks defensive end David King, left, and defensive tackle Ahtyba Rubin during the second half of an NFL football game in Santa Clara, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco 49ers running back Carlos Hyde (28) is tackled by Seattle Seahawks defensive end David King, left, and defensive tackle Ahtyba Rubin during the second half of an NFL football game in Santa Clara,

Can Carlos Hyde handle what Chip Kelly wants?

Chip Kelly wants a workhorse in his run-heavy offense.

** In Kelly’s three seasons as Oregon’s head coach, from 2010-12, his top running back never averaged fewer than 20 carries a game or ranked lower than fourth in the Pac-12 in average rushing attempts

** In Kelly’s first two seasons as an NFL head coach, from 2013-14, Philadelphia’s LeSean McCoy led the NFL in rushing attempts (626) and became one of three running backs since 2010 to have consecutive 300-carry seasons.

** After trading McCoy to the Bills in 2015, Kelly signed DeMarco Murray, who was coming off a season in which he had the seventh-most carries (392) in NFL history.

Now, with the 49ers, Kelly has Carlos Hyde, who wowed Kelly during his pro-day workout at Ohio State in 2013.

“I was really, really impressed with him there,” Kelly said. “… Big, physical back that’s a combination of size and speed. He should be fun to work with.”

Kelly obviously has a clear-cut starter in Hyde, but does he have a workhorse?

Hyde, 6-0 and 235 pounds, has the build of a 300-carry back, but he doesn’t have the track record: He’s missed 11 games due to injury in his first two NFL seasons, which is one fewer than his predecessor, Frank Gore, has missed in his 12-year career.

In fairness, it could be just a small sample size. Hyde, after all, missed just two games due to injury while averaging 18.7 carries a game in his final two seasons at Ohio State.

However, Hyde’s deliver-the-blow running style makes it unlikely he’ll start 16 games, which McCoy did in each of two seasons with Kelly. Last year, Hyde acknowledged his style invited more punishment and wasn’t going to change before he missed the final nine games with a stress fracture in his left foot that required surgery.

“That’s just the way I play,” Hyde said. “Instead of me getting hit, I like to deliver the hit. Pretty sure some of those hits I don’t need to take, but that’s just the nature of the game.”

Kelly and general manager Trent Baalke have made it clear the 49ers will run plenty in 2016 after the Eagles ranked fourth in rushing yards (6,301), fifth in yards per attempt (4.5) and seventh in carries (1,417) in Kelly’s three seasons.

What remains unclear: Can Hyde be the workhorse Kelly wants?

Here’s a look at the workload of Kelly’s top running back in his three seasons as a head coach with the Eagles (2013-15) and at Oregon (2010-12):

DeMarco Murray: 193 carries in 15 games (12.9 per game)

Note: Murray averaged 3.6 yards a carry and began ceding playing time to backups Ryan Mathews (107 carries) and Darren Sproles (83).

LeSean McCoy: 312 carries in 16 games (19.5 per game)

Note: Ranked second in the NFL in attempts.

LeSean McCoy: 314 carries in 16 games (19.6 per game)

Note: Led the NFL in attempts.

Kenjon Barner: 278 carries in 13 games (21.4 per game)

Note: Ranked fourth in the Pac-12 in average carries per game.

LaMichael James: 247 carries in 12 games (20.6 per game)

Note: Ranked third in the Pac-12 in average carries per game.

LaMichael James: 294 carries in 12 games (24.5 per game)

Note: Led the Pac-12 in average carries per game.

Summary: Can Carlos Hyde handle what Chip Kelly wants?  Chip Kelly wants a workhorse in his run-heavy offense.  ** In Kelly’s three seasons as Oregon’s head coach, from 2010-12, his top running back never averaged fewer than 20 carries a game or ranked lower than fourth in the Pac-12 in average rushing attempts  ** In Kelly’s first two seasons as an NFL head coach, from 2013-14, Philadelphia’s LeSean McCoy led the NFL in rushing attempts (626) and became one of three running backs since 2010 to have consecutive 300-carry seasons.  ** After trading McCoy to the Bills in 2015, Kelly signed DeMarco Murray, who was coming off a season in which he had the seventh-most carries (392) in NFL history.  Kelly obviously has a clear-cut starter in Hyde, but does he have a workhorse?  Hyde, 6-0 and 235 pounds, has the build of a 300-carry back, but he doesn’t have the track record:  In fairness, it could be just a small sample size.  Hyde, after all, missed just two games due to injury while averaging 18.7 carries a game in his final two seasons at Ohio State.  [...] Hyde’s deliver-the-blow running style makes it unlikely he’ll start 16 games, which McCoy did in each of two seasons with Kelly.  Last year, Hyde acknowledged his style invited more punishment and wasn’t going to change before he missed the final nine games with a stress fracture in his left foot that required surgery.  Pretty sure some of those hits I don’t need to take, but that’s just the nature of the game.  Kelly and general manager Trent Baalke have made it clear the 49ers will run plenty in 2016 after the Eagles ranked fourth in rushing yards (6,301), fifth in yards per attempt (4.5) and seventh in carries (1,417) in Kelly’s three seasons.  Here’s a look at the workload of Kelly’s top running back in his three seasons as a head coach with the Eagles (2013-15) and at Oregon (2010-12):  Murray averaged 3.6 yards a carry and began ceding playing time to backups Ryan Mathews (107 carries) and Darren Sproles (83).  Ranked second in the NFL in attempts.


Spanish historians say they have discovered what Monty Python could not — the Holy Grail, the legendary cup Jesus supposedly drank from at the Last Supper.

The Spaniards — Margarita Torres and José Ortega del Río — believe the 2,000-year-old vessel is in a church in León in northern Spain.

The pair spent three years studying the history of the chalice and last week published a book, “The Kings of the Grail,” making their case.

The onyx chalice, they explained, was concealed within another antique vessel known as the Chalice of Doña Urruca, which is located in León’s basilica of Saint Isidore.

The historians said it has been there since the 11th century.

“This is a very important discovery because it helps solve a big puzzle,” Torres told The Irish Times. “We believe this could be the start of a wonderful stage of research.”

She said the duo had been researching the history of some Islamic remains in the Saint Isidore basilica. But their discovery of two medieval Egyptian documents that mentioned the chalice of Christ caused them to change direction, the paper reported.

Those parchments told a tale of how Muslims took the sacred cup from the Christian community in Jerusalem to Cairo.

It was then given to an emir on Spain’s Mediterranean coast in return for help he gave to Egyptians who were suffering a famine.

The historians’ research has been backed up by scientific dating, which estimates that the cup in question was made between 200 BC and 100 AD.

The scientists admit the first 400 years of the cup’s history remain a mystery, and they can’t prove the chalice ever actually touched Christ’s lips.

But they insist there is no doubt that this is the cup that early Christians revered as the chalice used at the Last Supper.

“The only chalice that could be considered the chalice of Christ is that which made the journey to Cairo and then from Cairo to León — and that is this chalice,” said Torres, who teaches medieval history at the University of León.

Countless scientists and historians have pursued the Holy Grail, an effort chronicled in Arthurian legend, made into pulp adventure with “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” and satirized by the British comedy troupe Monty Python in 1975’s “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”

Summary: Spanish historians say they have discovered what Monty Python could not — the Holy Grail, the legendary cup Jesus supposedly drank from at the Last Supper. The Spaniards — Margarita Torres and José…


TEN years ago, David Brooks, a computer programmer in Toronto, came across a passing reference to the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh in one of Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' novels. In the book, which takes place in the future, one of the few artifacts of civilization to survive global destruction is the van Gogh painting ''Thatched Cottages at Cordeville.''

Intrigued by the reference, Mr. Brooks made a point of reading up on van Gogh and seeing the painting on a visit to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. ''That was the clincher,'' he said.

Van Gogh's art, the letters he sent and, of course, the narrative of a misunderstood artist who sold only one painting during his lifetime and committed suicide, all conspired to convert Mr. Brooks, 36, from an interested observer into a passionate Van Gogh autodidact.

Five years ago, Mr. Brooks took his preoccupation with van Gogh to the Web. He is the creator of the comprehensive and carefully constructed Vincent van Gogh Gallery (www.vangoghgallery.com). Mr. Brooks painstakingly scanned and digitally mounted reproductions of every one of van Gogh's remaining 2,200 paintings, sketches, watercolors and drawings, often searching through obscure auction catalogues to find the best possible images. He also made a point to include texts of all of the artist's 864 surviving letters, which, Mr. Brooks said, ''stand on their own as works of art.''

Mr. Brooks's site has enjoyed some critical and popular success. It draws 35,000 visitors a week, and Mr. Brooks developed collegial ties with van Gogh experts and scholars around the globe. Heidi Vandamme, a representative of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, wrote in an e-mail message that ''we at the museum have always greatly admired and valued the contribution David Brooks has made.''

Last year, Mr. Brooks left his job at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to devote himself to the site full time. An Internet-based poster shop in Boston agreed to sponsor the site, and for the first time Mr. Brooks began earning a small amount of income from banner ads. He also entered into an agreement with a Dutch-based company named On-Site to publish his database as a CD-ROM. It looked like his dream of making a living as a van Gogh researcher was about to come true.

That was until an e-mail message arrived last December, from a friend at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. ''She said, 'I found this Web site, and I think the person is using a lot of your material, you'd better have a look,' '' Mr. Brooks recalled.

Mr. Brooks said he was flabbergasted to discover that all the art images and all the letters appeared to have been copied from his site and reposted on About Van Gogh Art (www.about-van-gogh-art.com), a commercial site that sells everything from van Gogh lunch boxes to reproductions painted in China. Mr. Brooks recognized much of the digital work as his own.

''I probably have about 15 images that you simply can't find anywhere in color,'' he said, ''and I found them on this guy's Web site, the same size, pixel for pixel.''

To Mr. Brooks, this was the digital-age equivalent of an art heist. But what he discovered is that copying Web sites is not only easily accomplished, it can also be legal.

The images he collected and posted had entered the public domain 70 years (50 years in Canada) after van Gogh's death in 1890. Mr. Brooks did receive written permission from his print sources before scanning the images onto his own site, but under current copyright laws, the images are fair game for anyone to reproduce.

Mr. Brooks said it took five years for him to build his site, but ''the man who stole my site was able to do it in a matter of two hours.''

The battle of the van Gogh Web sites highlights a type of dispute that is increasingly common in the age of digital reproduction. David J. Powsner, an intellectual property lawyer with the Boston firm of Nutter, McClennen & Fish, said that although standard copyright law pertains to Web site content just as it would to any other medium, there's a widespread assumption that ''you can simply copy things off the Web.''

After discovering About Van Gogh Art, Mr. Brooks called the site's owner to complain. The owner turned out to be Ernst Coors, a tennis instructor turned entrepreneur in Amsterdam, who hopes that van Gogh will be just the first of a roster of Dutch artists featured on his site. According to Mr. Brooks, their conversations began pleasantly enough, with Mr. Coors reporting that he had hired four British university students to build the site and promising to look into how they found their images. But Mr. Brooks says that as he pressed Mr. Coors further, the conversations turned increasingly nasty. He says Mr. Coors asserted that he had some ''tricks'' up his sleeve and that if Mr. Brooks continued to press the issue, he could shut down Mr. Brooks's site.

Mr. Coors, reached by telephone from Amsterdam, disputed Mr. Brooks's version of the conversations. ''I never said anything like that,'' Mr. Coors said. ''I was open all the time to work with him but all he wanted to do was shut down the site.''

Summary: TEN years ago, David Brooks, a computer programmer in Toronto, came across a passing reference to the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh in one of Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' novels. In the book, which takes place in the future, one of the few artifacts of civilization to survive global destruction is the van Gogh painting ''Thatched Cottages at Cordeville.''     Intrigued by the reference, Mr. Brooks made a point of reading up on van Gogh and seeing the painting on a visit to the MusÃ©e d'Orsay in Paris. ''That was the clincher,'' he said.


ALBANY, March 22  A candidate for governor compared upstate New York to Appalachia. The sitting governor called that an insult. Lost in the fracas was a geographical fact: In some places, upstate New York actually is Appalachia.

Sure, the 14 counties along the Southern Tier that make up New York's portion represent only a fraction of the vast swath of land the federal government calls the Appalachian region. And some might even call the designation a technicality, since the heart of Appalachia is hundreds of miles away.

Being part of Appalachia comes with a few benefits. Last year, New York received about $2.5 million from the Appalachian Regional Commission, a federal-state partnership created in 1965 to aid the region's lagging economy.

And last week, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton received an award from the Development District Association of Appalachia, which applauded her advocacy for those in the Appalachian region of New York.

After Attorney General Eliot Spitzer stood by his comparison of the two regions' economies on Tuesday, Gov. George E. Pataki countered by saying, "Appalachia doesn't have Empire Zones," referring to one of New York's economic development programs.

But the governor was mistaken. There are 12 Empire Zones in New York's Appalachian counties. Officially, Mr. Pataki is a member of the Appalachian Regional Commission and employs an administrator to coordinate programs like pediatric medical services in rural areas and overhauling waste water projects.

"I'm not sure any recent governor ever has really acknowledged that we're part of Appalachia, even though it's been that way for decades," said William L. Parment, a Democratic assemblyman from Chautauqua County, in the southwest corner of the state. "It's as if they think we'll all be associated with poor people in the mountains, even though that's clearly not what all of Appalachia is."

After thinking for a moment, Mr. Parment offered a political truism: "I suppose it's all about appearances."

Although the analogy created a stir in some political and academic circles, experts do not exactly blame New Yorkers for their lack of awareness.

"There's never going to be a consensus about the real meaning of Appalachia," said Ron Eller, a professor of history and the former director of the Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky. "It's either a cultural place that's defined pejoratively or geopolitics that governors might not want to be a part of. But they are all willing to take the money."

Mr. Spitzer's comments provoked particular outrage from Randy A. Daniels, a Republican candidate for governor. Mr. Daniels, a former New York secretary of state who once served on the Appalachian commission, said his Southern colleagues would scoff at the comparison.

"That's an easy reference, but it's not the reality," Mr. Daniels said. "When the project funds were being divvied up and we got our share, they'd say, 'Only in New York would that be considered poor.' "


WASHINGTON, May 3— President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, are both deeply interested in astrology, the White House spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said today, and two former White House officials said Mrs. Reagan's concerns had influenced the scheduling of important events.

A California astrologer said she had been consulted by the Reagans regarding key White House decisions, but Mr. Reagan said astrology had not influenced policy.

Followers of astrology believe the alignment of stars and planets influences human affairs. Such people consult charts, based on their birth dates, for clues concerning many decisions.

Mr. Fitzwater said Mrs. Reagan is particularly worried about the impact astrological portents can have on her husband's safety. But he declined to say exactly how Mrs. Reagan had used astrological information. And the President, answering a question at a photo-taking session, said, ''No policy or decision in my mind has ever been influenced by astrology.''

The issue was stirred up by reports, first published in Newsweek, that Donald T. Regan, the former White House chief of staff, discusses the role of astrology in his memoirs. The memoirs are being published later this month by Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, and excerpts are scheduled to appear in the May 16 issue of Time Magazine. Inauguration After Midnight

The book will detail the ''kinds of decisions that were made'' under the influence of astrological readings, according to a former Administration official.

Another former official said the President timed his announcement that he would run for re-election after he and his wife consulted astrological signs.

Early in his political career, Mr. Reagan scheduled his inauguration as Governor of California in January 1967 to take place at an odd time, 12:10 A.M. News reports at the time said the decision was made to take advantage of favorable astrological portents.

In answer to a barrage of questions today, Mr. Fitzwater said: ''It's true that Mrs. Reagan has an interest in astrology. She has for some time, particularly following the assassination attempt in March of 1981. She was very concerned for her husband's welfare, and astrology has been part of her concern in terms of his activities.''

The spokesman said the Reagans were distressed at the disclosures concerning their interest in astrology. ''They both feel it's unfortunate and a distraction and hardly relevant to the business of government,'' he said.

Mrs. Reagan's influence on the President's schedule is well known, but generally she has argued that Mr. Reagan's timetables were ''too tight and needed a little more down time,'' according to Joe Canzeri, a former White House aide. Grist for Much Humor

Friends of Mrs. Reagan say she has long had an interest in astrology, but only a few of her aides apparently knew that she had an emotional concern.

Tonight, on the ABC News program ''Nightline,'' Ted Koppel reported that he had learned that before the President was shot on March 30, 1981, an astrologer warned Mrs. Reagan that something bad would happen that day. In an interview after the show, Mr. Koppel said a woman astrologer had told Mrs. Reagan that ''there was going to be an incident on that day.'' Mr. Koppel would not identify the source of his information.

A leading Republican strategist, with close ties to the White House, said the reports would not be damaging to the President. But others said the disclosures revealed a character trait in the President and his wife that had remained largely hidden to the public.

Marcello Truzzi, a professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University, said he has collected evidence over many years documenting the Reagans' interest in astrology.

''I don't think Reagan is a truly avid astrological person, but I think if all things are equal, it has some impact on him,'' said Mr. Truzzi, who also heads an independent institute, the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research.

The disclosures were fodder for humor in Washington today. Mr. Fitzwater opened his briefing by saying, ''I'll take your first question at exactly 12:33 and a half.''

On Capitol Hill, Representative Tony Coelho, the Democratic whip, expressed amazement at Republican objections to a revised trade bill and said, ''Maybe an astrologer is telling them to object today.'' Jim Wright, the Speaker of the House, said: ''It's all right with me. I'm glad he consults somebody.'' Jokes About a Ghost

At his briefing, Mr. Fitzwater acknowledged that the President has a superstitious streak. He often talks in speeches about ''lucky numbers,'' and jokes that the ghost of Abraham Lincoln resides in the White House.

Friends of Mrs. Reagan considered her reading of her daily horoscope a ''fun pastime,'' as one confidant put it.

In his autobiography, President Reagan refers to Carroll Righter, a well known California astrologer, as ''one of our good friends.'' Mr. Righter, who died last week, decorated his office with many pictures of the Reagans, according to Professor Truzzi. [ Obituary, page B12. ] ''You have to remember where and how that part of their life started,'' said an old friend of the Reagans. ''In Hollywood during the 30's and 40's, astrologers were social equals and friends, they weren't weirdos.'' On Hollywood and Washington

Professor Truzzi noted that President Theodore Roosevelt was an astrology buff, and that President Franklin D. Roosevelt quoted horoscopes. Many other world leaders were known for their interest in astrology.

Joyce Jillson, a Los Angeles astrologer, told The Associated Press she had ''spent a lot of time'' at the White House after the assassination attempt. Mr. Fitzwater said the Reagans did not know Ms. Jillson, according to The Washington Post.

Summary: LEAD: President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, are both deeply interested in astrology, the White House spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said today, and two former White House officials said Mrs. Reagan's concerns had influenced the scheduling of important events.


This week’s issue of TIME explores the unexpected ways that personality tests are reshaping the workplace. The esoteric questions–what does understanding why stars twinkle have to do with getting a job?–are but the latest step in a process that’s been going on for a long time. Almost exactly 50 years ago—on June 18, 1965—TIME printed an earlier example of just such a test.

It isn’t hard to see how frustrating it could be to take. After all, how would an employer make use of an applicant’s answer to true/false statements like these? I have not lived the right kind of life. I brood a great deal. Once in a while I laugh at a dirty joke. I feel uneasy indoors. I dislike to take a bath. I like mannish women. I practically never blush. I would like to hunt lions in Africa. And, of course: I never attend a sexy show if I can avoid it.

Many of the concerns expressed by TIME readers over that 1965 story are similar to those faced by potential employees today: Is this an invasion of privacy? Is it accurate? Is it going to help? One TIME reader suggested a more puckish response, which ran in the letters section the following week:

Sir: If I were applying for a job with one of the Government agencies that test your personality via the MMPI quiz, upon receiving the test I would first scratch the tender top of my head, look around to see if someone was watching, then proceed to brood over my strange sex life, occasionally invoking the Devil while thinking bad, often terrible, words to fortify my strange and peculiar thoughts. Trying to be casual, I would then light a match, which is normal procedure before my daily conversation with God. After completing the quiz, I would leave the room (carefully using my new handkerchief on the doorknob) and hurry home to repair the door latch.

Read more about the contemporary use of personality tests in this week’s issue of TIME

Summary: Among the true/false questions: "I never attend a sexy show if I can avoid it"


A few weeks ago Hillary Clinton said that we should “Make America Whole.” She may have said it as an aside, just as a contrast to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again,” but it actually encapsulates an ethos of leadership both deeply rooted in the American political tradition and central to the future of both our country and the corporate world.

While it might have seemed to be just another in a long line of ephemeral political slogans, if applied to its logical conclusion, it could bring about a different model for governing and a way out of the destructive polarization of American politics.

To make “whole” suggests the country is now in pieces and needs to be brought back together. And Clinton is right – we’re not only polarized to the point of frequent paralysis, but the mass movements for Trump and Bernie Sanders can be seen as a reaction to our divided and paralyzed body politic, giving voice to those who are massively frustrated by it. Part of Trump and Sanders’ subtext is that they will put their own country over their political party, even if it may mean excluding those who disagree with them.

By contrast, Clinton’s appeal to wholeness is more reminiscent of the motto on the Great Seal of the United States, adopted in 1782 by the Founding Fathers: E Pluribus Unum, Latin for “Out of many, one.” The motto captures much of our nation’s exceptionalism and greatness – coming together despite our great differences.

Like Clinton’s “make whole” slogan, E Pluribus Unummakes listening, two-way dialogue, thoughtful engagement and collaboration, especially with your political opponents, as its paramount value. Under this leadership ethos, politicians build coalitions and mutually supportive relationships with all stakeholders -ally or competitor, empowered and disempowered. Together, we would enlist in a journey of true greatness and enduring significance.

Almost 250 years after our nation’s founding, this ethos is more relevant than ever. In our hyper-connected, highly transparent and entirely interdependent world, where we all fall and rise together, it’s the only style of leadership that makes sense for the long-term success of any organization – or country.

No doubt this is not entirely what Clinton had in mind when she tossed off “Make America Whole.” Her campaign, after all, is still dominated by the business-as-usual questions of policy that continue to divide America. And her policy-first approach is working for her, at least politically. Her many different policies appeal to different constituencies and when knit together, these constituencies look likely to give her the Democratic nomination and the presidency. But the country’s political polarization, which has lately encouraged paralysis and even extremism, would continue unabated.

So, let’s pause for a moment, given the stakes, and as a thought experiment, consider how a true E Pluribis Unum presidency might look for Clinton (or anyone else.). This approach to leadership – rising above specific policies and focusing instead on creating a transcendent ethos – has enormous power. Instead of focusing just on what policy should prevail, an E Pluribus Unum leader will focus on how a policy choice gets made, guided by a collective ethos of fairness, inclusiveness, and elevated behavior. The nation would be invited and inspired as a whole – Democrat and Republican – toenlist in a collective journey. The role of the leaders is to listen, connect and collaborate, and not to make their voice bigger than anyone else’s.

Quite to the contrary, an E Plutibus Unum leader make themselves small, leaving room for others to do astounding things. Challenged to engage in an ongoing journey of significance and to come together in a depoliticized and transparent manner, the likely outcome is that Democrats and Republicans would rise to the occasion, and resulting solutions to our nation’s intractable problems would not only be better than partisan proposals, they’d also be trusted.

There is historical precedent. When it came time for George Washington to choose his cabinet, and the great question of the day was state’s rights versus a strong central government, Washington chose both states-rights advocate Thomas Jefferson and strong central government advocate Alexander Hamilton. Far more important than any specific policy he chose was Washington’s role as a great unifier for the fragile young nation. He made history with his leadership and it helped keep the country from splintering.

Think how monumental – indeed, truly historic – it would be if Clinton did the same thing, manifesting an almost unprecedented degree of unified government – and an ethos of how, without regard to politics, as a salve to our extreme polarization. That Clintonchose to do it, knowing she could probably win even without it – would make such a decision even more impactful and historic.

She could start by choosing a prominent Republican, like John Kasich, as her vice president, as some have suggested. After all, Kasich reached across the aisle just recently by saying he could also see nominating President Obama’s Supreme Court pick, Judge Merrick Garland.

Clinton could also pledge to name a cabinet that will be composed half of Democrats and half of Republicans. It would be extremely Washingtonian of her, in the very best sense of what Washingtonian used to mean.

Beyond these choices, Clinton would need to make a strong and lasting commitment to an E Pluribus Unum ethos. The aim of this leadership ethos is not to be whole just for the sake of being whole. In a journey of true significance, we are inspired to do great things, both individually in the pursuit of happiness and collectively, to meet the challenges of our nation.

In this thought experiment, instead of just voting for the candidate whose policies we support, the country could vote on the kind of leadership ethos we want and respect most. Unity, as the electorate would come to understand, is far more than symbolic. Once in the grip of elevated behavior, people are far more likely to innovate and come up with good answers to difficult problems. Unity that leads to trust, which in turn leads to hard work, innovation and achievement – inspiring even more unity. It’s a virtuous circle. The power of being truly unified, whether as a country or company, is that it inspires people not just to reach common ground, but higher ground.

Our greatness as a nation lies in when we come together – our diversity is our strength. If we can find a leader who makes it possible for us to do so, then instead of occupying ourselves with infighting, we could continue on the great journey to making a more perfect union.

Dov Seidman is the chief executive of LRN, a company that helps corporations develop values-based cultures and leadership, strengthen their ethics and compliance efforts. He is also the author of HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything.

Summary: It would make history and help unify America.


Harry Styles and Kendall Jenner

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this past week when they were spotted sharing a meal in West Hollywood. But a few days after their eyebrow-raising meal the duo are speaking out separately, and hinting that things are platonic – for now.

"We're friends. He's cool, yeah, he's cool," Kendall told E's

red carpet while standing beside younger sister Kylie.

"It's very hard to have friends of the opposite sex," Kylie chimed in a few moments later.

"You go out with one person, you're automatically dating them," Kendall, 18, added.

Styles, 19, was similarly vague a day earlier when Piers Morgan approached the One Direction band member at their 1D event in Los Angeles and directly asked whether they are dating.

"I mean, we went out for dinner, but no, I guess," he told Morgan,

Morgan persisted, which prompted Styles to say "dunno" when asked if a romance could be in the works.

When someone off-camera yelled for Morgan to move on, Styles pounced on the opportunity to change the subject.

"Yeah, let's move on shall we," the British pop star replied.

Summary: The teens speak out separately after they are spotted sharing a meal in West Hollywood


Keith Richards loves him some fishing -- but the 71-year-old Rolling Stones legend didn't get a bite in Miami on Easter Sunday, because he wasn't fishing ... even though photogs thought he was.

This guy, complete with Keith's trademark bandana and shades -- is apparently well-known in Miami for his strong resemblance to the Stones guitarist, but still managed to fool a few paps.

We're guessing the doppelganger can't touch Keith's pedigree for music ... or drug use.

He'd be a dead-ringer if he tried.

Summary: Keith Richards loves him some fishing -- but the 71-year-old Rolling Stones legend didn't get a bite in Miami on Easter Sunday, because he…


(Reuters) - The wife of former Eagles rock band bassist Randy Meisner was killed on Sunday evening when a gun she was removing from a case went off accidentally at their Los Angeles home after a domestic violence call earlier in the day, city police said on Monday.

Lana Meisner, 63, was pronounced dead at 7:10 p.m. PST on Sunday (0310 GMT on Monday) from a single gunshot wound, according to police and the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.

About 1-1/2 hours earlier, police officers had gone to the Meisner's home in response to a woman's call for help because of a drunken man.

The police wrote up a domestic violence incident report and left the home but later were called back there.

"It was determined that Mrs. Meisner's death was accidental," the police statement said.

Lana Meisner was moving a rifle stored inside a case in a closet. As she lifted the weapon, another item in the case shifted, hitting the trigger of the gun, which fired and killed her, the police statement said.

"Mr. Meisner was cooperative throughout the investigation," the statement said.

Randy Meisner was one of the original members of the Eagles and played bass for the band from 1971-1977. He was the lead singer on the band's hit song "Take It to the Limit."

The musician, who turns 70 this week, was put under court-ordered supervision with a monitor for his finances and for his prescription drug use after he threatened to kill himself and other people during a visit to a hospital last year, according to the New York Daily News.

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Wife of former Eagles bassist Meisner dead from accidental gunshot

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Eagles Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Eagles Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: Photo of EAGLES; Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, Don Felder performing live onstage c.1976 (Photo by Gai Terrell/Redferns)

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - 1st JANUARY: American group Eagles perform live on stage at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1972. Left to right: Bernie Leadon, Glenn Frey and Randy Meisner. (Photo Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)

A portrait of Don Henley of The Eagles during an interview in London in 1973. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)

A portrait of Randy Meisner of The Eagles during an interview in London in 1973. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)

American soft-rock ensemble The Eagles perform on stage before a faux Old West backdrop, 1974. Members of the band are (left to right) bassist Randy Meisner, drummer Don Henley, guitarist Glenn Frey, guitarist Don Felder, and guitarist Bernie Leadon. All members also sang. (Photo by Fotos international/Getty Images)

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Photo of Glenn FREY and Joe WALSH and Don HENLEY and Don FELDER and EAGLES and Randy MEISNER; L-R: Don Felder, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner - posed, studio, group shot - Hotel California era (Photo by RB/Redferns)

Joe Walsh of The Eagles during Joe Walsh of The Eagles Performs at the Bottom Line Club - November 21, 1976 at NYC Bottom Line Club in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Bobby Bank/WireImage)

The Eagles group portrait, on stage, New York, October 1979, L-R unknown, Timothy B Schmit;Glenn Frey;Don Henley;Joe Walsh;Don Felder. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Photo of EAGLES and Don FELDER and Joe WALSH; L-R Don Felder and Joe Walsh performing on stage (Photo by Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)

Don Felder and Joe Walsh of The Eagles performing at the Target Center in Minneapolis February 21, 1995 (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns)

Members of the band Eagles during DNC 2000 Fundraiser NY Concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by KMazur/WireImage)

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Summary: TMZ is reporting that the wife of former Eagles bassist Randy Meisner was found dead of a gunshot wound on Sunday evening in the couple's Los Angeles home.


MY new doctor told me he was sending over a questionnaire before my appointment. The first page turned out to be a snap: marital status, date of birth, education. The next few pages were something else again: During sexual activity are you preoccupied about getting and maintaining an erection? How often do you have sexual intercourse or attempt to have sexual intercourse? Are your erections straight?

Seeing those questions there in black and white gave me pause: What had I let myself in for?

I had called the doctor because I hoped he could help me with a case of creeping impotence. My erections were getting smaller, softer and less reliable. I had seen ads for gadgets that promised to make everything right again and read articles about testosterone patches that supposedly did wonders for one's libido. I had my doubts, but I was determined to stop the creep, and that was how I ended up on the doorstep of Dr. E. Douglas Whitehead, a Manhattan urologist.

He has no lack of potential patients. Some 30 million American men suffer from partial or chronic erectile dysfunction, as the doctors call it, and the majority are older than 65. But only 10 percent of impotent men seek medical help. Many assume nothing can or should be done; older men often accept impotence as an inevitable part of aging, which it is not, and buy into the widespread notion that sexuality in the old is distasteful and unnatural. Doctors tend not to take the problem seriously.

Most older men don't know what to expect if they seek treatment or are afraid of the treatment itself. They are often ashamed even to consider exposing their weakness to strangers.

My generation -- I'm 67 -- was raised to believe that the performance aspect of sex defined our manhood. Failure would be crushing, unthinkable. We were also told that 90 percent of impotence was psychological.

Somehow, the thought that the problem could be psychological made it more of a personal failure, something you should be able to control. Today, the experts say that the vast majority of impotence in men of any age is organic in nature -- a problem with blood vessels or the nervous system. When I decided to seek treatment, I prayed for a physical diagnosis. It would be like having arthritis or a toothache -- it would mean I was not to blame.

In men over 65, physical causes are the chief culprit 90 percent of the time. And once the particular physical problem is determined, there are effective treatments available -- from vacuum pump devices to self-administered medications. Several more treatments, including pills to be taken shortly before sex, are on the way.

The pills, which are still experimental, are likely to change the whole treatment of impotence. They include one that blocks the action of an enzyme that prevents erections. Another pill combats the restriction of blood vessels caused by adrenaline, and yet another, which is placed under the tongue, stimulates the center in the brain that signals for an erection.

But before I could be treated, there had to be a diagnosis. Impotence has a host of possible causes, including high blood pressure, diabetes and prostate cancer, and many of the medications used to treat them.

T HE urologist's office is a great leveler of men. My first visits to Dr. Whitehead made it clear, for example, that he and his staff did not attach the same significance to my penis as I did. It was merely an object of professional interest, like a foot or a shoulder -- something to be examined, tested, its performance noted. Dr. Whitehead, a tall, patrician-looking 57-year-old, whose surgical career included a tour in Vietnam, is courteous, concerned and businesslike. Impotence treatment makes up about 80 percent of his practice; he is also an associate clinical professor of urology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and director of the Association for Male Sexual Dysfunction, a medical group that includes physicians, sex therapists and psychiatrists.

Dr. Whitehead started me off with a physical exam and blood tests, which eventually showed that my testosterone levels were normal. No patch for me.

Next came a test called the Rigiscan. For three nights in a row, I went to bed wearing a heavy, battery-laden monitoring device strapped to my left leg. Two wires emerged from the monitor, each ending in a loop. I attached the loops to my penis, one at the base, the other at the tip, and then I tried to sleep.

Men of all ages have erections during the rapid-eye-movement stages of sleep. If mine were measured at the normal frequency, duration and rigidity, it would mean my main problem was not organic but psychological -- something in my head was overriding my body's normal sexual reactions. For the first time that I can remember, I prayed to fail a test.

A few days later in his office, Dr. Whitehead took a gulp from a can of Diet Black Cherry and delivered the verdict. ''I'm afraid you had only infrequent erections, and they were poorly maintained,'' he said.

I was delighted -- even though I knew it meant that something physical was wrong.

Then the nerves in my penis were tested. An aide touched me here and there with a mechanical wand and asked if I could feel any vibration. I did, and she pronounced my nerves normal.


Jun 3, 2016 7:25 AM EDT CBS This Morning

"Well, in Yellowstone National Park, there were less than 25 animals," Wenk said. "It is one of the greatest wildlife conservation stories in the history of the United States."This story is part of a"CBS This Morning" series called "America the Beautiful," which celebrates 100 years of the National Park Service.

Few places make you feel in this world like Yellowstone National Park. Its timelessness spreads to the horizon and it's where the bear and the antelope play. But the bison dominates.

Here lives what may be the last free-ranging, pure herd of wild bison in North America, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann.

"Look at the valley full of bison. It's primitive America," said Dan Wenk, the park's superintendent. "It's probably as close as you can get to what this part of the country looked like in the early 1700s and the 1800s. And it's really - it's a treasure."

Bison roam its 2.2 million acres, an area nearly as big as Rhode Island and Delaware combined. But little about scale impresses America's largest land animal -- a mature bison stands bull six feet tall and can weigh more than a ton.

"There's not many fullbacks who would like to approach that line," Wenk said.

The animals are imposing, and yet, they almost disappeared.

"Well, in Yellowstone National Park, there were less than 25 animals," Wenk said. "It is one of the greatest wildlife conservation stories in the history of the United States."

In the 1800s as many 60 million bison were hunted nearly into extinctions. They were targets and the ugly side of how the West was won.

The American bison - the symbol of the Great Plains - once roamed from Nevada to Mississippi. But in the 1800s, bison were in the way when pioneers pushed west. Tens of millions were slaughtered by cattle ranchers, homesteaders and U.S. troops. Sport hunters shot bison from moving trains.

As the animals disappeared, so did the Native American tribes who for centuries had relied on bison for food, clothing, shelter and tools.

"We don't call them bison - we call them buffalo," said Montana Rancher Irvin Carlson said. "We think of bison as the white man term."

Carlson belongs to the Blackfeet Tribe. He's also president of the Intertribal Buffalo Council, representing 60 tribes who believe bison also have great spiritual significance.

"Buffalo were everything to tribes. We survived on them. They took care of us," Carlson said. "If you got rid of the buffalo, then consequently, you'd get rid of the Indian."

By 1883, nearly all bison were gone. Congress even sent soldiers to Yellowstone to protect the final survivors from poachers. Conservationists - including President Teddy Roosevelt - intervened to protect and restore the population.

Roughly 5,000 bison live at Yellowstone today.

"It was really the first effort to restore what could have been an endangered species," said Rich Wallen, the park's chief bison biologist. "You can't see this kind of abundance anywhere else."

Most of America's roughly half million bison today are managed as domestic livestock. Many have crossbred with cattle, but not Yellowstone's herd.

"Yellowstone bison probably represent one of the only populations that truly have all of the ecological and evolutionary drivers that shaped the species. This is as good as it gets," Wallen said.

This is also the herd's calving season, which brings us to Yellowstone's current bison challenge and controversy - managing the herd's growth. When the bison migrate outside the park, neighboring ranchers have killed them. They say they're worried the animals will spread the Brucellosis disease, which can harm pregnant cattle.

Inside, the park has grazing limits. Under a federal-state agreement, every year, the herd has to be reduced by about 10 percent. Several hundred get sent for processing to tribes, which distribute the hides and meat.

But the current approach seems to satisfy no one, including Irvin Carlson, who also belongs to the Bison Management Coalition. He said these animals should roam free inside and outside the park, or be returned to what he calls "Indian country."

"They're wildlife. They belong on the land, they belong to the land, they're part of the land," Carlson said.

They are also part of Yellowstone's future.

"I think there is a middle ground. We can get more bison on the landscape, we can diminish to eliminate the fear of the spread of disease, and we can honor the cultural significance of bison for the Native American community," Wenk said.

Summary: Yellowstone National Park is home to what may be the last free-ranging, pure herd of wild bison in North America


SUMMER is an elusive season in Norway. In this Scandinavian country, perched at the same latitudes as Alaska, Greenland and Siberia, snow and ice stubbornly cling to the wilderness well into May and then reappear with a jolt in the early fall. But summer - when it finally does arrive - opens a window into this country's love affair with its natural surroundings, as Norwegians of all social strata bound into the outdoors the moment the snow begins its retreat.

Exploring nature may be Norway's unofficial national pastime. Even in the darkness of winter, Norwegians brave subzero temperatures to ski in the mountains and on the country's many cross-country trails. The nation's open air, or allemansretten, act, passed in 1957, guarantees public access to wilderness areas even on private land, and an impassioned tradition of nature walking has blossomed against one of Europe's most stunning natural backdrops.

In fact, this country of 4.5 million is a champion of wilderness walking in a way unknown to most Americans. More than 200,000 Norwegians are members of the country's national outdoor club, the Den Norske Turistforening (the Norwegian Mountain Touring Association), which maintains hiking trails and an expansive network of mountain cabins open to members and tourists alike. In contrast, the 129-year-old Appalachian Mountain Club, the oldest conservation and recreation organization in the United States, counts about 90,000 members.

Norwegians, as I discovered during a four-day hiking expedition to the wind-swept Hardangervidda National Park a few summers ago, embrace the outdoors with an almost reverential fervor. During a trek with a hiking companion, Tim Goldsmid, I met Norwegian hikers of all shapes - from a family with a pair of blond-haired children in tow, bobbing as they tried to keep up with their parents, to an older couple sharing sips of tea out of a stainless steel thermos on a rocky outcrop along the trail. While we were on vacation thousands of miles from home, many Norwegians often escape for a one- or two-day wilderness trips. Outdoor recreation is a way of life there.

"Hiking is a very special tradition here, because so many people live close to nature in Norway," said Anne Marie Hjelle, the director of the Mountain Touring Association, known as DNT. "Starting in kindergarten, children spend time in parks and the forest. Nature is all around us here, and it's something Norwegians feel very special about."

But while Norwegians fan out into the national parks in the summer, the country escapes much of the tourist crush that deluges Europe's more populous mountain regions. The well-traveled destinations in the Alps - among them, Chamonix, France, and Zermatt, Switzerland - bubble over with vacationers ogling the snow-crowned peaks. Norway offers the perfect antidote: a remote and ragged landscape carved by majestic fjords into vertiginous peaks and verdant valleys that remain largely out of the path of the tourist stampede.

Hiking is the best avenue to explore Norway's national parks, many of which get scant numbers of visitors. The DNT's vast network of designated hiking trails form a dense web of routes crisscrossing the wilderness. Official trails are marked by the DNT's signature symbol: a T formed by a splotch of firetruck-red paint dotting rocks and trees every 100 feet or so along the serpentine routes. Founded in 1868, the DNT, whose Oslo headquarters are staffed by friendly English speakers, organizes hiking excursions with certified guides.

Perhaps the most distinctive hiking in all of Norway is found in the south-central part of the country, in the Hardangervidda National Park, the nation's largest, about 100 miles west of Oslo. It is a desolate lunarlike landscape of moors and highlands, with boulder-strewn fields, glacier-fed rivers, snow-flanked peaks and shimmering pools giving the region a barren allure.

Our days in Hardangervidda often began sunny, yet by midmorning, flotillas of metallic-gray cloud bands would roll in from the west, casting a monochrome glow over the landscape. The national park makes up one-third of the Hardanger plateau, a 3,860- square-mile wilderness (four-fifths the size of Connecticut) atop one of Europe's largest high mountain plateaus that is home to thousands of wild reindeer.

A good reason to invest in a $68 annual membership in DNT is to qualify for discounts on its 400 mountain cabins, which are sprinkled throughout national parks and wilderness areas. The cabins, known as turisthytter, vary from rustic mountain refuges with grass-covered roofs to grand timber-sided lodges sleeping up to 200. The huts provide a hot dinner and breakfast and a room to hikers at modest rates (starting at $45 a night), a boon in a country where prices for both food and lodging remain some of the highest in all of Europe.

For tent-leery hikers, forget roughing it. Europeans eschew the ascetic version of camping practiced in the United States - where purists consider freeze-dried meals and nylon tents an extravagance - instead favoring to import the comforts of home into the backcountry. Hut-to-hut hiking in Norway is no exception.

The Norwegian hut system allows trekkers to forgo the weighty accouterments of tents and cooking equipment that relegate pleasant walks to demoralizing slogs. With a hut as your base camp, you can glide over large swaths of terrain carrying little more than a light rucksack on your back.

Huts are most often spaced a four-to-seven-hour walk apart. With a map and compass, you can devise routes connecting huts that suit your level of fitness. Having trained for several marathons together, Tim and I opted for an ambitious four-day trek covering about 10 to 15 miles a day.

Adding to the turn-key efficiency, the DNT has established a novel billing system. Guests pay by credit card simply by signing a bill before embarking to the next hut. Guests also pay for food from the hut's communal pantry by the honor code. The bills are stored in secure lock boxes to be collected by DNT staff members.

Depending on the size and comfort of the cabin, meals vary from self-prepared preserved foods - a rib-sticking stew of canned reindeer meatballs was a personal favorite - to multicourse dinners of asparagus soup, mountain trout and cake. Breakfasts ranged from muesli to cured meats and the local goat cheese gjetost (pronounced YET-ohst), a Norwegian specialty with a distinctive brown shade and silky caramel taste.

The ambience in the huts was jovial, though staid, unlike the raucous, wine-fueled evenings one can find in the Alps. The Norwegians we met had a quiet demeanor; some swapped stories from the day on the trail, while others tucked in with books.

Showers and electricity are rare, but small luxuries abound. On the third day of our trek, after eight hours on the trail, we reached our destination at the Hadlaskard hut - a slate-gray house on the banks of a mountain stream - and dropped our packs to the scent of freshly baked bread prepared by the hut's caretaker. We jumped at the break from the dry biscuits stocked in the prior huts.

Our four-day trek on the Hardangervidda aimed to take in the 62-mile Hardangerfjord and the 5,500-foot Harteigen, a mountain famed for its distinctive fedoralike profile. We began in the roadless village of Finse, a collection of timber-clad lodges ringing a shimmering lake some 4,000 feet above sea level north of the park.

Summary: When the ice finally melts, Norwegians embrace the outdoors by trekking hut to hut in the wilderness.


If any doubt lingers that traditional securities trading has faded from a fabulously profitable, glamorous enterprise to a shadow of its former self, the latest news from Deutsche Bank makes this new reality all too clear.

On June 7, Germany’s largest lender announced that its co-CEOs, Anshu Jain and Jurgen Fitschen, would resign from their posts. The new CEO (who technically will share the job with Fitschen until he departs next May) will be John Cryan, a member of the Deutsche Bank DB supervisory board and former CFO of rival UBS.

What’s remarkable about the shift is that while Deutsche Bank’s leadership will change, the board intends to follow the same basic strategy that failed under the previous regime: bolstering, one might even say doubling down, on investment banking, its primary pillar and Cryan’s area of expertise. Within investment banking, deutsche is wagering heavily on an antiquated area where modernization isn’t its friend: fixed income trading.

Appointed in 2012 to succeed the legendary Josef Ackermann, co-CEOs Jain and Fitschen set ambitious financial goals, and missed all of the big ones by a spectacular margin. In April, the duo unveiled a strategic overhaul with significantly reduced goals. At Deutsche Bank’s annual meeting in May, investors expressed deep disappointment with the plan; only 61% of shareholders endorsed it in a non-binding vote, which clearly shocked the board into action.

Two main factors account for Deutsche Bank’s chronically poor results. First, since the end of the financial crisis, a series of fines, settlements, and restructurings have inflicted billions upon billions of euros in charges on the bank. Those charges were far bigger than the bank’s leaders, analysts, or almost anyone else expected. In the past three years, the bank has paid a total of around $9 billion to settle a Libor-rigging action and lawsuits over its underwriting of mortgage-backed securities, as well as its role in the collapse of the Kirch media empire in 2002. It also dumped troubled portfolios of commercial real estate loans inherited in the acquisition of government-owned lender Postbank in 2008.

The new Basel III capital rules triggered additional losses. Once profitable swaps and assorted derivatives contracts sprung losses when new rules mandated that banks back those volatile contracts with heavy reserves. The tighter regulations forced Deutsche Bank to sell derivatives portfolios at heavy losses.

Similar travails afflicted most big banks in the post-2008 financial order. But Jain and Fitschen wouldn’t have whiffed so badly if Deutsche Bank’s basic operating businesses had posted strong results. Instead, they performed poorly, exploding the forecasts. In 2012, the co-CEOs announced three goals for 2015. First, they promised to achieve a 12% return on “book equity,” as stated on the balance sheet. Second, Jain and Fitschen pledged to reach an impressive ratio of operating costs to revenues of 65%. The third target: Hiking its regulatory capital level to 10% by the end of the three-year window, without raising any new capital.

As for return on equity, Deutsche Bank was faring so poorly in April that the co-CEOs lowered the goal in a big way. The new target is 10% on tangible equity, a lower number since it excludes goodwill. It’s the equivalent of 8% on book equity, four points below the previous bogey. Further infuriating shareholders, they pushed back the deadline to achieve this easier target by five years, to 2020. So far, progress is nowhere in sight. In 2014, Deutsche Bank posted a return on equity of 2.3%. “It will probably be in the low-single digits for 2015 as well,” says Dirk Becker, an analyst with Kepler Cheuvreux in Frankfurt. On the second objective, the expense ratio is now running not in the 60% range as planned, but in the 80s.

The duo did achieve a capital ratio of 10%. But they flopped again, since getting there required raising around $13 billion in new equity capital, diluting shareholders, who’ve fled the stock. Since 2007, Deutsche Bank’s share price has dropped from $150 to $33, erasing $100 billion in market value.

The poor performance of investment banking, and growing doubts that this will change any time soon, most seriously calls the bank’s current strategy into question.

Deutsche Bank relies far more heavily on investment banking than most of its peers. In recent years, it has placed even greater weight on that franchise. Deutsche Bank’s remarkable rise to the summit in investment banking began in 1990, when it purchased Britain’s Morgan Grenfell, followed by the acquisition of Bankers Trust eight years later. Thereafter, the investment bank thrived––Ackerman, followed by Jain, were principal architects of its success––rising to the top echelon alongside Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Deutsche Bank’s greatest strength is its fixed income arm, especially, trading. In its best years, the bank was generating fantastic 40% ROEs in its bond business. Even in 2009, in the wake of the financial crisis, it enjoyed great success in trading. Investors were desperate to exit securities at any price, providing huge “spreads,” or margins, for the bank. At the same time, many of Deutsche Bank’s biggest competitors were reducing their bond trading or closing their fixed income desks altogether. So in 2009, Deutsche Bank profited handsomely by bucking the trend, and it maintained its signature franchise.

Jain-Fitschen decided to rely on their bastion of profitability, bond trading. Their plan was twofold. First, they believed that the retrenchment of many big players, including UBS and Credit Suisse, would put their bank in a far more powerful position. The idea was that the reduced competition would both raise both their market share and trading margins. They also figured that the ultra-tight capital restrictions would gradually loosen, so that banks could once again expand their trading books without huge increases in reserves.

Neither of those predictions worked out as planned.

To make matters worse, the flush, pre-financial crisis time, reprised in 2009, didn’t return. For the past half-decade, fixed income markets have been relatively placid. New regulations have forced the banks to substantially shrink the size of their inventories of bonds for sale. Most customers are in no hurry to sell their bonds and buy new ones at today’s rates, so turnover is low. “They keep waiting for the trends they predicted to happen, and they haven’t happened,” says Becker.

In announcing the changes at the top, the Deutsche Bank board stressed that it’s adhering to the investment banking-first strategy. The bank does have a substantial retail business, boasting around $220 billion in deposits at its branches. But it pledges to shrink that franchise by selling Postbank, which offers banking services in post offices throughout Germany and accounts for half of Deutsche Bank’s deposits.

If it’s well run, retail banking has a strong future because deposits provide big pools of money that’s pretty much interest-free. As rates on loans and securities inevitably rise, those cheap deposits become highly profitable.

The future isn’t nearly as predictable for bond trading. Electronic platforms are now matching big owners, the Fidelities and Vanguards, directly with one another, bypassing the banks and lowering costs in the process. We may be on the brink of a sister revolution to the one that modernized the equity markets and ominously squeezed most of the profit out of stock trading.

It’s usually safe to bet that, after a crisis, businesses can return to a state of normalcy. But it’s not always so, especially not in the outdated, bank-dominated bond business. The world has changed. The question is whether it will change back. For Deutsche Bank, planning on a reprise of the good old days may be a losing wager.


Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik

06/11/2016 AT 11:30 AM EDT

A week after news spread that

, the two were spotted showing PDA on Friday in New York City.

The 21-year-old model wore a black leather jacket while the 23-year-old singer donned a blue and red-striped white Louis Vuitton sweatshirt. Both had sunglasses on.

On Friday, Hadid even Snapchatted a photo of custom Nutella jars with their names inscribed, captioning the shot "Kitchen goals."

"Gigi and Zayn are back together," a source told

. "They spent part of this week together and spoke about some issues they had and decided they want to work it out with each other."

"Gigi loves Zayn so much and wanted to make things work," the source continued.

Source: Gigi Hadid / SnapChat

Even at the time of their breakup, it didn't appear the two were done for good.

"It seems like it's not totally over" a source previously

. Another source added the pair broke up "a couple of weeks ago" – suggesting their time apart may have been longer than it appeared to the public.

During their split last week, Hadid was spotted at the Maybelline New York Beauty Bash in Los Angeles,

to Malik's "PillowTalk" – for which she also starred in the

prior to the event, Hadid mentioned her "boyfriend" (though not Malik by name), when she said she preferred a night in to a night out.

"Cook. Paint. Play with my dog. Hang out with my boyfriend. Watch movies," she told

Romance rumors first sparked for Hadid and Malik when they

together at an American Music Awards after party in November.

In May, the couple made their stylish

as a couple at the Met Gala, after highlighting their romance in a

Summary: The reunion comes a week after news of their split first broke


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The perplexing case of Rachel Canning, an 18-year old New Jersey teen who is suing her estranged parents for private high school and college tuition and living expenses has achieved national attention. The case is a heartbreaking example of a family in which communication has collapsed and animosity has tragically replaced the warmth we should all expect from our families. It also seems, on the surface, to be a private matter. So why then has it gotten such national attention? The answer, I suspect, lies in the widespread aversion many older adults feel toward juveniles and how “entitled” youth appear to be, at least in the eyes of the old.

I suspect that this case and the attention it has garnered is another example of juvenoia. Juvenoia, a term usually credited to sociologist David Finkelhor, refers to the fear of juveniles by older adults. Juvenoia is manifest in a multitude of ways, including the belief that today’s youth are worse behaved than ever before, despite much evidence to the contrary. Many older adults continue to think that youth violence is the worst ever, for instance, despite the fact that it stands now at only about 12% of what it was just two decades before. But in the current case, many comments have focused on how “entitled” Rachel Canning is, implying that this is part of a greater trend in the current generation of youth.

Like many adults I’m not a big fan of the “everyone gets a trophy” movement over the past few decades. Honest feedback, discipline and structure are good for children, as is competition in the spirit of good sportsmanship. Giving them everything they want when they want it certainly isn’t. But the idea that youth today are any more entitled than in the past is, at best, debatable. Although some psychologists have claimed there is a “narcissism epidemic” among today’s youth, other psychologists have countered that the evidence for this is weak.

Indeed, comments by older adults that today’s youth are more entitled than previous generations go back at least to the ancient Greeks. My read of the data is closer to the skeptical view: most such claims are more indicative of the griping of older adults than anything “new” about today’s teens. Sure, some teens feel entitled, but that’s always been the case. But stories such as Rachel Canning’s lawsuit fit into those narratives and provide more fuel for juvenoia. What should be a private family matter becomes fodder for the perennial intergenerational squabbling.

Juvenoia also exerts itself in a variety of moral panics focused on youth. We constantly hear about how teens are up to new forms of mischief our older generations would never have thought of. Most of these tales end up being false. Recent examples include the “rainbow party” in which teen girls supposedly provided oral sex to multiple boys and the “knockout king” game in which young (usually minority) males supposedly target random people for assaults. Certainly in a country of over 300 million, some teens do dangerous and risky things (as do some adults), but evidence for any new mass trends in teen sex or violence is absent. These tales of wayward youth are the stuff of urban legend, not fact.

Juvenoia also manifests in the routine disparagement of youth culture. From Elvis Presley to rap music to video games, older adults are quick to blame youth culture for perceived social problems, often forgetting that the media valued in their own youth was similarly disparaged. I call this the “Goldilocks Effect” — every generation’s belief that the generation before was too rigid and conservative, and the generation after too wild and out-of-control. Each generation thinks it got culture “just right.”

Even science can get in on the juvenioa. Most recent have been the brain imaging findings that note our brains continue to develop through adolescence and into adulthood…and until we’re dead, really. Some research suggests that these differences are quite adaptive, but, nonetheless much of the narrative on this has been misused to portray teens as zombified hedonistic fools unable to restrain their least impulse.

Teens and young adults remain one group of people that can be publicly disparaged with almost no condemnation. Some of the anti-youth rhetoric gets wrapped up in language about “protecting” our youth. But a vein of true loathing runs through much of the discussion. And until we’re honest about that it will continue to produce urban legends and junk science.

Christopher J. Ferguson is associate professor and department chair of psychology at Stetson University.

Summary: Every generation believes that the generation before was too rigid and conservative—and the generation after too wild and out-of-control.


At Apple’s recent product announcement event, the company revealed some product stats. Among the numbers shared was this tidbit on Siri usage: The virtual voice assistant receives a whopping one billion requests a week.

It’s an impressive number, no doubt, but it doesn’t mean that the virtual assistant—or any of its competitors—is a true success yet. That’s partly because many users don’t need to rely on Apple’s Siri (not to mention Microsoft’s Cortana or Google voice-based search) on a daily basis—a survey a few years back even found that 85% of iPhone users had never even used Siri. More than anything, though, voice assistants still don’t seem to work as well as they should.

“[These technologies] are still in their very early growth and frankly get more wrong than right,” says analyst Jeff Kagan. “They don’t understand the questions and don’t provide the right answers more times than not.” Whether it’s Google Now not understanding a speaker’s accent or Siri providing a list of search results that requires you to look at your phone, the process of using voice for search and other shortcuts simply isn’t seamless.

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The fact that heavyweights like Apple, Google, and Microsoft MSFT are still perfecting their products hasn’t dissuaded other companies entering the fray with their own assistant-like technologies. Amazon AMZN , for instance, has built its Alexa voice assistant into products such as the Echo speaker and its new Fire TV box, letting users find content and control playback with spoken commands. And then there’s Facebook, which offers a completely different take on the virtual assistant with its M service, employing humans to suggest restaurants and more from within the Messenger app.

Integrating support for voice commands is clearly important, both because it provides a better user experience and it enables software makers like Apple AAPL and Google GOOG to serve up information via its own applications, all the while gathering more information about your behaviors and interests. But what’s less clear is how soon these voice controls will become smart enough to handle any question or command that’s thrown at them.

Voice assistants have already found a footing in cars, with Apple’s Siri integrated into models from BMW, Chevy, and more. Considering the positive safety implications of a hands-free system for search, in-car controls and more, this space could help expedite an improvement in the technology—though it’s worth pointing out that voice assistants have been found to be increase distraction on the road as well. Still, an iPhone, Android, or Windows Phone is a plenty capable device even without its respective voice assistant, but in the car Siri and others can serve an essential role in keeping users connected.

But despite bumps in the road, Kagan suggests that voice assistants are here to stay: “Today is the day we will someday look back at and laugh at the same way we do when we think about our great-grandparents struggling with their first Ford Model T,” says Kagan.

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Summary: How can the technology move beyond "nice-to-have" to "essential feature"?


The Leadership Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question: How do you prepare for a management role? is written by Arvind Parthiban, CEO of Zarget.

There are few things in professional life as exciting as striking out on your own in a startup venture. Salaried cubicle-dwellers dream about it, but few actually do make the jump from employee to the C-suite. According the Kauffman Index, which measures startup activity, in 2015, more than half a million new businesses launched each month in the U.S. alone.

But ensuring the success of a new venture takes more than a great product or service concept and a desire to be your own boss. It also requires making a successful transition from an employee to a company officer. My team and I made that transition more than a year ago, quitting our high-profile tech firm jobs to found a successful startup. Here are five tips that helped us make the leap:

When you’re an employee, you can rely on the company’s executives to resolve conflicts and make tough decisions. That’s no longer an option when you make the jump to the C-suite. To ensure we would always be able to resolve impasses and break deadlocks, my co-founders and I designated certain employees to be the ultimate decision-makers for specific areas, or direct responsible individuals (DRIs), as Apple AAPL refers to them. This doesn’t mean DRIs don’t consider input from everyone else. That’s part of their function—to discuss ideas with all involved and listen to suggestions. But the DRIs have the final call for their areas of responsibility.

See also: How to Convince Your Boss You’re Ready for More Responsibility

Launching a new venture tends to attract attention. You may find yourself besieged by jobseekers, inundated with vendor offers, and the recipient of much unsolicited advice. It’s important to know that it’s okay to say “no.” But be diplomatic about it when dealing with people outside of the company. Accept a résumé and “keep it on file,” even if you aren’t hiring. Listen politely to offers and advice. On the other hand, when you’re interacting with coworkers, it’s important to be completely honest, backing up your opinion with facts and data where possible. A candid, genuine assessment is absolutely necessary internally.

When you work for an established company and you need to plan an event, you call the event planner. When you have to travel, you call the travel office. But when you strike out on your own, you’ll be the travel planner, event manager, HR expert, administrator, sales rep, and marketing professional. At my company, I’m the CEO and the person who brings the coffee. It’s also important to keep this in mind when you’re hiring. At a small company, everyone is required to wear many hats, so make sure the people you hire are willing to embrace a range of roles.

When you launch your new product or service, customers might surprise you. For example, you and your team may have devoted the most time and energy into developing a certain feature on an app or analytics tool, but you quickly find that customers value a completely different feature that you added almost as an afterthought. Scenarios like this point to the importance of flexibility. The typical startup lacks the resources to do large-scale customer preference analysis prior to a product launch, so it’s important to listen to what customers tell you with their actions.

When you launch your own company, you’ll be the go-to person for many roles, but eventually, if your business starts picking up steam in the marketplace, you’ll decide to add new employees to the mix. When you hire new people, keep your company culture in mind. Select employees who are versatile and embrace a broad range of activities since they, like you, will be required to wear many hats. Remember that your employees will define your company, so choose wisely.

Even if you have a wonderful idea for a new product or service, launching a new startup is a risky proposition. Failure rates can range as high as 90% according to some estimates, depending on the industry. And all too often, it’s not lack of demand that is the problem, but rather new entrepreneurs who are simply unprepared to manage a business venture.

That’s why it’s so important to make sure you are fully ready to transition from an employee to a business leader before you make the leap. Once you launch your company, there will be no boss to turn to when the going gets rough—you and your colleagues will have to make all of the decisions. The good news is that by following these five tips, you’ll be well ahead of the learning curve.

Summary: It takes more than launching a great product or service.


Now that the citizens of the U.K. have voted to leave the European Union, it’s time to take a good look at the implications for the technology sector.

So-called Brexit will take a while to arrive. Prime minister David Cameron indicated Friday morning that he will stay on for three months before handing over to a successor, and he wants the next prime minister to begin the negotiations with the EU over the terms of the exit. That could take two years, so Britain will probably only leave in 2018.

That means years of uncertainty, with tech firms and investors unable to know for sure how regulations will evolve (or devolve) in the U.K. and, indeed, the EU.

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As Stratechery’s Ben Thompson has correctly noted, the U.K. is one of the voices in Europe that has called for relatively light-touch tech regulation in the EU. Without it, Germany and France will have even stronger positions in the bloc than they currently do.

Germany and France are the countries that have taken the lead on cracking down on American tech firms, such as Google, over their perceived transgressions. Without British pushback, that stance is likely to gain more heft.

Then there is the issue of data and its ability to flow across borders.

You may have been following the tumultuous trajectory of EU-U.S. data transfers—the fall of the Safe Harbor agreement and the attempted rise of its replacement, Privacy Shield. Right now, U.S. multinationals and tech firms are running out of ways to legally process the data of EU citizens. This is because the EU has so far been unable to finalize an “adequacy” decision that would declare the U.S. safe as a destination for Europeans’ personal data. (Negotiators claimed a breakthrough on Friday, but champagne might be premature.)

When it leaves the EU, the U.K. will be in the same boat—again, if British companies want to process the personal data of employees and customers on the European mainland, the country will need to win an adequacy decision.

This was confirmed on Friday morning by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the country’s privacy watchdog. The ICO said the U.K.’s existing Data Protection Act, which is based on older EU rules, would remain in force. However, the upcoming EU privacy reforms—the much tougher General Data Protection Regulation—will not apply to the U.K. directly.

This means the U.K. will have to reform its privacy laws in line with the new EU rules, even though it is leaving, or face big barriers to cross-border data flows. “Having clear laws with safeguards in place is more important than ever given the growing digital economy, and we will be speaking to government to present our view that reform of the U.K. law remains necessary,” the ICO said.

Foreign tech firms may not be so keen on the details of the new EU rules—they clear the way for massive fines for privacy violations, and allow people to opt out of being profiled online—but they do at least welcome the uniformity that they promise. The EU currently has a patchwork of privacy laws, and the General Data Protection Regulation is supposed to provide harmonization. So tech firms, too, will likely want to see the U.K. align its laws with the EU on this front.

However, that might not be enough to win an adequacy decision. The big problem here is surveillance.

The main reason Safe Harbor fell was the mass surveillance policies of the U.S. The U.K. also has mass surveillance programs that affect other countries (and it is currently trying to shore up the underlying legislation), but while it is part of the EU, the U.K.’s behavior cannot stop data flowing between it and the mainland. Once it is no longer in the EU, that situation will change dramatically.

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It is by no means a certainty that the U.K. will be able to continue to participate in the European single market—something that Brexit campaigners promised, but that may be tricky to negotiate in the face of hostility from EU governments.

The majority of British tech startups came out against Brexit ahead of the vote. They warned that Brexit would hurt confidence in the sector and make it more difficult to hire talent from abroad. Microsoft warned that Brexit would make it less likely to invest more in the U.K.

And the U.K.’s rivals won’t hold back in taking advantage of the situation. Just hours after the referendum result came through, the Berlin-based venture capital provider German Startups Group issued a statement proclaiming that “Brexit is good news for the German startup scene.”

“Only since 2015 was Berlin able to surpass London, the previously dominant hub of Europe, in the number of and overall volume of financial transactions from startups,” said CEO Christoph Gerlinger. “This development will now accelerate and the distance between Berlin vs. London will increase. We expect a significant decrease in new incorporations in London in favour of Berlin, as well as an influx of successful London startups. This will be particularly true of the especially dynamic [financial technology] sector.”

The Federation of German Startups also said Berlin will emerge as the winner in the Brexit scenario, although it added: “It is a victory we do not want and will not be celebrating.”

As for tech users, British people may no longer be able to get cheap mobile calls and data when they visit the EU, as recent EU legislation allows. The new EU net neutrality rules now probably also won’t apply in the U.K., which could be bad news for consumers there.

Another thing to look out for will be radio spectrum. The EU is currently on a drive to harmonize the spectrum allocations made by countries around the bloc, in order to help the manufacturers of mobile devices, for example, to achieve efficiencies of scale.

With 5G around the corner, nobody wants countries diverging on which radiowaves they assign to super-fast mobile broadband. The U.K. will now no longer have to go along with the decisions made on the mainland—although again, following the EU’s lead would be the most obvious choice to make.

For now, all eyes are rightly focused on the post-Brexit carnage taking place in global markets—chaos that may well have its own impact on the tech sector. But in the long term, the repercussions of Thursday’s decision could be very profound and complex.

Summary: The U.K.'s decision to leave the EU will have impacts on startups, privacy, radio spectrum, mobile roaming and many more aspects of tech.


1018 Madison Avenue, at 78th Street

In 1981 Cindy Sherman took off on men's magazine centerfolds in a series of photographic double spreads initially commissioned -- but not used by -- the magazine Artforum. Close-cropped and close up, they portray this multi-self-portraitist in various roles, from a sultry seductress to a frightened, vulnerable victim who might have just been raped.

The mood of each of these life-size storytelling pictures is charged, not only by Ms. Sherman's poses, expressions, clothes and wigs but also by the use of gels that cast the images in colors appropriate to their narratives. A sort of kitschy orange suffuses ''Untitled No. 96,'' in which Ms. Sherman lies dreamily on a linoleum floor in a sweater and skirt, a thirty-something single clutching a ''Personals'' ad torn from a newspaper.

In ''Untitled No. 90'' she is bathed in a pink glow as she sleepily eyes a telephone placed next to her bed. In ''Untitled No. 94,'' an eerie greenish cast pervades a shot in which she half reposes in tomboy chino clothes, fixing the viewer with a challenging, rebellious gaze.

More than simple spoofs of the sterotypes promulgated by various magazines, these photographs manage to convey the ambiguities of women playing gender cliché roles and even Ms. Sherman's own unease at casting herself in them. Preceding a long era of repulsive imagery when she took herself out of the picture, using instead body parts, mutilated dolls, rotting foods and such, they re-emerge as positively refreshing. GRACE GLUECK

Summary: Skarstedt Fine Art  1018 Madison Avenue, at 78th Street  Through June 14      In 1981 Cindy Sherman took off on men's magazine centerfolds in a series of photographic double spreads initially commissioned -- but not used by -- the magazine Artforum. Close-cropped and close up, they portray this multi-self-portraitist in various roles, from a sultry seductress to a frightened, vulnerable victim who might have just been raped.


It’s May 25, 1994, exactly 20 years ago on Sunday, and Mark Messier and Brian Leetch are driving to work out up the West Side Highway.

Leetch has The Post in his lap, and a 120-point headline is screaming at him from the back page.

“WE’LL WIN TONIGHT” it says, prefaced by the short lead-in of, “Captain Courageous’ bold prediction.”

That captain, of course, is Messier — who had just delivered the boldest statement in New York sports since Joe Namath’s guarantee before the Jets beat the Colts in Super Bowl III.

Messier sheepishly looks up from the road, and Leetch is just staring at him.

“I would’ve liked to crawl back into bed and had it disappear, originally,” Messier told The Post recently.

Leetch, the deadpan defenseman and eventual Conn Smythe winner as playoff MVP, knew the implications of what he was holding. In a couple hours, the Rangers, down 3-2 in the best-of-seven series, would play Game 6 of the Eastern Conference final against the Devils. And the message Messier meant to deliver to his teammates was now splayed all over the pages of newsprint that dictated the tenor of the town. They were words that were not delivered in a vacuum, but rung loudly through the echo-chamber of the city, reaching the rest of the hockey world rather quickly.

“Well,” Leetch said quietly. “I guess we better win.”

Messier had to smile, because these are the moments players live for. The inspirational leader of the Rangers, Messier was trying to push his team to another level, show confidence in them that maybe was lacking in this time of desperation.

When he got to the locker room, burly defenseman Jeff Beukeboom walked right up to him.

“What are doing?” Beukeboom remembered asking.

“He said, ‘Why not?’ That was his response,” Beukeboom said. “I think there was more of a motivation behind it, trying to take some pressure off the rest of the team. And it obviously he worked.”

And like Namath’s Jets, Messier and his Rangers delivered.

Messier went out on the ice at Brendan Byrne Arena and hung a hat trick on the Devils, the last goal going into the empty net en route to a 4-2 win that set up a decisive Game 7 at Madison Square Garden.

That was another game immortalized in lore, with Stephane Matteau scoring a wrap-around goal passed Martin Brodeur in double-overtime. But the Rangers never would have gotten there without the heroics of their captain.

“I think I was so focusing in on trying to direct my attention to the team, and by doing so I forgot, or I miscalculated, that other people might be looking at the guarantee — or not so much the guarantee, but would be reading the same article that I intended for the players to read,” Messier said. “And so, at that point, I didn’t really care because my intention was directed at the players.

“I didn’t realize, or forgot, that 14 million other New Yorkers and people around the country — and, more importantly, the New Jersey Devils — would be reading the same article. But at that point, we were so far down the tracks, it didn’t really matter.”

It’s now two decades since Messier sat in his stall in the Rye Playland practice facility and told about a dozen reporters, “We’re going to go in there and win Game 6. We know we’re going to go in and win Game 6 and bring it back for Game 7.”

He then went on to end a 54-year championship drought for the Rangers, following the Devils series by beating the Canucks in a seven-game Stanley Cup final. And that was the most recent time this franchise was there, playing for that coveted silver chalice.

Right now, a new team led by Henrik Lundqvist and Brad Richards and Martin St. Louis stands to be the next to get there, holding a 2-1 edge over the Canadiens in the Eastern Conference final going into Sunday night’s Game 4 at the Garden.

Yet anything as dramatic as Messier’s guarantee happening this time around is doubtful. Some stories just find a way to nestle into their place in time, and resonate out from that spot en perpetuity.

“Somehow I tried to find a way to instill that confidence back into the team,” Messier said. “And you know, I guess the rest is history.”

Summary: It’s May 25, 1994, exactly 20 years ago on Sunday, and Mark Messier and Brian Leetch are driving to work out up the West Side Highway. Leetch has The Post in his lap, and a 120-point headline is sc…


James Franco and Seth Rogen have teamed up to make a Korean BBQ lasagna with Epic Meal Time, a YouTube channel known for creating food mashup monstrosities like Four Loko-infused chili and sushi made out of fast food burgers. Warning: watching them make this “lasagna”—a recipe that also includes french fries—may make you lose your appetite for lunch.

The stunt is a promotion for their upcoming film The Interview, in which the comedians fly to North Korea to interview dictator Kim Jong Un and are recruited by the CIA as assassins.

Summary: They're promoting their upcoming film with the folks from the 'Epic Meal Time' YouTube series


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WATCH: The Oscar winner discusses bringing the big, friendly giant to life for the Disney adaptation of the beloved children's book.

"The BFG" is a beloved Roald Dahl children's book about a big, friendly giant, and now Academy Award–winning actor Mark Rylance brings that giant to life in a new Disney film adaptation.

Rylance plays a larger-than-life outcast in Disney's "The BFG," directed by Steven Spielberg.

The 56-year-old Brit has been a theater actor for years. He snagged a best supporting actor Oscar for his first Hollywood role, playing Rudolf Abel in "Bridge of Spies" — another Spielberg film.

"It means the world to me that the stories I'm telling are making people laugh or moving people or just ... distracting themselves from the troubles of the world for a day and giving them a bit of strength to carry on," Rylance said in an interview with ABC News' Abbie Boudreau.

"The BFG" — a tale of two unlikely friends — hits those marks, with themes like finding the strength to overcome differences.

Rylance said the film tells the story of "a very loving friendship."

The movie even includes a special language, which Rylance demonstrated for Boudreau.

"The BFG" premieres July 1.

Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

Summary: Mark Rylance plays a larger-than-life outcast in Disney’s “The BFG,” directed by Steven Spielberg.


'College Road Trip.' Comedy about an overprotective dad who helps his daughter choose the right school. With Martin Lawrence, Raven- Symoné. Director: Roger Kumble (1:23). G. At area theaters.

Disney Channel star Raven-Symoné may be growing up, but her middle-school audience still has to ask Mom for a ride to soccer practice. So in her first major big-screen outing, the lessons are sweet and the jokes are silly. In other words, parents can rest easy sending the kids off on their own - at least for an hour and a half.

In fact, few adults are likely to have the patience to sit through "College Road Trip," a movie that firmly believes broader is better. Just how broad are we talking? Well, for starters, there's a troublemaking pig on board.

When the movie starts, that precocious porker is driving Illinois police chief James Porter (Martin Lawrence) crazy - well, that and the fact that his daughter, Mel (Raven-Symoné), is about to leave the nest. He's got a plan, though: She'll go to nearby Northwestern, where he'll be able to keep a close eye on her.

Um, whatever, Dad. Obviously, Mel wants to get a little farther away from home and has secretly applied, with help from her understanding mother (Kym Whitley), to Georgetown. When James learns she's landed an interview there, he flips, but then reluctantly packs up the car. After all, he's not letting her take the trip to D.C. alone.

Turns out they have plenty of company. Mel's little brother (Eshaya Draper) has hidden in the trunk with his mischievous porcine pet. Mel's best friends meet them halfway, for a stopover at a sorority house. And eventually, another father-daughter team (led by a hammy Donny Osmond) joins the caravan, bringing an endless medley of show tunes along.

With the pig, the overprotective parents and the sparky chemistry between the leads, hijinks are bound to ensue. Most are of the eye-rolling variety, at least for those old enough to remember the day they left home. If, on the other hand, your driver's license is still a distant dream, consider this a path to pure hilarity.

Summary: Disney Channel star Raven-Symone may be growing up, but her middle-school audience still has to ask Mom for a ride to soccer practice. So in her first major big-screen outing, the lessons are sweet and the jokes are silly.