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The violence follows a weekend when 52 people were shot in the city, seven of them fatally,
Seven people were killed and nine others were wounded in shootings across Chicago Monday.
Five others were wounded in shootings citywide.
Fifty-two people were shot, seven fatally, last weekend.
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Heiress, socialite — and alleged accomplice to a monster. Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire, by the FBI last July and awaits trial this November on charges of six federal crimes, including enticement of minors, sex trafficking of children and perjury, all while aiding and abetting Jeffrey Epstein. In the three-part Peacock original documentary series “Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell,” we get a thorough and straightforward and comprehensive look at the woman who grew up privileged and could have done anything with her life but wound up a fugitive and eventually behind bars after years of allegedly procuring victims for the hideous Epstein.
The documentary follows the tried and tested formula for true crime series. There’s a slick and urgent tone to the opening titles, and the episodes include a mix of archival news footage; previously unseen footage of Ghislaine and her father, the media baron Robert Maxwell, and interviews with journalists and former friends and acquaintances and university classmates of Maxwell. (Not surprisingly, Maxwell did not respond to the filmmakers’ request for an interview.) Some of the material will be familiar to viewers of the Netflix documentary series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” but whereas Maxwell was the alleged accomplice lurking on the fringes in that series, she’s under a harsh and deservedly unforgiving spotlight this time.
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Episode 1 begins with a recap of the arrest of Epstein and the news of his death by suicide. A number of survivors talk about how Maxwell was the one who introduced them to Epstein, how she was almost always at Epstein’s side. “Jeffrey had the sickness, but they worked together as a unit,” says survivor Virginia Giuffre. “She was the main procurer for Jeffrey.” We then flash back to Ghislaine’s upbringing as one of eight children of Robert Maxwell, the media mogul who died in the Atlantic Ocean in 1991 after having fallen from his yacht. It was subsequently learned Robert Maxwell had stolen hundreds of millions from his companies’ pension funds.
Ghislaine was a favorite of her father, who bought an Oxford football club as a present of sorts for his daughter when she was still in college and in 1991 purchased the New York Daily News, giving his daughter, who acted as his unofficial ambassador, an entree into New York society as instant power broker. A number of observers note that the mercurial, difficult, forceful, narcissistic Robert Maxwell was by far the most important in person in Ghislaine’s life — and after her father’s death, she attached herself to another obscenely wealthy and manipulative egomaniac in Jeffrey Epstein. “Epstein and her father, both men had that terrible moral compass,” says former friend Christopher Mason, while the writer Anna Pasternak notes, “Ghislaine set her sights on Jeffrey Epstein, who could give her the lifestyle she’d become accustomed to.”
Survivors tell harrowing stories of how Maxwell would recruit them and bring them to Epstein when they were teenagers. After Epstein’s arrest and suicide, Maxwell eventually went underground, with her days of hiding coming to an abrupt end in July 2020 when the FBI took her into custody in a sprawling home in New Hampshire where she was hiding out under an alias. Maxwell’s defense team seems set to present her as a victim of Epstein. “I just can’t handle the fact that this woman is pretending she’s a victim,” says survivor Maria Farmer. “The victims were children and young girls, young vulnerable women.”
Seven people were killed, and nine others were wounded in shootings Monday in Chicago, including a woman who died in a shooting in Fuller Park on the South Side.
The 19-year-old was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle about 9:42 p.m. in the 300 block of West 52nd Place when someone stepped out of a gray Infiniti G35 and opened fire, Chicago police said. The woman was struck twice to the side of her body and once to her lower back. She was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Minutes prior a man was killed, and a woman critically wounded in a shooting on the Far South Side. They were sitting in a vehicle about 9:40 p.m. in the 11800 block of South Michigan Avenue when someone fired shots, striking them both multiple times, police said. The man, 32, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead. The 35-year-old woman was taken to the same hospital in critical condition. Police said the pair were unable to provide details on the incident because of the severity of their injuries.
About an hour prior, a man was killed in a shooting while working on his vehicle in Fernwood on the South Side. He was in front of his home about 8:40 p.m. in the 10400 block of South Eggleston Avenue when someone fired shots at him from a silver-colored Chevy Malibu, police said. The 28-year-old was struck multiple times and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.
Two people were killed in a shooting in Woodlawn on the South Side. About 5:43 p.m., an 18-year-old woman and a male were in the 6300 block of South Kimbark Avenue when they suffered gunshot wounds to their heads, police said. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. A weapon was recovered.
A man was killed in a shooting in East Garfield Park. The 23-year-old was in a vehicle about 3:40 p.m. in the 3400 block of West Walnut Street when a vehicle pulled up alongside and someone inside opened fire, police said. The man was struck in the neck and back. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A 67-year-old man was shot and killed in a road-rage shooting Monday morning in Lawndale on the West Side. The shooter felt the man had cut him off in the 1600 block of South Kostner Avenue at 9:45 a.m., police said. He argued with the man and took out a gun and fired two shots, striking the 67-year-old once in his chest. The man, who was the only person in the car, crashed and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was identified as Patrick Earl of West Garfield Park, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
In non-fatal shootings, a 43-year-old man was critically wounded in a drive-by in Englewood on the South Side. About 11:30 p.m., he was walking in the 1200 block of West 73rd Place, when someone in a passing white sedan fired shots, police said. He was struck in the back and leg, and drove himself to St. Bernard Hospital for treatment.
A 4-year-old boy and a teen were shot inside a Woodlawn home on the South Side. The child was hit in the hand and a 17-year-old boy was shot in the foot around 1:50 p.m. in the 6500 block of South Ellis Avenue, police spokeswoman Michelle Tannehill said. They were taken by paramedics to Comer Children’s Hospital, where they were listed in good condition, Tannehill said. Police did not immediately release the circumstances of the shooting. The shooting occurred inside a home, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
Five others were wounded in shootings citywide.
Fifty-two people were shot, seven fatally, last weekend.
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The Court’s 9-0 ruling Monday against the NCAA opens the door for athletes to be compensated.
God bless the law.
Never thought I, a would-be renegade, could ever say that.
But I have. And I mean it.
It took the Supreme Court to finally tell the NCAA that it is a phony, bullying, patronizing, exploitative monolith built on the laughably indefensible concept of ‘‘amateurism.’’
That longtime fraudulence can be framed thusly: Displaying rare talent, working really hard, entertaining millions, lining the pockets of vast numbers of pseudo-helpers, profiteers and leeches is a noble thing for gifted young men and women to do . . . for free.
In a landmark decision Monday, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that college athletes can be compensated for their work far beyond the room, board and educational scholarships that big-time universities offer them.
Yes, there are some parameters to that decision because at least for now the court says the extra benefits should be education-related somehow. But you can almost guarantee that soon that limit will be erased, too.
No matter. The athletes are, at last, basically free to make a buck.
Will college fans who are happy with the status quo like that?
Probably not.
Will the decision create havoc and complications in many quarters?
Absolutely.
Does it mean the loss of a certain kind of collegiate innocence, no matter how contrived?
Yes, it does.
But guess what?
You can only prop up a tilting Rube Goldberg contraption for so long, no matter how much you love the propeller that spins at the end.
Indeed, it was the NCAA itself that professionalized everything about big-time, entertainment-driven, revenue-producing sport in the first place. Everything, that is, except for the workers, who went unpaid.
Nobody ever said the NCAA had to put its games on TV, charge a fortune for tickets, build massive stadiums and sports complexes, pay coaches many millions of dollars. That was done because the NCAA wanted to. Boosters and fans and gamblers liked it, too.
But nobody ever asked the athletes what they thought. They were young, disorganized, gone soon.
Expand from 10 football games a year to as many as 15 or 16 now? Done.
Miss many classes in a major that is irrelevant and useless so you can prep for the Big Dance (rather than the major you’d want if this really were about education)? Done.
Wear a shoe on command and watch the endorsement wealth go to, say, Urban Meyer or John Calipari or some coach who wears wing tips? Done.
The compounding hypocrisy was so overwhelming that by its sheer audacity it tended to blind us to reality. It has been said before that folks will believe a big lie sooner than a little one. I mean, if anyone can name any profession in this country wherein the skilled laborers get nothing for compensation but meals, beds and books, I’d like to hear of it.
The court said essentially that athletes can profit off their likeness and test the waters on many other ventures. After all, whom would fans prefer to see at a meet-and-greet — a gum-cracking, fast-talking college coach or the star quarterback or point guard? Or even the entire usually anonymous — but stunningly huge — offensive line?
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the court’s opinion, ripping the NCAA’s contempt for antitrust law by limiting benefits to athletes to only the stuff it wants to give out. He was measured and precise in explaining the change, leaving a lot out there for review.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh was less restrained, caustically explaining how wrong the NCAA’s ‘‘amateurism’’ philosophy is and opening the door for even more athlete freedom in the future.
‘‘All of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’ wages on the theory that ‘customers prefer’ to eat food from low-paid cooks,’’ Kavanaugh wrote. ‘‘Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses’ income in order to create a ‘purer’ form of helping the sick.’’
He concluded, ‘‘Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor.’’
For more than a century, the NCAA has worked for its own good. In its eyes, somehow, 19- to 23-year-old athletes are too young, too naive, too easily manipulated, too stupid to share in the revenue they produce. Gotta hand it to the NCAA. It was a great con while it lasted.
It’s always a shame when Congress or the courts have to make institutions do what they should’ve done all along. It’s also bad when those decisions become politicized.
But this mixed-bag Supreme Court ruled unanimously (9-0) against the NCAA’s exploitation.
On the field of play, that’s what’s called a butt-whippin’.
Baez forgot the number of outs in the fourth inning leading to an inning-ending double play in the Cubs’ 4-0 loss.
Manager David Ross wants his players to have fun and enjoy themselves on the field everyday, but one of his requirements is playing with effort and focus. In the Cubs’ 4-0 loss to the Indians on Monday, shortstop Javy Baez lost some of that focus, leading to an early exit from the game.
Baez was on first base in the fourth inning with one out when first baseman Anthony Rizzo flied out to left. Baez, not realizing how many outs there were, never stopped running after the and once he realized, never made an attempt to get back to first base.
“We just got to make sure we’re focused and locked in during the game,” Ross said after the loss. “Sometimes our frustrations can distract us a little bit. We had a good conversation, I think that’s behind us. Javy’s really important to this team and he’s a leader on this team and sets a good example every time he’s on the field.”
The mental lapse led to an inning-ending double play and led Ross to bench his superstar shortstop the next inning. During Rizzo’s at-bat, Baez was also glued to the bag and didn’t take a lead off until the pitch was thrown.
“He’s one of the guys that I rely on to set a good example for all these guys,” Ross said. “But I think highly of him and his skill set. So, yeah, I think it’s just a little bit of lack of concentration.”
“I was just surprised,” Baez said. “Obviously, I never want to be out of the lineup. You just respect his decision.”
When the Cubs returned to the field in the fifth inning, Sergio Alcantara replaced Baez at shortstop. Since Ross took over as manager last year, Baez has had some mental lapses. Many times Ross would talk to him in the dugout and allow him to remain in the game, avoiding making an example of his player in public.
But this time, Ross decided to send a message to his star shortstop and pull him from the game. Last season, Ross made a similar move with outfielder Kyle Schwarber after a lapse on defense. While it’s a decision he felt he had to make, it’s still not something, the second-year manager wants to do.
“It did not feel good to take Javy out of the game,” Ross said. “I never feel comfortable doing that at all. That’s a that’s a big pit stomach and was in my stomach the entire game.”
There are few players you’re going to find on a baseball field that play harder than Baez, who on a nightly basis, does extra to make things happen for the Cubs. But Baez sets an example for the group and had to pay the price for the mental error.
Despite the disappointment of being removed from the game, Baez understood why the move needed to be made and
“I blame myself. I lost count of the outs,” Baez said. “We talked about it and we’re on the same page. I’ll be there tomorrow to help the team.”
“There are no hard feelings right now,” he said. “Things happens between brothers, teammates, and managers. It happens and we always try to be on the same page and try to help the team as much as we can.”
The 19-year-old was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle about 9:42 p.m. in the 300 block of West 52nd Place when someone stepped out of a gray Infiniti G35 and opened fire, Chicago police said.
A woman died in a shooting Monday in Fuller Park on the South Side.
The 19-year-old was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle about 9:42 p.m. in the 300 block of West 52nd Place when someone stepped out of a gray Infiniti G35 and opened fire, Chicago police said.
The woman was struck twice to the side of her body and once to her lower back, police said. She was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
No arrests have been reported. Area One detectives are investigating.
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