• Uber reportedly hopes to raise about billion from its I.P.O. (Bloomberg) This is a line Mr. McConnell emphasized in October 2018 when he first began indicating that he was more than ready to take up a Trump nominee in 2020, should the chance arise.
There was no getting around the difficulties created by the special projector required to show the film. It was temperamental and had to be brought into each theater in a portable fireproof booth. Kalmus despaired that it required an operator who was "a cross between a college professor and an acrobat." A 2019 congressional confirmation hearing on C-Span is probably not a place you would expect to see the titular gilled fellow from the 1954 monster movie classic “Creature From the Black Lagoon.” However, this past March, there he was — that unmistakable rubbery visage sitting behind the nominee to lead the Department of the Interior — in a stunt by Greenpeace activists wearing masks to protest the Washington “swamp.” But when the incident quickly went viral, it also highlighted the Creature’s solid place in pop culture after 65 years.
Re “The G.O.P. Can Win the Suburbs” (Op-Ed, Nov. 20): Eric Hosmer hit a three-run homer during a big first inning against Masahiro Tanaka, and San Diego Manager Andy Green burned through his bullpen to help the Padres hold off the Yankees, 5-4, on a soggy Tuesday night in the Bronx.