Новости за 21.09.2016

The recent Post and Courier article that revealed the incredibly lavish perks which MUSC provides to its board of trustees is at once astonishing and stupefying. The article speaks only of the MUSC board and not of the many conscientious MUSC physicians, faculty and staff who provide a valued medical service to the community.

The 9/11 anniversary has again passed with well-deserved and planned services of remembrance. It was a tragedy not even overshadowed by the Pearl Harbor attacks.

I am just an average Joe. I love to golf and fish. I was in intramurals in college. I’m a sorta-jock who watches sports when I can.

I long for the day when Page A1 of The Post and Courier will be reserved for news of significant importance relating to state, national and international affairs.

Those who refuse to honor our flag and or national anthem have a legal right to their beliefs. However, I consider them to be traitors.

The most important statement of this campaign came from a guy I shouldn’t like (since I’m a sworn lefty), a Republican, now working for Trump, Jack Kingston. It was on HBO’s "Real Time with Bill Maher." Jack said, "Until there is some kind of electronic disrupter in Washington, nothing will change."

While the media have focused mostly on the presidential election, we are doing ourselves a major disservice.

Despite all of the recent hoopla, true "Star Trek" wonks know that the 50th anniversary of the premiere actually fell on Thursday, Sept. 15, not on Thursday, Sept. 8. In the parlance of the era, what aired on that Sept. 8, 1966, was called a preview — an appetizer to increase the audience for the actual premiere,...

Jennifer Outlaw lives in Summerville.

Ben Moise has been cooking Frogmore stew since the early 1980s, when he prepared a potful for the Heritage Golf Tournament at Hilton Head. He followed a recipe given to him by the late state Sen. Jimmy Waddell of Port Royal, and he still sticks to it.

In almost every instance, there’s nothing unusual about meat sized for two appetites: Chefs simply double cut familiar items such as pork chops or rib-eye steaks so they’ll satisfy a pair of diners.

Q: Do you recommend buying tickets to any of the Charleston Wine + Food Festival events? I know a bunch sell out right away.

The pimento grilled cheese at Ashley Lanes Tavern stands the usual height, but the new bowl-and-eat venue’s burger is a contender for the "tallest sandwich in town" title.

"At (Washington D.C.’s) Capital Area Food Bank, president and CEO Nancy Roman has seen a recent onslaught of donations of this junk food, turning their operation into an ‘incredible exploding warehouse of sheet cakes.’ In order to combat this, beginning on September 1, Roman and her team will no longer accept a number...

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NEW YORK — Wherever she was, Natascha McElhone’s ears must have been burning thanks to Kiefer Sutherland, who stars as her devoted husband and the inadvertent president of the United States in ABC’s much-anticipated new thriller "Designated Survivor."

NEW YORK — Angelina Jolie Pitt has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, bringing an end to what began as the world’s most tabloid headline-generating romance before morphing into a star-studded engine of family and philanthropy.

If you live in a household like mine, one with a nonverbal child, you’re anticipating one television show above all others this fall: "Speechless," which begins Sept. 21 on ABC.

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BLISH, Harold Frederick Jr., 67, of Charleston, a retired mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service and husband of Donna Blish, died Monday. Arrangements by McAlister-Smith’s James Island Chapel.

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Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Jesus Hinlo Jr. has called the jail congestion in the country as a “national emergency.”

MANILA -- Head of the world governing body for tennis, David Haggerty, is coming to the Philippines next week as part of his long planned Asian trip.

The commissioner of the IRS apologized to Congress on Tuesday for information his agency lost and inaccurate statements he made during congressional investigations of its treatment of tea party and other conservative groups. But John Koskinen said he's been truthful and cooperative and insisted it would be wrong to impeach him.

The new Miss World Philippines will be known on Sept. 25 at Manila Hotel.