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If it were only that easy. The risk is that central banks may delude themselves into thinking that the successes of the last 25 years on the inflation front are traceable to a rules-based monetary policy. The European Central Bank, for instance, is the world’s leading inflation targeter. America’s Federal Reserve has no such explicit mandate. Yet the Fed now wants to turn itself into the ECB. Newly appointed chairman Ben Bernanke was one of academia’s leading inflation targeters....

VR (virtual reality) is the next level of immersion in video games. VR offers something special. Instead of just playing as some nameless, faceless protagonist, it allows you to be the protagonist. In this article we explain the basics of VR gaming, helping absolute beginners get started. Room Scale VR vs. Seated/Standing VR To start with, there are two main types of VR; seated/standing and room-scale VR. And here are the differences between them…...

Since the initial emotional shock, Americans have grappled with the meaning of the event, and by 2008, a staggering number had yet to find one. In my view, this unsuccessful quest stripped away Americans’ confidence in the fundamental tenets of their collective identity — notably their belief in America’s special right to hold global power. That translated into the hyper-militarization of U.S. foreign policy, the denial of U.S. international decline and a conflicted sense of moral injury....

The polite way to start a letter would be to ask you how you are or wish you well, but I know that you are not well—and on the off-chance that you are, I would be very surprised. But I will keep the norm intact and wish you: I hope that you are fine. When I was a child and football was a little inscrutable to me, I used to think that you owned Arsenal since your name and the club’s name match....

It has been quite a while since you have been in action on the tennis court. I understand that at the age of 40, you have the right to pick and choose the tournaments you play. But it still feels very odd when I see an Indian Davis Cup team without Leander Paes. I am not writing this letter to criticize your absence from the court, but to pay tribute to your service to the nation these past 24 years....

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Dear Robin, You came to Old Trafford at a point in your career when the yearning within you to win a Premier League title had scaled inescapable heights. And why wouldn’t it? Every player who moves to the Premier League has one obvious dream in common - of ultimately winning the beautiful trophy. Alas, the eight years you spent at Arsenal couldn’t help you achieve that target. Instead, it only bore a return of 2 trophies - an FA Cup and an FA Community Shield - something far less than what a striker of your quality actually deserved....

I still remember the first time I saw you play, and it is still very vivid in my mind. It was the final of the Wimbledon Championships in the year 2008, and you were taking on your great rival Rafael Nadal. I was just a 10-year-old boy at that time, and as we saw you coming onto the court on television, I remember one of my relatives telling me, “He is Roger Federer, and he is the greatest tennis player ever....

Produced by Plan B Entertainment and distributed by Netflix, Blonde has been ramping up its publicity campaign in the past few weeks. Publicity photos and a short teaser were released earlier this month, and only yesterday audiences were treated to new behind-the-scenes Blonde photos of the film’s making. MORE: 8 Things We Loved About Netflix’s Resident Evil Series The new Blonde trailer depicts a mood of vulnerability and sadness. Images of Monroe in her dressing room, walking the red carpet, and being photographed are intercut with footage of her at a diner with a male friend....

Since her run to the French Open semifinals, world No. 7 Ivanovic has only won four WTA Tour-level matches, and her defeat at the hands of Cibulkova is another major disappointment. MORE: Top images from the National Tennis Center | Serena’s U.S. Open championships Ivanovic’s first-round Grand Slam exit is her second of 2015 after suffering the same fate at the Australian Open. She was a second-round loser at Wimbledon....

Shaw joined United on the back of a stellar year, where he played 35 times for Southampton in the league, and 3 times in the FA Cup, totaling 38 games in the season. In stark contrast, at United he has never crossed the 20 game mark for a season in the 4 years he has spent at OT. He has been unfortunate with injuries but has also been unlucky when fit, the latest example being the emergence of Ashley Young as a left back....

The find, described as “unique,” was discovered at an archaeological site in Lolland, Denmark’s fourth-largest island, amid several other objects forged from organic material like wood and bone—including a T-shaped antler ax. The ring is broken but “otherwise perfectly preserved,” say researchers writing in Royal Society Open Science. The object is 2.4 centimeters (0.95 inches) in diameter, making it large enough to fit a man’s finger. It is finely polished and contains only “microscopic” scratches, while the inside still displays traces of the original carving....

That stocks in Japan were wildly overvalued and due for a fall is hardly news. Nor are projections that the Japanese economy will grow anemically this year, if at all. Of central concern now is the feeling that the Nikkei’s fall may represent a watershed in Japan’s business history. Increasingly, analysts believe the market decline could trigger profound changes in the way Japan does business, changes that could undermine the cornerstones of the country’s economic miracle: stable shareholding arrangements that secure “patient” capital for companies to invest; strategic emphasis on market share and not profits; lifetime employment for employees, and complete disdain for “shareholder rights....

To stabilize the amount of carbon dioxide, we have to throttle back emissions radically, not merely slow the rate of increase. But we can’t manage even the latter. During the 1990s, worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide (mostly from burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas) increased at a rate of 1.1 percent per year. In other words, in the years right after the climate pact reached at the Rio “earth summit,” we didn’t exactly cover ourselves with glory....

The same trait also led to a few fallouts with his teammate of more than a decade, James Anderson. On the occasion of Cook’s retirement from international cricket, Anderson, in a column for The Sun, has revealed how their friendship wasn’t all rosy, and there were days when the two didn’t even speak to each other. “We’re big mates, but we’ve had fallouts because we’re both stubborn. We’ve gone days without speaking after we’ve disagreed about something, not necessarily anything to do with cricket, either”....

Imagine going back in time to tell a Star Wars fan about the future of the franchise. Just five years ago, one could tell them that extremely popular minor character Boba Fett and widely forgotten minor character Cassian Andor would both have solo projects. Ask them to guess which one worked, and they’d almost certainly guess wrong. RELATED: Star Wars: How Has Andor Changed Since Rogue One? Andor and The Book of Boba Fett are both shows about characters that shouldn’t really have needed solo projects....

“Mourinho showed me how hard life can be as a footballer. If you had one bad game, you would be out of the team,” the current Dortmund attacker told German newspaper Bild. “Chelsea was a dream for me. But after I was out for a few weeks through an infection, the coach, unfortunately, did not count on me much more often.” Also Read: Manchester United news: Daley Blind says Jose Mourinho is more keen on winning than Louis Van Gaal...

Smith enters the fight against Ward, the WBA middleweight world champion, with back-to-back losses against Arthur Abraham. Smith’s career record is 35-5. MORE: Must-see Floyd Mayweather Instagram pictures | Mayweather expects to earn $275 million | Fight odds Ward’s long layoff came in part due to haggling with his promoter, the late Dan Goossen. “It was very devastating to the point where, and this is just not a line, but I really wanted to walk away,” Ward told ESPN....

As a result of a drastically slashed budget and wage bill at Villa Park this season, Paul Lambert, in his first year in charge, has had to resort to young, unproven talent in order to form his squad that remains in transition. Ashley Westwood, Joe Bennett and Matthew Lowton arrived from the Football League whilst Christian Benteke and Ron Vlaar were signed for cheap fees from Belgium and the Netherlands respectively....