For years, Google tasked Ross LaJeunesse with executing its plan to protect human rights in China, after Google announced a decade ago it would stop censoring search results there to safeguard security and free speech.
LaJeunesse took the mission to heart: He later devised a human rights program to formalize Google’s principles supporting free expression and privacy. He began lobbying for it internally in 2017 — around the time when the tech giant was exploring a return to China, in a stark reversal of its 2010 move that made its search engine unavailable there. Read More...
American actor Richard Cromwell, sometimes known as Roy Radabaugh, was born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh on January 8, 1910, and passed away on October 11, 1960. His roles in Jezebel (1938) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, as well as his subsequent collaborations with Fonda in John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln, marked the apex of his career (1939). With Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone sharing the lead roles in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), Cromwell’s fame may have initially been established. Read More...
TOKYO — At the intersection of gimmicky Olympic innovation and questionable American lineup strategy stood the world’s fastest swimmer Saturday morning. Tabbed to swim the anchor leg of the first mixed-gender medley relay final in Olympics history, and needing a gold medal to keep alive his hopes for a historic meet, Caeleb Dressel dove in and attempted to chase down seven female swimmers whose head starts ranged from about eight seconds to about 2½. Read More...