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Dallas CowboysIf one of the NFL’s most powerful men had taken ownership of a controversial image from the civil rights era, he really would be a football maverick Of the NFL’s 32 team principals, only Jerry Jones mugs for TV cameras during games, entertains reporters afterward, and has a stadium that’s a monument to his stature in the game. Even the most casual football watcher would recognize the 80-year-old oilman as the face of the Dallas Cowboys – America’s Team – the cultural institution Jones won three championships with in the 1990s.

NHL This article is more than 11 years oldNHL cancels 2013 Winter Classic between Detroit and TorontoThis article is more than 11 years oldLockout leads to cancellation of event which NHL had hoped would attract a world-record crowd for ice hockeyThe NHL has confirmed that is has cancelled the 2013 Winter Classic, which was scheduled to be played at Michigan Stadium on 1 January. The league said on Friday that it would schedule the next Winter Classic at the stadium, which holds more than 100,000 people and had been expected to set a record for attendance at a hockey game with a match-up between the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs.

The ObserverTrue crime booksMore than a century after a crime that gripped America, it is still a magnet for authors and film-makersHere in Britain if we know Lizzie Borden at all it’s probably as the gruesome subject of an infuriatingly catchy children’s rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an axe/And gave her mother forty whacks/When she saw what she had done/She gave her father forty one”. But that is all set to change as a host of new projects including a film, Lizzie Borden, starring Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, a highly anticipated debut novel, See What I Have Done, and a revival of a cult US rock musical, Lizzie, place America’s most famous probable parricide back in the spotlight again.

ArtLettersWaterhouse’s small-breasted Nymphs are not girlsMary Hayward takes Manchester Art Gallery to taskThe lessons of the Hylas affair (The Nymphs and me, G2, 20 March) are threefold. First, works in art galleries should not be arranged according to what the curators think they are about. The dividing line between telling visitors what they ought to think and telling them what they ought not to think (which is censorship) is narrow and easily crossed.

SEMANTIC ENIGMASWhy has your thumb got a special name, but your big toe is just called a Big Toe? Beth , Derby, UK It is opposable, unlike your big toe, and functions differently to the fingers. Incidentally, Arabic doesn't even have a word for 'toes' big or little - they are called 'foot fingers'. Keith Mason, London, UK My guess is because the thumb is the only opposable digit unlike all other digits which are more or less parallel.

OpinionPolitics This article is more than 7 years oldWhy not sleep with the enemy? Politics is all about seductionThis article is more than 7 years oldSuzanne MooreThere is no point in campaigning if anyone who thinks differently is to be spurned A world exists where one is able to mix only with those who already know what is right. It is populated by those who are happy to discuss differences as long as they are not actual differences.

New South Wales This article is more than 4 months oldWife-killer Chris Dawson sentenced to three years in jail over unlawful sex with studentThis article is more than 4 months oldFresh prison term comes on top of 24-year sentence Dawson received in 2022 for murdering wife Lynette Dawson in 1982 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Former teacher and convicted wife-killer Christopher Dawson has received a three-year sentence for having unlawful sexual activity with one of his students four decades ago.

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Theatre This article is more than 11 years oldActor Sophiya Haque dies aged 41This article is more than 11 years oldFormer Coronation Street star, who had been appearing in West End production of Privates on Parade, has died after having been diagnosed with cancerA star of the West End production of Privates on Parade, the actor and singer Sophiya Haque, has died aged 41. Her agency, Cole Kitchenn, and her partner David White have confirmed that she died late on Wednesday, having been diagnosed with cancer several weeks ago.