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Rosalynn Carter’s final journey has begun in Southwest Georgia Jeremy Redmon, Martha Dalton and Mirtha Donastorg The Atlanta JournalConstitution

involvement with the hospital extended well beyond that.

“They wanted what was best for Sumter County, and health care was an integral part of that,” said Carlyle Walton, the medical center’s CEO. “I am thankful that our team was given this opportunity to be a small part in celebrating the life of just a great AMERICUS, Ga. — Former first woman, a great American and someone lady Rosalynn Carter, who died this who was passionate about our commumonth at 96 after battling dementia, nity, our hospital.” began her final journey Monday where it For many years, a Carter family started, in her native Southwest Geormember served on the board of the foungia. Three days of memorial events are dation for Sumter Regional Hospital in planned.

Americus. But in 2007, that hospital was From Plains, the Presidential destroyed by a tornado and was rebuilt, Medal of Freedom recipient’s motorcade becoming Phoebe Sumter. traveled Monday morning to Phoebe The former president attended the Sumter Medical Center in Americus. new center’s groundbreaking in 2009 The hospital has served as her tempoand the former first lady wrote a letter to rary resting place since she died. Her help it win a national contest for a free children, grandchildren and greatMRI machine, according to Walton. In grandchildren arrived at the hospital in 2015, the community raised money in black coaches. the former president’s honor — to supOver the years, she and former port fellow cancer patients. The Carters President Jimmy Carter received medi- asked that some of those donations fund cal care at Phoebe Sumter, though their the Phoebe Cancer Center, Walton said.

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Yet another college course on Taylor Swift makes clear: She’s more than a pop star Terry Castleman Los Angeles Times

Ethan Scott OSU fans braved the over-night cold to secure Big 12 Championship tickets.

Punching my carnival ticket to the Big 12 Kennedy Thomason News & Lifestyle Editor

a ticket to the Big 12 Championship this weekend.

What started out as optimistic acceptance of waiting in the line that snaked back around to the west side of Boone Pickens Stadium, ended in nearAt the end of a 24-degree, frozen disbelief. five hour night, all I had was a When OSU officials reallittle red carnival ticket as my ized students intended to stay prize. the night, demonstrated by the It’s a fitting metaphor for various tents, cots and other the situation. makeshift bedding students set On Sunday night, as the up, they adjusted plans. temperature dropped, hundreds Jessie Martin, the senior of OSU students lined up outside associate athletic director, made of Gallagher-Iba Arena, myself rounds to announce that ticket included, — all of us vying for vouchers would be given to

everyone in line. He said they would reflect your place in line and could be exchanged at 7 a.m. on Monday for an actual ticket.

When asked why they couldn’t provide the tickets instead of vouchers, Martin said they didn’t have enough staff to process everyone in the wee morning Monday hours.

Resolved to wait for the tickets we were already freezing over, my group of friends and I hunkered down.

Then came the stampede of students rushing by.

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“People … imagine it as being some kind of validation of that artist,” Robert Fink, a professor of musicology and humanities at UCLA, said of such course If she could talk to offerings. (UCLA does not Taylor Swift, recent UC have a class on Swift — yet.)

Berkeley grad Crystal HaryThe first to teach the anto knows what she’d say: Beatles or Bob Dylan at “When I was a kid, I UCLA were English prowould listen to you because fessors, who “had less of I wanted to learn everything a phobia about that stuff,” about you. But as I grew up, Fink said. He explained I realized that I was listenthat many university music ing to you because I was departments “held onto a learning everything about notion of popular music” as me.” less-than-deserving of the Though she may never attention. get the chance to meet the Nowadays, “probably pop star, Haryanto will it’s more likely to have a soon be sharing her love for Taylor Swift than a Megan all things Swift with some Thee Stallion class because lucky students and fellow people think of Taylor Swift fans. as a lyric writer, and thus She put together a a poet, and thus somebody course, “Artistry & Entreyou can talk about as a text,” preneurship: Taylor’s Verhe said. sion,” that will be available Though Fink doesn’t at Berkeley as a student-led, plan to teach a course on for-credit class during the Swift, he imagines such a spring semester, the latest class could discuss “genre in a wave of higher educaand race and whiteness,” tion offerings that highlight “the state of the music Swift’s ascent to global industry,” and feminism and phenomenon. girl culture.

She’s not the first “People have started musical artist to be studied to realize: Oh, this is probin a collegiate setting; Jayably one of the representaZ, Queen and Bob Marley tive artists of this period in are among many who have the industry and culture,” he drawn student interest for said. decades.

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Gundy talks Texas, Big 12 title game and more in weekly press conference Daniel Allen Staff Reporter

For the past 13 seasons, Mike Gundy has bested the mighty Texas Longhorns.

Since 2010, the Oklahoma State coach holds a 9-4 record against the soon-to-be SEC inhabitants, including wins in the past two matchups.

That success has come against a program in Austin with a surplus of riches and a plethora of spend-happy boosters and donors. A program that boasts four national championships, two national runner-up appearances, two Heisman Trophy winners and three Hall of Fame coaches. The seventh all-time winningest program in college football.

But one thing is for certain: OSU hasn’t lined up against a Texas football team this talented since the peak Mack Brown days.

“These are new teams,” Gundy said. With the (transfer) portal now, next year’s team won’t be this year’s team.

“I want (our guys) to prepare… I would think (the success) we’ve had against Texas would give them some hope.”

Since 2010 – the year after the Longhorn’s most recent national championship appearance – Texas has amassed just one 10-win season, coming in 2018 (10-4), which was highlighted by a Sugar Bowl win over Georgia. It was then that former Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger stood at the midfield at the Caesars Superdome and muttered the infamous phrase: “Longhorn nation… we’re baaaaaaaaaack.”

Since then, 8-5 in 2019, 7-3 in 2020 – though COVID-19 messed up that season – 5-7 in 2021 and 8-5 in 2022.

The lingering debate of whether one of college football’s darlings is back has been tethered to the program since Ehlinger’s Sugar Bowl heroics. And the answer has been simple: Texas has not been back. That is, possibly until this season.

The No. 7 Longhorns (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) have 11 wins through 12 games for the first time since the 2009 season.

Statistically, they’re the most complete team in the Big 12.

The offense is averaging 35 points and 460.4 yards per game, while the defense has surrendered just over 17 points per game.

There aren’t many teams that prance into Bryant-Denny Stadium and dominate a Nick Saban Alabama team. Well, the Longhorns did earlier this year in a 34-24 win over the Crimson Tide.

Quarterback Quinn Ewers is far beyond the three-interception, 38.77 completion % prospect he was in a 41-34 loss to OSU a season ago.

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Ethan Scott OSU coach Mike Gundy said his team can’t afford to start slowly against the Longhorns as the Cowboys have the past few weeks.

(9-3, 7-2 Big 12) to have a chance in Saturday’s Big 12 Championship game, the recurrent slow starts from the past three weeks can’t be repeated.

If they do, it could a long afternoon for OSU on both sides of the ball.

“We can’t start slow,” Gundy said. “We’re not one dimensional. It’s really that simple.”

Prepping for the Longhorn front seven Texas’ run defense ranks fourth nationally in total efficiency.

The Longhorns are surrendering just 85 yards per game on the ground, aided by the towering defensive line tandem of T’Vondre Sweat and

Byron Murphy II. OSU’s offense thrives off rushing success. Running back Ollie Gordon leads the nation in rushing through 12 games with 1,580 yards and 20 touchdowns, averaging 6.4 yards per carry.

However, Sweat, at 6-foot-4, 362 pounds, and Murphy, 6-1, 308 pounds, have anchored the UT defensive line.

Although OSU’s offensive line has adjusted well for most of the year, Saturday will be the ultimate test. “(Texas has) been this way defensively for a long time,” Gundy said. “They’ve got good players. I’ve got a lot of respect for them.”

A Big 12 vs. SEC element to Saturday’s conference cham-

pionship game?

Imagine impending SEC members Oklahoma and Texas in the Big 12 Championship game.

Two programs garnering nothing short of bitterness and disdain from other Big 12 members and fan bases, getting the last laugh before departing the conference. Regardless of who wins, it’s a lose-lose situation for the Big 12.

Fortunately for current Big 12 members, OSU has a stake in Saturday’s game. The Cowboys are just the third program other than Oklahoma and Baylor to make the title twice in a three-year span, and the first to do so this decade.

“It’s awesome,” said of-

fensive coordinator Kasey Dunn after OSU’s 40-34 win over BYU on Saturday. “It’s good for the Big 12 Conference to have one of the (returning) teams and members in the (championship) game. We’ll see how it plays out.”

Although Gundy avoided giving an in-depth response to a reporter’s question of whether Saturday’s game means more – no pun intended – given the conference’s realignment, he didn’t shy away from the fact that an OSU would benefit the Big 12 more so than not.

“A win would be nice,” Gundy said. “That’s for sure.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Payton Little BYU coach Kalani Sitake said Saturday’s loss was tough, but he liked his team’s energy, and the Cougars know what to expect in the Big 12 from now on.

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BYU talks overtime, Ollie Gordon after OSU’s comeback against Cougars Savannah Chenoweth Staff Reporter

plays, especially in the second half, that’s where all three phases we did everything we could to the playbook, trying to find a way to get more possessions. But overall, just really happy with the way guys performed. The energy afOklahoma State defeated BYU, ter the game is what we’ll build on, and 40-34, in double overtime and advanced now they know this is what’s expected to the Big 12 Championship game in in the Big 12.”

Arlington.

OSU ends regular season play 9-3 Sitake on BYU giving up the big overall, 7-2 in conference. lead in the second half: Here’s what BYU head coach Kalani Sitake and the Cougars had to say: “Obviously, we’d like to see more points on the board because more Sitake’s opening statement: production in the second half will help us out. Sustaining drives will get some “At the end, mistakes cost us. The relief to the defense. Defensively, I guys fought hard; I appreciate how hard thought we had a chance to get more they fought. We just didn’t make enough turnovers and turnovers cost us. That is

a problem. We have to take care of the football.”

Sitake on Ollie Gordon and Oklahoma State: “This is the best (running back) in the country, and they kept feeding him the ball... He is so physical and such a great back and credit the offensive line and tight ends that block for him. It is a really good scheme that Coach Gundy and the offense have done, and defensively they created turnovers as well.”

there and when we had an opportunity.

It was one of those games where we just didn’t make the big plays at the end down the stretch, and I think everybody is hurt by that.”

BYU wide receiver Cody Epps on finishing the game in overtime against OSU:

“I don’t think you want the last regular season game to go any other way. Not the ending but to go into overtime like we did and having a fight to the end. You don’t want it any other way BYU defensive back Eddie Heck- as a competitor… Ebbs and flows are a ard on emotions in the locker room product of a competitive game with two after the loss: good teams battling to the end against each other.”

“Upset. Everybody. To lose right sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Ollie Gordon scores historic five touchdowns, lifts Cowboys over BYU in season finale Daniel Allen Staff Reporter

OSU coach Mike Gundy often strays away from the sparking comparisons, particularly ones involving his players.

But he took exception in No. 20 OSU’s 40-34 double-overtime win over BYU. He compared running back Ollie Gordon II to past OSU greats. After all, he’s faced a similar situation all season — a stacked box. And it has often come with two, sometimes even three additional defenders.

Overcoming that is the “somewhat” daunting task comes tethered to being the nation’s leading rusher. It’s nothing Gordon hasn’t handled over the season’s course.

It’s something the OSU running-back greats were tasked with — Terry Miller, Thurman Thomas and Heisman Trophy winner and longtime NFL running back Barry Sanders.

Gordon — for most of the past nine weeks — has done just that. And Gundy made note of it.

“It’s pretty remarkable, ain’t it? One week you’re watching him put on a stellar performance and you think there’s no way he can top it.

Then he tops it the next week,” Gundy said.

How does he do it?

“He has a second gear to him,” said wide receiver Leon Johnson III. “When he gets into that second gear, good luck stopping him.”

In the Cowboys’ win over BYU (5-7, 2-7 Big 12), Gordon became the second running back in OSU history to log five rushing touchdowns in one game, joining Sanders.

Sanders did it three times.

But it’s an accomplishment that

Ethan Scott On Saturday, Ollie Gordon joined Barry Sanders as the only Cowboys to score five rushing touchdowns in a game.

has been so exclusive that it took 35 years add onto. Until Saturday afternoon.

The “second gear” has paid dividends for Gordon and OSU throughout the year. Opposing teams know what they’re up against once No. 0 steps onto the football field. Still, he finds ways to overcome whatever defensive fold or disguised coverage appears.

In the second overtime, Gordon faced yet another stacked box. On second-andgoal, Gordon was surrounded in the backfield.

But then came that “sec-

ond gear.”

A broken tackle in the backfield. Then a stiff-arm and a leap over two BYU defenders into the end zone gave the Cowboys’ (9-3, 7-2 Big 12) a go-ahead touchdown, and the eventual game-winner to clinch a berth in the Big 12 championship game against Texas.

“Looked a little like Barry (Sanders) there,” Gundy said postgame. “(Gordon) just keeps making plays for us. That’s the thing about Ollie. There’s never an off day or an off moment for him.”

And the on-field vantage

point sparked elation from Gordon’s teammates.

“It was insane,” said linebacker Collin Oliver. “But that’s just a Ollie play right there. I see it every game, so I’m not too surprised about it. I see it all the time.”

It wasn’t Gordon’s lone score that came in the game’s pivotal moments.

Gordon also delivered the first go-ahead touchdown with 53 seconds remaining in the game for a 15-yard score to give OSU a 27-24 lead. That came with an elusive cutback to break away along the left side.

And again, in the first overtime period for a two-yard score.

Postgame, a photo on X surfaced of Sanders leaping over multiple defenders for a touchdown during OSU’s 1988 Holiday Bowl win over Wyoming.

Similar to the final touchdown of Gordon’s outing Saturday evening, right?

Gordon chuckled when asked about such comparisons.

“It feels great,” he said with a smile. “Being put in the same category as Barry Sanders around here, it’s really, really cool honestly.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Ethan Scott Students camped out on Sunday night in an effort to get tickets to Saturday’s Big 12 Championship football game.

Ticket . . .

The crowd quickly reduced to pushing and shoving each other out of the way to earn a closer spot in line.

For all intensive purposes, it felt Continued from 1 like being caught inside a cattle shoot.

The crowd that previsouly stretched to the other side of the stadium now fit in OSU officials began handing out a mob next to GIA. There was no place the vouchers in GIA, with little to no re- to move, no place to put your arms and gard for the order we had already placed no control over what direction you were ourselves in line. Group after group heading next. sprinted toward the front of the line, all Students shoved each other into rules out the window. brick pillons as they rushed closer to the From that point on, it was game east doors. on.

The crowded surged and recoiled

over and over again. The only reprieve was reaching the front of the line, where students were then hand selected in small groups to enter GIA. After five hours of waiting and battling for a spot in line, I received a small red ticket that reminded me of the kind you used to get at your elementary school’s carnival.

It pretty much embodied the unbelievable series of events that led up to 3 a.m.

Then it was back at it by 6 a.m. to wait for the actual ticket.

One sunrise and three-hour line

later, I had my ticket and a poor taste in my mouth for OSU’s planning. For the over 1,000 students that received vouchers, there were two workers to register students for tickets.

I left GIA with a mix of triumphant emotions and a feeling that I had been cheated by the system.

I don’t discount the efforts of the OSU officials to try to get students out of the below freezing weather. However, a little bit of additional planning and better execution could’ve saved a lot of heartache. news.ed@ocolly.com

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Continued from 1 The former president, who entered home hospice care this year after a series of brief hospital stays, was not in the family motorcade that arrived at the hospital in Americus Monday.

But he is expected to travel to Atlanta as part of the memorial events for his late wife, a Carter Center spokesperson said.

Ten current and former members of Rosalynn Carter’s U.S. Secret Service details carried her casket — laden with sunflowers and roses — from the medical center to her hearse.

Among them was Bill Bush, who served the Carters for 21 years until he retired in 1999. He was special agent in charge for 16 of those years, traveling to more than 120 countries with the former first lady. Bush accompanied her on work trips and adventures, including when they climbed to the base camps at Mount Everest and Mount Kilimanjaro.

“She did not want to be left out of anything that President Carter decided to do,” Bush said, adding: “It’s certainly like losing one of your family.”

Loved ones watched as her casket was transferred from the hospital to her hearse. The atmosphere was solemn, with only the sounds of rustling leaves and helicopters breaking the silence.

Next, her motorcade arrived at her alma mater, Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus. The campus features a bronze statue of her and is home to the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, which advocates for those who aid people with disabilities and mental illnesses.

Mourners placed wreaths beside her statue before her Tribune Content Agency motorcade departed for its final U.S. Secret Service agents accompany the hearse carrying former First Lady Rosalynn Carter at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center Monday. destination Monday, the Carter Center. Rosalynn Carter joined and promote democracy. odist Church, located on Emory Emhoff are expected to attend. in front of the home she shared the former president in creating University’s campus. President Maranatha Baptist Church with the former president in A private service is the center, which seeks to wipe planned for her Tuesday at Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, in Plains will hold a private Plains. out diseases, reduce the stigma Glenn Memorial United Meth- Vice President Kamala Harris service for her on Wednesday. surrounding mental illnesses news.ed@ocolly.com and second gentleman Doug Afterward, she will be buried

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Tribune Content Agency Inglewood, CA - August 07: Taylor Swift performs during The Eras Tour at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood Monday, Aug. 7, 2023.

Swift . . .

“There’s so much to unpack in terms of the relationship between Taylor as an individual and an image in the media, and how she constantly reinvents her music Continued from 1 and style.”

Alongside the musicality, the “entrepreneurship” part of Haryanto’s A number of other prominent course title points to another aspect of universities have added similar offerings Swift worth studying: her sprawling in recent years to appeal to a generation commercial empire. of Swifties who see her music as more Swift’s Eras Tour has sold an estithan a fad. mated $700 million in tickets and added Stanford will offer a course foover $4 billion to the U.S. GDP, accordcused on Swift’s songwriting in April. ing to an analysis by Bloomberg.

Earlier this year, another Stanford stuThe tour made her a billionaire, dent taught a course on Swift’s 10-min- one of only a handful of artists to reach ute song “All Too Well.” that level of wealth.

Last year, classes about Swift’s The official concert film from the songwriting and legacy thrilled SwiftEras Tour brought in nearly $100 milies at the University of Texas at Austin, lion at the domestic box office in its first Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, four days, ranking as one of the biggest and New York University — where October movie releases ever.

Swift received her honorary doctorate Swift’s power to influence the conalongside the class of 2022. versation extends beyond music to the Berklee College of Music currently National Football League, where early offers a songwriting course tracking rumors of her relationship with Kansas Swift’s evolution.

City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce were Haryanto, who works as a research enough to spike viewership of a recent analyst in the Bay Area, will have a game among teenage girls by more than chance to put her own spin on the trend 50%. at UC Berkeley.

Fink, who chairs a newly created “I had the most fun dreaming up music industry program at UCLA, said the unit on personas, perceptions, and he sees Swift as a “kind of ideal type”: personalities,” she said in a statement.

the artist-entrepreneur who controls her career.

In contrast to rock stars in decades past whose tours were marked by partying and trashed hotel rooms, Fink said, Swift and others such as Bruce Springsteen and James Brown have made seeming in control of their careers part of their image. “It’s different from the way people imagined how big pop stars are supposed to function,” he said.

In rerecording her first six studio albums after the master rights were sold to an investment fund, “obviously there’s money reasons to do that,” Fink said, but also a “need to be in control of [her] stuff and do it [her] way.”

After decades of teen sensations who were men, from the Beatles to the Backstreet Boys, there is power in young women having “somebody who is literally representing them,” Fink said.

And those teens and young women looking for representation have plenty to find in Swift’s 10 studio albums.

Her records “seem to mark the different stages of her growth as an artist and as a person,” said Nate Sloan, a musicology professor at USC and host of the “Switched on Pop” podcast, allowing listeners — and those who clamored for tickets to Swift’s career-spanning Eras Tour — to relive “their own growth and

their own coming of age” through her music.

Swift is an example of “the need for contemporary artists to mine their personal lives for their creative expression,” Sloan said.

Some critics use that to “cheapen her songwriting to a degree,” distinguishing between crafting a story and channeling real-life emotions, Sloan said. He disagrees with that characterization, calling it a gendered critique.

The music industry relies heavily on artists’ identities as part of their brand, and “female artists have even more pressure to do this than their male counterparts,” he said.

Before, “we just expected artists to make a good record,” he said. That Swift can keep so many fans interested in her story “reflects the level of craft and intention that she brings to her work.”

At Berkeley, Haryanto’s course will seek to break down “stereotypical critiques” of Swift, she wrote, discussing topics like “what it means to be a victim or a victor.”

Admission will be applicationbased. Given the number of Swifties on any college campus, there might be some competition.

Applications for the course open on Taylor’s birthday: Dec. 13. news.ed@ocolly.com

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11/28/23

By Chandi Deitmer

3 “Deep breath ... ” 4 TLC and HAIM 5 Performed like TLC and HAIM 6 Scand. land 7 Down Under bird 8 Recorded, in a way 9 Nothing, in Latin 10 Small stir-fry vegetables 11 “__ You the One?”: reality dating series 12 SF NFL team 13 “Great” West Egg resident Jay 14 Gets everywhere 19 “__ the season ... ” 23 Evil spirits 25 Supersonic speed measure 26 Six-time MLB All-Star Moisés 28 “Imagine that!”

29 Ration (out) 30 Riled up 35 “Three Billboards ... ” actress Cornish 36 Add bubbles to 37 Plumbing conduits 39 Internet lingo from a cat meme

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40 Hindu mentor 41 Person next door 42 Stare in awe 43 Relaxing resorts 47 Add to an email thread, say 48 TV revenue source 49 Side that might be mashed or fried 51 Uses a spray bottle

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52 Selena’s “Only Murders in the Building” role 53 Key that exits full-screen mode 54 Tequila plant 58 “__ hardly wait!”

60 Nutrition fig.

62 Anatomical pouch 63 Kinda sorta 64 “Put a __ on it!”

65 Big name in ice cream

Nancy Black Tribune Content Agency Linda Black Horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (11/28/23). This year energizes your work and health. Faithful domestic routines provide central support.

Shift directions to balance your work and health, before adapting around team challenges. Summer romance inspires your heart. Domestic renovations prepare for autumn parties and fun. Feed yourself: mind, body and spirit.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — You’re especially brilliant. All is not as it appears to be. Stick with the facts. Keep communications simple and clear. Love has the advantage.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Focus on making money. Get creative with a challenge. Monitor expenses carefully to leave a cushion for the unexpected. Keep your objective in mind.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — You can accomplish more than you think possible. Dress for the role you want.

Your confidence is contagious. Fantasies fade. Polish your public image.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Take it easy.

Consider things from another perspective. Small changes reap big rewards. Process a transition. Exercise clears up mental fog.

Rest and recharge.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — When you get stuck, love is the fallback position. Social plans could change. Support friends with a challenge. Expect miscommunications.

Patiently clarify.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — Creatively uncover solutions to a professional puzzle. Misunderstandings abound.

Learn from another’s experience. Revelations dispel a fantasy.

Don’t share unfinished work. Review and revise.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Study, listen, and learn. Chaotic situations can reveal hidden opportunities.

Research options. Review findings. Plot your course and set the pieces in place.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Financial disagreements could spark. Take the high road, especially where money is concerned. Discourage pipe dreams and fantastical plots. Pull together to surge ahead.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Listen to your partner and stay receptive. You can accomplish wonders together, if you can avoid silly arguments. Remember what’s most important. Maintain focus.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — Keep pace as the workload increases. Eat and rest well. Exercise feeds your mind, body and spirit. Score extra points for connection with nature.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — Reconnect with someone sweet. Abandon romantic agendas. Things may not go as planned. Avoid controversy. Stick with old favorites and familiar fun. Relax.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — Invest time and energy in your home and family. Clear clutter. Cook delicious meals and snacks. Share the fruit of your labor. Love inspires.

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Solution to Monday’s puzzle

11/28/23 Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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