Lady Liberty isn't just an abstract personification of freedom. Early American art makes clear that She is the Greek Athena and the Roman Minerva, Goddess of wisdom, philosophy, and civic virtue, the patroness of good government in Athens and Rome.
Barcelona's Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in jail and fined Â£1.7million over tax charges. A Spanish court found the 29-year-old Argentina striker and his father Jorge guilty of three counts of tax fraud.
Messi's penalty record has suffered serious setbacks over the last year or so. As of September 2015, Messi has missed 16 of the 79 penalties he has taken in his career for club and country (including shoot-outs), which is far from the standard one would expect from Barcelona's regular penalty taker.