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The Associated Press will not predict a winner of the presidential election. It will not even name an apparent or likely winner. The A.P. will make the call only when it is certain just as it has in every U.S. election since 1848, when Zachary Taylor won the White House. "If there's no way for the trailing candidate to...
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When Texas lawmakers rolled out a framework for evaluating public schoolteachers more than 15 years ago, they intended to identify ways to strengthen the state's teaching corps. But the regular result of the largely subjective evaluations since then has been: no improvement needed. Less than 3 percent of educators rece...
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It hasn't been an easy eight months for Florida. On June 12, an attack in an Orlando nightclub killed 49 people. In July, the Zika virus surfaced in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood and eventually spread to other parts of the city, causing panic among residents and tourists. And on Jan. 6, a gunman opened fire at Fort Laud...
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The world of competitive video game sports has moved to the mainstream without much help from television. More than ever, though, television wants to get into the action. On Tuesday, ELeague, a new gaming league, began pitting well known gamers against one another on Twitch, the popular online video streaming service. ...
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For three weeks each summer, Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing draws thousands of dancers to its outdoor dance floor at Damrosch Park. Now in its 26th season, the series attracts dancers of all stripes: young, old, amateur, professional. They tend to have one thing in common: a fussiness, or a passion, when it com...
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In the anguishing wait for a new kidney, tens of thousands of patients on waiting lists may never find a match because their immune systems will reject almost any transplanted organ. Now, in a large national study that experts are calling revolutionary, researchers have found a way to get them the desperately needed pr...
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How many of you actually have enemies in school or at home? How many of you harbor hatred in your heart? So you need to have love. Then you are able to forgive. Very good. And when you forgive, you make sure you Forget. Forget. Very good. And when you forgive and forget, you will eventually find peace in your heart. Co...
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When I think about art in Fort Lauderdale, I also include Miami because they are so near each other, and together, they are a lot more visible now in the arts world than they were several years ago. The excitement around Art Basel, the show in Miami Beach, is an example of this visibility, but some of the museums are a...
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Credit...Andy Haslam for The New York Times The last time I saw Bridin Concannon, she was walking toward me along the narrow road on the westernmost edge of the island of Inishmaan, off the west coast of Ireland. "Were you out at Synge's Chair?" I called out as she approached. The sun behind her hung, unmasked by cloud...
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Liu Ximei , the activist at the movie's center, contracted the virus as a girl. Now in her 30s, she ran a halfway house for fellow patients. She serves as a thorn in the side of government officials who would rather wish this public health crisis away. In the tensest development she comes under the supervision of a loc...
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WASHINGTON This week, in a closed door meeting of Congressional Democrats with President Obama, Representative Ed Perlmutter of Colorado bluntly said what has been on many politicians' minds: "Larry Summers. Bad choice." Mr. Obama was visibly annoyed and mounted a defense of Mr. Summers, his former economic policy advi...
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This article contains spoilers for the Season 8 premiere of "Game of Thrones." Since last season, when he first held out his hand to pet Drogon (and didn't die), fans have been wondering if Jon would ever claim a mount of his own. The dragon Rhaegal always seemed to be the best choice for him and Kit Harington agrees. ...
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Re "Biden Vows to Guide U.S. Out of 'Darkness'" (front page, Aug. 21): Joe Biden gave one of the most powerfully delivered speeches I have witnessed in my lifetime. I could feel my blood pressure lower and my anxiety level begin to dissipate as he spoke. All I kept saying to myself was "Yes!" at each of his strong poin...
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A mere five months after becoming director of the Museum of Arts and Design, is stepping down on Jan. 31, the museum announced on Thursday. Mr. Veneciano, who was hired after an extensive international search, "will shift his focus to writing and consulting at the intersection of cultural policy, immigrant rights and c...
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Art & Design
Singapore is a country of countless hawker stalls and beloved mom and pop restaurants that serve up excellent renditions of local dishes. So when its notoriously discerning eaters pack into a chic hotel lobby to seek out traditional fare, take note. On a recent weeknight at Folklore, at the Destination Singapore Beach ...
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When the Grand Am racing organization created the GX class of competition for alternative fuel cars, its official supplier, Sunoco, was not ready with a suitable diesel blend. So Mazda's motor sports managers, mindful that the 2013 season kickoff was quickly approaching, decided to try a synthetic clean diesel fuel tha...
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All year long as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris. The resulting meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you're lucky you might be able to catch a glimpse. The next shower you might be able to see is known as the Quadrantids. Active between Dec. 27 and ...
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Awards shows have also gotten increasingly political, with celebrity presenters and winners playing the role of firebrands at town hall meetings. The Grammys, which are broadcast on CBS, were no different on Sunday, with several performers bringing up immigration and the MeToo movement. U2 performed on a barge just out...
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Little researched or reported, the events related in "Tehran Children" form a highly significant chapter in the story of Jewish survival during World War II. On the one hand, this is a history of the agonizing experience of nearly 1,000 Jewish children, many of them orphans. Having suffered the profound dislocations ge...
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NOTHING IS WRONG AND HERE IS WHY Essays By Alexandra Petri We all have that one friend who has the rare ability to make us laugh, not just over cocktails or brunch, but even under the direst of circumstances. A friend whose dry wit, touching on everything from electoral politics to women's equality, is more than just b...
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When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. "Got porn, Madam?" That's what the high school boy known variously as Milk Carton and Egg Muffin asks a DVD store clerk after some stammering feints in the Tamil movie "Super Deluxe." And, yes, Madam has por...
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During this fertile period the way revelers received dance music and what was considered dance music shifted as new kinds of spaces geared toward L.G.B.T.Q. participants multiplied. Constrained and faddish during the 1960s, D.J. led dance culture discovered its kinetic, kaleidoscopic potential in the space of a few tra...
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Ms. Margolin, a founding member of the feminist company Split Britches and an accomplished writer and performer, especially of solo works ("8 Stops," "O Yes I Will"), has long been interested in exploring Jewish identity. It is at the center of this piece, which culminates in a scene where Galkin binds the profane Mado...
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Credit...Jake Michaels for The New York Times LOS ANGELES Carli Jo Bidlingmaier was talking to a group of 20 somethings in a living room in the Bel Air neighborhood here, weeks before the wildfires. She was explaining that consuming marijuana allows a woman to awaken her "yoni," a Sanskrit term for vagina favored by Ho...
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A Roof of One's Own, With or Without the Gingerbread None Brittany Greeson for The New York Times DETROIT Colorful little homes are springing up alongside an arid freeway bank in the Dexter Linwood neighborhood here, a few miles northwest of downtown. Although tourists sometimes think the buildings are playthings and k...
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Footage crying kid, joryell driving car, messing up at practical, anna's morning before lecture... Jo's classmate about nerves....classroom antics....cafeteria is closed SOT Anna's Monday Teacher POST LECTURE 5:40 So the students they're married, they're not married, they're twenty, they're thirty, I've had students in...
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One of the first things we learn in soccer is to pass the ball. If you don't, you lose it. But on that day, Maradona did the stuff of movies. He defied the odds. He charged on as an army of English players closed in on him. I was in the living room right in front of the TV, yelling, "Pass the ball!" He forged on, leavi...
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Carlos Beltran was the only player named in Major League Baseball's report on its investigation into illicit sign stealing by the Houston Astros in 2017, and that was for a reason. The report, which was released on Monday and has led to the firing of three people, indicated that virtually all of the Astros' players wer...
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It was a typical night in Staci Burns's house outside Fort Wayne, Ind. She was cooking dinner while her 3 year old son, Isaac, watched videos on the YouTube Kids app on an iPad. Suddenly he cried out, "Mommy, the monster scares me!" When Ms. Burns walked over, Isaac was watching a video featuring crude renderings of th...
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Investors and clients of the facial recognition start up freely used the app on dates and at parties and to spy on the public. Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich One Tuesday night in October 2018, John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of the Gristedes grocery store chain, wa...
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Big, puffy and comfortable, the Avalon has served Toyota like a trusty Barcalounger. Since 1995 it's been a staid sedan, in a staid full size class, from a staid company. Because the Avalon has been so comfortable in its skin, I've always respected it. But Toyota, spurred by its racecar driving president, Akio Toyoda, ...
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To know Alexandre Arnault, you first have to find Alexandre Arnault. And because Mr. Arnault, 26, is (despite being 26) the president and chief executive of a luggage company with nearly half a billion euros in annual revenue, he may be in Cologne, Germany, where that luggage is made and where he briefly relocated, or ...
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A 10 year lease is available in the second quarter of next year for a two story corner retail space, with 5,790 square feet on the ground floor and 5,283 on the lower one, in this eight story building opposite the Museum of Natural History. The two spaces can be divided. The space offers over 100 feet of wraparound fro...
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With acting cabinet secretaries everywhere, the Departments of Homeland Security and State hollowed out, and the recent departure of high profile, nonpolitical appointees on the National Security Council staff (the Vindman brothers and Victoria Coates), the judgment and experience about who wants to attack us and where...
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ATLANTA Allison Glock and T Cooper live behind a white picket fence, an enclosure so tidy and welcoming that it seems to grin at passers by. Its cheer is a match for their house, warmed on the inside by an upright piano, a plump sofa facing the weathered wood fireplace, and family portraits lining the walls. This is ho...
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I left Manhattan in 1988, the morning after marrying a peripatetic advertising executive whose career would take us to six different cities over the course of 26 years. On the ascent out of LaGuardia, I turned my head to the clouds and cried. Following stints in the Midwest, the Mid Atlantic and New England, I eventual...
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ZARAGOZA, SPAIN In 2001, an agricultural co op here was supplying truckloads of wheat to an Italian pasta maker. At first, no one at the Spanish co op, Arento, was much alarmed when the pasta factory in Milan fell behind in its payments. The co op did not cut off the credit until the pasta company owed EUR1 million, or...
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Big Break On Nov. 2, 2015, Mr. Daillance woke up at 6 a.m. to find his Instagram feed filled with photos of Rihanna wearing one of his caps and tagged with his handle, millinsky. "I was like, 'Oh my God, that's my hat!'" Mr. Daillance said. The first thing he did was email his parents (he was 18 at the time). "They did...
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Government officials, researchers and advertising executives have warned that microtargeting tools, like the kind Facebook offers, can be exploited to polarize and manipulate voters. Facebook has made a mint by enabling advertisers to identify and reach the very people most likely to react to their messages. Ad buyers ...
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The writer Walker Percy's foreword to "A Confederacy of Dunces" is only a couple of pages long, but in it he gets across the dramatic essentials of the novel's tortuous path to publication: that the much rejected manuscript was orphaned when its author, John Kennedy Toole, killed himself in 1969; that Toole's mother, T...
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Fredrick Redd and Allegra Cummings like telling the story of how their lives have unfolded since their April 21, 2007, wedding in East Hampton, N.Y., announced in The New York Times the following day. But getting the couple in the same room to tell it can be tricky. On a recent Saturday morning, for instance, Mr. Redd,...
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Summer is coming. And for the New Yorkers who live in buildings with gyms, roof decks, pools and playrooms, reopening these spaces could mean the difference between a grueling summer and a bearable one. In some buildings, it's already happening. Last week, a financial district condo reopened one of its roof decks, maki...
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Daniel Dae Kim was wide awake and scrolling through Twitter at 4 a.m. when he realized "The Good Doctor" was going to be a hit. It was a Tuesday in September, and Mr. Kim, a 49 year old actor known for his work on "Hawaii Five 0" and "Lost," found himself in bed in western Bulgaria not far from the set of "Hellboy," a ...
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Then came the four men wearing red Greek dresses, sleeveless and sheer, with nothing on underneath. To a recording of Tammy Wynette singing "Help Me Make It Through the Night," they danced like followers of Isadora Duncan, languid and graceful (especially Austin Selden) in ways traditionally considered feminine. This c...
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The southern coast of Athens, a 35 mile stretch of pine speckled beachfront, is gaining in popularity for travelers keen on exploring the ruins in the city's historic center, and then ditching the urban sprawl (it's a mere 25 minute drive from the Acropolis) for the charms of the Aegean Sea. The ambience of this coasta...
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WASHINGTON Just a few months after announcing a campaign to reduce unemployment, Federal Reserve officials are already debating how soon to stop it, reflecting persistent internal divisions about the effort's value. At a meeting in December, several members of the Fed's policy making committee argued that purchases of ...
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Credit...Shane Lavalette for The New York Times BUFFALO The Scajaquada Corridor is a city dweller's dreamland, a culture vulture Valhalla. Within two miles there is a restored Frank Lloyd Wright house you can visit, an art museum with Picassos and Gauguins, three college campuses, a zoo and a history museum in a majest...
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Marina Abramovic Just Wants Conspiracy Theorists to Let Her Be On April 10, Microsoft uploaded a film to its YouTube account about Marina Abramovic, the Serbian performance artist known for pushing her body to the limit. Ms. Abramovic's work can be violent, sometimes bloody, but the Microsoft video was more innocuous: ...
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The United States' nearly seven year streak of job growth came to an end in September, as employers cut 33,000 jobs. But don't read too much into that decline Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which ravaged Texas and Florida, wreaked havoc on employment. How do we know that the storms played a role? Workers said so themselve...
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BAYREUTH, Germany In the 142 years since Richard Wagner made front page news in New York with the first Bayreuth Festival, Americans have sung here, conducted here, made countless pilgrimages up a little green hill to sit, sweltering, in the temple that the composer built to his own art. But until now, no American had ...
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Citing the toll of the coronavirus pandemic in South Florida, the organizers of the Art Basel Miami Beach fair which each year attracts the global stars of the art world said on Wednesday that they were canceling this year's event, which had been scheduled for December. Mayor Dan Gelber of Miami Beach said he was "disa...
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Frank Jones, who was born in Clarksville, Texas, in 1900, spent much of his life in and out of that state's prisons, possibly for crimes he did not commit, and died in one in 1969. During his last decade, Jones made around 500 drawings, usually on found paper, signed with his name and inmate number, 114591. He worked w...
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It took 26 albums, but Andrea Bocelli, the Italian tenor who has embodied the popular side of classical music and opera for two decades, has finally reached the top of the all genre Billboard 200 chart. Bocelli's "Si" (Sugar/Decca Records/Verve), which includes collaborations with Ed Sheeran, Josh Groban and the singer...
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LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE (2019) 9 p.m. on CNN. "If I were going to choose something to do, it would not be to stand up in front of a lot of people," the singer Linda Ronstadt says in this documentary. "But I love to sing, I love to sing, I love music. So at some point, you do whatever you have to do to do ...
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"I've gone full Victorian," said Rhian Rees, 34, of flower pressing, a childhood hobby she's rediscovered in quarantine. "It feels like we're back in the old days when life felt more fragile." On a recent hike in Santa Clarita, Calif., Ms. Rees, an actor originally from England and now living in the Los Feliz neighborh...
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A major wave of new leaders is taking over regional theaters across the United States, and many of them promise changes in programming and personal style. This led us to put the question to New York Times reading audience members: What do you want your local theater to be? Their edited responses dotted with praise for ...
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DETROIT Young, educated and upwardly mobile, Kristin Winn represents the ideal target for automakers trying to reach young buyers. Ms. Winn, a 24 year old technician for an ophthalmologist, says she plans to replace her nine year old Chevrolet Cobalt this year. She says that she would like to buy a new car that has the...
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Mr. Rosenberg, 59, is founder and chief executive of Greystone, a financial services and development company based in New York. Greystone's recent projects include the Printhouse Lofts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and 79 Horatio in the West Village. The company also recently broke ground on Waterbridge 47 in the Dumbo ne...
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Major League Soccer reduced its work force by about 20 percent on Thursday through a combination of layoffs and the elimination of open positions, yet another sign of the punishing financial effect the coronavirus pandemic is having on professional sports. Most of the league's employees, besides those in entry level jo...
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In the closing sentence of "The Origin of Species," Charles Darwin marvels at the process of evolution, observing how "from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Few people would describe bedbugs as most beautiful or most wonderful. Yet this blood feed...
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Why would a playwright design a play so that the most moving thing in it is the audience? You have the rare opportunity to contemplate that question and embody it, too at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, where "Fefu and Her Friends" opened on Sunday. The opportunity is rare because this 1977 play by Maria I...
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The government can't prevent the coronavirus from damaging the U.S. economy. The usual tools that economic policymakers rely on, like tax cuts and stimulus spending, won't restore canceled conferences, unclog supply chains or persuade wary consumers to go out to bars and restaurants. Even if such policies would help, t...
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In "Bratva," a new crime novel by Christopher Golden, a grizzled motorcycle gang vice president named Jax Teller and his loyal sidekicks Opie and Chibs take on Russian mobsters to rescue Jax's half sister. Some 200 pages of gun battles, fistfights and mayhem follow. Those characters will be familiar to fans of "Sons of...
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Antibiotics Weren't Used to Cure These Patients. Fecal Bacteria Were. The bacteria can take over a person's intestines and be difficult to eradicate. The infection causes fever, vomiting, cramps and diarrhea so severe that it kills 14,000 people a year in the United States alone. The first line of treatment for the att...
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A 10 foot tall inflatable red lota, a wall covered with balloons resembling bags of Maggi noodles, and a painting of an angry bindi wearing woman declaring "Mera jism, mera hathyar!" These works of art at Maria Qamar's exhibition, "Fraaaandship!," at Richard Taittinger Gallery feel like her colorful, politically engage...
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Fans of Paulette Jiles's "News of the World" will be delighted and perhaps a little disappointed by the author's seventh book, "Simon the Fiddler." With her previous novel, Jiles delivered a near perfect historical novel of compressed lyricism and masterly storytelling about the itinerant adventures of the septuagenari...
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Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and videos and anything else that strikes them as intriguing. Just want the music? Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes). Like what you hear? Let us know at theplaylist nytimes.com and sign up ...
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Suspense, done well, captures the attention so there's no time to notice plot holes or preposterous coincidences. Only when the story ends do you realize that you've been bamboozled; Lee Child's best selling Jack Reacher series, for example, brilliantly distracts readers from realizing the novels totally rely on absurd...
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. When Gary A. Ransdell, the president of Western Kentucky University, invites alumni to view this city's redeveloping downtown from his university's hilltop campus, the response is almost always exclamations of surprise. Just below Cherry Hall, one of the 108 year old university's grandest buildings, ...
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The Astros are the fifth team that Dusty Baker has led to the postseason, but he has never won a championship as a manager. Soon after the Houston Astros completed a two game sweep of the Minnesota Twins in their first round playoff series last week, Dusty Baker's phone went into overdrive: Scores of congratulatory tex...
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This year, Passover falls at the beginning of April smack in the middle of what some experts estimate will be the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in America. It's not just the timing of the holiday built around a retelling of the Jews' exodus from slavery in Egypt that feels off. It's that every aspect of its story an...
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Q. Can I edit RAW image files from my D.S.L.R. on an iPad Pro? If so, is it possible to save the edited images back to the computer later so I don't have to take a laptop with me on my trip? A. If your camera uses a RAW format supported by Apple's iOS system on the iPad and you have a photo editing app that works with ...
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What Is a Constant Cycle of Violent News Doing to Us? It has been a rough year. By now, our violence is down to a pattern, and there is a choreography to our reactions. A killer seeks out a nightclub, a church, an airport, a courthouse, a protest. Someone is shot on video, sometimes by the police, and marchers fill the...
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Memory has a tendency to smooth over the edges, to conceal the blemishes, to dust over the pockmarks. Hindsight can be distorted, and history with it: Knowing how something ended creates the illusion it was always going to end that way, a narrative reverse engineered from the bare facts, happenstance prettified to look...
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Everyone involved in the nine part documentary series "The Vow," which chronicles the twisted saga of Nxivm, seems pretty media savvy. They know how easily complicated stories can get condensed into the shorthand of headlines. If you've heard only one thing about Nxivm, which billed itself as a self help organization b...
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Swiss watchmakers are nostalgic by nature. How else to explain their constant reference to a golden era of timekeeping, more than 200 years ago, when masters such as Abraham Louis Breguet devised the world's first complicated timepieces? At the same time, however, a growing cohort of forward thinking watchmakers is emb...
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Fashion & Style
Bill Cosby performed for the first time in public since multiple women came forward in 2015 to accuse him of sexual assault, telling stories and jokes in front of a supportive crowd on Monday evening in Philadelphia. Mr. Cosby, clutching a cane and wearing a gray sweatshirt that read, "Hello Friend," took the stage at ...
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When I was a girl, my friends and I clung to each other and even to our teachers during the June goodbyes. Nonetheless, we chanted with glee, "No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks!" We conjured lazy days unfettered from loudspeaker announcements, bells and evaluation by report card. Recalling s...
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"Mosul" dramatizes a 2017 story in The New Yorker that chronicled a self directed Iraqi SWAT team's efforts to fight the Islamic State. Counting both Conde Nast and the "Avengers: Endgame" directors Anthony and Joe Russo among its producers, this Netflix movie balances admirable ambition (it's an American film, but the...
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Nevertheless, there's little doubt governors feel life or death pressure to flatter the president. "Several governors made clear they fear inadvertently harming their own citizens if they are too strident in demands for desperately needed medical supplies, or if they clash too publicly with Trump over pandemic policy a...
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Andy Murray Gave His All. Which Is Why This Ending Hurts. Andy Murray is not the youngest of the tennis supergroup known as the Big Four. Novak Djokovic was born a week later than Murray was. But it is still quite an unpleasant surprise to realize that Murray, 31, very likely will be the first of the remarkable quartet...
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It was July 12, 2013, and Mr. Jacobs had just found out that a crucial deal the independent media company's proposed purchase of Hulu, in partnership with AT T had collapsed. Hulu's owners had decided not to sell after all. "It was like Lucy pulling up the football from Charlie Brown at the last second," Mr. Jacobs sai...
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On Friday from 4 to 7 p.m., meet the designer Jonathan Simkhai at the East Hampton pop up of Tenet, the Southampton boutique known for its cool mix of up and coming labels like Ellery, Lisa Marie Fernandez and Soludos. Mr. Simkhai, a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner, will show pieces from his pre fall collection, like a ...
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Fashion & Style
"Think of this story as a wheel," David Maraniss writes in an author's note at the beginning of his new book, "A Good American Family." "The hearing in Room 740 is the hub where all the spokes connect." Room 740 in Detroit's Federal Building was where Maraniss's father, Elliott, was summoned to appear before the notori...
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Books
Like moths to a flame, 800 of the most powerful people in fashion are expected swarm to a former gin distillery on the southern fringes of Milan on Wednesday afternoon . They will bat their wings at the doors of the Fondazione Prada, the contemporary arts complex masterminded by Miuccia Prada and the regular runway ven...
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Style
ANDREW MELLEN had a housing situation so enviable that everyone told him he was crazy to give it up. When Mr. Mellen moved to Manhattan in 1996, a chain of friends led him to a rent stabilized one bedroom in the East 80s. It had only about 325 square feet, and was on the sixth floor of a walk up. The landlord rented it...
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Real Estate
Lionel Messi is still angry with Barcelona. He is still frustrated with Barcelona. But, in a sudden and dramatic reversal, he said Friday that he is not prepared to go to war with Barcelona and, so, will stay after all. In a decision confirmed by the club via Twitter, Messi withdrew a letter announcing his intention to...
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Sports
Some authors consider writer's block a myth, one that romanticizes the creative process, but Faulkner said he does think that "writers can be shut down by trauma or depression or horrible experiences." It can also result from a lack of practice. Anna Borges, who has been participating on and off since high school and n...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
Credit...William DeShazer for The New York Times 'They Want to Kill Me': Many Covid Patients Have Terrifying Delirium Kim Victory was paralyzed on a bed and being burned alive. Just in time, someone rescued her, but suddenly, she was turned into an ice sculpture on a fancy cruise ship buffet. Next, she was a subject of...
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Health
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first two months of the year are desolate times for movie lovers who prefer to gorge on new releases. Once the holiday season's tidal wave of blockbusters and prestige pictures has receded there's not much action beyond the awards season itself. Releasing only chaff durin...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
Welcome, Democrats, to Wherever It Is That We Are Bret Stephens: Gail, last week I argued that what the Republicans need this November is "the political equivalent of an unsedated colonoscopy." Several readers, including a couple of medical professionals, wrote in to say that unsedated colonoscopies actually aren't all...
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Opinion
Stephanie Grimes Cornman coveted the designer wedding dress she had ogled in fashion spreads. But the price kept it out of reach that is, until she embraced the idea that a dress, unlike a spouse, is not to have and to hold forever. Ms. Cornman rented her gown, making it the "something borrowed" she wore down the aisle...
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Fashion & Style
Tardigrades, eight legged microscopic animals that resemble obese caterpillars, can survive temperatures close to absolute zero and live after being baked at 300 degrees. They can go without food or water for as long as 30 years, yet live to reproduce again. They have even survived in the vacuum of outer space. As far ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
What Travelers Need to Know About Zika and Dengue Outbreaks of the mosquito borne diseases Zika and dengue aren't slowing down: The Zika virus continues to spread throughout the Caribbean and Brazil, and the mayor of Hawaii County, Billy Kenoi, declared a state of emergency on the Big Island on Monday in response to th...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
How much money does Arkansas save by offering stingier Medicaid than Vermont? It looks like a straightforward calculation. Arkansas makes it tougher for children to qualify for Medicaid than Vermont does, and it spends much less on each beneficiary. Even though Arkansas's poverty rate is double Vermont's, Medicaid's co...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
Who now remembers the name of Henry Gurdon Marquand, the financier who was one of the great art collectors of the 19th century? In the 1880s he put up one of the most opulent of the Fifth Avenue style mansions but he built it on Madison Avenue. It vanished a century ago, leaving only a monogram, but now the Marquand na...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
Let's get that absolutely atrocious exchange out of the way now, because it was one of the few bum moments in this week's episode, the best of the season so far. "Westworld" had spent much of the past few hours teasing out the idea that ordinary people are like hosts in their own world, tethered to a sophisticated algo...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
A few years ago, I set out to research my grandmother's early childhood in Philadelphia, looking for clues about what the world was like in the first precarious years of her life. I knew that she was born in October 1917, that she had lived through the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 as a baby, but I was unprepared for th...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Two former N.F.L. players have sued the league, the players' union and the medical board those institutions jointly control for agreeing to reduce the disability payments they received for life by tens of thousands of dollars a year. The complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday, stems from a pro...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
SAN FRANCISCO Apple and Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, sparred in federal court on Monday over whether to reinstate the popular game in Apple's App Store, raising antitrust arguments that may reshape a key part of the internet economy and the way people use smartphones. In a three hour videoconference hearing in th...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology