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Ohio State on Friday night called off its football game scheduled for Saturday at Illinois after coronavirus testing revealed an increasing number of cases on the team. The cancellation was announced hours after the university revealed that Ryan Day, the head coach of the fourth ranked Buckeyes, had tested positive and...
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Visitors are encouraged to dance it out at 29Rooms, presented by Refinery29 and running two consecutive weekends. Amy Lombard for The New York Times
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A roundup of motoring news from the web: BMW announced Thursday that it would invest about 1 billion in a new plant to be built near San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The automaker said it planned to build about 150,000 vehicles a year there beginning in 2019. (BMW) Chrysler announced this week that the 2015 Dodge Challenger SR...
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On Thursday and Friday, you'll find pretty bits like a Cienne hand woven scarf ( 85), an AUrate New York choker with black onyx cabochons ( 200) and a Von Holzhausen leather bucket bag ( 650) at a pop up hosted by these three direct to consumer brands founded by women. At 156 Spring Street. From Thursday to Sunday, Maj...
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Fashion & Style
A few months ago, after a fertility procedure at a Mexican clinic, a healthy baby boy was born in New York to a couple from Jordan. It was the first live birth of a child who has been called to the dismay of scientists who say the term is grossly misleading a three parent baby. "This is huge," said Dr. Richard J. Pauls...
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Health
BERLIN What is the role of a Jewish museum? Is it for the Jewish community, or those non Jews around it? And must its leader be Jewish? These questions are swirling around the future of the Jewish Museum Berlin, one of the city's most popular visitor attractions, after the abrupt departure last month of its director, P...
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Art & Design
The choreographer Mandy Moore was under pressure. But it wasn't because she was shooting a scene involving 30 dancers, 100 extras and at least 60 cars on an exit ramp connecting two major freeways in Los Angeles. "Traffic" an explosion of color and sky, with performers leaping on and off cars and spinning into the path...
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It's a truth universally acknowledged that anyone in want of attention could do worse than take possession of . We've already had Austen and zombies, Austen and game theory, Austen and guinea pigs. Now, a scholar has offered another spit take inducing pairing: and the alt right. No, bonnet wearing Janeites have not bee...
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Books
Beyonce received a humanitarian award, and performances made explicit references to protests against racism and police brutality at the first major awards show of the Covid 19 era. Political performances by Public Enemy, DaBaby, Alicia Keys and John Legend, civic minded speeches by Michelle Obama and Beyonce, and a ser...
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Music
WASHINGTON Stanley Fischer, the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, said Wednesday that he would resign in mid October, an unexpected decision that gives President Trump greater leverage over central bank policy. Mr. Fischer, 73, cited "personal reasons" in a brief letter addressed to Mr. Trump. His four year term wa...
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Economy
WASHINGTON Millions of people who get private health coverage through the Affordable Care Act would be at risk of losing it under the replacement legislation proposed by House Republicans, analysts said Tuesday, with Americans in their 50s and 60s especially likely to find coverage unaffordable. Starting in 2020, the p...
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Comfort is an essential component of a certain theatergoing experience. The seating should provide some comfort. Given the money a ticket costs, so, in some ways, should the show. It could be based on something known: television, the movies, the nightly news. It wouldn't push too hard or be too strange or make people f...
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"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is readjusting its marketing materials in an effort to stabilize box office revenues, which have dropped since opening. Harry Potter could use a little more magic. The boy wizard actually, he's all grown up now triumphed in the worlds of books, movies and theme parks. But he's having...
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In other words, this is a classic Los Angeles residential street of a book. Instead of Spanish Revival next door to Polynesian fantasy, we get snide alt weekly riffing alongside academic theory, punctuated by lots of delightfully shunpike Southern California lore. Some passages read as if written years apart for differ...
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The Eskasizer machine, a relic of the 1950s, purported to do the all the work. Women intent on firming their bodies would strap themselves into its vibrating belt and let the inches melt off. Sadly, situps are more of a sure thing. But the vintage machine has inspired the choreographers and video artists Andrea Lerner ...
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Dance
There's a lot of hand wringing these days about the importance of having The Talk not the one parents have with their mortified tweens, but the one we shy from having with aging parents or those terminally ill. The one about death and dying. Scott Simon, host of NPR's "Weekend Edition Saturday," proves to be an able gu...
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Science
As the cultural pastiche that is Ridgewood Bushwick continues to evolve, so, too, rises the demand for funky night life spots that cater to its diverse demographics. Indoors at Nowadays, a multifaceted bar and music emporium that opened in January, may well be the place where the area's young creative set, hopping from...
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MILAN The Gucci show that closed Milan Fashion Week on Sunday afternoon came as something of a surprise, though not for the reasons anyone would have guessed. It was not, for example, surprising because Alessandro Michele , the creative director famed for his embrace of sequins and sports memorabilia and old lady lunch...
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Style
Mary Lyerly Alexander, who worked to preserve the legacy of her cousin John Coltrane and in the process became a pillar of the Philadelphia jazz scene, died on Aug. 31 at a nursing home in Philadelphia. She was 92. Lovett Hines, the artistic director of the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz Performing Arts and a friend of...
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Carmen Ejogo leapt in the air and grasped two lengths of silk, each the color of arterial blood. She took a deep breath, fell back and spun upside down in the middle of a warehouse in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. "Whoooo!" she yelled, squeezing her legs together to increase her speed. Ms. Ejogo, 45, who plays an E...
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New Management Settles in at Huntsman, the Pride of London's Savile Row LONDON A stone's throw from the flagships of various global luxury behemoths on New Bond Street, the gentlemen's tailors of Savile Row remain steadfast in their devotion to tradition and understatement. Bells tinkle in mahogany doorways to sound a ...
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Good morning, Jesse in New York, and good morning Ben, in London. Ben, do the Tony nominations make news in London? JESSE GREEN Why didn't you ask me if they make news in Brooklyn? GREEN The feed was delayed but they are now celebrating at Junior's. BEN BRANTLEY As might have been predicted, angry crowds have already g...
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The skeleton of an 8 year old Neanderthal boy recovered from the El Sidron cave in Spain. We modern humans like to boast about our big brains, but the Neanderthals seem to have had even larger ones. A recent analysis of a 49,000 year old skeleton belonging to a Neanderthal child suggests a surprising difference between...
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With Five Children and Eight Grandchildren, the Nest Wasn't Empty Conventional wisdom holds that empty nesters don't need as much space as they did when they were raising children, so it makes sense to downsize. But not everyone finds that to be the case. When Richard and Jennifer Sands moved into a duplex condominium ...
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Real Estate
He started with a giant video of an American flag behind him and, around him, a formation of marching soldiers in camouflage and ski masks, as he rapped about poverty and revenge in "XXX." He was briefly joined by the song's hook donors, Bono and the Edge from U2. In another pause, Mr. Lamar cued video supertitles: "Th...
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Music
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. That's the discovery Perry Mason makes in his first moments as a defense attorney, fighting for the life of his wrongfully accused client Emily Dodson. His voice breaks. His throat seizes. He coughs and chokes and stammers. He's able to continue his opening statement only b...
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Television
Here's the New 'Frozen' Musical Poster (and Seven That Didn't Make the Cut) It's been almost four years since the animated film "Frozen" made it impossible to unhear "Let It Go." That's music to the ears of the Disney Theatrical Group as it readies to open a new high profile musical adaptation of the movie on Broadway ...
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Theater
Was Donald Trump good for comedy? The comic Lewis Black recently answered this persistent question with an understandable tone of exhaustion, saying the president is "good for comedy in the way a stroke is good for a nap." Poking fun at President Trump is both difficult (how do you parody someone who already seems like...
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"Game of Thrones" dominated the 2019 Emmy nominations, which were announced this morning. The Emmy awards ceremony will be held on Sept. 22 and will be broadcast on Fox from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. None Read our analysis of the nominations, and see what our television critics had to say about the snubs an...
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After AT T spent over 80 billion to acquire Time Warner in part to take on Netflix, the phone giant's new streaming service finally has a name: HBO Max. The company also announced it will debut next spring and will offer 10,000 hours of content, including exclusive access to the hit show "Friends." What will be on the ...
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Media
Conversation sings and swings, bends and bounces and hits heaven smack in the clouds, in the glorious new production of August Wilson's "Jitney," which opened on Thursday night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. In Ruben Santiago Hudson's vital revival of a 1982 play only now making its Broadway debut, words take on th...
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Theater
Lady Gaga, the pop singer and Academy Award hopeful for her role in "A Star Is Born," became the latest musician to apologize for collaborating with R. Kelly, the R B singer who has long been accused of sexual misconduct and preying on teenagers, after the broadcast of an explosive investigative documentary detailing t...
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In Picking Up Work Here and There, Many Miss Out on Unemployment Check Annie Frodeman often worked 40 hours a week or more full time by most lights. She just worked them at two jobs. Four or five mornings a week before the coronavirus outbreak, she worked as an airport ramp agent for Piedmont Airlines in Burlington, Vt...
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MUNICH "We all want to change the world," the Beatles sang on "The White Album," released in 1968. Half a century later, the legacy of '68, its hopes, its dreams and whether it achieved its goals, are still up for debate, here in Germany as in America. Jorg Meuthen, one of the leaders of the far right Alternative for G...
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Theater
The chef Andrew Brochu was deep into the development of a new restaurant in Chicago when he came across a promotional video while doing some research on the internet. Mr. Brochu liked the trailer for "The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen" cookbook, and he especially enjoyed the music credited to Roister. Curious about the ...
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Travel
In July, the Streetscapes column looked at the claim that the 1870 Stuyvesant was the first New York apartment house, and decided in the affirmative. But no one is on solid ground in declaring a first unless he can also propose a second, and it turns out that runner up is a lot harder to find than the winner. Whereas t...
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Real Estate
FRANKFURT The European Central Bank on Thursday debated ways to funnel more credit to suffering euro zone businesses, but decided not to act because it was not sure which way the economy was heading. The bank also left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at its already record low rate. The lack of any action illustra...
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Global Business
A ballet company is a family. A retirement is a grievous loss, a role debut an exciting new stage of life. New York City Ballet presented an exceptional number of new Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers (in George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker") Christmas week; in the current six week season (through Feb. 28), several of th...
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Dance
In San Francisco's aptly named Grandview Park, looking north to Golden Gate Park from the Crosstown Trail. I was feeling down on my hometown, a fractured city of appalling inequality out of which has sprung an industry that's contributed to the ruin of our country and also, probably, my mind. The quirky tech scene had ...
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This is the time of year when folks in Camden, Me., begin thinking about ice. Not the ice on the roads or the ice on the driveway, the slick, hazardous stuff that one must avoid, scrape, salt or clear. But the all important ice on Hosmer Pond, just south of town, and the 440 foot wooden chute that spills out onto it. W...
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For the past couple months, my Instagram feed has been filled with benign photographs of homemade food, flowering plants, and the creative projects people had undertaken while in coronavirus mandated lockdown. Then, on May 25, George Floyd was killed in police custody in Minneapolis, sparking protests around the countr...
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Art & Design
ONE carmaker after another is proposing an answer to a question: how do you show off lavish wheels without looking like, well, a show off? For many middle aged buyers, crisis averting red sports cars are out. Instead, the runaway trend is the "four door coupe," a description that seemed to be less of an oxymoron after ...
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Automobiles
Le Massif had to be a mirage. Where were the lift lines? Actually, where were the lifts? How could this well behaved mix of Anglo and French Canadians pull up to the parking lot, throw on their skis and schuss without pause down to the icy St. Lawrence River below? And how could I contemplate this upside down cake of a...
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People already read James Patterson's books and in staggering numbers. Last year, he and his team of writers had 36 books land on the New York Times best seller list. To date, he has published 156 books that have sold more than 325 million copies worldwide. But Mr. Patterson is after an even bigger audience. He wants t...
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Climate change, habitat destruction, extinctions the Earth has seen it all before, thousands of years ago. And humans may have been partly to blame for many of those changes in nature, too. A new study published Friday in Science Advances shows that the arrival of humans in Patagonia, combined with a changing climate, ...
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Science
There was a time when graffiti was perceived to be a scourge, a public nuisance made by outlaws who sprayed their work on subway cars then slipped into the shadows, occasionally pursued by the police. But these days, graffiti is having a renaissance and is used by fashion labels and major corporations in their ad campa...
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Art & Design
GUANGZHOU, China Li Bo, a 28 year old lawyer, was one of three friends who put down deposits of 50,000 renminbi, or 7,500, in May at a car dealership to each buy a popular model, the Audi Q5, which sells for the equivalent of 72,000, including taxes, in China. Mr. Li and one friend are still waiting for their cars; the...
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Global Business
Ever since I first read "Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates," I dreamed of taking off across a natural body of frozen water. Every winter of the last half century I've sought out that elusive miracle of nature: good ice. Lake or pond ice or a frozen river. The real thing. Last winter, I found it. Lake Morey on whose sh...
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Travel
The tumult of recent weeks has made my thoughts turn to Rod Carew, whose past life as a Minnesota Twin speaks to present days in Minneapolis, and the country. In a tweet the other day, the New York Times sportswriter John Branch (my former colleague, since I've been retired from the paper for 13 years) quoted something...
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Sports
SAN FRANCISCO Uber's robotic vehicle project was not living up to expectations months before a self driving car operated by the company struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz. The cars were having trouble driving through construction zones and next to tall vehicles, like big rigs. And Uber's human drivers had to inte...
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Technology
A type of comb jelly, Bolinopsis infundibulum, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Researchers have recently devised methods to cultivate this species and other comb jellies under laboratory conditions. Comb jellies, or ctenophores, are wildly different from humans and, in fact, most other animals. They're not even in the sa...
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Each week, we review the week's news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hello, everyone! Mike Isaac reporting in from the slightly chilly San Francisco Bay Area. (For Californians, anything below 70 degrees is chilly.) Let's take a look at this week's tech news: Early in the ...
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Technology
For more than 35 years, he was introduced with, "And now, here is the host of 'Jeopardy!' ... Alex Trebek!" But "host" never seemed quite the right term for what Trebek did. "Host" suggests that the show you're watching is a party, a social get together which is how most hosts, especially on game shows, treat the job. ...
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MIDSOMER MURDERS Stream on Acorn TV, Britbox, iTunes, Google Play, Netflix and YouTube. The crime rate in the fictional English county of Midsomer is apparently so astronomically high, it has kept its local detectives gainfully employed across this show's 20 seasons (and counting). This whodunit detective drama, which ...
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Television
LIVERPOOL, England Mohamed Salah's name flashed up on the scoreboard. It rang out of Anfield's public address system. It rolled and roiled down the stands and washed onto the field and into the sky, infused with jubilation and wonder, with relief and belief. It was, though, wishful thinking. The last minute goal that h...
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Sports
When the choreographer Pam Tanowitz contemplated her commission for Works Process at the Guggenheim, her first idea was a story ballet. One hitch. She had decided to use music by four composers: David Lang, Ted Hearne, Hannah Lash and Caroline Shaw. And during her research for the piece, "Broken Story (wherein there is...
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Dance
In the August heat, Janet Eilber, the artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, apologized for the "breathless and sweaty" conditions in the Martha Graham Studio Theater, a storied spot cooled only by fans. She also joked with the audience that the steamy atmosphere was exactly right for the work being perf...
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Dance
Now lives: In a two bedroom house in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles that she shares with a roommate. Claim to fame: Ms. Harrison is an actress, comedy writer and screwball performer who doesn't take her rising profile in Hollywood too seriously. She appeared in a Vogue video last year, pretending to be named...
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Style
The Bronx staircase made famous by "Joker" has drawn a legion of fans since the movie's release. Rami Mahal of San Jose, Calif., put on her best Joker face on Wednesday. The director Todd Phillips was looking last year for a particular grimy outdoor staircase in New York City. He was interested in one that had appeared...
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Movies
Mr. Hoekstra had a lot of good meals, but as he says in the book's introduction, "This is not a critical look at soul food or soul food restaurants." His goal, he writes, was "to be a clarion for gallant voices." Following are edited excerpts from a conversation with Mr. Hoekstra. Q. If someone wanted to follow your pa...
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Travel
Having been a war correspondent much of my life, I can't shake the feeling that the war against the coronavirus is a lot like the real thing. Normally, I would avoid using a war metaphor for a medical disaster, if only because it has been so loosely applied by so many politicians doomed to failure: Consider Lyndon John...
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Opinion
Lounge chairs get all the attention when it comes to shopping for outdoor furniture. But without a side table nearby, it's hard to enjoy lounging. "You've got to have somewhere to put your drink, for one," said Keith Williams, a partner at Nievera Williams, a landscape architecture firm in Palm Beach, Fla. "That's most...
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Real Estate
Many of us are eagerly anticipating Apple's new iPhones on Tuesday because they are expected to include a major new feature: 5G, for the fifth generation cellular network. Phones with 5G capability have been positioned as far better than our current devices. That's because carriers like AT T and Verizon have hyped 5G a...
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Technology
Andrew Witty, chief executive of the drug maker GlaxoSmithKline, said on Wednesday that the accusations of bribery and corruption against his company in China were "deeply disappointing." But he said that Glaxo's headquarters in London had not been aware of any fraud and that the executives under scrutiny in China were...
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Global Business
A scene from Frederick Wiseman's "National Gallery," his documentary about the London art institution that is home to one of the world's premier painting collections. Kick back with these movies old and new and gain a new appreciation for artists from Alice Neel to Mark Hogancamp and Sun Ra. You can't beat art document...
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Art & Design
The uninitiated buyer could be forgiven for thinking that an apartment with a price tag of 10 million, 20 million or much more comes fully loaded with amenities. But as prices for ultraluxury condos in Manhattan continue to climb, practically every extra inch in these fancy new buildings be it in storage units in the b...
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Real Estate
When 's son started attending day care 12 years ago, she noticed that he kept getting sick with the sniffles and other minor illnesses. But unlike most parents, Dr. Marr, an aerosol scientist at Virginia Tech, tried to figure out why. "When I'd pick him up, I'd find out that more than half the kids in the room were sic...
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Well
BRUSSELS European Union leaders convened emergency meetings here Sunday night hoping to devise a bank bailout package that would enable Cyprus to stay in the euro zone and rebuild its devastated economy. The Cypriot president, Nicos Anastasiades, flew up from Nicosia earlier in the day with a proposal for raising the 5...
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Global Business
Mr. Grady, a Web technocrat and self avowed Deadhead who made his fortune with the invention of iPod and iPhone accessories, had used the penthouse, which offers 360 degree views of the cityscape that embrace the Hudson and East Rivers, Central Park, the Empire State Building and the George Washington Bridge, as a pied...
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Real Estate
Federal health officials on Wednesday effectively shortened quarantine periods for those who may have been exposed to the coronavirus, hoping to improve compliance among Americans and reduce the economic and psychological toll of long periods of seclusion. Citing the spiraling number of infections nationwide, officials...
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Health
"In Nigeria as a whole, education is very valued, but sadly there's not enough of it to go around because of poverty, and so I wanted to drive that home," said Abi Dare, the author of "The Girl With the Louding Voice." The inspiration for Abi Dare's first book struck when one of her daughters, then 8, didn't feel like ...
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Books
Money can't buy you everything, but in 18th century Rome, it could underwrite some pretty amazing acquisitions: a shoebox size, neo Classical, gilt silver casket for your wine; a Rococo clock consisting almost entirely of vivacious curves (not a straight line anywhere); or an exquisite bronze miniature of a famous Gree...
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Art & Design
Yes, in fact a doctor said that to me yesterday exactly. This feels like hydroxychloroquine all over again. And the president is hoping to be able to announce a miracle. And that's the tone the calls for the press conference on Sunday where you know, gigantic therapeutic breakthrough, going to come through this evening...
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Health
Rom coms are supposed to have a sense of inevitability. It's the journey, not the destination. Shopgirl and NY152 will always get together, even if it takes Kathleen and Joe all of "You've Got Mail" to do so. Someone may run through an airport, or race through the streets on New Year's Eve, or give a rousing and person...
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Television
"The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller" included many furnishings from the couple's homes in town and country. No, the Rockefeller trove didn't bring 1 billion this week, despite industry speculation that it might reach that historic high. The total fell considerably shy at nearly 833 million. But the treasures...
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Art & Design
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. The Nets made a stunning move Thursday to fill their coaching vacancy by hiring Steve Nash, the Hall of Fame point guard and two time N.B.A. Most Valuable Player Award winner, despite Nash's lack of coaching experience. Nash, 46, will replace Jacque Vaughn, the interim coach, who will stay on as ...
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Sports
What is the lure of the ersatz historical? What is the appeal of the fakely found? The frame for Jonathan Carr's whopper of a debut novel purports to be an "extract from 'Chicago: An Alternative History 1800 1900' by Professor Milton Winship, University of Chicago, A. C. McClurg Co., 1902." This sprawling book's chrono...
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Books
Warhol at the Whitney: Why This One Work Is So Stirring None Andy Warhol's "Mustard Race Riot" (1963), left, and images from the 1964 series "Most Wanted Men." The Whitney Museum of American Art's Warhol exhibition closes on March 31. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), Ne...
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Art & Design
How Did They Have Such Nice Apartments on 'Friends'? A designer from 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' weighs in on the eclectic decor of their Greenwich Village walk ups. None Ali Kate Cherkis for The New York Times On Sept. 7, a pop up exhibition of props, costumes and reimagined sets from the NBC series "Friends" ope...
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Real Estate
"ATTENTION," reads a sign at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif., "Sharks Ahead." Intended to titillate as much as to warn, the sign is aimed at the traditional aquarium audience, children. And on this cool, clear Southern California evening in early February that audience is well represented. A boisterou...
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Education
As the novel coronavirus swept through communities around the world, preying disproportionately on the poor and the vulnerable, one disadvantaged group has demonstrated a remarkable resistance. Women, whether from China, Italy or the U.S., have been less likely to become acutely ill and far more likely to survive. Whic...
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Health
For anyone who's wondering: No, she's not running. In her new memoir, "Becoming" a book whose reportedly enormous advance rendered its contents almost as closely guarded as the bullion at Fort Knox Michelle Obama puts to rest any speculation about her political ambitions. "I've never been a fan of politics," she writes...
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The adage is synonymous with Broadway itself: the show must go on. And for decades, through wars and recessions and all forms of darkness, Broadway, the heart of America's theater industry and an economic lifeblood for many artists, has kept its curtains up and its footlights on. But on Thursday, facing a widening coro...
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Theater
All the talk about women's equality in Hollywood over the last year, all Jennifer Lawrence's openness about paycheck politics and Carrie Fisher's attack on ageism and askhermore, all the expressed desire for female power to be recognized and the old order of things to change, seems to have had an effect in at least one...
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Fashion & Style
When Mark DeBolt, a hair colorist, moved to New York from his native Minneapolis nearly four years ago, he lived in Brooklyn for a while and then headed to the West Village. "I always saw the West Village as a storybook part of New York City, so I wanted at least a year there," he said. "It was like living on a movie s...
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Real Estate
More than 130 artists and critics have signed a petition calling for cultural institutions to close on Friday, Jan. 20, the day of President elect Donald J. Trump's inauguration. Cindy Sherman, Richard Serra, Louise Lawler, Joan Jonas and Julie Mehretu were among the art stars signing the invitation for a "J20 Art Stri...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
ALTHOUGH sales of electric cars have remained slow since they came to the American mass market in late 2010, early buyers tend to be true believers and quite likely to give their new vehicles the benefit of the doubt. For many, the honeymoon period is still on, even if for some the romance is definitely over or transfe...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles
Players, coaches and analysts of all stripes are watching this season's games to see what effect if any the absence of fans has on the games themselves. The Nationals and the Yankees were tied, 2 2, in the eighth inning last Sunday when Sean Doolittle came on in relief for Washington. In another year, the moment would ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
The 'Best' Places to Move in Retirement? They're All Over the Map What's the best place to live in retirement? New Hampshire boasts low taxes and a vital cultural climate. Mexico has warm weather and a low cost of living. The Provo Orem metropolitan area of Utah, with about 115,000 residents, promises an outdoorsy life...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Your Money
ON THE BASIS OF SEX (2018) Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. Felicity Jones plays the Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this biopic about her earlier years. Directed by Mimi Leder from a screenplay by Daniel Stiepleman, who is Justice Ginsburg's nephew, the film zooms in on a sex discrim...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
It has become predictable. First come the hurricane and flooding. Then come the dire warnings about waterlogged cars being put up for sale without any notice about flood damage. This year's big storms have flooded a huge number of vehicles hundreds of thousands, if not the half million that were initially feared. But w...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles
The Langham Place, New York, Fifth Avenue will welcome an unusual tenant to its room 505 next month, a stage production of the play "Insignificance," set to run Feb. 19 to March 20. Produced by the Britain based theater company Defibrillator, the play is set in a hotel, thus inspiring the location. In it, Albert Einste...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
What some see as a celebration of culture through food, others see as a political statement, and an offensive one at that. Just slip an Israeli flag on a toothpick. To the Tufts chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, last fall's Taste of Israel was appropriation, pure and simple. "I don't think the Palestinian s...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Education
Like many courtships, this one was sealed with a ring. The Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda, the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, had left an operatic post this spring at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, amid administrative and political upheaval. The Zurich Opera House came calling....
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
'DANCING THE GODS' at Symphony Space (April 27, 8 p.m.; April 28, 7 p.m.). This program of classical Indian dancing offers two separate programs on back to back evenings. On Saturday, the Maryland based Kalanidhi Dance presents "Rasa," a work inspired by the Sanskrit epic "Ramayana"; it embodies a range of emotions fro...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
IF living in one of the 275 square foot "micro units" outlined by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently as part of an apartment design competition sounds unbearable, consider this: the size of new rentals in the city has been shrinking in recent years. While apartment units vary by neighborhood, the sweet spot for studio...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
Lindsay Morris and Stephen Munshin didn't have to step inside a tattoo parlor to get their first tattoos. All they had to do was attend the wedding of their niece Leslie Merinoff to Brian Kwasienski last October in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Ms. Morris and Mr. Munshin were aware there would be tattoos available during the rec...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
Who's afraid of "Hamlet"? Certainly not the director Sam Gold, whose gloriously involving new production at the Public Theater treats Shakespeare's daunting tragedy with an easy, jokey familiarity that's usually reserved for siblings and longtime drinking buddies. As in such relationships, Mr. Gold and his top flight c...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
Wire's first three albums have been reissued as multiple CD sets with versions that reveal some of the choices behind the band's innovative work. Art movements Minimalism, Primitivism, Dadaism, Pop are embedded in punk rock's basic DNA. In 1977, the artiest punk band in Britain or maybe the punkiest art band was Wire, ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
You may remember her from "Downton Abbey," where she played feisty, tart tongued Mabel Lane Fox. But the British actress is also a novelist, and her debut "Something in the Water," a psychological thriller about a honeymooning couple who chance upon a cash stuffed duffel bag enters the list this week at No. 11. Debut t...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books