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The ambition of "La Susanna," a 17th century oratorio reimagined by two opera companies for the MeToo era, is so explicit, it's announced with a sign. "Our Bodies, Our Stories: Reclaiming the Narrative for Feminism," it says above the stage at BAM Fisher, where Heartbeat Opera and Opera Lafayette are offering Alessandr...
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Ms. Blanchett, who made her Broadway debut this season in Chekhov's "The Present," will play the role made immortal by Bette Davis in the 1950 film: Margo Channing, an aging Broadway star whom the New York Times critic Bosley Crowther described as an "acid creature with a cankerous ego and a stinging tongue" who "is th...
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Republicans promised a middle class tax cut. So far, they have created mostly middle class confusion. Both the evolving House bill and the emerging Senate plan would slash taxes for businesses and many wealthy individuals. What they would mean for the middle class, however, is less clear. The plans feature a spider web...
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"The Souvenir" is one of my favorite movies of the year so far, but I almost want to keep it a secret. Partly because it's the kind of film we all have a collection of these, and of similar books and records, too that feels like a private discovery, an experience you want to protect rather than talk about. A direct mes...
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Although workers have begun returning to restaurants, retailers and other businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, layoffs are seeping through sections of the job market that previously escaped major damage. On Thursday, the Labor Department said more than 1.5 million Americans filed new state unemployment clai...
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WASHINGTON Europeans may discover this week that the debt crisis is not only threatening the euro zone economy and the integrity of the common currency, but also diminishing Europe's influence in world affairs. For a second consecutive year, Europe's problems are the major preoccupation as government officials and mone...
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BETHLEHEM, N.H. The fascination and affection Chris Seely, 16, feels for the 1967 MGB he rebuilt and drives daily were hand me downs. "My Dad, when he was in high school, had a TR6," Mr. Seely, a senior at Profile high school here, said in a telephone interview. "When I was growing up, he would always talk to me about ...
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The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was asked at a congressional hearing on Thursday who was in charge of making sure that people can be tested for Covid 19, especially health care workers. Was it he, the vice president or someone else? Dr. Robert Redfield, the C.D.C. director, replied that h...
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LONDON Regardless of whether you're a multibillion dollar investment banker, or someone who wants to spend just a few hundred on something nice to hang on the wall, it's difficult not to be intimidated by the art market. But surely the digital revolution has brought some much needed transparency to this most opaque of ...
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In South African parlance, things happen at two speeds: "Just now" which could be anywhere from 10 minutes to two weeks to who knows when or "now now," which means, well, now. Judging by the pace at which Johannesburg is evolving these days, you need to get there now now. The City of Gold originated as a dusty mining c...
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The city boasts an extensive road network, but driving into the city is strongly discouraged on Thursday, especially in Center City, as many roads will be closed and extensive parking restrictions will be enforced. Bicycle lanes along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Broad Street will be largely closed to the public. ...
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Ask Michael Goldstein what attracted him to Edgemont a community in Westchester County, east of Ardsley and west of Scarsdale and his answer is as predictable as the return of "Cats." "It has a really good school system," he says. Edgemont takes the old bromide of location, location, location and boils it down to schoo...
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Winnipeg Jets right wing Patrik Laine honed his powerful right handed shot as a youngster in his backyard in Tampere, Finland, where he would fire pucks at soda cans after watching YouTube clips of his childhood idol, the Washington Capitals' Alex Ovechkin. And like Ovechkin, Laine has found offensive potency on the po...
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What books are on your nightstand? At the moment there's a great pile of books by friends and colleagues that are just about to see the light of day. I have, of course, promised to read them all yesterday. They include Monique Truong's wonderful "The Sweetest Fruits"; Jeff Gordinier's poetic take on the chef Rene Redze...
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The number of Americans seeking Social Security disability benefits is plunging, a startling reversal of a decades old trend that threatened the program's solvency. It is the latest evidence of a stronger economy pulling people back into the job market or preventing workers from being sidelined in the first place. The ...
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland Set against a vista of sea and mountains, the city's modern concert hall and convention center, with its kaleidoscopic facade of multicolored glass, averages more than 140,000 visitors each month. The thriving complex, which hosts fans of Bjork and enthusiasts of yo yoing, is a symbol of how the coun...
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The model Karen Elson in a photo from her new book, "The Red Flame," from a 2000 issue of the Dutch magazine No. 30. Models are generally thought of as people who are seen and not heard, but every once in a while one of them breaks the sound barrier. Such is the case with Karen Elson, the red haired mannequin who domin...
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Nine rooms, starting at 85 with a shared bath. Beyond promoting its status as "World's First Kickstarter Funded Hotel," the Jennings is an unusual hotel. The formerly dilapidated two story brick building has a colorful history as a boardinghouse, a tattoo parlor and, if legend is to be believed, a brothel. And it is no...
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Scientists See Promise in Resurrecting These Rhinos That Are Nearly Extinct None When the last male northern white rhinoceros died in March, people mourned the beloved mammal's step toward extinction. With no members of the subspecies left in the wild and just two females remaining in captivity, it felt like the last b...
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A bite size sampling of concours, cruise nights, auctions, club races and other upwellings of car culture happening across America this weekend: Sam Pack, a Texas businessman and car collector, is attempting to downsize his fleet by selling 130 vehicles. Among the lots are a 1963 Shelby Cobra, a 2006 Ford GT, several m...
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It was nearly two months ago when the first white refrigerated trucks began to appear on the streets of New York City. They were meant as a temporary solution to help overwhelmed hospitals and morgues house the bodies of people who had succumbed to Covid 19. The pandemic has now left nearly 30,000 dead in New York and ...
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A remarkable gender gap has opened up in Americans' views of their own finances and the broader national economy. Men feel better about the economy than they have in over a decade. Women are far more skeptical. And the sharp divide has emerged since President Trump was elected two years ago. Nearly half of men 47 perce...
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Dark clouds loomed over Downtown Brooklyn on Friday as the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, standing on the bed of a pickup truck, announced to people gathered at Betty Carter Park that they were about to witness a world premiere. "No one has heard this music before!" he told the small crowd, as if he were a carniva...
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This will be the second workshop style cabaret, after an earlier performance in Boston, where Faith Soloway lives. (She splits her time between there and Los Angeles for "Transparent.") She described the audience whose feedback is welcome and whose ticket sales benefit the nonprofit Americans United as "part therapist,...
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Whether Orion ought to be feet or head up in the night sky depends on the hemisphere. When Stan, a 23 year old student from South Australia, rides his bike through the Rocky Mountains, he marvels that the constellation is upside down. So does Jean, arriving in the Antipodes 16 months later from the States to cycle arou...
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Last month, the historian and biographer Jon Meacham got an unusual request from Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s campaign. The campaign wanted him to speak at the Democratic National Convention not to endorse Mr. Biden, but to put the stakes of this election in historical context. "The request was, define the soul of America, an...
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Bye bye, indeed, Miss American Pie. If General Motors has its way, you won't be driving your Chevy to the levee ever again. On Tuesday, G.M. sent a memo to Chevrolet employees at its Detroit headquarters, promoting the importance of "consistency" for the brand, which was the nation's best selling line of cars and truck...
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A rhinoceros will soon be on view in Midtown Manhattan a life size aluminum rhinoceros, that is, from which a tire, a copier, a vacuum cleaner and other human artifacts sprout in all directions. The Gagosian Gallery will unveil the sculpture, a new piece by Urs Fischer titled "Things," on Tuesday at 511 Fifth Avenue, a...
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VIENNA Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election was experienced by many right wing populists in Europe as a momentous turning point. It was their version of 1989, when the fall of the Berlin Wall made liberalism appear unstoppable and triumphant. Right wing populists from Hungary to Britain believed tha...
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POTOMAC, Md. When they were building a gallery here at Glenstone for Robert Gober's 1992 "Untitled" immersive installation featuring spouting sinks, stacked newspapers and woodland scenery Mitchell P. Rales and Emily Wei Rales worked with the artist to design the room to his specifications. That meant lowered ceilings,...
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LOS ANGELES Executives at Walt Disney Studios were celebrating. "Mulan," a 200 million live action spectacle five years in the making, had arrived on Disney's streaming service to strong reviews, with critics lauding its ravishing scenery and thrilling battle sequences. The abundant controversies that had dogged "Mulan...
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First, it seems only fair to mention that those looking for a book about the enduring legacy of James Boswell's great subject should look elsewhere. A mention of that Samuel Johnson does appear toward the end of "Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return," 's darkly inventive debut novel, as though to reassure the reader that sh...
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America Has Two Feet. It's About to Lose One of Them. How big is a foot? In the United States, that depends on which of the two official foot measurements you are talking about. If it comes as a surprise that there are two feet, how about this: One of those feet is about to go away. The first foot is the old U.S. surve...
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When the idea to create the Black Girl Hockey Club hit Renee Hess almost two years ago, she couldn't have foreseen the degree to which it has insinuated itself into hockey culture in the United States and Canada. From the first handful of respondents to her social media query in October 2018 asking if other women of co...
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You could watch the final play of the Tampa Bay Rays' 8 7 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series dozens of times and probably still struggle to comprehend exactly what occurred. You wouldn't be alone. "I don't know if anything like that has ever happened," Rays' center fielder Kevin Kiermaier sa...
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So, with both main mayoral candidates opposed to allowing horse drawn carriages in the streets, a major chapter in the history of New York may be about to close. The first horses served man here no later than the 1620s, and since then they have pulled, plodded, trotted and galloped in our service. True, they have endur...
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Jessika D. Williams, outdoors at the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia, where she is playing the title role in "Othello."Credit...Melanie Metz for The New York Times Jessika D. Williams, outdoors at the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia, where she is playing the title role in "Othello." Jessika D. Williams ...
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6 Photographers to Look Out For at the Arles Festival ARLES, France It is a daunting task to pick through the huge choice of photography exhibited this summer at the Rencontres d'Arles all the more so in this season's baking heat. In addition to more than 50 shows listed in the program of the prestigious international ...
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Like many organizations in the wake of George Floyd's killing, the board of the American Institute of Architects issued a statement the other day expressing solidarity with protesters and offering a mea culpa. "We were wrong not to address and work to correct the built world's role in perpetuating systemic racial injus...
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WASHINGTON Jeffrey M. Lacker, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in Virginia, resigned abruptly on Tuesday, saying that he had broken the Fed's rules in 2012 by speaking with a financial analyst about confidential deliberations. Mr. Lacker said he also failed to disclose the details of the conversati...
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Patricia McKissack, who with her husband transformed a career crisis into a prolific literary partnership that produced scores of children's books about black history and folklore, died on April 7 in Bridgeton, Mo. She was 72. The cause was cardiorespiratory arrest, her son Fredrick L. McKissack Jr. said. Ms. McKissack...
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Jo Galvis was 15 years old when she got a tattoo on the center of her lower back. She had been fighting with her family and living at a friend's house. What better way to infuriate her parents? Ms. Galvis, who now is 29 and lives in Queens, grew up in Colombia, where she just walked into a tattoo parlor in Bogota and g...
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'HUMA BHABHA: WE COME IN PEACE' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Oct. 28). This spare and unsettling sculptural installation for the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden Commission includes two figures: one that is somewhat humanoid but with a ferocious mask face and that visually dwarfs the jagged Manhattan...
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How do you dress to declare fake victory? How do you convey the image of coming out on top when the top itself is shrouded in clouds and fog? In the small hours of Wednesday morning, as news organizations warned that it could be days before the election results were known, President Trump walked onto a makeshift stage ...
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BEIJING Even with a jump in consumer prices in February, there were no signs of a change in China's economic policy course as it continued its strong recovery, economists and government officials said Thursday. The 2.7 percent increase in prices over the same month in 2009 was attributed in part to the Lunar New Year h...
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In an essay about attending via video the burial of her mother, Jill Bialosky, a poet and an executive editor at W.W. Norton Co., describes mourning at a time when travel isn't safe and services are limited to a few family members. We asked readers who had recently lost someone they cared about how they've managed, bot...
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Class consciousness does not flow automatically out of class identity. Being a worker does not necessarily mean you will come to identify as a worker. Instead, you can think of class consciousness as a process of discovery, of insights derived from events that put the relationships of class into stark relief. Or as the...
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Anyone who saw Christopher Shinn's "Dying City" at Lincoln Center 12 years ago most likely left the theater on wobbly legs. As staged by the inventive British director James Macdonald, this three character, two performer drama about an American war widow in the early 21st century slyly transformed the terra firma of a ...
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With transmons and entanglement, scientists strive to put sub atomic weirdness to work on the human scale. YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. A bolt from the maybe future struck the technology community in late September. A paper by Google computer scientists appeared on a NASA website, claiming that an innovative new machine call...
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WASHINGTON During a meeting with Donald Trump at Trump Tower in June of 2016, with the opera bouffe builder improbably heading toward the nomination despite a skeletal campaign crew on a floor below, I asked when he would pivot. We all assumed he would have to pivot, that he would have to stop his belittling Twitter ra...
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Are technology companies running too fast into the future and creating things that could potentially wreak havoc on humankind? That question has been swirling around in my head ever since I saw the enthralling science fiction film "Ex Machina." The movie offers a clever version of the robots versus humans narrative. Bu...
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Jared Evans, a member of the Indianapolis City County Council, is proud that the city is among 20 finalists for one of the most coveted prizes in the country: the planned second headquarters of Amazon. He does, however, have one small question: What financial incentives did his city dangle in front of Amazon? "What hav...
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If you have ever seen a peregrine falcon slice cleanly through the pale dawn to capture and dismember a starling midair, you have a rough idea of what will happen this weekend, when the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards ceremony is hosted to within an inch of its life by Keke Palmer. The assignment is both a perfect applicat...
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Hal and Marie are young, gorgeous, vital. They're also inopportune outsiders, wreaking havoc on seemingly tranquil communities. As the catalysts in two William Inge plays of the 1950s, Hal (in "Picnic") and Marie (in "Come Back, Little Sheba") are inadvertent agents of change. But don't expect melodramatic fireworks: T...
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They are instructions to commit to memory, essential tools in a young man's defense system: Keep your head up. Keep your eyes forward. Keep your ego down. The audience for "The Bitter Game" Keith A. Wallace's high impact performance piece at the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival is asked to repeat these directi...
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No matter how much free time you have this weekend, we have TV recommendations for you. Come back every week for new suggestions on what to watch. This Weekend I Have ... an Hour, and My Favorite Color Is Gray 'Rubicon' When to watch: Now, on AMC Premiere. If you love cryptography, icy stares, complicated back stories ...
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TORONTO Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada backed by the Canadian government and universities were laying the groundwork for today's boom in artificial intelligence. But the center of the commercial gold ...
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Rather than roast in the sun, and in all likelihood bring on sun damage, sun spots and other hot weather woes, self tanner has become a reliable solution for faking a bronzed glow. The formulas have been improved so much less streaky! less orange! that, with some practice, you can use them to contour. The makeup artist...
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How to Have a High End Ski Vacation Without All the High Prices None
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Credit...Heather Sten for The New York Times Four years ago, Chanel Miller, still known as "Emily Doe" in the sexual assault case against Brock Turner, wrote a 12 page victim impact statement so powerful that it went viral on BuzzFeed and landed her a major book deal. It also helped inspire Hillary Clinton's concession...
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Craig Moon, a former president and publisher of USA Today, has been named as the new publisher of The Las Vegas Review Journal, the newspaper announced on Thursday. Mr. Moon served for a time as the executive vice president of Gannett Newspapers, and led its flagship newspaper, USA Today, from 2003 to 2009. Since then,...
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MELBOURNE, Australia The reigning United States Open champion, Naomi Osaka, was serving to extend her third round match against Hsieh Su Wei when she rolled her right foot while running for a ball and tumbled to the ground, prompting the chair umpire to ask if she was O.K. "No," Osaka replied, but she was laughing. Osa...
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When a video goes viral showing violence against a black person, the shock waves are felt throughout our community. Our social feeds show a mixture of outrage, despair and an overall sense of fatigue. When another breaking news story inevitably takes center stage and pushes the violence into the background, we still fe...
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John Leguizamo is returning to Broadway once again. His critically acclaimed one man show "Latin History for Morons," which opened Off Broadway in March at the Public Theater, will move to Studio 54 starting in October, its producers announced Wednesday. In the play, Mr. Leguizamo delivers a satirical history lesson ab...
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"First Match," a Netflix Original movie that made its debut on March 30, begins with near surreal imagery: a shot of a blue sky with a fluffy cloud suspended therein, into which a swatch of green flies in slow motion. Other patches of color come into the frame, items of casual clothing a tank top, sweatpants and so on....
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NEW DELHI India's central government, convulsed by a series of corruption scandals, is under increasing pressure to deal with the potentially conflicting challenges of rising inflation and slowing growth. But any effort to deal with the underlying problems that plague the Indian economy runs directly into powerful poli...
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Detail of Ja'Tovia Gary's 2019 "The Giverny Suite," a three screen film installation that is the centerpiece of her show "flesh that needs to be loved," at Paula Cooper. Rhythm is central to Ja'Tovia Gary's "The Giverny Suite" (2019), a nearly 40 minute, three screen film installation that is the centerpiece of "flesh ...
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The Swiss painter and printmaker Felix Vallotton was an intriguing, talented but slippery artist. From painting to painting in "Felix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet," a small survey of his career, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you often don't quite know what to expect next in terms of style or subject, even within...
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On the eve of her latest book release, Anne Rice did not lurk online reading early reviews. She examined a set of taxidermied kittens, posed into a Victorian wedding scene, at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn. "It's like making a vampire against its will," she said with empathy. "Somebody made these little kitties...
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Each Friday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at The New York Times, review the week's news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry. Mike is out this week so Nick Wingfield, a Times technology reporter based in Seattle, filled in. Farhad: H...
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Mr. Heilemann and Mr. Halperin, the authors of the popular book "Game Change" about the 2008 election, joined Bloomberg in May 2014. But their hiring caused discord between Bloomberg's offices in New York and Washington, where journalists felt they were being overshadowed by the new politics team. The show initially st...
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A drug that protects children in wealthy countries against painful and sometimes lethal bouts of sickle cell disease has been proven safe for use in Africa, where the condition is far more common, scientists reported on Saturday. More research remains to be done, experts said, but knowing that hydroxyurea a cheap, effe...
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News coverage of President Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate began last week with a Republican senator calling a CNN reporter "a liberal hack" in the halls of Congress and laughing about it later that night during a Fox News interview. Journalists are up in arms about new restrictions on their movement inside the...
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Consider the odyssey of a bird known as the red knot. Each spring, flocks of the intrepid shorebirds fly up to 9,300 miles from the tropics to the Arctic. As the snow melts, they mate and produce a new generation of chicks. The chicks gorge themselves on insects, and then all the red knots head back south. "They are th...
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The choreographer Yasuko Yokoshi was working on a project with high school students in Fukushima, Japan, the site of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011, when an idea for a dance was born. Manami Fukuoka, a dancer and former student who was assisting her, said casually over dinner one night, "I have a twin s...
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TIGHT ON OBAMA FOR: My top science advisor John Holdman, periodically will issue some chart or report or graph ah, in the morning meetings, and they're terrifying. B ROLL SOUND UP WAVE CRASH AS PUNCTUATION OVER SCENIC B ROLL OF INTERVIEW LOCATION AND MOODY WEATHER SHOTS: Obama: And everybody starts off the day thinking...
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Ann Liv Young, with her daughters, Akiko, left, and Lovey. Ms. Young's Bushwick apartment will be the site of her new version of "Antigone."Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York Times The choreographer and performance artist Ann Liv Young is using her Bushwick apartment and her daughters and animals in her version of "...
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Having conquered New York, the Mexican chef Enrique Olvera is returning to his native country to extend his empire. Mr. Olvera, who runs the acclaimed Mexico City restaurant Pujol, opened Cosme in the Flatiron neighborhood of New York last year. It's now one of the hottest restaurants in the city. His next project, to ...
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Clearly, the GPS had gone haywire. We were sitting in our rental car in Belgium, in search of Bruges. After directing me down a series of increasingly narrower country roads, it now wanted me to head into the driveway of a modest suburban house. The children in the backseat were laughing; my wife, to my right, was not....
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A few years ago, two Michigan prison inmates, proclaiming themselves adherents of the "Christian Identity" religion, sought the prison's official recognition to be allowed to conduct their own worship services, apart from other inmates. The prison already recognized 20 religions, including a number of Christian denomin...
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It was always high praise when Judith Jamison, the artistic director emerita of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, summed up one of her dancers in a word: creature. These creatures were beyond human, not just by way of virtuosic feats, of which Tuesday's program at City Center displayed many, but distinctly sensit...
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Credit...Kim Klement/USA Today Sports, via Reuters The referee Zach Zarba had spent, by his count, roughly 23 nights a month away from home during the N.B.A.'s regular season for the past 17 years. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and the league suspended its season in March. It was, in a way, a welcome shock to the ...
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Apple showed off a slate of new computers with better screens, faster processors and higher price tags on Tuesday, including an iPad Pro that the company is trying to position as a primary work computer. The announcements included a new MacBook Air, the first major update since 2011 of Apple's slimmest laptop, and a ne...
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BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. They call it the "Church Lane Hug." That is how educators at Church Lane Elementary Technology, a public school here, describe the protective two armed way they teach students to carry their school issued laptops. Administrators at Baltimore County Public Schools, the 25th largest public school sy...
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The production of "Hagoromo" opening Tuesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music brings together forces from different genres. It's a Japanese Noh classic reimagined and directed by David Michalek with music by Nathan Davis to a libretto by Brendan Pelsue; there's choreography by David Neumann, puppetry by Chris M. Green,...
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For over a decade, Ellen Fishman has been waiting for business to improve at Amorina Cucina Rustica, the restaurant she owns with her husband on Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. Her pizzeria sits in the shadow of the 4.9 billion megadevelopment once known as Atlantic Yards, which has promised to deliver thousands of new ...
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Real Estate
A variety of worlds from a British ship of pilgrims to a maze populated with competing detectives have been unfolding inside the neo Gothic walls of a former school on the Lower East Side. Those worlds, and many others, are part of the first Rave Theater Festival, running through Aug. 25 at the Clemente Soto Velez Cult...
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Theater
AMSTERDAM "Some people are born teachers. Some people are born footballers. I'm a born burglar." So says Octave Durham, who stole two priceless Vincent van Gogh paintings on the evening of Dec. 7, 2002. More than 14 years after he and an accomplice clambered onto the roof of the Van Gogh Museum here, broke a window wit...
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Art & Design
INSIDE a broadcast booth, at the radio station of the State University of New York Fredonia, Jud Heussler was presiding over his hourlong comedy show "The Morning Inferno." In a barreling voice, he announced that he would soon be throwing a few things up on the show's Facebook page: a photo of a drunken moose he had un...
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Education
It looks as if the spring swoon is back. American employers added an estimated 88,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, compared with 268,000 in February, according to a Labor Department report released Friday. It was the slowest pace of growth since last June, and less than half of what economists had expected. It al...
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Economy
In an 11th hour reversal, the superstar singer Placido Domingo withdrew on Tuesday from the Metropolitan Opera's production of Verdi's "Macbeth" and indicated he would not return to the Met, amid rising tensions over the company's response to allegations that he had sexually harassed multiple women. Mr. Domingo's withd...
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Music
Lil Nas X, left, and the Weeknd responded to the music industry's day of reflection with statements imploring the business to do more. As the music world observed a voluntary "blackout" on Tuesday to reflect on issues of race and social justice, the industry also came under some criticism for making a solemn gesture wi...
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Music
Housing activists in New York have spent much of the year preparing for the end of it. Tenant evictions have been halted or delayed by coronavirus relief measures, for the most part, until January 2021. If those measures are allowed to expire or aren't extended it could mean the displacement of thousands of families th...
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Style
Helen Mirra's marvelous SoHo show of small, vibrant weavings, evocatively titled "Bones Are Spaces," rebalances the visual and intellectual elements of her work. For over two decades, this American artist has assiduously imbued her modest, low lying sculptures and wall pieces handmade from assorted found materials, dis...
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Art & Design
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 the Ursids. Active from Dec. 17 to Dec. 26, the show ...
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Science
Poachers are killing 40,000 elephants a year and with a global elephant population of just 400,000, it doesn't take a mathematician to figure out that there is an urgent need to stop the killing. But it's hard to catch poachers in the act. They operate over a wide area, move just a few elephant tusks at a time and once...
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Science
LOS ANGELES It was a big night for the 76 year old American artist Jimmie Durham. That evening, Jan. 28, was the opening of his retrospective at the Hammer Museum here, eagerly anticipated because he has not had a solo show in the United States in 22 years. Along with collectors and curators, dozens of artists came to ...
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Art & Design
Sandra Haggard, a 71 year old professor, has been in a committed relationship with her partner, Lynne Lamstein, for more than two decades. They never had plans to marry nor do they now even though same sex marriage has been declared a constitutional right. But ever since same sex marriage became legalized two years ago...
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Your Money
During a support group meeting for people left behind by suicide, Hope Litoff realized she was among a group of collectors. "We all had storage spaces of our dead person," said Ms. Litoff, a New York film editor whose sister, Ruth, an artist and photographer, committed suicide in 2008 at the age of 42. "We all had the ...
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Well
LOS ANGELES In explaining the new ELR plug in hybrid, a Cadillac spokesman offered this rationale: "Mercedes Benz doesn't have anything like this." So true. As a corporate statement in the 21st century, the ELR makes a certain amount of sense. It's unique, beautiful, efficient, serenely comfortable and electronically a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles