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There was symbolism in the timing when Major League Baseball announced a new, expanded postseason format. The league made it official on opening day in July, while the very first game of the season was already in progress. The message: We know this won't last very long, but wait till we get to the fall! By opening up t...
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Egypt is on the bucket list of Beth Warren, a middle school history teacher in Lookout Mountain, Ga. She's planning a trip for 2022. Beth Warren, a middle school history teacher in Lookout Mountain, Ga., had been looking forward to a much anticipated trip this summer to Egypt, a country she vowed to show her husband an...
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Travel
Despite no longer reproducing, postmenopausal female whales play a crucial role in the survival of killer whales, researchers have found. With extensive knowledge of their environment, female whales in their 70s and 80s lead younger whales to food in times of scarcity. Female whales are the only mammals other than huma...
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Last week, chips that store eight gigabytes of data for digital cameras, smartphones and other devices cost as little as 7.30 each on the spot market, where many manufacturers buy components. On Monday, the cost was around 10. That jump in price illustrates how the disaster in Japan has immediately affected the supply ...
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Global Business
A Chicago TV Host Knows Restaurants. She Has Some Ideas for You. Catherine De Orio has been to hundreds of restaurants for the show "Check, Please." She has recommendations for where to eat in Chicago and beyond. None Catherine (Cat) De Orio's high wattage personality not to mention her knowledge of all things food has...
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THE BIG BANG THEORY 8 p.m. on CBS. When this nerd chic sitcom began in September 2007, Alessandra Stanley wrote in a review in The New York Times that 2007 was "the year of breakthroughs: First the iPhone, now the tall, dark and handsome nerd." You could argue that "The Big Bang Theory" turned into something like the i...
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Television
In estuaries off the coast of Georgia, the water is so murky that if you were to dive in, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. There, blue crabs feast on mud crabs, oysters, fish and more. You may eagerly approach these hand sized arthropods when they're cracked into pieces and doused in butter. But in mud...
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Q. Why is the mail app on my Android phone asking for permission to use my contacts and calendars? I don't feel comfortable giving that access and it feels like an invasion of privacy, but the app doesn't seem to work otherwise. A. While it may feel as if you're granting the mail app permission to root around in your p...
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Technology
Two new works one by the tap dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance and one by Jessica Lang will headline American Ballet Theater's fall season at the David H. Koch Theater, the company announced on Tuesday. Building on the recent announcement of a multiyear initiative to support the creation of new works by female...
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Dance
They said it was their family curse: a rare congenital deformity called syndactyly, in which the thumb and index finger are fused together on one or both hands. Ten members of the extended clan were affected, and with each new birth, they told Stefan Mundlos of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, the first...
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Science
Kevin Baker's review of David Maraniss's "A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father" (July 14) ends with Baker trying to puzzle out why in the world any "great American spirit" would be drawn to joining the Communist Party. After more than three decades of serious treatment by acclaimed historians and nonfict...
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Books
This June, the L.G.B.T.Q. community and allies will celebrate WorldPride and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion in New York City. But the festivities won't be contained to that urban jungle: The rainbow flag will also wave this summer and fall in the great outdoors, in a variety of backcountry ...
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Travel
If a car already knows where you like your seat positioned, what radio stations you favor and how you want the air conditioning set, would you be more likely to buy it? Mercedes Benz thinks you might be. A project to develop what it calls the predictive user experience will observe how drivers and passengers use a car ...
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Automobiles
One day last winter, I was down in my unfinished basement working on some music, and my fingers were too cold to play the guitar. So I grabbed a space heater that I was long term testing for Wirecutter, placed it on the wooden workbench where my audio workstation was set up, and plugged it into the nearest power strip ...
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Real Estate
Thomas Ades, left, and John Adams. Piano concertos by the two composers will have their premieres on the same night in Boston and Los Angeles. After 250 years or so, the piano concerto has some life in it yet. This week alone, two piano concertos by two eminent composers, Thomas Ades and John Adams, will have their pre...
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Music
The Bollywood movie "Dabangg 3" opens with several bangs: Wedding robbers are doing what wedding robbers do collecting guests' gold chunks and cash when the police arrive on the scene. The officers bumble until their leader, our hero, Inspector Chulbul Pandey, blasts his way onto the scene. He comes flying through a wa...
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Movies
At New York Fashion Week, Where to See and Be Seen None The designer Wes Gordon, left, chats with Jessica Chastain at the preview party for L'Avenue, which opened Monday at Saks Fifth Avenue. Andrew White for The New York Times Fashion may be a sprawling global industry but in many ways it can feel a lot like a high sc...
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Fashion & Style
LOS ANGELES Ending a power struggle in its senior ranks, Warner Bros. on Tuesday gave control of worldwide film production, marketing and distribution to Toby Emmerich, who rose through the studio by finding hits like "It" and shepherding "The Lord of the Rings" movies. Sue Kroll, one of Hollywood's highest ranking fem...
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Media
Mr. Akunin is far less concerned than Shakespeare is with the prince himself, though he does award a central role to Hamlet's pal Horatio (Khris Lewin). Unlike the doofuses Rosencrantz (Owen Scott) and Guildenstern (Michael Propster), visitors who in their own way fit right in, Horatio is a true foreigner at Elsinore, ...
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Live in one neighborhood in New York City long enough and other neighborhoods begin to feel like foreign countries. As with countries, there are some you want to visit and some you don't. The Upper East Side has long been one of the lands I wanted to visit. But I've been a Brooklyn boy for more than 20 years, so trips ...
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Travel
"If you have faith, then it must be true," says the man who has just extracted slimy gobbets of flesh from a woman's abdomen with his bare hands and no incision. The gobbets, he says, are disease causing "negativities," though we know they are actually chicken guts marinated in fake blood. Faith and faithlessness in he...
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Theater
Bill Shine, the newly appointed co president of Fox News, commutes two hours every morning from Long Island to Midtown Manhattan, leaving his house so early that, as he tells colleagues, "the other guys on the train all have Sheetrock on their boots." He is seen in the newsroom as embodying a typical Fox News viewer: a...
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Outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where a gunman killed 11 people on Saturday. After the shooting, anti Semitic messages surged on Instagram. SAN FRANCISCO On Monday, a search on Instagram, the photo sharing site owned by Facebook, produced a torrent of anti Semitic images and videos uploaded in the wak...
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Technology
new video loaded: Sit With Santa at the Arctic Circle
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Jo Ellen Chism, 57, a retiree who lives in The Woodlands, Texas, about an hour outside Houston, was nervous about attending her stepson's wedding on June 20. "They were going to postpone it, but then the Catholic church decided they would open and would have up to 75 people," she said. "75 people seemed like a pretty b...
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Fashion & Style
THE third wave of gentrification is just now being felt in Long Island City, Queens. Artists and other creative types colonized the area's warehouses several decades ago, followed by a burst of high rise development aimed at singles and couples who wanted a lower cost alternative to Manhattan. Now apartments that can a...
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Real Estate
There's always some risk when a dance company unveils a premiere, especially on gala night, when the crowd is full of donors. Will they like it? But that risk is lower when the choreographer is like an old friend of the company, with a knowledge of the dancers built up over years. Such is the case with Ronald K. Brown,...
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Dance
The horses for the 146th running of the Kentucky Derby, which was moved to Saturday from May 2 and will have no spectators present because of the coronavirus pandemic, are listed in order of post position, with comments by Joe Drape and Melissa Hoppert of The New York Times. The morning line odds were set by Mike Batta...
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Mr. Brown and Mr. Gomes both create stage worlds that contain same sex partnering as well as conventionally heterosexual duets; both allow for those same sex relationships to be interpreted in sexual terms. Although Mr. Brown is much the least experienced dance maker of this program's three, he's the one with the stron...
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The global "Sesame Street" family is getting three new Muppet members: Basma, Jad and Ma'zooza. The characters are creative and adventurous, speak Arabic and are set to tackle yet another difficult subject: the trauma facing refugee children in the Middle East. They will lead a new Arabic language, locally produced sho...
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On Tuesday, the trailer for the final season of "Game of Thrones" was released, and it reflects what fans already know: These final, near feature length episodes are going to be really, really big. Thinking about rewatching "Game of Thrones?" Here's our Season 1 rewatch guide. Here we get titillating glimpses of the fi...
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BRUSSELS There is a lot riding on Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's new "Golden Hours (As you like it)," set to music by Brian Eno, which opened at the Kaaitheater here on Friday. In December, the Brussels opera house, the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, which co produced the work, and with which Ms. De Keersmaeker has had a 2...
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Installation view of Rem Koolhaas's exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Countryside, the Future," which argues that cities are being supplanted by rural areas as centers of cosmopolitanism and dynamism.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times Installation view of Rem Koolhaas's exhibition at the Solom...
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Art & Design
LOS ANGELES Who will replace Robert A. Iger as chief executive of the Walt Disney Company when he retires in July 2019? It could well be Robert A. Iger. Disney is in talks to buy significant parts of 21st Century Fox, the media conglomerate controlled by the Murdoch family, and Rupert Murdoch has asked that any sale in...
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New tax rules will make it possible for workers to buy a type of annuity often called longevity insurance inside their retirement plans. The annuity aims to protect people from exhausting their savings in their later years. Longevity insurance is actually a deferred income annuity, in which a person pays a lump sum pre...
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Your Money
Andrew Scheer, the rabbi in question, was about to have a first date with Avital Zipper. Mr. Scheer's vocation was frequently a deal breaker once a woman learned of it. "I love being a rabbi it's a great honor but I would have to dance around what I did for a living and when I told them. It was like they were 12 years ...
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Fashion & Style
Watch contestants sing their hearts out in the Eurovision Song Contest finale. And celebrate Mother's Day with the second season of the slow burn comedy "Mum." EUROVISION SONG CONTEST GRAND FINAL 3 p.m. on Logo. This wildly popular European vocal competition comes to an end, as singers representing the 26 final nations...
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At 76, disabled, with half the roof of her Grand Bahama home blown off and facing the prospect of months without electricity, Myrtle Cartwright decided she had to leave. Ms. Cartwright escaped in luxury: On Friday, she boarded Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line's Grand Celebration with about 1,200 other Hurricane Dorian surv...
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In college at Howard University, Glory Edim "was reading bell hooks or Toni Cade Bambara or Audre Lorde or Pat Parker all these women have helped shape my own sense of self worth," she said. This September, outside a boutique store in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, members of the Well Read Black Girl ...
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BERLIN The European Central Bank increased aid to cash strapped financial institutions Thursday, but disappointed those expecting more drastic measures to combat slowing growth and address a deepening bank emergency. The E.C.B.'s restraint came in contrast to the action of the Bank of England, which announced another r...
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Global Business
Leonardo DiCaprio, left, and Brad Pitt in "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood." Where to Watch 'Parasite,' 'Joker' and More 2020 Oscar Nominated Movies Sign up for our Watching newsletter to get recommendations on the best films and TV shows to stream and watch, delivered to your inbox. The nominees for the 92nd Academy...
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Robert Greenblatt, right, is leaving as NBC's entertainment chief. He will be succeeded by Paul Telegdy, left, a president and the head of reality programming at NBC, and George Cheeks, a rising star at the company. NBC's entertainment chief, Robert Greenblatt, is stepping down from the company after almost eight years...
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Magdalena Abakanowicz, a Polish sculptor who transformed sisal and burlap into brooding forms that evoked the weight of political oppression, the desperation of the individual and the sufferings of the natural world, died on Thursday in Warsaw. She was 86. She died after a long illness, her husband, Jan Kosmowski, said...
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This article is part of our latest special report on Design, which is about getting personal with customization. A little respite from geopolitical and health crises can perhaps be found in five new design books, which demonstrate our ability to transform humble materials into enduring refuges. In "The Art of Earth Arc...
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Style
The Sanhedrin wanted to be rid of this vexatious visionary, but they had no legal authority to kill him, so they sought the complicity of Pilate, arguing that Jesus was "no longer just a religious but also a political problem." Pilate was wary; he wanted to remain on good terms with the Jewish authorities, but he also ...
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Books
AS the financial crisis consumed Wall Street in 2008, James Corl left his job as chief investment officer of the money manager Cohen Steers, where he was a well compensated real estate stock investor, and struck out on his own. Mr. Corl figured there would be opportunities in distressed real estate and created his own ...
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Your Money
TOKYO Despite a strong yen and the lingering fallout from recalls, the automaker Toyota said Wednesday that it had returned to a profit in the April to June quarter because of strong sales in emerging markets and aggressive cost cutting. Toyota's net quarterly profit of 190.4 billion yen, or 2.2 billion, was a sharp re...
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Global Business
Credit...Rozette Rago for The New York Times Six weeks ago, as TikTok grappled with escalating tensions between the United States and China, the social media app's top executives huddled together to figure out their next steps. Vanessa Pappas, 41, was worried. TikTok's North American business, which she has run since 2...
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Technology
What is it? A sneak peek at a coming replacement for the Nissan Maxima, although Nissan isn't ready to make that official. Is it real? Some of the concept's filigree will surely be pared before this sedan reaches showrooms, perhaps including the trompe l'oiel taillamps and huge cheese grater wheels. Yet the overall sil...
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It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to really start listening. Civil rights and good government groups and users have been shouting from the rooftops for years for real change at the world's most powerful social media company. Facebook, they say, has helped enable misinformation about the coronavirus, elections, political re...
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Opinion
Most incredibly, it does, if only for a while. Gabriel happens upon what the skeptical would deem incredible strokes of luck, first locating antibiotics next to a suicide victim's corpse and then that person's car keys. In one commendably tense set piece, Gabriel sharp shoots a zombie off Dr. Carson with his eyes close...
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WASHINGTON Congress's 85 billion, across the board budget cuts may not have brought the economy to a halt, as many once feared. But they are having a negative effect on jobs in the private sector, according to an analysis of the industries whose head count is most dependent on federal funds. It is no surprise that some...
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Economy
When he left a broadcasting career three years ago for his first job in an N.F.L. front office, with the San Francisco 49ers, John Lynch sought to model his partnership with Coach Kyle Shanahan on what he considered the paragon of general manager coach alliances: Ozzie Newsome and John Harbaugh's Super Bowl winning wor...
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Sports
CLEVELAND The nation's three largest drug distributors and two manufacturers have agreed with multiple states on a framework to resolve thousands of opioid cases with a settlement worth nearly 50 billion in cash and addiction treatments, according to three people familiar with the negotiations. The agreement would rele...
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Re "For Once, the President Was Right," by Nicholas Kristof (column, Nov. 19): President Trump did not get this "right" by demanding that the schools stay open, because he's failed miserably in ensuring that the schools open safely. And he's fostered divisiveness around schools opening safely by lying, dismissing the d...
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Opinion
A CONCERT FOR ISLAND RELIEF at Radio City Music Hall (Jan. 6, 7 p.m.). As the Caribbean region continues its recovery from the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma, musicians are stepping up their relief efforts. A solo set by Dave Matthews and a performance by the Trey Anastasio Band two modern ja...
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Music
Ian Spencer Bell likes to divide his dances into two categories, quiet and talking: those danced in silence and those accompanied by text that he writes and recites. "Accompanied," though, is not quite the right word. At its best, his movement itself seems to do the talking, physical sentences inseparable from verbal o...
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Dance
Stephen E. Strom's eloquent "Bears Ears: Views From a Sacred Land" is perhaps a more palatable picture book if not also in its own way a perverse bummer, another chronicling of territory taken by force. In 2016, President Obama relied on the Antiquities Act of 1906 (signed by Theodore Roosevelt) to set aside 1.35 milli...
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Books
When someone says "I love you" for the first time, it usually marks a hopeful beginning. For Darius and Josh, it's a harbinger of doom. The men have been friends with benefits for a little while, until Josh blurts out those three little words and changes everything because he is married to someone else. The twist in S....
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Theater
The tennis player John Isner is tall. Very tall. 6 feet 10 inches, to be exact. Which means that traveling on a plane to tournaments around the world, which the Dallas resident does roughly 11 months a year, can be a daunting task. And the biggest annual challenge comes every January, when the Australian Open is played...
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STRATFORD, Ontario On a bright day here, not far from the Avon River, I saw jealous Othello walking in the market square. Also spotted, near a coffee shop: Mistress Ford of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," whose credulous husband thinks she is trysting with fat old Falstaff. And wasn't that Orin Scrivello, the gas huffing...
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Theater
Credit...Ian Willms for The New York Times Scientists have been warning for decades that climate change is a threat to the immense tracts of forest that ring the Northern Hemisphere, with rising temperatures, drying trees and earlier melting of snow contributing to a growing number of wildfires. The near destruction of...
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A good throw is as comforting as it is beautiful, providing a little extra warmth whenever you need it and making a room feel more welcoming and relaxed. "It's a homey thing," said Amee Allsop, a designer in East Hampton, N.Y., who often creates minimalist spaces warmed up by textured linen and other textiles. And thro...
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Real Estate
Despite what Adam Silver, the N.B.A. commissioner, described as an "increased" level of concern over a significant rise of coronavirus cases in Florida, the league moved forward on several fronts Friday by formalizing its plans to restart the 2019 20 season at Walt Disney World near Orlando. The league and the National...
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Sports
The Bucks got better, but the Nets with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant might be too much for Milwaukee or any other team in the East to overcome. Is it already the most wonderful time of year again? With LeBron alley ooping and referees demanding we be of good cheer? There'll be dunks used for posting, Kawhi laughs for ...
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Out With the New at E3, as the Old Stays in Play Surprises are always a key part of E3, the giant video game convention that opens its doors next week in Los Angeles. Innovative new game titles and hardware are essential for stirring up excitement among gamers, which keeps them emptying their wallets. Next week, detail...
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Technology
From the start, Ariel Schaap had cause to believe that Joshua Heisler might benefit from a caffeine infusion. They met in 2010 as pre med students at Columbia, and among the first things he asked was whether he could borrow her biology lab notes. "Josh basically wanted to do less work," said Dr. Schaap, an internist at...
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Style
In the September issue of W magazine, Rihanna was cast as Tomorrow, an otherworldly warrior queen and champion of the downtrodden, resplendent in diamonds and foil. A month earlier, at the MTV Video Music Awards, Beyonce projected a similarly astral vibe. Flanked on the stage by twin columns of attendants, she was a ga...
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Fashion & Style
A Tony nomination for Sally Field could not save the Broadway revival of "The Glass Menagerie." The show will close on May 21, 10 weeks after opening. The new production of the Tennessee Williams play was notable for its bleak, stripped down aesthetic conceived by the director Sam Gold; it starred Ms. Field as Amanda W...
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Theater
Sean Spicer has written a book. And to promote it in interview after interview, he seems willing to relive his darkest moments as White House press secretary. A National Public Radio host grilled him last week about President Trump's inauguration crowd, yet again. A BBC anchor told him Monday that he had "corrupted dis...
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Media
Maureen Dowd: Every Friday night, Daniel Craig bakes you a lasagna and gives you a foot massage. : More like chicken stew with rice. And no massage. You're sick of being called an English rose. I don't have a drop of English blood in my veins. You know something funny? In the '90s, when I first went to L.A. for auditio...
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During the opening weekend of the Tamil language movie "Chekka Chivantha Vaanam," a hard boiled action flick from one of India's most popular directors, Mani Ratnam, the environment in the theater was more house party than movie screening. From my seat in the far front corner at Sathyam Cinemas (I had scooped up one of...
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Travel
The transgender performer Our Lady J keeps evolving. She first burst onto the scene as a culty cabaret singer who paid homage to Dolly Parton. "She was one of the top icons in my life as a kid," said Our Lady J, who is 6 foot 1 and cuts a striking glamazon figure. She is also a trained pianist who has played for such d...
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The celebrity talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz plans to respond aggressively on Thursday to doctors who have criticized his medical advice and questioned his faculty position at Columbia University, a spokesman for the show said on Monday. In a strongly worded email sent last week to the university, 10 physicians wrote tha...
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In the 1950s, a pack of Camels could be had for as little as 25 cents in some parts of the country. But in New York City today, heavy taxes have pushed that price north of 13. Even adjusted for inflation, that's more than a fivefold increase. In the intervening years, we have also banned smoking in restaurants, bars an...
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By the looks of things in New York City's real estate market, spring will be a little late this year. The spring sales season usually starts to ramp up during March. The typical number of new listings that come on the market in March is 1,780, but only 734 properties have been listed so far this month, according to Urb...
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Real Estate
"Do you want to ask me about acting?" Mercedes Ruehl said, holding her water bottle. "I also take questions on faith and morals." On a wet Wednesday afternoon, Ms. Ruehl, the Oscar and Tony winning actress who stars in the Broadway revival of Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song" (now in previews), had just exited her apartm...
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In this week's newsletter, Marc Stein explains how Jackson's legacy as a winning coach was tarnished and how Michael Jordan's new documentary can help. Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein's weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. When the Chicago Bulls were assembling a 72 10 season in 1995 96, Nick Nurse...
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Link Salas, the creative director for a small technology company in New York, said he used Grindr, a social networking app for gay, bisexual, and transgender men, to learn about the places he's traveling to and to meet men there. "I change my profile to say I am in town and looking for someone to show me around," he sa...
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SAN FRANCISCO For months, the text messages came. Some were flirtatious, asking her to meet him late at night. Sometimes, the texts were sexually explicit. The messages were directed at Laura Munoz, an executive assistant at the online lending start up Social Finance. The texts were from her boss, Mike Cagney, the comp...
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Technology
If your household's summer vacation was canceled this year, console and distract yourself with "Lake Life," the tale of a family getaway gone very wrong. The novel opens with a fatal accident, setting the tone and pace for what follows. Within the first few pages we have met the members of the Starling clan, along with...
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Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy. If you're interested in hearing from The Times regularly about great TV, sign up for our Watching newsletter and get recommendations straight to your inbox. Trevor Noah said he was shock...
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Samantha Bucolo and Keith Denis met as schoolmates in high school on Long Island. They reconnected in an astronomy class at Suffolk County Community College. The couple, who plan to marry next winter, later moved to a three bedroom rental in a house in Bay Terrace, Queens, which they shared with Ms. Bucolo's younger si...
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Real Estate
Before Jannik Sinner took his first steps toward scaling the world tennis ladder, he was quickly descending mountains in the Italian Alps. Sinner, 19, learned skiing before tennis, and German before Italian while growing up in South Tyrol, a territory of Austria until World War I that is now known as a placid retreat. ...
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Rooms from 360 euros (about 393 at 1.09 to the euro); 580 euros in high season. When the Portrait Firenze opened on the north bank of the Arno River in May 2014, it became the newest hotel in the Lungarno Collection, luxury properties owned by the Ferragamo Group. (There are three other hotels in Florence.) True to the...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
Three times a week, millions of people who crave detailed explanations of time zones, deepfakes, artificial sweeteners and other trivia listen to the latest episodes of the podcast "Stuff You Should Know." Soon, the program already one of the most popular in the world, with more than a billion downloads over its 11 yea...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
He agreed to make "The Irishman" for Netflix because "maybe someday it'll be shown in a theater as part of a retrospective. I really thought that."Credit...Philip Montgomery for The New York Times He agreed to make "The Irishman" for Netflix because "maybe someday it'll be shown in a theater as part of a retrospective....
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
The recent arrests of people for taking part in unauthorized assemblies last year have nothing to do with Covid 19 as suggested in your article but everything to do with upholding the rule of law. As in the United States, everyone in Hong Kong is equal before the law. Cases will not be handled any differently owing to ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Scientists have genetically engineered monkeys so that they exhibit behaviors similar to autism, with a goal of testing potential therapies on the animals in hopes that their resemblance to humans will yield more answers about the disorder. The scientists found that the monkeys showed "very similar behaviors related to...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? None 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 ... 6 Minutes, and I'm Hanging On by a Thread 'Shaun the Sheep: Adventures From Mossy Bottom' When ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
Egon Schiele's "Crouching Nude in Shoes and Black Stockings, Back View" (1912) in the show "Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso" at the Met Breuer. Scofield Thayer, heir to a New England woolen goods fortune, befriended E. E. Cummings and T. S. Eliot at Harvard and Oxford and published the first English tra...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
MOSCOW Shoppers who find that 250 stores aren't enough can go ice skating, watch movies or even ride a carousel, all under a single roof. While it sounds like the Mall of America, this mall is outside Moscow, not Minneapolis. "I feel like I'm in Disneyland," Vartyan E. Sarkisov, a shopper toting an Adidas bag, said rec...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Global Business
Kevin Harvick won a tense finale for the Nascar Sprint Cup series Sunday in Homestead, Fla., edging the three other drivers vying for the 2014 season championship. Twelve other contenders in the 10 race season ending playoff had already been eliminated. Competition among the finalists was keen. Harvick won the race and...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles
But they dance well together, too: Their Kitri Basilio is less a pyrotechnic contest than a separating and joining of wills. In the first act, Ms. Semionova's best moment occurred after her diagonal turns, punctuated with a rise and fall of the heel, when she stopped suddenly. Standing on point and leaning toward Mr. G...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
WASHINGTON Nearly a decade after the Federal Reserve embarked on an unprecedented effort to shore up the collapsing American economy, the central bank said on Wednesday that it would begin withdrawing some of the trillions of dollars it invested in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The decision, while widely expec...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
Jonathan David was already thinking about what might come next. He had been in Belgium for almost two years, his first taste of professional soccer in Europe since moving from Canada. He had met every target that had been set for him: He was K.A.A. Gent's leading goal scorer in his first season and the joint top scorer...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
The artist Doug Wheeler is known for creating simple seeming but titanically tough to achieve environments in which light and space are experienced in a manner usually reserved for the realms of mystical vision or psychedelic drugs: as things in themselves. "Voids," as he once said, "have matter." But he has also long ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
The nation's five biggest mortgage lenders have largely satisfied their financial obligations under last year's 25 billion settlement over mortgage abuses, helping hundreds of thousands of families keep their homes. But four of the five have yet to meet their commitment to end the maze of frustrations that borrowers mu...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
Moe Berg's story is so good that you'll forgive "The Spy Behind Home Plate" for overtelling it. Berg, a son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, grew up in New York City and Newark. After graduating from Princeton he played baseball professionally for 15 seasons while earning a law degree at Columbia University and passing ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
A salutation at the center of a Wieden Kennedy advertising campaign for Bud Light has caught on, especially among sports fans. How Do You Turn an Ad Into a Meme? Two Words: Dilly Dilly In 1995, a nation was rapt as three frogs croaked the syllables in "Budweiser." Four years later, Budweiser prompted countless televisi...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media