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The writer director Jim Jarmusch is not a zombie buff "as much as a vampire appreciator," he said. (See: his 2014 film "Only Lovers Left Alive.") But he does genuflect at the altar of George A. Romero, whose oeuvre inspired Jarmusch's latest, "The Dead Don't Die," a self aware dark zombie comedy. It features a cast of ...
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Jay Z and Beyonce, watch out: There's a new fashion power couple in town. Just after the new year, Tory Burch, chairman and chief executive of the American brand that carries her name (valued early last year at 3.25 billion), and Pierre Yves Roussel, the chairman and chief executive of the LVMH Fashion Group, which inc...
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In a video posted to YouTube on Monday, a woman animatedly described an unsubstantiated secret plot by global elites like Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci to use the coronavirus pandemic to profit and grab political power. In the 26 minute video, the woman asserted how Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute ...
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Here are edited excerpts from a recent conversation with Noah Wunsch. Has your grandfather's approach to collecting inspired you? Absolutely. He would study something to death to make sure he fully understood the genre. I'm an obsessive reader and always make sure I educate myself on anything I'm interested in. I try t...
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The team behind "Items: Is Fashion Modern?" From left, Kristina Parsons, Anna Burckhardt, Paola Antonelli, Stephanie Kramer and Michelle Millar Fisher. Van Gogh on Five, Wonderbra on Six: A Tour of MoMA's New Fashion Exhibit "I don't know whether you ever made a list of all the people you kissed in your life," said Pao...
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A note left by a fan at XXXTentacion's memorial in Florida. Before he was killed in June, the 20 year old rapper and singer made a 10 million deal for his third album. A few weeks before he was shot and killed last month, the 20 year old rapper XXXTentacion was on the phone with the record executive who had taken the f...
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The sweeping romance returns. A staple of the 1950s and '60s, these movies that took audiences on an epic love journey (often starring Audrey Hepburn) have been a little less common in the past few decades. But the writer and director Eugene Ashe is exploring the genre anew with "Sylvie's Love," arriving on Amazon Prim...
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'ARTISTIC LICENSE: SIX TAKES ON THE GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION' at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (through Jan. 12). Displays that artists select from a museum's collection are almost inevitably interesting, revealing and valuable. After all, artists can be especially discerning regarding work not their own. Here, six art...
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Microsoft said on Sunday that it would continue to pursue the purchase of TikTok in the United States after consulting with President Trump, clearing the way for a potential blockbuster deal between the software giant and the viral social media phenomenon. The announcement came as Mr. Trump has expressed repeated conce...
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Though it seems intuitive now, acknowledging that family members are more than just visitors is a relatively new paradigm in critical care. Only in recent years, in view of data suggesting that family presence decreases delirium and might improve cardiac complications, did the intensive care units that had once been un...
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LIKE most people, I have my share of tension and anxiety. And I'm happy to find ways to cope that don't involve illegal drugs. So when the term mindfulness began cropping up everywhere, I became intrigued. Elementary school students practice it. Doctors practice it and their patients. Prisoners practice it. There's min...
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CNN said on Friday that it had cut ties with Reza Aslan, an Iranian American scholar who was the host of the network's weekly show "Believer," after Mr. Aslan assailed President Trump in a series of vulgar messages on Twitter after the terrorist attack at London Bridge last weekend. Mr. Aslan, whose program covered glo...
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Credit... Over 2 00 million w omen and girls alive today have been circumcised. Four of them shared with The Times their pain, emotional trauma and sexual struggles and their journey to feel whole. PHILADELPHIA She called it her "deepest, darkest secret," one she had never even shared with her husband. When Saffiatu Si...
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At a time when increasing attention is being paid to female artists, the David Zwirner gallery has taken on representation of the abstract painter Joan Mitchell, who died in 1992. In a telephone interview, Mr. Zwirner called Mitchell "one of the great American artists of the second half of the 20th century." "She's suc...
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Justin Townes Earle, an accomplished alt country singer and songwriter who was a son of the country rock firebrand Steve Earle, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 38. His death was confirmed late Sunday by his record label, New West, which did not give a cause. "It is with tremendous sadness that we info...
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Mr. Chenault is chairman and managing director at General Catalyst and the former chief executive and chairman of American Express. Ms. Carlson is the chief executive and co founder of Guild Education. Over the past few years, we have watched the American business community move beyond caring simply about shareholders ...
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There's not too much story in "Fire Will Come," but once the title promise comes to fruition, the viewer has come to care about its characters and how they will weather a devastating forest blaze. The opening shots of this new film from the French born Spanish director Oliver Laxe constitute a kind of declaration of ae...
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BRUSSELS The British government stood isolated on an important European Union issue Tuesday after finance ministers from elsewhere in the bloc rejected its effort to water down proposed limits on bankers' bonuses. The ministers, taking up rules provisionally approved last week by representatives of the European Parliam...
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SALT LAKE CITY From the moment the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, most elected officials in this sturdily Republican state have been eager to squash it. But something surprising is happening here. Despite deep uncertainty about the law's future, Utah recorded one of the biggest increases of any state in residents ...
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It was the summer of 1979, and parts of the world were in a state of near surrender: In Britain, millions were reeling from the infamous "Winter of Discontent," in which freezing temperatures and hot tempered labor strikes left many people jobless, and some London streets buried in trash. Anxious Americans were fuming ...
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Women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent who tested positive for cancer causing genetic mutations during random screenings have high rates of breast and ovarian cancer even when they have no family history of the disease, researchers reported Thursday. The finding calls into question the practice of screening women particular...
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Vaccines Take a While to Kick In. Experts Say That Means the Body Is Doing Its Job. A flurry of headlines this week flooded social media, documenting a seemingly concerning case of Covid 19 in a San Diego nurse who fell ill about a week after receiving his first injection of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine. But experts sa...
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When David Bowie died on Sunday, he left behind legions of fans who will remember him as the godfather of glam rock and the patron saint of defiant outcasts. And it became quickly apparent online that to one diverse group that came of age during his ascendance, Mr. Bowie, 69, was not just a pop idol but a lifeline. In ...
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Last month, after analyzing figures on epidemics since 1960, The Economist concluded that people die at a higher rate from such disease outbreaks in authoritarian countries than in democratic ones, even controlling for income levels. This might seem counterintuitive. Autocratic societies have an easier time imposing st...
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"Run," a new romantic comedy with twists to flatter a pretzel festival, follows former lovers who are escaping their lives. And it arrives when most of us can't even escape our own homes. To watch the show now is to entertain an impossible fantasy. No, it's not receiving a text from your college ex, not upending your l...
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Another pearl in the strand of elegance that once characterized 57th Street was, like Bonwit Teller, a half block away: the 1913 Duveen Brothers gallery at Fifth Avenue and 56th Street. One of the most sumptuous structures ever built in New York, it was the headquarters of Joseph Duveen, one of the most famous art deal...
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In June of this year, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis held one of the first symposiums on the subject of pediatric palliative oncology. Through the efforts of Dr. Justin Baker, director of the Quality of Life and Palliative Care Division at St. Jude, a host of specialists explored how best to improve t...
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The actress Ashley Judd can proceed with a sexual harassment claim as part of a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul imprisoned for sex crimes and a focus of the MeToo movement, an appeals court ruled on Wednesday. A three judge panel of United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, Cal...
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MONTAUK, N.Y. "I'd rather swim in the ocean every morning than take a clean shower," said Jesse Joeckel, standing at Ditch Plains Beach. The 30 year old surf wear designer and magazine editor, who looks as if he has never stepped onto a New York City subway, starts each morning with a half mile bike ride to catch a few...
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If you use the Gmail or Inbox by Gmail mobile apps, you will recognize the Smart Reply feature, which supplies short, canned phrases to send as responses to certain messages. The web version adopts the Snooze option for postponing attention to a message, too. Google's calendar, notes and tasks apps also appear in the m...
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"Bohemian Rhapsody" won best drama, and its star, Rami Malek, won best actor at the Golden Globes on Sunday night; "Green Book" took home three awards, including best movie, musical or comedy; and Glenn Close won best actress in a drama, an award many expected to go to Lady Gaga. Here's the complete list of winners. At...
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However much it contributed to the Metropolitan Museum's financial woes, the Met Breuer has delivered quality goods since it opened a year ago. "Marsden Hartley's Maine" is the latest entry in a lineup of exhibitions that the outgoing Met director Thomas P. Campbell can point to with pride. The show opens with an inspi...
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When Justin Timberlake was announced as the performer for this year's Super Bowl halftime show, the memory of one of pop's biggest traumas resurfaced. The last time Mr. Timberlake played the Super Bowl halftime, it was in an MTV produced hodgepodge in 2004 that also included Janet Jackson, Kid Rock, P. Diddy, Nelly and...
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AS a freshman at Fordham University in 1973, Rich Conaty created a radio show, "The Big Broadcast," on WFUV FM. He named the show after the 1932 film starring his favorite crooner, Bing Crosby, and played only songs from the 1920s and '30s. Nearly 40 years later, he's still on the air. "Eighteen hundred and sixty nine ...
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MOST people I know feel too connected not to family or friends, but to electronic devices like smartphones and computers. They feel a need to check e mails, texts and social networks almost constantly on the off chance that an emergency has popped up in the last five minutes that they absolutely, positively have to add...
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A deep and ineradicable stain is spreading over the seemingly spotless life of the woman at the center of "Something Clean," a beautifully observed, richly compassionate new drama by the young playwright Selina Fillinger. It is not a blot that's susceptible to the kind of scrubbing and tidying of which Charlotte Walker...
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A scene from Season 2 of "The Trade," in which migrants rushed the Guatemala Mexico border in 2018, many of whom were fleeing violence. The director Matthew Heineman has an uncanny ability to get his camera into difficult places. For his Oscar nominated documentary "Cartel Land," he embedded himself with armed vigilant...
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AMERICAN MASTERS MAE WEST: DIRTY BLONDE (2020) 8 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Sexuality onscreen may now be the norm, but the Madonnas and Rihannas of today follow the trailblazer Mae West. The actress, singer and comedian oozed sexuality on Broadway and in Hollywood and paid for it for decades before her death ...
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When Benjamin Capitano moved into his dorm as a sophomore at the King's College, a tiny liberal arts college in Manhattan, he realized he'd been given a gift: a couch. So he listed his bed on Airbnb for 99. "I've always had a knack for hospitality," Mr. Capitano said. "I got us sheets and the little mini soaps and basi...
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It's fitting that Amazon's "Modern Love," which debuts Friday and draws its stories from the New York Times column of the same name, puts forward the best version of itself in the very beginning. No one who has ever dated needs reminding that first impressions can be misleading, but the solid narrative skills and excel...
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GIVEN what President elect Donald J. Trump has said about his energy strategy he favors coal and wants to end federal subsidies to the clean energy industry does it still make sense to invest in wind, solar and other alternative sources of power? The answer is an emphatic yes, according to investment advisers, who say ...
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Danielle Collins, 25, of the United States came back to win her quarterfinal match at the Australian Open against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia. MELBOURNE, Australia Ann Chisholm contemplated traveling from her Minnesota home to watch the main draw debut of her cousin Danielle Collins at the Australian Open, but i...
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Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times Push for Gender Equality in Tech? Some Men Say It's Gone Too Far SAN FRANCISCO Their complaints flow on Reddit forums, on video game message boards, on private Facebook pages and across Twitter. They argue for everything from male separatism to an end to gender diversity effo...
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Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co wrote is in its eighth edition. But last summer, as he transformed the class into a free online course, he had to grapple with some brand new questions: Where should ...
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When the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, called the chamber back into session two weeks ago, he did not do it to debate legislation regarding Covid 19 or other essential, time sensitive business. Rather, as usual, he seemed mostly interested in having the Judiciary Committee consider confirming judges this tim...
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Back when most of the United States got online via dial up modem, Monica S. Lewinsky learned how the anonymity of the internet can prompt people to be crude and cruel in a way they never would be in real life. Now she is trying to help others who find themselves the target of vitriol. To mark October as National Bullyi...
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The N.B.A.'s Eastern Conference is more open than ever, coming off a season in which an upstart fifth seed made it to the finals. At least one team is virtually guaranteed to vault into the top tier from mediocrity: the Nets, given that Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving are expected to return from injury for the 2020 21 se...
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In a Chicago Public Schools system where half the schools are on probation yet 93 percent of teachers are rated "excellent" or "superior," administrators are testing an evaluation process to more accurately measure a teacher's classroom performance with an eye toward closing the huge gap. A pilot program called Excelle...
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DURING the financial crisis, many residential developments planned as condominiums became rental apartments when financing for condos became almost nonexistent. Now, some property developers are making the same decision for a different reason: a rental market that could be described as torrid. A high profile example of...
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When Lonesome George, the only survivor of the Pinta Island tortoises of the Galapagos, died in 2012, the news landed with a blow. Rationally, people had time to prepare for the reality that George would one day fade away, and with him, an entire lineage. He had lived for a century or more, a common life expectancy for...
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Ryan Springer's mystery illness began last summer with a dull ache in his chest. Over the next few days, the symptoms grew more alarming: sharp pain with every breath, a rapid heartbeat and a spiking fever. Emergency room doctors at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Ill., were stumped. They ordered up a lung biopsy ...
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Angola is experiencing a major urban yellow fever outbreak that threatens other countries, including China, and is exposing how poorly prepared the world is to fight two mosquito borne epidemics at once. Angola's outbreak, which is known to have killed about 200 people, has already consumed the World Health Organizatio...
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The Jazz Standard Is Silenced by the Pandemic. More Clubs May Follow. None Vincent Tullo for The New York Times The New York jazz scene was dealt a blow this week when the Jazz Standard, a noted club on East 27th Street in Manhattan, announced it was closing its doors because of the pandemic. The 130 seat, subterranean...
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From left: The cast members Frances Ines Rodriguez, Tania Mesa, Silvia Dionicio, Jen Anaya, and Andres Quintero practice the song "El Siquisiri" as they rehearse "Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)." Snow flurries swirled against the window, but the atmosphere inside a Manhattan rehearsal room on a recent Saturday ...
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President Obama's speech to cadets at West Point last month marked the ninth consecutive commencement with the nation at war, and he traced the focus of the fighting from Afghanistan to Iraq and back to where it started. "Cadets, there will be difficult days ahead," Mr. Obama said. "We will adapt, we will persist, and ...
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William Pope.L's performance, "Conquest," on Saturday drew more than 100 participants crawling through the streets of Greenwich Village to Union Square. "Crawlers, come to the line please don your blindfolds," said William Pope.L, the multidisciplinary artist, serving as master of ceremonies before a large crowd who as...
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Welcome to "The Month in Live Jazz," a column highlighting five outstanding performances from the past month on stages across New York City. 'TRIBUTE TO GERI ALLEN' Tishman Auditorium at the New School, Jan. 15 Geri Allen, who died last year, was one of jazz's great sense makers of the past 35 years a splintered and co...
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear one of the most consequential cases ever considered on executive privilege. Trump v. Vance concerns a subpoena issued by the Manhattan district attorney to President Trump's accountants demanding the release of tax returns and other financial documents to a grand ...
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In the 1980s I was the 30 something manager of the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz, arguably the greatest concert pianist in history. Mr. Horowitz was bored by practicing, but lived for his public performances, when the various demons with which he was plagued permitted him to leave the confines of his Upper East S...
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Officials of the Indian government and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are discussing whether a number of prized antiquities that the museum began acquiring three decades ago were the product of looting by Subhash Kapoor, a Manhattan art dealer accused of being one of the world's most prolific smugglers of stolen artifa...
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After renting a 200 year old farmhouse on 230 acres in Stanford, N.Y., for four years, Soo Kim and Carolina Gunnarsson couldn't imagine any better place for a weekend escape from Manhattan. "We loved it so much. It's very secluded; the only neighbors were cows," said Ms. Gunnarsson, 32, a founder of Fit Pregnancy Club,...
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Kerrie Tidwell, a medical student, is struggling to figure out the right way to manage her debt with her long term boyfriend, Stefan Kogler. Nobody likes unpleasant surprises, but when Allison Brooke Eastman's fiance found out four months ago just how high her student loan debt was, he had a particularly strong reactio...
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The Public Theater on Wednesday announced the 2019 class of the Joe's Pub Working Group, supporting five young performing artists whose careers are on the rise. This year's honorees include the songwriter and performer Migguel Anggelo; the vocalist and composer Trevor Bachman; the comedian, playwright and performance a...
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Six months after a White House physician told reporters that President Trump had aced a well regarded test of cognitive impairment, a group of doctors is warning that the exam may have been compromised by the resulting news coverage, which revealed some of its questions. Until it's clear whether the exposure hindered t...
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"Neither the character of Mrs. Sally Adams, nor Miss Ethel Merman, resembles any other person alive or dead." So theatergoers who saw "Call Me Madam" when it opened on Broadway in 1950 were warned in the Playbill. With the first half of that warning, the show's producers might have been angling to forestall legal actio...
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Nothing humbles history's great thinkers more quickly than reading their declarations on the causes of madness. Over the centuries, mental illness has been attributed to everything from a "badness of spirit" (Aristotle) and a "humoral imbalance" (Galen) to autoerotic fixation (Freud) and the weakness of the hierarchica...
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Dean Feldman spends so much time in the lobby of Schwab House, a co op with some 600 units on the Upper West Side, that the uninitiated might easily mistake him for a doorman or a vagrant. But Mr. Feldman isn't there to hoist packages or aimlessly pass the time. An associate broker at Halstead, he's likely waiting for ...
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It started out familiar: a "Saturday Night Live" sketch centered on impersonations of political figures. But then it was rescued by something even more familiar: the show's ability to wrangle real life politicians to come on the show during an election season which in this case yielded Senator Elizabeth Warren, who ann...
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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. Dr. Evil made a surprise appe...
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When Keanu Reeves walked onstage at a video game conference in Los Angeles in June, Peter Sarkisyan marveled at how the actor seemed to transcend his earthly form. Maybe it was Mr. Reeves's lanky silhouette, shrouded in a cloud of smoke. Or, perhaps, it was the connection he felt with the actor, who, like Mr. Sarkisyan...
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Many teenagers are driving vehicles that do not offer good crash protection or lack important safety technology, according to research released Wednesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a group financed by the insurance industry. The study shows that teenagers killed in crashes while behind the wheel are...
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Who Are We, and What Defines Us? Big Questions on the London Stage LONDON Certainties unravel with alarming force in the dizzying "The Doctor," now at the Almeida Theater, the adventurous North London playhouse where Robert Icke is stepping down with this production after six years as associate director. (It will conti...
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When Jason Marker, the new chief executive of the company that owns Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, met with several of his marketing executives this week, one of his first requests was for screens to be installed in the company's headquarters to display real time social media conversations about its brands. It is the sort of...
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Some just call it a sun shower. Others say the devils are getting married or the rats, or the foxes are having a wedding. In some places, a hyena is giving birth or there's a hole in the heavens. And although unnerving, some casually remark that the devil is beating his wife. These are a few ways people around the worl...
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LONDON Another big food producer was ensnared in the scandal over horse meat in beef products Friday when the company that owns the Iglo and Birds Eye brands withdrew a dozen types of prepared meals from stores in four European countries. The Iglo Foods Group, the parent company, said it took the action after a chili c...
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As the Ebola epidemic intensifies across parts of West Africa, nations and aid agencies are pledging to respond with increasing force. But the disease has already raced far ahead of the promises, sweeping into areas that are not in the least prepared for it. Overflowing hospitals have turned away sick patients, and a d...
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Asking why a tweet goes viral is like asking why your life has brought you to this very moment. Perhaps it's random, perhaps it's divine, perhaps it's unknowable. No mere human, no Kardashian nor YouTube star, can decide. When some 140 characters run aground while seemingly equal tweets are hoisted to the heavens, anyo...
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A story late in the Chicago author Jasmon Drain's debut, "Stateway's Garden," begins: "Our mothers take credit, but in Stateway we raised ourselves." It's a telling sentence, a kind of key to the whole enterprise. We are introduced from the first page to a cast of tenants living in the low income housing project in the...
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The concert is a tribute to Annea Lockwood's devotion to collaboration and her reverence for sound's potential to move people, particularly in a time of environmental crisis. "Go to a river," begins the text score for Annea Lockwood's "Water Meditations," from 1973. One version of the piece continues: "Stay there all d...
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HANOVER, N.H. It is a new school year, and there is a new president, Philip J. Hanlon, who no doubt would prefer to begin his tenure as the 18th president of Dartmouth College dealing with issues more lofty than binge drinking, sexual harassment and fraternity hazing. But a string of embarrassing episodes are defining ...
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A small string section's worth of violin stars will celebrate the centenary of the violinist Isaac Stern. Andris Nelsons will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the third act of Wagner's "Tannhauser." And Paul Lewis will play the five Beethoven piano concertos. Those are among the highlights of the 2020 season at...
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Every decade or so, Hollywood produces a movie that is not only entertaining but also raises the question just what is entertainment. The 1934 musical "Stand Up and Cheer," in which the president of the United States appoints a secretary of amusement to dispel the Depression, is an example of what could be called meta ...
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Uber suffered a setback to its global expansion plans on Thursday when a senior adviser to Europe's highest court recommended that the ride hailing company comply with the region's tough transportation rules, potentially hobbling growth of its service across the Continent. The nonbinding opinion comes as Uber faces gro...
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Why is that? There's an easy explanation for experiences like Ms. Miyawaki's, said William Hartmann, a physics professor at Michigan State University who specializes in acoustics and psychoacoustics. There are two pathways through which we perceive our own voice when we speak, he explained. One is the route through whi...
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WASHINGTON Administrators at the University of Kansas knew they had a problem: Many of their most vulnerable students largely low income and often the first in their families to go to college were not graduating. The administrators needed to figure out why students like this were struggling. So they did something that ...
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Deer Caught in the Headlights? Your Car May Soon See Them ANN ARBOR, Mich. One morning in early June, Jim LaPointe was driving on the outskirts of this Michigan city when a deer bounded across the road in front of his Ford Fusion. Mr. LaPointe braked and avoided hitting the doe, but was caught off guard by what happene...
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Automobiles
Mac Miller, who died last week at 26, was a rapper and producer who evolved quickly and frequently. Each of his albums which all debuted in the Top 5 of the Billboard chart was different from the one before. He began as a teenage hip hop classicist and grew into an experimentally minded aesthete. And that was just his ...
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Music
How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Matt Apuzzo, an investigative correspondent in Brussels, discussed the tech he's using. What are the most important tech tools for you as an investigative journalist? As with most people these days, my go to device is my phone, ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
In 2017, Soyeon Choi, the head paper conservator at the Yale Center for British Art, received three folios of a letter written in 1753 by Eliza Pinckney, a prominent American agriculturalist. The scrawling lines on the cracked paper were elegant, but on close inspection they almost seemed to dance. And when Ms. Choi lo...
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Science
IN the spring, after four years of college and two years working in Denver, Chris Bauer landed a job in New York. So he packed up, left much of his stuff at his parents' house in the Boston suburbs, and started work. When he wasn't traveling for his job, in private equity consulting, he was crashing on friends' couches...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
Isabelle Rapin, a Swiss born child neurologist who helped establish autism's biological underpinnings and advanced the idea that autism was part of a broad spectrum of disorders, died on May 24 in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She was 89. The cause was pneumonia, said her daughter Anne Louise Oaklander, who is also a neurologist. "C...
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Science
Doctors released Alejandra Guevarra Villegas, 19, from the operating room after delivering her baby girl by emergency C section in San Luis Acatlan, a small town in the Costa Chica zone in the Mexican state of Guerrero.Credit... Doctors released Alejandra Guevarra Villegas, 19, from the operating room after delivering ...
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Health
If it looked like a duck, did it swim like a duck? Paleontologists studying an unusual fossil have identified a new dinosaur, related to the velociraptor, that had a neck like a swan, a snout like a goose and forelimbs like flippers. The creature's hodgepodge of features so strange that extra work was needed to verify ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
727 Avenue of the Americas (between West 23rd and 24th Streets) A vascular surgeon has bought this 5,976 square foot four story loft building with 10,500 square feet in air rights in Chelsea. It is to be converted into a Manhattan location for HeartVein NYC, a medical practice that treats cardiovascular disease and non...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
Last summer, Shawnna Graham fired up Netflix in her Williamsburg, Va., home and looked for her grandfather's name in the closing credits of "Marvel's Luke Cage." It was nowhere to be found. It was a surprise. After all, the Harlem based comic book artist Billy Graham had worked on the first 17 issues of "Luke Cage, Her...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
To hear Lee Child tell it, the whole thing began well over half a century ago with a picture book. "It was part of a series, but the only one in our library was 'My Home in America,' " said Mr. Child, 58, the British born author of nearly 20 best selling thrillers centered on an idiosyncratic ex military cop who answer...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
Chinese artworks and artifacts that a 19th century Chinese scholar acquired while working for emperors' families will be given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the museum announced Thursday. The donor, the historian, filmmaker and collector Wan go H.C. Weng, age 100, is a great great grandson of the original owner, ...
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Art & Design
The pivotal event in Brandice Daniel's career arrived without fanfare. She had attended a small fashion show at a restaurant in Brooklyn. "Honestly I don't remember what the models had on," Ms. Daniel recalled. "I have no idea who the designers were, or who organized the event." "But there was something about that show...
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Fashion & Style
Swedes didn't always adore Gothenburg. The resurgent second city, equidistant between Copenhagen and Oslo on Sweden's western coast, was long viewed as a grungy port in slow decline. But locals saw the potential. Languishing neighborhoods became incubators for improvisational creative projects in music, art, design, di...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
Now Lives In an one bedroom apartment in Van Nuys, Calif. Claim to Fame Ms. Towley is known for her hypnotic and improvisational hip hop dance moves that dart, jiggle and bounce with prima ballerina grace. Last November, she took center stage in the music video for "Lemon" by N.E.R.D and Rihanna. The clip starts with R...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style