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THE idea that there could be mean streets on the Upper East Side may seem, to some New Yorkers, akin to the suggestion that alligators swim in the sewers. But crime was in fact a problem on the streets of Yorkville in the early 1960s, according to Steven Zboinski, whose parents would whisk him away each summer to the s...
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Around 2002, the artist, illustrator and writer Maira Kalman came across a copy of William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White's "The Elements of Style" in a yard sale and decided that this legendary if sometimes contested guide to grammar and clear writing needed visual accompaniment. So she provided some, making 57 illustrati...
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Art & Design
In New York's most exclusive office towers, the pendulum of power has swung from landlords, who last year basked in rising rents and competition for prime buildings, to tenants, who are now being offered incentives like prebuilt offices to fill empty spaces. And the leverage held by tenants is likely to continue throug...
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A year ago, The Times introduced a series of essays about the transformative year 1919, beginning with F. Scott Fitzgerald's observation, in his essay "The Crack Up," that a first rate intelligence could hold two opposed ideas at the same time. That seemed a fitting way to assess the United States at a pivotal moment, ...
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Opinion
As states across the country relax stay at home orders and people return to more normal routines, some researchers worry about a spike in vaccine preventable diseases in addition to the coronavirus's spread. During the pandemic, the rates of childhood vaccinations have dropped significantly as many parents have been re...
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Health
NEW DELHI When Bob Haygooni paid a midflight visit to a cockpit at his new employer, Air India, he was shocked. The pilots, he said, had completely covered the windows with newspaper to keep out the sun. "All you had in the cockpit was this yellowish glow, as the light permeated the newspaper," Mr. Haygooni recalled, s...
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Global Business
With 1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain SAN FRANCISCO As the waitress approached the table, Sam Altman held up his phone. That made it easier to see the dollar amount typed into an investment contract he had spent the last 30 days negotiating with Microsoft. The investment from Microsoft, si...
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Technology
LOS ANGELES Multiple movie studios passed on the opportunity to make "Rocketman," an R rated musical fantasia about Elton John's hedonistic breakthrough years. Too gay. Too expensive. Too reliant on an unproven star. But one film company, the down on its luck Paramount Pictures, saw the audacious project as a chance to...
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Media
Q. Can I set up a vacation bounce message in Gmail? If so, do those replies go to everyone, including spammers looking for live addresses? A. Gmail, along with other free mail services like Outlook.com, allows you to set up an automatic reply to new messages that hit your inbox when you'd like to unplug for an extended...
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Technology
Forget collaborations, those one off initiatives where a high end fashion brand hooks up with a hip underground or mass market name to the ironically mutual market opening benefit of both. That's so last season! Over, passe, a dead duck. Remo Ruffini, the chief executive of Moncler, the Italian puffer coat specialist, ...
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Style
Recognize this guy? How about this one? Him? They all have something in common. They govern like autocrats. These leaders are rising in an age where technology can make their lives much easier. And leading the way is China. At home, they're pouring billions into the most sophisticated censorship and surveillance appara...
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Technology
The way states lifted social distancing restrictions imposed to fight the coronavirus sadly demonstrates our priorities. Officials let bars, restaurants and gyms open, despite warnings from public health experts that these environments pose the greatest risk for spreading the disease. Yet political leaders seem to have...
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Opinion
For four decades, the artist Robert Indiana lived in this old Victorian lodge hall on Vinalhaven, an island off the coast of Maine. Robert Indiana Had All but Vanished in Recent Years. Some Friends Wondered Why. VINALHAVEN, Me. For years before Robert Indiana died, his deepening isolation on this remote island, more th...
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Art & Design
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. When the first Woodstock music festival was held in 1969, bringing around 400,000 people to a muddy field in Bethel, N.Y., it focused the world's attention on pop music's power to shape the culture. Half a century later, in a music market already jammed with big ticket festivals, could another Woodstock...
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Music
Peace has come to the land of the Redstones, at least for now. The family feud that had persisted even after a truce was declared last week in the fight over Sumner M. Redstone's 40 billion corporate empire appeared on Friday to be on its way to a resolution. Mr. Redstone has agreed to meet in person with Keryn Redston...
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The Stanislaus County Jail in Modesto, Calif. The percentage of Americans behind bars has roughly tripled in the last 40 years. In the U.S., Punishment Comes Before the Crimes Few things are better at conveying what a nation really cares than how it spends its money. On that measure, Americans like to punish. The Unite...
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Economy
A glass sheathed three bedroom condominium with vistas in four directions, including 60 feet of direct views of Central Park, One 57, the Extell Development Company's 90 story Midtown tower at , sold for 34 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records. The listing price was 36 million....
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Watching a ballet, you cannot help but marvel at the power of the movement, and the ability of the dancers to soar through the air, time and again, as if there were no limits to their stamina. And so it is well, almost with the market for high end properties, where the intensity of sales, at heights never seen before, ...
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Real Estate
MADRID Officials across Europe scrambled on Friday to speed measures aimed at easing the fears of investors even as borrowing costs flirted with new highs in the euro zone's frailer countries. In Portugal, lawmakers approved a tough 2011 budget to help the country meet a pledge to cut the deficit to 4.6 percent of gros...
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Global Business
World TeamTennis, the coed professional tennis league that has operated in summers after Wimbledon since the 1970s, has chosen a site in West Virginia to conduct its entire 2020 season, according to several people familiar with the league's plans. Play on the men's and women's professional tennis tours has been suspend...
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Sports
As two museums devoted to the designer Yves Saint Laurent open this month, in Paris and Marrakesh, there has been plenty of chatter in fashion and cafe society (what's left of it) about the estate of Pierre Berge, the pugnacious business brain behind the original Yves Saint Laurent fashion empire. Mr. Berge died of myo...
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Fashion & Style
In early 2008, William J. Rouhana Jr. closed a deal to buy Chicken Soup for the Soul, a company known for a series of inspirational books, with the goal of expanding the brand into a host of other products. The popular line of books was started by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen in 1993, but the company had also v...
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Your Money
When the director Spike Jonze was preparing his first movie, "Being John Malkovich," 20 years ago, he couldn't stop listening to "The Rockafeller Skank," otherwise known as "The Funk Soul Brother," a hit song by Fatboy Slim. He had a vision of filming someone, maybe himself, dancing to it on a crowded sidewalk. As Mr. ...
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THE BUYER David A. McKnight made over a two bedroom on the Grand Concourse in the South Bronx, creating a place to suit his taste: "minimal but not bare." During his first decade in New York City, David A. McKnight lived in rentals downtown. But three years ago, when he was renting in the financial district, he decided...
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Real Estate
WILMINGTON, Del. At the start of the 20th century, a Quaker cotton mill owner established the affordable housing community the Flats on the west side of this city. Its goal was to provide decent housing. And at the time, it distinguished itself by providing central heating and indoor plumbing. Today, some residents of ...
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Real Estate
Thousands of years ago, some of our ancestors left behind the hunter gatherer lifestyle and started to settle down. They grew vegetables and grains for stews or porridge, kept cows for milk and turned it into cheese, and shaped clay into storage pots. Had they not done those things, would we speak the languages and mak...
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Science
MUMBAI, India Vinod Khosla, the billionaire venture capitalist and co founder of Sun Microsystems, was already among the world's richest men when he invested a few years ago in SKS Microfinance, a lender to poor women in India. But the roaring success of SKS's recent initial public stock offering in Mumbai has made him...
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Global Business
Christie's has not divulged the precise nature of the damage to "Le Marin," but following the mishap, the auction house said in an email that Picasso's 1964 painting "Femme au chat assise dans un fauteuil" ("Woman With a Cat Seated in an Armchair"), estimated at 22 million to 28 million, has also been withdrawn from th...
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Art & Design
When the C.E.O., Already Facing a Crisis, Gets the Coronavirus It was late February, and the coronavirus was spreading. Mr. Fogel, the chief executive of Booking Holdings, the online travel giant that owns brands like Priceline.com, OpenTable and Kayak, was spending nearly every waking moment at his computer as a tsuna...
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Technology
More no frills carriers as well as major airlines are offering deals on international flights. Just book ahead and be wary of ancillary fees they can really add up. Turbulence in the budget airline industry continues to be expected. But for savvy leisure travelers looking for international flights , there are more ups ...
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Travel
English Village Becomes Climate Leader by Quietly Cleaning Up Its Own Patch ASHTON HAYES, England This small village of about 1,000 people looks like any other nestled in the countryside. But Ashton Hayes is different in an important way when it comes to one of the world's most pressing issues: climate change. Hundreds...
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SEATTLE In the five years since Satya Nadella became Microsoft's chief executive, he has transformed the company into a cloud computing leader. The quarter ending in March provided further evidence that the turnaround he has helmed shows little signs of abating. With its quarterly earnings released on Wednesday, Micros...
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THE ENEMY WITHIN 10 p.m. on NBC. Faced with the ultimatum of saving her daughter's life or leaking the names of four fellow agents, a steely C.I.A. operative named Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter) chose family a decision that put her behind bars and made her the United States' greatest traitor. The pilot of this new...
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Three weeks ago, a student run newspaper with ties to New York University got a new editorial adviser: Kenna Griffin, a former reporter and editor who had taught journalism at Oklahoma City University for 16 years. She started advising the paper, Washington Square News, remotely from Oklahoma. On Monday, 43 of its stud...
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ORLANDO, Fla. Even after his stunning victory at last year's Masters, Tiger Woods warned he would remain ever cautious with his surgically repaired back for the rest of his career. In that context, as Woods played only 12 tournaments in 2019, the decision was viewed as sensible and raised few eyebrows. Less than three ...
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WASHINGTON Few companies have been as intimately tied to the Democratic Party in recent years as Google. So now that Donald J. Trump is president, the giant company, in Silicon Valley parlance, is having to pivot. The shift was evident a day after Congress began its new session this month. That evening, about 70 lawmak...
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Technology
STAMFORD, CONN. "So this is it," Dennis Wuchiski says as he opens the door to what is possibly the cleanest garage this side of the McLaren Formula One racecar operation in Britain. To call it just a garage is to damn it with faint praise, because like countless others across the country, this is the home of his hopes ...
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Automobiles
After a period of confusion on last week's Billboard album chart, when the top position largely came down to the validity of merchandise bundles, things have settled down a bit, and Billie Eilish returns the top spot for a third time with her debut album, "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" (Interscope). Songs f...
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Anthony Marino set his mobile phone to "Do Not Disturb" before going to bed, but he sensed it flicker in the dark. The next morning, he saw he had missed roughly 30 calls: at 4:15 a.m., 4:34, 4:45, 5:08 and 5:12, and for two hours after that. Most appeared as "Lithuania" on his caller ID, although they could have come ...
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Your Money
CARLOS URRUTIA'S job is to fly a private jet. But when he is on board the Bombardier Challenger 300, which he has flown for tens of thousands of hours, he does much more than that. He welcomes the passengers on board. He stows their luggage. He offers each passenger a drink before takeoff, anything from water to coffee...
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Your Money
Directed, with more efficiency than novelty, by Matt Bettinelli Olpin and Tyler Gillett (two thirds of the collective known as Radio Silence), "Ready or Not" turns the home invasion thriller inside out. Relentless and thoroughly preposterous, Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy 's script hews to its own batty logic, i...
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Movies
Decade of Job Growth Comes to an End, Undone by a Pandemic The longest stretch of American job creation on record came to a halt last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, another reflection of the coronavirus pandemic that has brought the economy to a virtual standstill. Compared with the astounding numbers of ...
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Economy
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. Stephen Colbert admitted that...
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SOME cars just make sense. But that doesn't mean Americans will like them. For instance, Americans have largely dismissed the station wagon, preferring taller riding crossovers by as much as 10 to 1. But the compact van known in much of the world as an M.P.V. for multipurpose vehicle can't even claim the Brady Bunch no...
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Automobiles
After years of resistance, European leaders agreed Thursday to reduce Greece's debt burden in a last ditch effort to preserve the euro and stem a broader financial panic. The pact, negotiated in Brussels, is part of a rescue package of 109 billion euros, or 157 billion, for Greece, the most troubled economy in the euro...
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Global Business
New York Fashion Week came to an end in 2001 with a Marc Jacobs show because of tragedy: The morning after his extravaganza on Pier 54, complete with disappearing walls to access the after party and Donald Trump in the audience, the planes hit the Twin Towers and the world changed. And New York Fashion Week came to an ...
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Style
Credit...Jake Dockins for The New York Times Charee Mobley, who teaches middle school in Fort Worth, Texas, had just 166 to get herself and her 17 year old daughter through the last two weeks of August. But that money disappeared when Ms. Mobley, 37, ran into an issue with Square's Cash App, an instant payments app tha...
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Technology
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. We're all stuck at home at the moment, so here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. This week, it was reported that Rudy Giuliani had asked to be paid 20,000 a day for his work m...
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Television
Elsa Joubert belonged to a group of dissident writers in Afrikaans who called themselves "Die Sestigers" (the Sixtyers, or writers of the 1960s). This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Elsa Joubert, one of South Africa's best known writers in th...
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Books
Just as lightning can strike the same target more than once in a given storm, hip fractures can and do happen again to the same person. Yet, more often than not, people who fracture a hip do not get follow up treatment that could prevent another fracture. Studies have shown that after a hip fracture is repaired, patien...
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Well
Cameos! Cameos! Cameos everywhere! Billy Porter, Woody Harrelson and Lin Manuel Miranda all showed up in this week's "Saturday Night Live" cold open, which sent up this week's CNN town hall on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues featuring Democratic presidential candidates. Porter played an M.C. of sorts who ...
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Television
If you've ever had milk, you're probably familiar with the work of Louis Pasteur, the 19th century French chemist and biologist. He prevented diseases, developing a process widely known as pasteurization for killing microbes in milk and wine. He also created vaccines for rabies and anthrax. And his ideas led to the acc...
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Science
A statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, which adorns one of the cathedral's 135 spires, is also to undergo restoration. Mother Cabrini was born in Lombardy, the region of which Milan is the capital. She lived and worked in New York beginning in 1889, sent by Pope Leo XIII to help Italian immigrants. She died in 1917 in...
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Travel
The Giants at the Heart of the Opioid Crisis There are the Sacklers, the family that controls Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. There are the doctors who ran pill mills, and the rogue pharmacists who churned out opioid orders by the thousands. But the daunting financial muscle that has driven the spread of prescri...
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Health
David Bossie, the former deputy campaign manager for President Trump and a veteran conservative activist, apologized on Sunday after he told a black guest on Fox News, "You're out of your cotton picking mind." Mr. Bossie made the remark during an on air discussion on Sunday morning with Joel Payne, a Democratic strateg...
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SAN FRANCISCO The headlines are eye catching. Melania Trump is leaving the White House! Home renovation cable star Joanna Gaines has abandoned her HGTV show and husband Chip Gaines! Televangelist Joel Osteen is leaving his wife! None of the stories were true. Yet as recently as late last week, they were being promoted ...
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Technology
This is the way they were. Maybe. The responsibility of remembering weighs heavily on Nkechi, the narrator of "Good Grief," Ngozi Anyanwu's tender play about loss at an early age, which opened on Tuesday at the Vineyard Theater. Nkechi has sworn never to forget the boy she will always (probably, maybe) love more than a...
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Theater
PARIS Well, that threw everyone for a loop. Not the shows, nor even the snow (snow!) that covered Paris on Thursday morning but rather the news that Riccardo Tisci had been appointed chief creative officer of Burberry. In all the speculation about who would get the job after Christopher Bailey announced last October th...
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Fashion & Style
It all leads to the grimmest discovery of the season, coupled with its goriest onscreen moments. While John's young friend Joseph listens in horror, Beecham butchers one of his friends in the public baths, dragging his bloody corpse down the hall and off to whatever urban aerie will become this latest victim's chosen r...
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Television
In "Straight Up," a comedy from the writer director James Sweeney, the 20 something Todd (Sweeney) develops a theory: Maybe he isn't gay, as he has always thought. Maybe others' presumptions of his gayness became a self fulfilling prophecy. His friends scoff at the idea that he might be attracted to women. His therapis...
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Movies
Until recently, downtown Ottawa's ByWard Market the name for both one of Canada's oldest farmers' markets and the roughly four block neighborhood that encompasses it suffered from a common capital city affliction: After hours, it turned notoriously sleepy. Lately, however, numerous chefs and entrepreneurs have reimagin...
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Travel
FIFA ethics investigators have asked the top soccer official in Africa to explain why he agreed to revise a television contract in a way that appeared to benefit a commercial partner over his own organization the latest ethical concern for a governing body that was subject to direct FIFA oversight as recently as Februa...
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Sports
Each of these two solo shows catches up with an artist of a certain age whose latest work reminds us that art is ultimately not a young person's game and that late success often feels the most solid. Margot Bergman, now in her mid 80s, started exhibiting in Chicago, her hometown, in 1970. She didn't make her New York d...
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Art & Design
Yvette Chauvire, one of the 20th century's outstanding ballerinas and the most lustrous star of French ballet from the 1940s through the 1960s, died on Wednesday at her home in Paris. She was 99. Originally a child prodigy at the Paris Opera Ballet, Ms. Chauvire (pronounced shaw vih RAY) was acclaimed as a national sym...
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Dance
"An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist ... a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you, that behind their closed doors they laugh at your strangeness ...
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SPECIAL Stream on Netflix. The writer Ryan O'Connell made a name for himself blogging on the pop culture lifestyle site Thought Catalog, then released a memoir, "I'm Special, and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves," about his experiences as a disabled gay 20 something. That book provides the basis for this new dark comedy se...
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Within this framework, Kirsch plays all the greatest hits: Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel and Anne Frank, as well as the Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elie Wiesel and Saul Bellow. The concluding section on theology contains some likely less familiar names Hermann Cohen, Joseph Soloveitchik, Judith Plask...
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Books
Colin Kaepernick and the Walt Disney Company announced a production deal Monday that will see the activist quarterback produce "scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice and the quest for equity" for the media giant's various platforms, including ESPN. Work has already begun on a documentary s...
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Sports
Whatever It Is, It's Probably Not Hair Dye Rudolph W. Giuliani gave a news conference on Thursday in which, as he continued to cast doubt on the results of the presidential election, it appeared he was starting to melt. Late night hosts take a closer look at what went wrong with Rudy Giuliani's hair. Speaking from the ...
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Style
An area in the windy waters off Long Island has been designated as a possible site for a wind farm, the federal government announced on Wednesday. New Yorkers will not be seeing offshore turbines anytime soon, however. The Interior Department and its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said they were moving toward auctio...
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Science
A star crossed mission nearly 20 years in the making that was intended to seek an answer to the most burning, baffling question in astronomy and perhaps elucidate the fate of the universe is in danger of being canceled. The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or Wfirst, was being designed to investigate the mysteriou...
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Regis Philbin, the talk and game show host who regaled America over morning coffee with Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly Ripa for decades, and who made television history in 1999 by introducing the runaway hit "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," died on Friday night. He was 88. His death was announced by his family in a state...
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When Okwui Okpokwasili first performed her one woman show "Bronx Gothic" in 2014, it demanded to be seen again. A haunting, unflinching exploration of black female adolescence, this dense work mined movement, text and song from Ms. Okpokwasili's memories of growing up in the Bronx, blurring the real with the imagined a...
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Dance
The English songwriter Lianne La Havas has always been an outlier, working a decidedly personal amalgam of rock, pop and R B. Her music revolves around the lithe interplay of her syncopated guitar patterns and her freewheeling voice, which leaps and curls and wriggles with an insouciant vibrato. Her guitar parts echo a...
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Music
IDEA MAN Josef Ganz sitting in his Maikafer, or May bug, prototype. He eventually had to flee Germany. THE tale is intriguing: a Jewish engineer and journalist, whose designs and published work in the 1930s laid out the basics for the Volkswagen Beetle championed by Hitler, was arrested, chased from Germany and nearly ...
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Automobiles
Over the last 40 years, the writer performer John Kelly has explored the life and work of several wondrous real life artists, both in raucous East Village clubs and in such temples of high art as Lincoln Center or the Brooklyn Academy of Music. There were the cross dressing trapezist Barbette ("Light Shall Lift Them") ...
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Theater
Adrienne Warren, as Tina Turner, gets the audience to sing along in the post curtain call celebration that ends "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical." Forget the finale. After the curtain call now comes the megamix, the last dance, the group hymn whatever it takes to turn an entertainment into an event. The Show Must Go On, ...
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Apple is still primarily a smartphone company. And despite sitting on 246 billion in cash and marketable securities, it insists it has no short term plans to directly challenge streaming video giants like Netflix and Amazon, which are increasingly commissioning high quality original shows to attract and retain subscrib...
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Technology
"Fiddler on the Roof" is about balance. The idea is there in the title image and at the start of the show, when the dairyman protagonist, Tevye, explains that the people of his shtetl maintain their balance by relying on tradition. Much of the plot challenges him to keep his footing while adapting to new ways. Anyone s...
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Dance
Q. Tell me how you founded Gutsy Traveler. A. It was a continuation of my 1996 book "Gutsy Women" and dialogues with travelers that began during national book tours and speaking at travel conferences. I responded to women travelers who, with more money, time and freedom, feel more empowered to do and see what they want...
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Travel
The bacteria on your feet can say a lot about you including who your partner is. New research finds that people who live together significantly influence the microbial communities on each other's skin. Couples who live together share a lot of things: beds, bathrooms, food, toiletries. But one thing they might not expec...
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Health
The Michael Jackson musical has found its King of Pop. Ephraim Sykes, a limber legged, scene stealing, Tony nominated performer in "Ain't Too Proud," will jump from one jukebox musical to another when he stars in "MJ the Musical," which is scheduled to open on Broadway next summer. Sykes, a 34 year old from St. Petersb...
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Theater
Winning four championships consecutively is something only two others have done. Schumacher, the all time Formula One winner with 91 race victories and seven championships, had a five straight streak from 2000 to 2004. The other was Fangio, who claimed the title from 1954 to 1957. Vettel is getting ready to move into a...
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Automobiles
LONDON BP has sued the United States government to overturn the suspension of most BP entities, including its exploration arm, from federal contracts. The suit, filed on Tuesday in federal court in Texas, seeks to overturn a ban imposed in November by the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency cited BP for "lack o...
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Global Business
LONDON Two of Britain's boldest and wealthiest entrepreneurs are trying to break into a very tough league. James Dyson, best known for innovative vacuum cleaners, said recently that he was preparing to introduce a new electric car and had 400 people working on the project. And Jim Ratcliffe, a billionaire petrochemical...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles
FERRARA, Italy The paths that lead designers to their destinies or even just to their studios are long and winding, and difficult to predict. It would have been hard to divine at the outset, or at any critical juncture along the way, that Matthew Williams, a one semester college dropout from Pismo Beach, Calif., onetim...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
On June 2, as Black Lives Matter protesters swarmed America's streets demanding an end to the racist vestiges of America's troubled past, a teenager from a San Diego suburb posted eight words on Twitter that would soon ignite a less visible, though perhaps just as powerful, movement. "Going to an HBCU wouldn't be too b...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
Part thriller, part coming of age story, "The Thing With Feathers" is about chickens coming home to roost. The play fatally falls apart at the end, but Mr. Organ keeps us entertained for a good long while before that, making us guess and guess again about what, exactly, is going on here. At the start, Anna and her moth...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
ESSEN, Germany Most American vintage car enthusiasts are familiar with the big annual gatherings commonly known as Pebble Beach, Barrett Jackson and Fall Hershey. In recent years, growing numbers of well heeled gearheads have found room on their schedules for overseas events like Retromobile in Paris and the Goodwood F...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles
Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead. NEIGHBORING SCENES: NEW LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (Feb. 22 26). The most dogged of cinephiles will be willing to miss the Oscars to spend Sunday night watching "Our Time," the new film from the Mexican provoca...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
They are slapped and pinched during labor, yelled at, denied pain medicine, neglected and forced to share beds with other women who just gave birth. And that is just a partial list of the abuses and humiliations inflicted on women around the world as their babies are born. A new report based on information from 34 coun...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
DEFENDING JACOB Stream on AppleTV Plus. A chilling case upends a Massachusetts family's quiet life in this new mini series, adapted from William Landay's novel of the same name. Chris Evans and Michelle Dockery play Andy and Laurie Barber, whose teenage son, Jacob (Jaeden Martell), is accused of killing a classmate. Th...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
The songwriter Allee Willis at her home in Valley Village, Calif., in 2018. "I, very thankfully, have a few songs that will not go away," she said. Allee Willis, one of the music industry's most colorful figures, whose eclectic credits as a writer and co writer included Earth, Wind Fire's "September" and the "Friends" ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
Yayoi Kusama's balloon, "Love Flies Up to the Sky," on a test flight before the Thanksgiving Day Parade. The project was a collaboration between the artist's studio, which conceived the work, and Macy's specialists, who built it. Amid the polka dots, mirrors and pumpkins of her artwork, Yayoi Kusama has lately been inc...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
MIAMI The 26 young men and women, seated in alphabetical order, were nearly silent as they waited for their high school graduation to start. No giggles. No buzz. No camaraderie. And no wonder: they had met just once before, at the rehearsal two weeks earlier where they got their caps and gowns. They had come on this mu...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Education
Contemporary fame is a function of mind share. Talent helps, but it's not necessarily a prerequisite. The ability to cause conversation, to stir pots, to cause tizzies is far more crucial. By that metric, there is no more effective performer than 6ix9ine. Trolls seek attention by any means, but 6ix9ine is more sophisti...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
Apple, facing growing antitrust scrutiny over what it charges other companies for access to its App Store, said on Wednesday that it would cut in half the fee it took from the smallest app developers. Developers that brought in 1 million or less from their apps in the previous year will pay a 15 percent commission on t...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
How to watch: 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Tennis Channel; streaming on the Tennis Channel app. Novak Djokovic, the No. 1 men's singles player, is cast as an unlikely underdog at the French Open. With both Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem, the 2020 United States Open winner, having featured in the last two French Open finals,...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
Humans ruined everything. They bred too much and choked the life out of the land, air and sea. And so they must be vaporized by half, or attacked by towering monsters, or vanquished by irate dwellers from the oceans' polluted depths. Barring that, they face hardscrabble, desperate lives on a once verdant Earth now cons...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
Way back on Friday, President Trump declared that several news organizations ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, The New York Times were "the enemy of the American people." You know who's not the enemy, in his book? Mr. Jones, in case you aren't aware, is the conspiracy theorizing, flame throwing nationalistic radio and internet star ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media