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An Igor Levit recital is never an easy outing, for him or the audience. In one marathon concert, he played titanic works by Bach, Schubert, Beethoven and Prokofiev. When he last appeared at Zankel Hall, the subterranean chamber space at Carnegie Hall, he followed an hour of music by Shostakovich and Frederic Rzewski with, nonchalantly, the hourlong "Diabelli" Variations. The 31 year old pianist's return to Zankel on Friday was a little shorter by comparison just two hours, including an intermission but larger in scope and reaching cosmic profundity. I suppose we should have expected as much from a program inspired by Mr. Levit's latest album, titled simply yet formidably, "Life." That recording, which cements Mr. Levit's status as one of the essential artists of our time, is an expansive exploration of life itself, and a reaction to the death of his best friend, the artist Hannes Malte Mahler, who was killed in a bike accident in 2016. But "Life" is far from an elegy; it's by turns mournful, searching and celebratory, even transcendent.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
What happens next is tawdry, predictable, queasy making and also frequently funny, though not for the Swensons. Mr. Tucci is the most unflappable of actors, which makes Ted's inevitable and dramatic flapping all the more terrible and amusing to witness. He is a charming guy, to be sure, but also smug and self pitying. Whether or not he entirely deserves what he eventually gets, his complacency and passivity set him up for a fall. But "Submission" isn't just his story. Angela is in many ways more interesting, even though, at the end, her motives are flattened in the interest of a narrative payoff. Ted is taken with her writing, and also with her naive, admiring eagerness for his approval. She writes about sex with older men, in her novel and in an earlier book of poems, in a way that seems calculated to trigger inappropriate fantasies in the mind of a creatively frustrated, self consciously aging teacher marooned in academia. Ted is an easy mark, and hardly an unwilling participant in his own ruin. He is less pathetic than the professor played by Emil Jannings in Josef von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel" (which serves as both a model for "Submission" and point of reference within it), and Angela is hardly a siren in the mold of Marlene Dietrich's cabaret singer. But Angela does turn out to be amoral, manipulative and dishonest, traits that make her both a caricature of feminine guile and a promising fiction writer perhaps more fully committed to the art than her vain, bumbling teacher. Unfortunately, Mr. Levine, directing his second feature after working mainly in television (on "Masters of Sex" and "Nip/Tuck," among other series), is a lesser artist than Ms. Prose. "Submission" feels more like an act of devotion, or perhaps of submission, than a free standing adaptation. The satire is cautious and the emotions restrained, so that what should be a swirl of lust, ambition, recrimination and bureaucratic absurdity rises only to genteel, nervous laughter and mild discomfort. The actors all do their best Ms. Timlin manages the difficult trick of switching back and forth between innocence and its opposite but a crucial element of intensity is missing. By the end, the stakes seem trivial, even though families and livelihoods are in play and big ideas hover in the background.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
After the lost were found and the lonely were loved, after the disguises were doffed and the confusions were cleared, after the stanzas and the verses and the boogieing and the bows, Shaina Taub still had one final sentiment to sing. "Even when it seems all hope is gone," she warbled as a preview performance of her musical adaptation of "Twelfth Night" came to a close earlier this month at Shakespeare in the Park, "we play on." The words were a riff on the play's opening line, "If music be the food of love, play on." But they also represented a mission statement of sorts for Ms. Taub, a fiercely political singer songwriter whose multifarious career in musical theater is taking off even as she rues the state of the nation. Ms. Taub, who while growing up in rural Vermont was not only memorizing cast albums but also aiding the American Cancer Society (she created a student run cabaret to benefit the organization) and opposing the Iraq War (she organized protest music at the local movie theater). "I think a lot about Nina Simone saying, 'How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?' " she said. "I'm a musician, I'm a songwriter, I'm a dramatist, so how can I use those tools to create something that hopefully provokes people into action but also provides an emotional catharsis?" She's just 29, a performer composer lyricist with no Broadway credits to her name, and yet in the small world that is the musical theater industry, she has emerged as a talent now much in demand. Her list of collaborators includes the magician Teller (of Penn Teller fame), the clowns David Shiner and Bill Irwin, the pop star Elton John. "Shaina is a force to be reckoned with," Teller said. She has been embraced by prominent female directors Tina Landau, Rachel Chavkin and Leigh Silverman and mentored by the socially conscious composers Liz Swados (who died in 2016) and Jeanine Tesori. Even while musicalizing Shakespeare for the Public Theater, she is writing her own show, about the women's suffrage movement, backed by one of the lead producers of "Hamilton." And she has just been named the lyricist for her first big budget project, a Broadway bound musical adaptation of "The Devil Wears Prada," with Paul Rudnick as book writer and Mr. John as composer. "Prada," set at a fashion magazine, feels like a bit of a detour for Ms. Taub, who wore white Keds at her own wedding, occasionally performs in overalls and describes her personal style as "in desperate need of a 'Queer Eye' episode." But she said she has a longstanding fondness for the 2006 film, and a strong identification with Andy, the magazine editor's ambitious, but ambivalent, assistant, who finds herself in a world she thinks she understands, only to learn how much she doesn't know. "I'm interested in women trying to make their way and hold onto their values," Ms. Taub said. Her writing projects follow a string of onstage roles. She was in Off Broadway productions of "Natasha, Pierre the Great Comet of 1812" (she played Princess Mary); "Old Hats" (as a musical foil to the clowning of Messrs. Shiner and Irwin); and "Hadestown" (one of the Fates). She has made two albums (the most recent, "Die Happy," was released in May), performs regularly as a singer (including 19 gigs at Joe's Pub) and writes music for "Sesame Street." And last month she co wrote the opening number of the Tony Awards with Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban. "She's in the middle of an extraordinary moment," said Ms. Silverman, who is working with Ms. Taub on the suffrage musical. "It's an astounding thing to see a young woman who has so much drive, and so much talent, and is so singular. She's like lightning." She is 5 feet 3 inches tall, with a big voice once described by The San Francisco Chronicle as "sort of a young Judy Garland meets grown up Lisa Simpson." "I've always been really loud, even before I had pitch or tone," she said. "I've always wanted to be heard." Her songs are soulful, playful and earnest, and in conversation she cites the Talmud ("Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief") as well as Rebecca Solnit (an author whose "Hope in the Dark" she cites as a favorite book). "Inside her voice, the soul and the heart and the mind meet," Ms. Tesori said. "And she has a fierce sense of rhythm." Ms. Taub grew up in Waitsfield, Vt., the daughter of an optometrist and an elementary school teacher. She was a theater kid, studying piano, voice and dance, performing in school and community theater shows, seeing national tours as they passed through Burlington ("Rent" and "Cats" are two early memories) and, once a year, traveling with her grandparents to see a Broadway musical (her first: "Beauty and the Beast"). She was an acting major. But one night a classmate, Sam Pinkleton (now a choreographer), suggested she check out an elective taught by Ms. Swados, who was pushing students to create their own work. That was transformative for Ms. Taub, who not only began writing furiously but also joined Tisch's experimental theater wing. She even met the man who is now her husband, Matt Gehring, a comedian, in Ms. Swados's class. Her potential was recognized quickly. Her senior project a musical called "The Daughters," about three Greek goddesses was seen by artists who have become patrons: Ms. Chavkin, who later cast her in "Great Comet" and "Hadestown"; Rachel Sussman, who brought the subject of suffrage to Ms. Taub and became that project's lead producer; and Shanta Thake, the director of Joe's Pub. She graduated N.Y.U. in 2009, booked a TheaterWorksUSA tour of "Seussical," (she played Gertrude McFuzz), took jobs as an accompanist and eventually landed in Las Vegas (and then Cambridge, Mass.) with a Teller/Tom Waits "Tempest," San Francisco (and then New York) with "Old Hats" and New York with "Great Comet" and "Hadestown." While performing, she kept writing. The Yale Institute for Music Theater supported a workshop of "The Daughters." Ars Nova made her a composer in residence. In 2014, she won the American Theater Wing's coveted Jonathan Larson grant for early career songwriters. "Her talents are manifold or maybe it's womanfold," Ms. Chavkin said. "She is also a radically and joyfully stubborn person, with a clarity about what she's interested in and what she's not interested in." Those interests are informed by politics, and her opposition to what she calls the "fascist monster regime of Trump." The song that has become her standard, "When," is a cri de coeur about gun violence. "Huddled Masses," inspired by a Nicholas Kristof column, is a critique of American refugee policy. "Her commitment to social justice is bone deep," said Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Public Theater and the director of the current production of "Twelfth Night." The Public has become a creative home for Ms. Taub it is where Joe's Pub is housed, it is the parent organization of Shakespeare in the Park, and it has hosted workshops of the suffrage musical, which Ms. Sussman is co producing with Jill Furman, one of the lead producers of "Hamilton." That musical's main character is Alice Paul, a 19th and 20th century feminist who, while advocating the right to vote for women, pushed a more aggressive form of activism than her predecessors in the movement; Ms. Taub, who had been looking for a way to write about "a group of women trying to change the world," is writing the book as well as the music and the lyrics. "Twelfth Night" is an outgrowth of Public Works, a Public Theater program that combines a professional actors with amateur performers from New York's five boroughs to stage boisterous musical adaptations of Shakespeare plays that, invariably, wind up feeling like love letters to the city's diversity and spirit. Ms. Taub first adapted "Twelfth Night" for Public Works in 2016, followed it with "As You Like It" last year, and has now reworked "Twelfth Night" for this summer's Shakespeare in the Park, where it runs through Aug. 19. She not only wrote the music and lyrics, but also stars as the show's jester and sage, M.C. and balladeer, accompanist and accordionist. "This is a dire, dire, time it feels dangerous and it feels hopeless and it feels like a huge step back for our country in so many ways, but we have to remember that change is possible," Ms. Taub said. "And we still make theater, we still make art, we still love each other fiercely we act with courage and grace in the face of hatred and fear, believing that theater and art are engines for empathy."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
MoMA Protests Trump Entry Ban by Rehanging Work by Artists from Muslim Nations Sam Hodgson for The New York Times In one of the strongest protests yet by a major cultural institution against President Trump's executive order on immigration, the Museum of Modern Art has rehung part of its permanent collection with works by artists from some of the majority Muslim nations whose citizens are blocked from entering the United States. "K L 32 H 4. Mon pere et moi (My Father and I)" right, by Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Seven works by artists such as the Sudanese painter Ibrahim el Salahi, the Iraqi born architect Zaha Hadid, and the Los Angeles based Iranian video artist Tala Madani, were installed Thursday night in MoMA's fifth floor galleries, replacing seven works by Picasso, Matisse and Picabia, among other Western artists. Alongside each work is a wall text that plainly states the museum's intentions: "This work is by an artist from a nation whose citizens are being denied entry into the United States, according to a presidential executive order issued on Jan. 27, 2017. This is one of several such artworks from the Museum's collection installed throughout the fifth floor galleries to affirm the ideals of welcome and freedom as vital to this Museum as they are to the United States." "Chit Chat," a video installation by Tala Madani, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Except for Hadid and Mr. el Salahi, the other artists are all Iranian by birth or heritage. They are Ms. Madani; the sculptor Parviz Tanavoli; the draftsman Charles Hossein Zenderoudi; the photographer Shirana Shahbazi; and the painter Marcos Grigorian. In addition, a large sculpture of aluminum and steel by Siah Armajani, an American artist born in Iran, was placed in the glass walled lobby courtyard overlooking the garden. "The Peak Project, Hong Kong, China" by Zaha Hadid, center, on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Sam Hodgson for The New York Times The fifth floor additions rupture the museum's traditional narrative of Western modernism before 1945. Only very rarely has MoMA interrupted its succession of art from Post Impressionism to Cubism, Dadaism, and after which still reflects the modernist vision of its first director, Alfred Barr with works of postwar and contemporary art. Further additions are planned for the weeks ahead. The Museum of Modern Art has also scheduled four screenings later this month of films by directors subject to the travel ban. They include "Al Yazerli" (1974), an experimental feature by the Iraqi born German director Kais al Zubaidi, and "Stars in Broad Daylight" (1988), by Oussama Mohammad, a Syrian filmmaker exiled in Paris.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
BERLIN For those unfamiliar with German history, the new Netflix show "Barbarians" might not seem especially provocative. The historical epic reminiscent of the long running History channel series "Vikings" centers on a tribe of villagers in the first century A.D. trying to survive in a forested region of what is now northern Germany. Its rugged protagonists clash violently with rival tribes and, most of all, with the Roman forces who control the area. But the show's six episodes build toward the first fictionalized depiction on German TV of an event that remains fraught even after two millenniums: the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, which put an end to the Roman Empire's aspirations of controlling much of what is now Germany. German nationalists, including the Nazis, have used the battle as an ideological rallying point a supposed foundational moment for German civilization and proof of their superior pedigree and fighting skills. To this day, the battle, and the tribes' leader in the fight, Arminius, remain sources of inspiration for far right extremists, who regularly make pilgrimages to related sites. Arne Nolting, a writer and showrunner of the series, explained via Zoom last week that part of his inspiration for making a show about the Battle of Teutoburg Forest was a desire to reclaim a pivotal moment in European history from the far right. "We didn't want to be scared away and leave the subject to those forces we detest," he said. The battle has been a political flash point since the 19th century, when modern day Germany was a fractured mosaic of smaller states. Nationalists embraced Arminius as a symbol of German identity in their push for unification. In 1875, four years after the German Empire's founding, officials unveiled a colossal statue of Arminius in the Teutoburg Forest. (The battle is now believed to have taken place 50 miles away at a site called Kalkriese.) Under the Third Reich, the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg depicted Arminius as part of a "line of German ancestry" leading to Adolf Hitler, and schoolbooks of the period claimed that he had saved "the purity of German blood." In 2009, the far right extremist National Democratic Party of Germany organized a "remembrance march" commemorating the battle, under the slogan "2,000 years of fighting against foreign infiltration." Nolting said that he and the other showrunners were conscious of this political baggage while crafting the narrative arc of "Barbarians," which premiered on Oct. 23. The show focuses on three characters with connections to a real life tribe called the Cherusci: Thusnelda (Jeanne Goursaud), the daughter of a Cherusci leader; Folkwin (David Schutter), a fictional warrior; and Arminius (Laurence Rupp). In its telling, Arminius is born a Cherusci but is taken away by the Roman occupiers as a young boy, only to return as a member of the imperial army a portrayal that reflects historians' belief that the real life Arminius served in the Roman military before changing sides. The show's plot is set in motion when the Romans demand large tributes from the Cherusci, heightening tensions and gradually leading Arminius to doubt his allegiance to the empire. Jan Martin Scharf, another writer and showrunner, said that the production team had taken a consciously gritty approach to the subject matter to avoid glorifying the violence between the Cherusci and the Romans. They also wanted to emphasize Arminius' identity as a migrant, he said, adding, "It was important for us not to show him as some big war hero or the founder of a German empire." And the creators cast Rupp, an Austrian actor, in the role in part because, with his darker complexion and hair, he did not fit the blond, blue eyed depictions of Arminius that have been common in the past. The first survey exhibition of archaeological finds from Germanic peoples, it presents over 700 items from the first to the fourth centuries A.D. including weapons, personal items and ceramics in understated displays. It also features an exhibit about the ways archaeological finds from the period have been politicized in the past. Wemhoff said that his team had worried "a lot" about how to avoid appealing to the far right, and that they had chosen a restrained subtitle "Archaeological Perspectives" for that reason. "We've never had an exhibition with such a plain title," he said. Wemhoff said that many Germans had a false or cliched view of the period because it hasn't been widely taught in German schools since World War II. "After the Nazi period, the subject was scorched," he said. "People have made a large detour around it." The greatest false assumption, he said, is that the Germanic tribes involved in the battle were the precursors to modern day Germans. In fact, he noted, most tribes in the area abandoned their settlements and left modern day German territory starting in the late fourth century. Today's Germans, Wemhoff noted, are descended from groups that came from other regions of Europe. "There is no continuity," he said. "For people who have these strong, pre existing images in their heads, it's a challenge to engage with the topic." Nolting said he had encountered little far right online feedback before the Netflix show's premiere. The series has been positively received in Germany, with most reviewers praising its production values, acting and emphasis on historical accuracy. DWDL, an online portal focused on German media, praised its ability to evade the "traps" of its historical source material.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
After studying accounting in Shanghai, Miranda Sun came to the United States for graduate school at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Five years ago, she arrived in New York for work, renting a studio on the far Upper East Side for just under 2,000 a month. The walk between apartment and subway took more than 15 minutes. "I had to struggle every day whether to take the crosstown bus to the subway station or whether to walk," she said. "Waiting for the bus could be two minutes or 20 minutes." With the rent about to rise, she moved to Sunnyside, Queens, where she found a large one bedroom for 1,800 a month. For a large one bedroom in Manhattan near a subway hub or better still near Gramercy Park or below, Ms. Sun figured that she would pay a monthly rent of around 3,500. Buying seemed more prudent. She planned to spend 750,000 or more for a place with a sunny exposure to the south or east. She aimed for as little street noise as possible. "It is hard to find an apartment that is absolutely quiet if you want light," Ms. Sun said. "If you want light, you probably have to face the street." Still, she knew there were no guarantees of quiet, regardless of an apartment's exposure. When she lived in her studio, facing the backs of other buildings, she endured karaoke night every Friday from a neighbor just across the way. "It was a pretty consistent schedule," she said. Ms. Sun, 28, who works in the accounting field, scoured StreetEasy daily and visited open houses every weekend. A little more than a year ago, a friend referred her to Christopher Daish and Devin Kogel, agents then at Triplemint and now at the Corcoran Group. Ms. Sun focused on postwar co op buildings. "In the sub million dollar price range, there are more options for a co op than a condominium," Mr. Kogel said. A condo unit for that price would probably mean a studio. She did not want an open kitchen, and in early 1960s era buildings, it was easy enough to avoid them, though Ms. Sun was more than willing to do renovations. "In China, we don't have open kitchens," she said. When her parents visited, they would be stir frying over high heat, and she preferred to have the smell and mess contained. Last summer, a good option arose near Gramercy Park, where Ms. Sun bid on a shopworn one bedroom with a dining area, plenty of closet space and a mostly eastern view. It was listed at 759,000, with monthly maintenance of 1,045. Her bid was around 800,000, but it sold for 825,000. She experienced another near miss in Chelsea, where a one bedroom with a sunny southern exposure was listed at 850,000, with maintenance of around 1,000. This, too, was worn, with a closet door unhinged. Her bid of around 800,000 was declined. She was willing to raise it, but another party swooped in and bought the apartment for 840,000. She boosted her price range, which had been inching up, to 900,000. A listing appeared for a one bedroom near Columbus Circle for 895,000, with maintenance of around 1,200. The neighborhood wasn't as hip as downtown, but the southern view was far better, and quieter, than a street view it faced two acres of a grassy courtyard, though punctuated by wailing sirens heading to nearby Mount Sinai West, the former Roosevelt Hospital. The kitchen even had a door. This time, Ms. Sun's bid of 875,000 was accepted. Still, she continued hunting, uncertain that the sale would actually go through. In the winter, it did. Shortly before closing, she learned that one of her wing's two elevators would be closed for several months of repairs. With just one working elevator, the building was strict about elevator use. Ms. Sun rushed to finish painting and move in otherwise, she would have had to use the stairs to move her belongings. "I basically went through all the apartments on the market," she said, relieved that she was able to find the kind of home she wanted, with Columbus Circle's assorted subway lines at her feet. "I now feel like it's good to have a distance from those hip places, but a very short distance."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
CONCORD, N.H. Ben Nawn, a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire, says his friends who work at McDonald's are envious of what he earns working for the Boloco burrito restaurant here. While they make 7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage, Mr. Nawn receives 9 an hour, which Boloco sets as the floor at its chain of 22 restaurants, most of them in New England. "That's pretty high," said Mr. Nawn, who hopes to work in sports broadcasting someday. " 9 is a good base, and the benefits are great." Mr. Nawn works at one of the handful of restaurant chains that deliberately pay well above the federal minimum wage. In N Out Burger, the chain based in California, pays all its employees at least 10.50 an hour, while Shake Shack, the trendy, lines out the door burger emporium, has minimum pay of 9.50. Moo Cluck Moo, a fledgling company with two hamburger joints in Michigan, starts everyone at 15. These companies' founders were intent on paying their workers more than the going rate partly because they wanted to do the right thing, they said, and partly because they thought this would help their companies thrive long term. "The No. 1 reason we pay our team well above the minimum wage is because we believe that if we take care of the team, they will take care of our customers," said Randy Garutti, the chief executive of Shake Shack. The nation's fast food restaurants, which employ many of the country's low wage workers, are at the center of the debate over low pay and raising the federal minimum wage fueled by protests demanding that fast food chains establish a 15 wage floor. McDonald's was pilloried last year for a hotline that advised employees how to seek food stamps and public assistance for heating and medical expenses. During the lunchtime rush at the Boloco here, four workers showed impressive teamwork in stuffing beef, chicken, salsa and other ingredients rapid fire into burrito after burrito. Scott Newman, the restaurant's manager, said that Boloco's above average pay enabled him to pick from among many talented job applicants, adding, "When you teach talented individuals, once they get it, they'll be a rock star for you." Complaining of low profit margins that generally accompany inexpensive menu items, most fast food restaurants try to keep wages down the median hourly wage for fast food workers nationwide is 8.83, compared with 11.50 at Boloco and 10.70 at Shake Shack. When fast food executives offer above average compensation, it is good not only for employees, but also for the brand. Starbucks, which also pays its employees above minimum wage and offers several benefits, received a public relations lift recently in announcing a program that would provide online college educations for thousands of its baristas. Some competitors assert that these fast food companies are also influenced by regional economics. They note that many of the companies that pay more are based in high wage, high cost of living states, like Massachusetts and California, that often have minimum wages well above the federal law. California, where In N Out is based, has a 9 statewide minimum wage, while Washington State, home of Seattle based Starbucks, has the nation's highest state minimum wage, 9.32 an hour. According to the M.I.T. Living Wage Calculator, the living wage for a single adult in California is 11.20 an hour (and 22.70 for an adult with one child), while in Massachusetts, it is 11.31 for a single adult 2 or 3 an hour higher than in many less expensive states. John Pepper, Boloco's co founder, said the strategy for his Boston based company evolved after it initially adopted a low wage approach. "In the company's early years," he said, "our goal, like much of the industry, was to pay as little as you can get away with and have people still show up and be reasonably productive." But while watching employees mop floors and work late into the night, he realized that for his company to be as great as he hoped, it needed to treat its workers better. "We were talking about building a culture in which we want our team members to take care of our customers," Mr. Pepper said. "But we asked, 'What's in it for them?' Honestly, very little." So in 2002, when the minimum wage was 5.15 an hour, Boloco raised its minimum pay to 8. It also began subsidizing commuting costs, providing English classes to immigrant employees and contributing up to 4 percent of an employee's pay toward a 401(k). Kevin Spacey was ordered to pay 31 million to the 'House of Cards' studio after sexual harassment allegations. Netflix buys a visual effects company in a move to support its global ambitions. "If we really wanted our people to care about our culture and care about our customers, we had to show that we cared about them," Mr. Pepper said. "If we're talking about building a business that's successful, but our employees can't go home and pay their bills, to me that success is a farce." When the company raised its minimum pay to 8, "that was an immediate hit to the P. L.," Mr. Pepper acknowledged, referring to the company's profit and loss statement. He said his privately held company, unlike some fast food chains, did not sense an urgency to achieve a 20 percent profit margin per restaurant. Zeynep Ton, a professor at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, said many companies did not pay their employees well because they had a short term focus on maximizing profits. "It's not easy to create a business where you pay your employees well and have low prices and generate great profits," said Ms. Ton, author of "The Good Jobs Strategy." "You have to get a lot of things right. You have to have continuous improvement and an excellent mind set. Achieving excellence is always harder than achieving mediocrity." Fast food industry officials have long contended that raising the minimum wage would result in fewer jobs and higher prices. Scott DeFife, an executive vice president at the National Restaurant Association, said it was inappropriate to compare restaurants like Boloco and Shake Shack with chains like McDonald's and Subway. "The price point and convenience factor are more appropriately compared to casual table restaurants that have wait staff," Mr. DeFife said. But prices at Boloco and In N Out are largely similar to those at Chipotle or McDonald's. The prices at Shake Shack are higher, but consumers flock to it because it is known for its premium hamburgers. Mr. DeFife noted that restaurants paying higher wages tended to be in places where consumers were willing to pay more for their meals. In addition to its higher than average hourly wage, Shake Shack, which is part of the restaurant impresario Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, offers a 401(k) match and a monthly bonus based on store sales. Those working more than 30 hours a week qualify for health coverage. Ruben Mojica recently moved to Winter Park, Fla., to be a manager at the new Shake Shack there. He started as a line chef at a Shake Shack in Manhattan in 2008, working two other jobs to make ends meet. After two months at Shake Shack, he was earning enough to devote his time to just the one job. "The company has developed me, given me training and the opportunity to achieve more and paid me better than any other restaurant chain would," he said. Because of the health insurance the company offers, Mr. Mojica said, he and his wife were able to start a family much sooner than he had imagined. At the McDonald's shareholders meeting in May, Don Thompson, its chief executive, defended the company's compensation policies, saying many managers there started as hourly workers. "We continue to believe that we pay fair and competitive wages," Mr. Thompson said. "We provide job opportunities and training for those entering the work force." "We are trying to be a really great employer," he added. The founders of the well paying restaurant chains often point to Costco as a model, saying that it has found a formula to thrive even though it pays its workers well. Like Costco, they have all sought a way to single themselves out Boloco emphasizes fresh, healthy food; Shake Shack, high quality burgers; and In N Out, superquick service. When Harry Moorhouse opened his first Moo Cluck Moo restaurant 15 months ago in Dearborn Heights, Mich., its minimum pay was 12 an hour. Since then, it has raised that to 15 and opened a second restaurant in Canton, Mich., with plans to open a third in October and perhaps additional restaurants in Chicago and California next year. "Our people work really hard, and 15 impacts their lives in a very positive way," Mr. Moorhouse said. "The whole notion that it's all kids starting out and they don't deserve to be paid much, that's all specious. We're paying people 15 an hour so they have a living wage, so they really care about you when you come in the store." A major benefit of paying 15, he said, is "we don't have any turnover. We don't have to train people constantly." His restaurants serve upscale hamburgers, chicken sandwiches and salads, and a full meal generally costs around 1.25 more than at McDonald's. Rachel Troutman, 34, said she was thrilled to be earning 15 an hour, 600 a week, with Moo Cluck Moo. She used to earn 10 an hour as a top manager at a sit down family restaurant. Thanks to her higher pay, Ms. Troutman, a mother of four, has replaced her 1996 Oldsmobile 88 with a more reliable 2005 Ford Taurus and has gone from renting an 850 square foot home to buying a 1,900 square foot house. "I no longer need food stamps," she said, "although the government still helps me out with child care. I don't know how families are making it on the minimum wage. It would take two full time minimum wage jobs to make what I make."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Economy
For some, life is a series of chapters. Ulysses Dove, who died of AIDS in 1996 at 49, choreographed "Episodes" after a close friend succumbed to the disease. Mr. Dove wished he could have been given five more minutes with him to thank him for their time together, for their friendship. It made him consider: What if every episode with every person could be complete, and that the only hope was the possibility of more episodes? On Tuesday at City Center, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater presented that 1987 work, first performed by the company in 1989. Set to Robert Ruggieri's percussive score, "Episodes" has all the trademarks of a Dove piece: speed, explosive jumps and whiplash spins. Dancers shoot across the stage like waves hitting rocks. When, at the start, Kirven Douthit Boyd and Sean Aaron Carmon rush onto the stage they are the work's spry, guiding forces their mercurial volatility packs a punch. But as more episodes unfurl, the scenes dissolve like movie trailers, with a dose of action here and some melodrama there. Monotonous in structure, the choreography is performed on paths of light: two diagonals and then an X. The tension behind the movement is fraught with predictability even in its sculptural, quieter moments, as when a dancer sinks slowly into a backbend. Mr. Dove's compulsion behind the action carries more of an impact: The idea of moving without thinking, as if in a feverish trance, makes sense within the destructive context of AIDS. In "Episodes," velocity is driven by panic, by horror. At the end of "Episodes," the dancers exit, using each corner of the stage. That pattern takes on greater significance in Ronald K. Brown's "Four Corners," in which 11 dancers four of which are angels holding the four winds also move without thinking. In "Episodes," the result is clinical; here, it's as natural as a breeze rustling through a forest. In this entrancing work from 2013, a high point of Robert Battle's uneven commissioning history since taking over as the company's artistic director, the choreography flows. Matthew Rushing and Linda Celeste Sims wind their way through Mr. Brown's undulations as if their bodies were made of water. Belen Pereyra and Glenn Allen Sims, the other two winds, discover and rediscover the loose elasticity that comes in finding a weighted connection to the floor. Set to music by Carl Hancock Rux and others, "Four Corners" is a rarity, somehow even more fresh than it was at its premiere. While the dancers, by now, know how to tap into Mr. Brown's spiritual center, they aren't knowing about it. The program's remaining works kept the night on an upswing: David Parsons's "Caught," a duet for an airborne dancer and a strobe light, was winningly performed by Mr. Douthit Boyd, and Ohad Naharin's "Minus 16," a dance both joyful and wonderfully strange, culminates in one of the most edifying instances of audience participation found in any dance. Still, both productions, though mainly "Caught," had the effect of frosting on a cake. "Four Corners," like a whispered secret of which you strain to remember every last detail, kept swirling through the mind. The Ailey company doesn't have a resident choreographer, but it should, and it's easy to say who should get the job.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
The traditional way young musicians gain expertise is by studying over many years with trusted teachers. The New York String Orchestra offers a different approach: intense immersion. Each December, gifted student musicians come to New York for 10 days of concentrated work under the auspices of the Mannes School of Music. They are coached in chamber music and prepare two orchestra programs for performance at Carnegie Hall. The violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, who has directed the institute for the last 25 years, led the 64 members of this year's orchestra, ranging in age from 16 to 23, in its 50th annual program on Christmas Eve. The group opened with a dark and somber account of Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" Overture, followed by a crisp performance of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins featuring stellar soloists: Pamela Frank, Jinjoo Cho, Bella Hristova and Kyoko Takezawa. A performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman captured both the majestic and mysterious elements of the music. Mr. Laredo, tireless at 77, has long been a dedicated teacher. Here he is as a soloist and conductor in Bach's Double Concerto with a youth orchestra in his native Bolivia. He also frequently performs chamber music with ensembles mixing longtime colleagues and musicians he has mentored, as he does in this account of Franck's Piano Quintet in F minor. ANTHONY TOMMASINI Most families wait until children are around six or seven before bringing them to the New York City Ballet's beloved production of "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker." But I recently took my youngest nephew, just four and a half. His reactions gave me insights into what might make the performing arts captivating to small children. During the first scenes, he was drawn into the family drama, especially the character of the misbehaving brother Fritz, and into the fantasy of the tale. "Are the mouses bad?" he asked. I said that the mice are certainly up to no good, but also kind of funny. "Is this magic?" he asked about the fantastical stage effects. I said sort of, though it's just a play, which didn't seem to settle the question for him. In Act II's Realm of Sweets, I was surprised to see him engrossed by the dance episodes, like the Waltz of the Flowers. Watching 14 live ballerinas in colorfully matched costumes leaping and spinning to Tchaikovsky's waltzing music had to have been a strangely unreal experience for him.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
Albums don't "matter," anymore. But they used to, and when they did, Aretha Franklin, who died on Thursday, was responsible for one of the very best: "Amazing Grace," a live album recorded over two days in January 1972, at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in South Los Angeles. The excellence of "Amazing Grace" is no secret. It's still one of the country's best selling gospel records, as well as Franklin's most popular album. Bloomsbury's music criticism book series, 33 1/3, put out an exhaustive forensic appreciation by Aaron Cohen in 2011. And in 2016, in a reverent critical profile of Franklin for The New Yorker, David Remnick called it "perhaps her most shattering and indispensable recording." Yet it's frequently dispensed with. Polls of the great albums rarely include it. (An NPR poll, from last year, of the 150 best albums by women and nonbinary artists, had it at No. 23.) Generally, if a list bothers with Franklin at all, the obvious choice is "Lady Soul" from 1968, her 14th album. It's the one with "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Chain of Fools," and "Ain't No Way." Or, her 11th, from the year before: "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)," the one with "Respect," "Drown in My Own Tears," and "Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)." No complaints here. "I Never Loved a Man" is a narcotic album its 11 perfectly done songs should come in a pill bottle. But "Amazing Grace" is an artist reaching another level. It's as long as a movie and as deep as the valley of the shadow of death. It should be included alongside the usual suspects your "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Rubber Soul" and "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Pet Sounds" each regarded as monumental. This was a monument, too. In the Baptist tradition, when the spirit stirs you, you move. You clap. You get on your feet and slap at the air. You whoop. You carry on. You disturb the floor with a flurry of taps, like your feet are burning. So it goes in the Aretha tradition, too. Never miss a pop music story: Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Louder. This is to say that whoever was out in the seats that weekend came pre stirred. The first song is "Mary Don't You Weep." Before it starts, the Rev. James Cleveland, the pioneering gospel singer, introduces Franklin to the congregation. Then an organ chimes in and applause builds to a simmer. At the 11th second, a woman, with a rasp, says something that I've never been able to make out, but the translation is basically, "Come on, Aretha. Let 'er rip!" Franklin's lethal four man band and the Southern California Community Choir ease out of the gates before she does. The rhythm's a vamp. It sounds like somebody sneaking through the house for a midnight snack. But the tiptoeing is set to a waltz. "Oh. Oh. Ma ry," sings the choir, preparing the mood for Franklin, who answers, eventually, with a blurting "Mary!" of her own. There's a mighty bristling as the song starts to come together. Presumably, they'd all heard "Mary Don't You Weep." It's a slavery era spiritual, built around, among other things, a despairing plea for Jesus to raise Lazarus from the dead. Almost every church choir has a version. The Swan Silvertones's incarnation and, later, Sam Cooke's, with the Soul Stirrers, might be the best known as doo wop. In Los Angeles that day, people bristled, perhaps, because they hadn't ever expected to experience one that topped Inez Andrews's tearing into it, with the Caravans in the 1958. Or maybe they bristled because they knew this version was going to be good. It's much better than that. A rhythm section was Franklin's gospel innovation. She installed some swing and paved a road for her singing to go to town. About four and a half minutes into "Mary Don't You Weep," Franklin skips town altogether and is out in the solar system, a one woman space program, synopsizing the story of Lazarus's plight, but from the point of view of his sister Mary, who in her grief over her brother's death, sees fit to chastise Jesus. So it's theater, too. Franklin caterwauls as Mary, then resumes serenity as Christ, who asks to see the body. The band and the choir set the table for Franklin, and the whole troupe serves the meal of Jesus' miracle. This arrangement doesn't tell you amazement has taken place. It becomes the amazement. Franklin's Jesus wails for Lazarus to hear him, her voice a whip in one syllable and a caress in the next religion itself! As Jesus strains through the impossible Laaaaaaaaaaaazarus! Oh yeah! giving life to the dead, two women separate from the choral multitude and ululate with awe, gently, soulfully, as if they're about to pass out. This isn't a moment you want to encounter in a vulnerable spot. I heard it jaywalking once, and actually stopped in the middle of the street, about to faint with disbelief. Who succeeds at upstaging a biblical miracle with a musical one? And yet it's not only pious. Franklin's reverence can wink: "He got up walking like a natural man. Oh, yes, he did," she sings, yanking Lazarus out of death and into one of her hits. By this point, the bristling has long given way to Baptist stirring. People are hollering. At Aretha Franklin. In a church. (That until the 1960s was a movie theater.) They're telling her to go on. They're prodding her to keep them exhilarated, praising her praising the Lord. We're not in New Temple Missionary, and yet: Aren't we? You can hear each guitar plink, each bongo spank. You can practically smell myrrh wafting from the organ. This isn't happenstance. It's engineering. Franklin had reconstructed these songs. This one moves at the same pace as the Caravans', but it's got more dimensions, more heft. The entire album is a feat of witty, hooky arrangements, of mischief, ecstasy and bass. The repeated running together of the word "everything" on "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" really is everything. The gospel claps there and on "How I Got Over" (and everywhere else, really) are castanet clear. And "Wholy Holy" is such a celestial R B achievement that the second best place to experience it, after a black church, is the nearest planetarium. So much of the experience listening to music gospel and otherwise is feeling it, catching the spirit. "Amazing Grace" is a church full of people's spirits getting caught, over and over by Aretha. A movie exists of these two days. Why no one's seen it is a long story, mainly involving Franklin's own wishes. But the audio experience has always been cinema enough. How do you hear people going crazy as she unfurls the song "Amazing Grace" and not assume that she's levitating, that she's levitating them. The whoops and hollers are as crucial to the glory of this album as Franklin, the choir and the band. She is but the centerpiece around which a lively stained glass scene is built the stirrer and the stirred. Franklin alone with a piano would have sufficed. But she swings for a more radical gospel music that weds emotional might to musical muscle. Her going for the max maxes you out. This is what virtuosity should do leave you knock kneed, perform the unthinkable. Maybe Mary shouldn't weep. But you and I are a different story.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead. POETRY AND PARTITION: THE FILMS OF RITWIK GHATAK at Film at Lincoln Center (Nov. 1 6). Although the movies of the Indian director Satyajit Ray ("Pather Panchali") are part of the global cinephile canon, the eight films of his contemporary Ghatak whom Ray felt was underrecognized are seldom screened here. A Bengali intellectual whose films addressed, in ways both personal and abstract, themes of poverty and identity in the wake of India's partition, Ghatak was gently experimental in his low angles and use of sound. His reputed masterpiece, "The Cloud Capped Star" (on Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday), tells the story of a family that abuses the generosity of one sister (Supriya Choudhury), who sacrifices her own happiness while her brother chases his dreams of musical stardom and a would be husband pursues his studies. Ghatak plays a version of himself in "Reason, Debate and a Tale" (on Saturday and Wednesday), released after his death. 212 875 5601, filmlinc.org 'SCOPE DOCS: THE WILD WORLD IN WIDESCREEN at the Museum of the Moving Image (Nov. 1 3). For anyone who associates documentaries with televisual blandness, the films here argue otherwise. The director Jason Kohn has selected nonfiction films that make expressive use of a wide screen aspect ratio, including his own debut feature, "Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)" (on Sunday), a daisy chain examination of class disparities and the economics of crime and corruption in Brazil. Kohn will introduce the screenings, which kick off on Friday with "Tokyo Olympiad," Kon Ichikawa's chronicle of the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, and continue the next day with rarely screened documentaries by Vittorio de Seta, who captured traditional pre industrial practices in Italy. 718 784 0077, movingimage.us	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
Reflecting diminishing fears over mad cow disease, Japan eased its decade old restriction on imports of American beef on Monday, but industry experts said beef producers faced many more challenges to reverse a prolonged slump that has pared the nation's herd to its lowest level in 60 years and sent prices soaring. A Japanese government council that oversees food and drug safety cleared a change in import regulations that would permit imports of meat from American cattle 30 months old or younger, rather than the current 20 months. The change is set to take effect on Friday for American beef processed after that date, and shipments could start arriving in Japan in mid February, according to the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Japan, the world's largest net importer of food, instituted the ban in 2003 after bovine spongiform encephalopathy, an illness more commonly known as mad cow disease, was found in a single cow in Washington State. Humans are thought to catch the disease's fatal human variant, Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, by eating meat, including the brain and spinal cord, from contaminated carcasses. Japan eased the ban in 2006 but only for meat from cattle 20 months or younger. Japanese officials argued that the incidence of the disease was higher in older animals. Aside from the reduction in exports, ranchers have also been grappling over the last half dozen years or so with rising feed prices as ethanol producers drove up the price of corn, and with drought that has parched grazing land and deprived their animals of water. The recession and changing consumer tastes contributed to the woes. While the industry has had boom and bust cycles lasting on average four to five years, the current decline is firmly entrenched. "Previous cycles of production and prices going back 100 years related to the particular workings of the beef industry and were usually self correcting," said Derrell Peel, professor of agricultural economics at Oklahoma State University. "But the current cycle is largely due to external factors and that is really why we are at this historic low." Cameron Bruett, the spokesman for one of the largest beef processors, JBS, welcomed Japan's decision, saying it would help increase business certainty and reduce complexity for the company's beef production, which operates in Brazil, Argentina, Canada and the United States. "While the declining herd remains a challenge for the industry, any time you increase access to additional consumers, that benefits the whole supply chain," Mr. Bruett said. JBS has eight processing facilities in the United States and Canada. While another major producer, Cargill, announced plans two weeks ago to close a plant in Texas, one of 10 it has in the United States, Mr. Bruett said JBS had no closure plans. Japan's decision will be a bright spot at the annual gathering next week in Tampa of what Chandler Keys, a beef industry consultant, calls "the hat and boots crowd," or the members of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. "It should be a shot in the arm to the market, which will be helpful," said Bob McCan, a rancher who will be named the association's president elect at that meeting. Mr. McCan and his family operate a ranch in Victoria, Tex., with more than 3,600 head of Braford cattle, down from 5,000 six years ago. "Everyone looks at the high price of beef and says we must be making money," he said. "But profitability is more difficult due to the drought that started in Texas, the biggest cattle producing state, almost five years ago and has since widened into the Midwest." That has raised the cost of production, as corn used in feed has become scarcer and animals have to rely on pumped water rather than waterholes. "The bottom line is that the beef production system we have used for the last 40 or 50 years depends heavily on the incentive of very cheap grain," Professor Peel said. "Now we don't have cheap grain, and we are seeing fundamentally higher production costs that I don't think are going to go away." Kevin Spacey was ordered to pay 31 million to the 'House of Cards' studio after sexual harassment allegations. Netflix buys a visual effects company in a move to support its global ambitions. The nation's beef cattle herd has dropped from a peak of 35.3 million head in 1996 to 29.9 million as of January 2012, said Professor Peel, who estimates that it will have dropped another 1.6 percent when the new figures are announced next week. Beef production has not dropped nearly as much, in large part because cattle today are bigger. While the slaughter of animals dropped 3.3 percent in 2012, total beef production was down only 1.1. percent because of heavier carcasses, he said. This year, he expects slaughter to drop by 5 percent. "We're going to take beef prices to levels we have never seen, and I don't know how that will play out," Professor Peel said. Japan was the largest market for American beef in 2003, when it restricted imports because of the cow in Washington State. That animal, now famous as "the cow who stole Christmas" because news of its infection broke right before the holidays, essentially shut down the United States export market, as some two dozen other countries followed Japan's lead. "In one fell swoop, the export market that Japan had helped establish was gone," said Mr. Keys, the beef industry consultant. But while other countries have long since eased or reversed their restrictions on American beef imports, Japan's decision to allow imports only of beef derived from cattle 20 months or younger created a hurdle that was difficult to overcome most cattle are slaughtered at 24 or 25 months and costly, because of the paperwork that had to accompany exports to Japan. From January to November, the United States shipped some 143,900 metric tons of beef valued at 969.8 million to Japan, compared with exports of 375,455 metric tons with a value of 1.4 billion in 2003, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation. The United States trade representative's office estimated that the changes Japan made to its import restrictions would amount to "hundreds of millions of dollars" more in exports. Cattle futures jumped 2 percent on Monday after Japan's decision was announced, recovering from a decline that followed Cargill's announcement of its Texas plant closure.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Global Business
News reports of Ireland's housing crisis play over the opening of "Rosie," but Paddy Breathnach's moving drama about a suddenly homeless family isn't interested in lecturing. Focusing relentlessly on its tireless title character (magnificently played by Sarah Greene), this modest, working class story distills the uncertainties of many into the challenges of a few. Unfolding in Dublin over a harrowing 36 hours, Roddy Doyle's urgent screenplay never asks for our sympathy as the fiercely proud Rosie, her loyal partner, John Paul (Moe Dunford), and their four children search for lodging after a landlord sells their longtime home. While John Paul works in an upscale kitchen, Rosie, armed with a housing list and credit card from the City Council, frantically searches for a room for the night. Finding an affordable permanent address will have to wait.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
The first patented invention made in space was a coffee cup. In November 2008, Donald Pettit wanted to drink his tea and coffee from an open vessel. While aboard the I.S.S., he tore out a plastic divider from his Flight Data File and used the magic of fluid dynamics to create an open cup. Until then, astronauts drank everything out of a plastic bag with a straw. We interact with coffee through aroma as much as through taste. In a bag, half of the experience was gone; Dr. Pettit said that he wanted to add "back the dimension of what it's like to be a human being." When Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman in space, went to the I.S.S., the Italian Space Agency in collaboration with Lavazza and Argotec, built a zero g espresso machine, the ISSpresso. To save her from drinking espresso in a bag, Mark Weislogel, an engineer at Portland State university, designed a true 'zero g cup' based on Dr. Pettit's invention.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Science
They faithfully adapted and paved new ground for the "Game of Thrones" universe. Why not give it a whirl with "Star Wars?" David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, executive producers of "Game of Thrones," will write and produce a series of new "Star Wars" movies, the Walt Disney Company said on Tuesday. There were no details about the number of movies or when they would be released. But Disney did say that the Benioff and Weiss films would be separate from the Luke Skywalker universe of movies and the trilogy that Rian Johnson, the writer and director of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," is working on. The deal amounts to a coup for each party. Disney gets two extremely in demand producers who have proved they can satisfy "Thrones" book loyalists along with drawing in millions of general viewers that made "Game of Thrones" the most popular show in HBO's history. And for Mr. Benioff and Mr. Weiss, the "Star Wars" assignment could prove to be more welcoming than their planned HBO project announced last summer. The news that the two star producers would work on "Confederate," a fictionalized drama that imagines the South won the Civil War and slavery remains intact in today's America, was met with an immediate backlash.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
Not counting dachshunds, cameramen and the dearly departed, about 70 souls gathered at Susan Numeroff's house in Manhattan on June 23 for the Jewish wedding of Koshin Paley Ellison and Robert Chodo Campbell. Ms. Numeroff's dogs and the members of the film crews (they were documentarians, not wedding videographers more on that later) roamed the home's grand gallery, where an altar had been set up. There, a veil draped bodhisattva statue stood at attention. Mr. Paley Ellison and Mr. Campbell, who goes by Chodo, are Zen Buddhist monks and the founders of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. At the nonprofit center they began in 2007 in Chelsea, a few blocks from Ms. Numeroff's house, they teach people to care for the ill and dying using practices such as meditation. "At 3 a.m., I was awakened by Mimi," said Mr. Paley Ellison's father, Richard Ellison, referring to his own mother, who died at age 87 on June 23, 2002, exactly 15 years before the wedding. Mimi's spirit, he said, was with them all at that moment. "Her death day was the beginning for Koshin and Chodo," he said. "I feel her warmth and her great joyous smile, so happy for this day." Mr. Paley Ellison, a native of Syracuse living in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at the time, had been his grandmother Mimi's primary caregiver for six years, bringing her to doctor's appointments, holding her hand on ambulance rides to the hospital, and eventually, in 2002, moving her into the hospice unit at Beth Israel Medical Center, where Mr. Campbell was a volunteer. For Mr. Paley Ellison, 47, getting to know Mr. Campbell at the hospice center that year led to a till death do us part love affair. For Mr. Campbell, the love story began six years earlier. "Twenty two years ago, we saw each other across the room, and I knew that my whole life had changed," said Mr. Campbell, a former art director who began practicing Soto Zen Buddhism in 1990. "It was one of those moments where I thought, 'Oh my goodness.'" Mr. Campbell, who turned 64 on the couple's official wedding day, was then living in Sag Harbor, N.Y. He was in Manhattan for the day and stopped to meditate at a Zen center, the Village Zendo, where Mr. Paley Ellison, a Buddhist since college, was also meditating. Neither man forgot the other, though they didn't see each other again until they met at the same Zen center in 2002. Mr. Campbell suggested that Mr. Paley Ellison bring Mimi to Beth Israel's hospice. He also asked Mr. Paley Ellison to join him for coffee. They ended up on a bench at Father Demo Square in the West Village. "He seduced me with his big smile and his shiny eyes," Mr. Campbell said. But after some getting to know you banter, it became clear to both that the connection ran deeper. Mr. Paley Ellison asked Mr. Campbell the most recent book he had read, for example, and out came the answer "Street Zen: The Life and Work of Issan Dorsey," by David Schneider. Mr. Campbell had just read the same book, about a man's journey from drug addiction to creating the first Zen hospice house. "Can you imagine meeting someone for the first time and being excited by talk about death and dying?" said Mr. Campbell, a bearded, magnetic and lighthearted person with a slight British accent. He grew up in Birmingham, England, then traveled the world, eventually settling in New York in the mid 1980s for work. "One of the things we talked about on that bench is how important it is to take care of people in your life and in your community," said Mr. Paley Ellison. Both had recently ended relationships with other people and were contentedly single, preparing to ordain as Soto Zen Buddhist monks. Mr. Paley Ellison was ordained in 2002, Mr. Campbell in 2005. "It" being "Let's get married." They had only just started dating. "We were at a street fair on the Upper West Side, walking along Amsterdam Avenue," Mr. Campbell said. "I stopped in a store and bought two silver bands, and then I came out and said to Koshin: 'I have a question for you. Will you marry me?'" Mr. Paley Ellison cried happy tears. Gay marriage wasn't legal at the time. But Mr. Paley Ellison, despite his initial cautiousness, was already thinking long term, too. "It sounds sappy, but we knew from that first date we were destined to be together," Mr. Paley Ellison said. A month after the street fair, he rented a U Haul truck and moved from Brooklyn into Mr. Campbell's Upper West Side apartment, where the couple still lives. Mimi gave her blessings before she died a few months later. "I had a little time with her at the bedside," Mr. Campbell said. "She said: 'Make me a promise. You have to take care of my baby.' I said, 'Of course.'" She also planted a seed that would become the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care when she told Mr. Paley Ellison that he and Mr. Campbell should start a nonprofit, where they could teach others how to care for people the way they had cared for her. "That's the amazing thing, that she gave us the idea," Mr. Paley Ellison said. It took some years, and a party, to set it all in motion. Rabbi Lau Lavie broke with the Rabbinical Assembly when he agreed to marry a Jew (Mr. Paley Ellison) and a non Jew (Mr. Campbell). He said that he thought carefully before agreeing to marry the men, who wore robes and skullcaps, stood under a huppah and performed the ceremonial breaking of glass once they were legally married. Ultimately, it was Mr. Campbell's commitment to embracing Judaism after marriage that won over the rabbi. The designer Donna Karan, who got to know the couple through her work as the founder of Urban Zen Integrative Therapy, was among the guests. So was Shelley Rubin, a founder of the Rubin Museum of Art. "I've said to friends, 'When I'm dying, will you call them first?'" Ms. Rubin said. "I'm willing to bet that more than half the people in this room have said the same thing."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
GEORGE R. BROADHEAD, a retired newspaper executive and Marine Corps veteran, has lived in Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, Calif., and Greenwich, Conn., among many other places. The place he is choosing to spend his retirement, though, is the place where he grew up: Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. That doesn't mean Mr. Broadhead, who is the president of the Gerritsen Beach Property Owners Association, is trying to make the place sound too charming. "Whenever I run a meeting," he said, "there are a couple of people who always shout out, during some point in the meeting, 'We don't want people to know about Gerritsen Beach!' " In truth, even among people who know and love this secluded neighborhood on Brooklyn's southern shore, it is not without its issues. Residents do prize its quiet and off the grid seclusion, a result of geography it is on a peninsula east of Sheepshead Bay, flanked by Shell Bank Creek, Plumb Beach Channel and Marine Park. On the other hand, streets are narrow and prone to flooding in bad weather; access to the rest of the city is difficult; and houses, many of them former seasonal bungalows, are squeezed in cheek by jowl. Then there is the creek. "It's dirty, it's smelly, it needs a lot of work," said Theresa Scavo, the chairwoman of Community Board 15, which represents the area. "Years of neglect." But none of that is enough, Ms. Scavo hastened to add, to drive the neighborhood's longtime partisans away. "Are you kidding?" she said. "They would never live anywhere else." The allure, residents and real estate agents said, lies in living among friends and multigenerational families, with a private beach, easy access to boating and parkland, and the security of knowing one's neighbors. "The majority of people looking to buy in the Beach are actually from the Beach," said Janet Graves, an agent at Tracey Real Estate and a third generation neighborhood resident. She also said there was a pool of buyers among those who "have relatives here." Doreen Garson, the owner of Doreen Greenwood Real Estate and another lifelong resident, says outsiders don't usually pass through the neighborhood, because there is access only at one end and because its retail strip, on Gerritsen Avenue, is understated. In cases when a person stumbles on the area and expresses an interest, she said, "I'll tell them: 'You have to like kids and dogs. It's a family oriented neighborhood and it's very quaint.' Some people like to be where all the action is. This is not the area for them." Residents say the area's property values remained relatively steady during the recent years' real estate downturn. Many buyers, Ms. Graves said, are second generation residents who buy their parents' or a neighbor's house and are willing to spend money to make improvements. The insularity may indeed be daunting for outsiders, but if you're an insider there's a high level of comfort. It is evident in the way residents lay unofficial claim to the parking spaces in front of their houses, or the way drivers, unable to fit down narrow two way streets, will pull off to the side, let a neighbor pass, and then wave. Mr. Broadhead, who has fond memories of barefoot summers growing up in the neighborhood, remembers when, half a century ago, streets were unpaved and the adjacent parkland held stables and a tomato farm. He is not alone. "Down here, they would say you're new to the neighborhood if you lived here 30 years," he said. Hipsterization, he added, is unlikely: "I can't imagine anyone who would rather live in the Village or Park Slope or anywhere else deciding, 'Oh, I'd rather live in Gerritsen Beach.' " That is fine with most residents, he said, adding, "I say, let 'em think it's a shantytown." Gerritsen Avenue, which runs along the eastern edge of the 0.25 square mile neighborhood, has a pizza place, a bagel store, a couple of bars, a public library and a few churches. There are also some attached houses, and a one story office building that is being expanded, with two new stories of condominiums on top. The work is a matter of some local controversy, Mr. Broadhead said. There is a general resistance to any new construction that isn't strictly low rise. Most of the 5,200 or so residents (about 95 percent are white) live west of Gerritsen, in two grids of streets divided by a canal. Many streets are one way, and all eventually dead end into the water. Even most two way streets are narrow enough that cars can park only on one side. Ms. Scavo says the streetscape breeds neighborly familiarity. "It's very, very tight," she said. "It's not like you're going to have a neighbor and you're not going to bump into the guy." Roads are in need of repair, she said, but there is not enough government money available do all the work. But Ms. Garson, who is also assistant chief of the neighborhood's volunteer fire department, said that flooding, while severe during large generational storms, is also relatively rare. "Most people love the water, love to live on the water," she said, "but every once in a while, something happens." Lots in the neighborhood are relatively compact mostly 40 by 45 feet in the older section, south of the canal, and 34 by 52 feet in the newer section to the north, Ms. Garson said, adding that waterfront lots measure 24 by 70 feet. But some residents have built bigger houses, she added, by combining two or as many as four lots, as a means of including yards, garages or driveways. One of her sons, Ms. Garson said, bought a small bungalow in 2004 for about 250,000 and raised it up, adding in a basement, then building a second floor on top a few years later. It is now worth closer to 500,000, she said. She estimates that the neighborhood has about 1,700 houses, and that 40 to 50 are on the market more than usual, in a lingering effect of the downturn. Sale prices climb to 600,000 or higher for houses on the water, or on double lots, especially the rebuilt ones. Ms. Graves said rental rates typically for apartments within detached houses run 1,000 a month or so for one bedrooms, and 1,400 or 1,500 a month for two bedrooms. Kiddie Beach, at the end of Lois Avenue by the southern tip, is owned by the property owners' association, and accessible to owners or renters who are members. There is also a small beach, ringed with grass, at the end of Gerritsen Avenue on the edge of Marine Park. The spot has become popular with fishers and personal watercrafters. The latter, Mr. Broadhead said, have become a concern for residents. Marine Park also has sports fields, bocce courts and a golf course. The Gerritsen Beach Fire Department was founded in 1922, originally because the area was too far away from the nearest city fire departments. It is believed to be among the last volunteer departments in Brooklyn. Elementary age students attend Public School 277, on Gerritsen Avenue, which received a C on its most recent city report card. On state tests in 2011, 73.7 percent of students scored at or above grade level in English, while 83.4 percent were proficient in math.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
Without thinking much about "Dead To Me," I ate it all up quickly during this quarantine time. I love it so much. It's short, zippy, interesting and twisty without ever being complicated. Is there anything else in this vein that you can recommend? Something that grabs your attention, but is light enough not to add stress to this already stressful time? Priya This won't work for the squeamish, but if you can handle gore, "Santa Clarita Diet"(on Netflix) fits the bill. It has a bright viciousness to its humor, and a similar snowballing momentum and ironic doom except it's also a zombie show. Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant play a married couple, Sheila and Joel, and Sheila's big secret is that she is a zombie who eats human flesh. It can be quite gross, especially early on, but it's also funny and satirical. It's only three seasons, which is a bummer because it's good, but also a relief because sometimes starting a long show feels like moving in together on the first date. (I'll warn you that the first few episodes are a bit disjointed, but things pick up a lot in Episode 4.) For something with more of that addictive tang, watch "You," a juicy drama about a stalker with a serious violent streak but the show still feels more frothy than genuinely upsetting. "Light" is not quite right, but there's no lingering sadness or spiritual hangover. Season 1 is set in New York, and Season 2 is set in L.A., where I swear it could comfortably cross over with "Dead To Me." The show that is most like "Dead To Me," though, is "Weeds," which starts out strong and then wanes. But if you think you'll have the discipline to get show divorced after Season 4, go for it. What to watch after "Normal People"? It took me almost three weeks to get over this series and slowly go back to a life without Connell and Marianne in it. Emanuela If you want more of that crazy in love with a person unable to express themselves vibe, watch "Felicity," a '90s WB drama about a college student (Keri Russell) and her friends and suitors, especially Noel (Scott Foley) and Ben (Scott Speedman). Connell is a total Ben. They're both about 30 percent sighs, and loving them has this baked in self sabotage for our heroines, who resent how compelling they find these guys. "Felicity" doesn't have the steamy sex or same sense of atmosphere, but both Felicity and Marianne have that artsy impatience of people who spent a lot of time reading alone as children. There are 84 episodes, 8,000 chunky sweaters and millions of furtive glances (on ABC.com). If you want another Irish show but want a step back from just romance, try "Can't Cope, Won't Cope," a two season show available on Netflix about two codependent best friends trying to make their way in Dublin. It's a lot noisier and busier than "Normal People," but its characters have a similar "do I need to 'escape' to grow up, or is my desire to escape a sign of immaturity that I should overcome?" ambivalence. Finally, I wound up bingeing "Normal People" (on Hulu) and "Never Have I Ever" (on Netflix) in the same weekend just because of scheduling, and weirdly, they go great together. "Never," Mindy Kaling's high school set coming of age dramedy, asks some of the same questions "Normal People" asks, but in a totally different, poppier way: How does it feel to become who you are? How do people experience their own sexuality? What should you do if someone hurts you, and who taught you that? "Never" is much brighter and funnier with some well earned weepy moments but it felt good to stay in a nostalgic, "ah, youth" emotional space, just less raw. After finishing "Fauda," "False Flag" and "The Bureau," each of which I thought was terrific, I am looking for my next foreign spy thriller. Any suggestions? Peter Because you like "Fauda" and "False Flag," your first stop should be Hulu's "Prisoners of War" ("Hatufim"), the Israeli series on which "Homeland" was loosely based. Two soldiers return to Israel after 17 years as hostages, but what should be a joyous reunion is also tainted by suspicion and violence. For something with more visual flair, there are two recent mini series adapted from novels by John le Carre that fit the bill: "The Night Manager," starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, and "Little Drummer Girl," starring Florence Pugh and Michael Shannon. Each follows a new recruit a former soldier, a young actress who gets sucked in to a world of international espionage, and glamorous, dangerous globe trotting ensues. (Both shows aired on AMC; "Night" is streaming on Amazon, and "Drummer" is on Sundance Now.) There's "The Heavy Water War," a Norwegian series set during World War II and based on real events (available on Amazon Prime). It's a little less of the heart pounding tension and little more of the search for morality. After all that, you might want a foreign spy comedy, in which case, try Netflix's "A Very Secret Service," a French series set in the 1960s that has a sort of "Archer" y vibe. I am intrigued by survival content. I loved "All is Lost" the first time I saw it years ago and recently watched it twice. "Life of Pi" and "Arctic" were also hits. I devoured all the seasons of "Alone," and I am even willing to go a bit off course, and let a few interlopers in, as when I enjoyed "The Terror" mini series, and Shackleton documentaries. So what could be next? Abby One of my favorites, and among my most recommended shows, is "The Last Alaskans," a documentary series on the Discovery Channel about the few people still allowed to live in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. While it's not strict solo survivalism, it's close, and the stunning cinematography is unmatched in unscripted television. Less poetic but much jazzier is "Naked and Afraid," (on Hulu and Discovery Channel) in which people are, yep, naked and afraid and in the harsh wilderness. Episode quality varies substantially, so feel free to bail on a boring one. I think your best bet is going to be YouTube, though. "Primitive Technology" is probably the biggie in the genre, and it's fascinating, if often well beyond what most of us will ever be capable of. I'm also obsessed with through hiking videos (especially these) people hiking the whole Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail or the Continental Divide Trail and wilderness bushcraft expeditions (especially these). Whatever you lose in editing and narrative you gain in authenticity and volume. The way of the internet! Send in your questions to watching nytimes.com. Questions are edited for length and clarity.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
Washington and the N.F.L. Might Change the Redskins Name. Why Now? By the time they take the field this fall that's assuming there is a season given the coronavirus pandemic the National Football League team in Washington, D.C., might have a new nickname. "In light of recent events around our country and feedback from our community, the Washington Redskins are announcing the team will undergo a thorough review of the team's name," the team said in a statement Friday morning. The brief statement, which itself included the word "redskins" seven times, also said the team had been discussing its name with the N.F.L. for weeks. On Friday, Goodell indicated the league has been discussing a change with Washington. "In the last few weeks we have had ongoing discussions with Dan and we are supportive of this important step," he said in a statement. According to a league spokesman, changing the name does not require a vote by the league's owners, and ultimately the decision is up to Snyder. In the past, he had the support of Goodell, not to mention team and league sponsors that collectively pay billions annually, in rejecting calls for change. This time, however, Snyder might find his position more lonely. Already, the team has shifted itself in how it celebrates a racist past. Last month, Washington said it would remove the name of George Preston Marshall from the team's Ring of Fame and its history wall, and a statue of him was removed from outside RFK Stadium, where the team used to play in Washington. Marshall founded the team and moved them to Washington in the 1930s, and was the last N.F.L. owner to integrate his team. When the team changed its name in 1933 from the Braves, Marshall told team members to wear face paint and the coach to wear feathers on the sideline. He also had an Indian head logo printed across player uniforms and used a halftime band that wore tribal regalia. Still, there was little indication that the team's consideration of its name could follow closely behind its distancing from Marshall. As recently as Monday, Ron Rivera, the team's new coach, said during a radio interview that talking about the team's name was "a discussion for another time" and that he was "just somebody that's from a different era when football wasn't such a big part of the political scene." On Friday, he was quoted in Washington's statement saying "this issue is of personal importance to me." What has changed in the past four days? Perhaps the cost of keeping the name, as sponsors began to speak up. In a short but pointed statement Thursday that did not use the team's name, the shipping company FedEx said it had asked for the name to be changed. "We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name," FedEx said in a statement. FedEx isn't just any old sponsor of the team. For the last two decades Washington has played its home games at FedEx Field, in a Maryland suburb outside of the District of Columbia. FedEx agreed to pay 205 million in the naming rights deal in 1999. Frederick W. Smith, the chairman and chief executive of FedEx, is also a minority owner of the team. The team's lease for FedEx Field runs through 2027, but in recent years it has begun the process of searching for a new stadium, canvassing sites in Maryland, Virginia and Washington. The Washington Post has reported that a stadium in Washington is Snyder's preference, but this week local elected officials said that a return to the district is off the table unless the team's name changed. The team's merchandise also disappeared from Nike's online store Thursday. Reached Friday, a Nike spokesman declined to say why. Other team sponsors have been publicly silent about the name for years, but after the announcement Friday they were quick to laud the team's apparent change of heart. Pepsi said they had been speaking with the team and the N.F.L. "for a few weeks about this issue," while Bank of America said they have "encouraged the team to change the name." There was no timeline given for when Washington would make a decision on its name, only that it would come after input from "our alumni, the organization, sponsors, the National Football League and the local community." Native Americans, and Native American activists like Suzan Shown Harjo who has spent decades pushing teams and schools to change American Indian names and mascots, were not mentioned as those whose perspectives would be considered.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
The holiday season in New York is one of the most vibrant and picturesque times to visit but also its busiest and most expensive period the city has more than five million tourists between Thanksgiving and the New Year, according to NYC Company, the city's official destination marketing organization. And hotel rates are at their peak: According to the Hotel Association of New York City, which represents 300 hotels or about 95,000 hotel rooms, the average nightly rate for a hotel in the city is upward of 350 during the first two weekends of December and from Dec. 27 through Jan. 1. But a holiday season vacation to New York City, while still an indulgence, doesn't have to involve paying top dollar. Most travelers are unaware that they can get a break for a few days hotel rates in town between Dec. 23 and 27 drop to an average of 250 a night (that includes more than 100 budget hotels where nightly rates are under 200), making it more affordable to soak up the city's holiday spirit and attractions like the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. "It's been a long kept secret that if you're willing to be in the city for Christmas, you'll find fewer crowds and lower hotel prices," said the hotel association's chairman, Vijay Dandapani. The temporary dip, he said, is because business travel is at a lull, and tourists generally prefer to celebrate Christmas at home or travel to visit family for the holiday.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
Remember last year, when Oscar experts were certain that "La La Land" was the slam dunk best picture winner, and when they were proven right, until that envelope snafu proved that they had been very wrong? That should serve as a cautionary tale when it comes to heeding forecasts for best picture winners. This year, experts see a tossup between "The Shape of Water," which has the most nominations and has won important precursor awards, and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," which also won bellwether awards. It will probably be a squeaker though by how much, we will almost certainly never know, because the academy does not release vote tallies. "Three Billboards" was controversial and paints a less than flattering portrait of America. But it stars the mighty Frances McDormand, who plays a warrior mother custom made for MeToo, and is helped by superb supporting performances. "The Shape of Water" is elegant, dreamy, a fairy tale and parable from Guillermo del Toro about tolerance, cruelty and human piscine sex; it also pays homage to cinema, which academy members tend to reward. But it did not get much love at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, while "Three Billboards" did, and actors make up the academy's biggest voting bloc. On the other hand, "Shape" was far less divisive, and, unlike "Three Billboards," landed a directing nomination. There is an outside chance that a big audience favorite, "Get Out" will win; though with just four Oscar nominations, it's a long shot. Tossing a coin. The prediction here is "Shape of Water." One of the most common questions put to Frances McDormand's co stars from "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" is whether they were intimidated working with her. (Sam Rockwell said no; Caleb Landry Jones said yes.) As Mildred, a mother whose grief over her daughter's unsolved murder hardens into vengeance and rage, Ms. McDormand is fearsome and unrelenting, and as mighty a woman as anyone could hope for in the age of MeToo. In a different year, any one of Ms. McDormand's fellow nominees Sally Hawkins, Margot Robbie, Saoirse Ronan or Meryl Streep might have given her more of a run for her money, but this season it's a 60 year old woman unwilling to suffer fools who perfectly meets the moment. An actor's actor, Gary Oldman, 59, is known for his versatility and wholesale, sometimes hammy, immersion into roles that have included Dracula, Beethoven, Sid Vicious, George Smiley, the devil, Lee Harvey Oswald, Rosencrantz and Commissioner Gordon. Mr. Oldman earned his first Academy Award nomination in 2012 for "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," but it is his portrayal of Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour" that will almost certainly land him the win. The crucial ingredients are there: he plays a historical figure (with the help of prosthetics and heavy makeup), he has won key precursor awards, and he is up against two whippersnappers (Timothee Chalamet and Daniel Kaluuya) who have careers ahead of them, and two veterans (Daniel Day Lewis and Denzel Washington) who each have already won multiple times. While fans of Guillermo del Toro do not roundly consider the merman gothic fairy tale "The Shape of Water" his best picture many rank it behind "The Devil's Backbone" and "Pan's Labyrinth" all the momentum is there to secure him the win. "Shape" leads the Oscars race with 13 nominations, and Martin McDonagh, the director of its biggest competitor for best picture, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," did not manage to get a directing nomination. Mr. del Toro is widely respected and deeply liked, and buoyed by a "his time is now" narrative, along with wins at the Golden Globes, the Directors Guild of America Awards and the Baftas. If he nabs gold, it will be the fourth time in five years that a Mexican director has walked away with this prize. Up until the Oscar nominations, prognosticators had their chips on the documentary "Jane," about the primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall. Instead, the academy voted for less sunny films that delved into endemic racism ("Strong Island"), civilian rescuers and medics in the Syrian war ("Last Men in Aleppo"), Russian doping ("Icarus") and alleged bank fraud ("Abacus: Small Enough to Jail"). Out of the bunch, "Faces Places" stands out for its quirkiness and light, teaming the 35 year old French artist JR, who slathers outsize photos of everyday folks across favelas, water towers and buildings worldwide, with Agnes Varda, now 89, the filmmaker nicknamed the grandmother of the French new wave. The result is an idiosyncratic, bittersweet and tender film that is the favorite to win. Of all the films nominated for Oscars this year, "Get Out" almost certainly had the most impact, with its unapologetic message (white liberals are racist too), box office success ( 255 million worldwide on a 4.5 million budget), and four Oscar nominations, including best picture, actor and director, a stunning haul for an edgy comedy horror picture. The film is a long shot for best picture, and is outmatched in the director and actor categories, but academy members wanting to make sure it wins something will probably reward its writer director, Jordan Peele, with best screenplay. "Lady Bird" or "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" could also prevail, but having won best screenplay at the Writers Guild of America Awards, "Get Out" has the edge. Even if James Ivory had not won this year's Writers Guild Award for adapting Andre Aciman's gay coming of age novel into the Oscar nominated "Call Me by Your Name," he would still have been the sentimental favorite here. As one half of the powerhouse filmmaking team Merchant Ivory, Mr. Ivory brought glorious period pieces like "A Room With a View," "Howards End" and "The Remains of the Day" to the screen. This category is unusual this year; it includes the superhero film "Logan." But Mr. Ivory, who is 89 and has been nominated for an Academy Award three times before, is expected to clinch it. It is really, really, really hard to beat Pixar. The powerhouse production company has won nine Oscars in the last 10 years, six of them for animated features, including "Wall E," "Up" and "Inside Out." Their visuals are gasp inducing, their story lines reduce adults to tears. "Coco," about a Mexican boy on a quest tied to the Day of the Dead holiday, proves no exception, while also giving props to Mexico, a country much maligned these days in the United States. This typically wide ranging category includes "The Breadwinner," which is from the small Irish outfit the Cartoon Saloon and which counts Angelina Jolie among its executive producers; and "The Boss Baby," starring Alec Baldwin. But "Coco" will probably triumph. There is a cadre of movie lovers who believe that Daniela Vega, the star of "A Fantastic Woman," Chile's entry, should have landed a nomination for her performance as a trans nightclub singer and waitress, Marina, whose life is upended when her older boyfriend suddenly dies. Ms. Vega, a classically trained opera singer, played Marina with a quiet fortitude and grace that rise above the vituperation and cruel stereotyping heaped on her by her boyfriend's family and local officials. A favorite in this category, the film can already claim a win: Ms. Vega is scheduled to present an Oscar at the ceremony, which will make her the first openly transgender person to do so.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
BERLIN David Zwirner, whose namesake art gallery is one of the world's largest, said he was prepared to pay more for space rental at art fairs if the extra money could help smaller galleries take part as well. Speaking at the New York Times Art Leaders Network in Berlin, Mr. Zwirner got verbal support for his proposal from other conference participants, including Marc Glimcher, president of the Pace Gallery, and Elizabeth Dee, founder and chief executive of the Independent Art Fair in New York and Brussels. "I do feel that something is wrong with the current system," Mr. Zwirner said on Wednesday, the first day of the conference. "It's not good that a few galleries are getting more and more market share and the younger galleries are having a harder time to compete." In the last few years, small and midsize art galleries have been finding themselves crushed at home by soaring rents and unable to pay astronomical fees demanded by art fairs to sell their work where collectors shop. Mr. Zwirner said larger galleries should help smaller ones challenged by the costs and conditions of admission to the fairs. "I wouldn't have any problem if we would pay a little more, we the larger galleries, so that some younger galleries are supported and can show their work in the fair," Mr. Zwirner said, though he admitted that he'd "lost track" of what a stand cost nowadays. He added that the proposal "would have to be an initiative that the art fairs start." It was, he explained, "a little bit like a tax: you make a little more money, and you get taxed a little bit." He asked Mr. Glimcher, who was in the audience, whether he agreed, and Mr. Glimcher shouted back: "Let's do it." In a panel discussion on Thursday, the proposal was also embraced by Ms. Dee. She said that if 10 percent of the galleries in the Independent Art Fair meaning five or six of them were each asked to pay an extra 10,000 for their stand on top of a rental cost that typically runs in the tens of thousands, it would be "a drop in the bucket" for them. That money, distributed "from the smallest stand up," would translate into 12.5 to 14 percent discounts on about 40 percent of the stands, she added. "We are very happy to do it," she said. "We have been talking about this for a long time with the galleries." The global director of Art Basel, Marc Spiegler, who was on the same panel, said, "In principle, it's great," so long as the stands were paid for and the fair made a profit. "But the question is how many galleries at the top of the market are willing to subsidize the rest of the fair." "We have no issue with the idea of trying to work more closely in terms of helping the younger galleries at the fair," he said, "but the way to do that, the algorithm for figuring out how to do this, is difficult to reach." It was, he added, a question of "how much and how many of the dealers at the top of the game" were willing to participate.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
SALOME on BroadwayHD. If Al Pacino looks comfortable as King Herod, it's because he's quite familiar with the role: He has played the character several times, including on Broadway in 1992. He both directs and stars in this production, which was filmed in 2006. A pre stardom Jessica Chastain plays the title character and is more than up to the challenge of facing off against Mr. Pacino, demanding the head of John the Baptist from the lustful Herod in exchange for a dance. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (2007) on Netflix. According to many critics, the best Jason Bourne movie is this third installment starring Matt Damon; it arrived on Netflix this week. The film follows Bourne as he races down the London Underground, up Tangier rooftops and through New York City streets in search of information about his past. Of course, there are assassins hunting him with every step. Paul Greengrass directed the high wire action. "There's no one in Hollywood right now who does action better, who keeps the pace going so relentlessly, without mercy or letup, scene after hard rocking scene," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review in The New York Times. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974) on Amazon Prime. Last year's adaptation of this Agatha Christie novel received mixed reviews in part for not measuring up to Sidney Lumet's version from 40 years earlier. His film received six Oscar nominations, with Ingrid Bergman winning best supporting actress for her turn as the Swedish missionary Greta Ohlsson. The suspenseful murder mystery races through the European countryside in full period splendor of the 1930s, and also features Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Vanessa Redgrave and Jacqueline Bisset. THE BIG BANG THEORY 8 p.m. on CBS. Like Maris from "Frasier" or the Little Red Haired Girl in "Peanuts," Sheldon's older brother George has been the topic of many a conversation on "The Big Bang Theory" but has never been seen. That will change in this episode, in which Sheldon's mother tells him that she won't attend his wedding to Amy unless he invites his brother (played by Jerry O'Connell). So Sheldon schleps down to Texas in hopes of burying the hatchet. There's a good chance that a younger George will appear in YOUNG SHELDON, which follows at 8:30. GOTHAM 8 p.m. on Fox. Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) tries to chase down the culprit responsible for the chaos at the Gotham City Police Department. A friend of Bruce Wayne's (David Mazouz) becomes paranoid and destructive. MARCIA CLARK INVESTIGATES THE FIRST 48 9 p.m. on A E. Ms. Clark looks into the death of Jam Master Jay, the D.J. of Run D.M.C. who was shot and killed in 2002 in a recording studio in Jamaica, Queens. The death remains unsolved.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
On Monday, The New York Review of Books named Gabriel Winslow Yost and Emily Greenhouse as the magazine's co lead editors. The New York Review of Books has installed two editors to lead the magazine after being without a top editor since the sudden departure of Ian Buruma in September. Rea Hederman, the publisher of the intellectual journal, announced Monday that Emily Greenhouse, 32, and Gabriel Winslow Yost, 33, have been named co editors, and that Daniel Mendelsohn, a longtime contributor to the Review, will assume the newly created role of editor at large. The shared power arrangement echoes the history of the magazine, which was founded in 1963 by Robert Silvers and Barbara Epstein and edited by the pair until Epstein's death in 2006. Silvers then maintained control of the publication with monomaniacal focus, by all accounts until his death, at 87, in 2017. The announcement of the new editors comes more than five months after Buruma, Silvers's successor, left his position amid an uproar over the publication and ensuing defense of an essay about the MeToo movement by Jian Ghomeshi, a Canadian radio broadcaster who had been accused of sexually assaulting women. Soon after Buruma departed, the magazine issued a statement acknowledging "failures in the presentation and editing" of the essay. Greenhouse and Winslow Yost both have experience at the storied publication they will now lead. Greenhouse was most recently the managing editor of The New Yorker. She worked at the Review in 2011 and 2012, as an editorial assistant to Silvers. Winslow Yost began working at the Review, also as an editorial assistant to Silvers, in 2009, and moved up the editorial ranks to become a senior editor. Given the fallout over the Ghomeshi essay and the widely noted gender imbalance among the magazine's contributors, there was speculation that a woman would succeed Buruma. In 2017, women wrote about 23 percent of the pieces published in the Review, according to the nonprofit organization VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Greenhouse (whose father, Steven Greenhouse, was a longtime reporter for The New York Times) said that addressing the reality reflected in the VIDA count will be part of her mission. Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. None Learn what you should be reading this fall: Our collection of reviews on books coming out this season includes biographies, novels, memoirs and more. See what's new in October: Among this month's new titles are novels by Jonathan Franzen, a history of Black cinema and a biography by Katie Couric. Nominate a book: The New York Times Book Review has just turned 125. That got us wondering: What is the best book that was published during that time? Listen to our podcast: Featuring conversations with leading figures in the literary world, from Colson Whitehead to Leila Slimani, the Book Review Podcast helps you delve deeper into your favorite books. "I consider that a great priority, and that's been a focus for me as a young woman," she said. "I think it's extremely important not only for the counts, but to represent the world more fully and more exactly." But Greenhouse also emphasized that this was "no wrecking ball moment," and that she envisioned the job as "a combination of stewardship and continuity and reinvigorating something." Hederman said he began the search for Buruma's replacement intent on naming two editors, rather than one, but with no set idea about gender. "It could have ended up with two women, it could have been two men," he said. "We ended up with the best candidates." Silvers and Epstein founded and built the magazine organically, making their chemistry a difficult thing to recreate. But Greenhouse and Winslow Yost believe that their own longtime friendship, and most importantly the time they spent working together for Silvers, will help them share power. Daniel Mendelsohn, a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, will assume the newly created role of editor at large. "Working as an assistant at the Review is a tag in, tag out experience, and you necessarily establish a trust," Greenhouse said. "Gabe and I met eight years ago now, maybe longer, and we have a real trust in our relationship." In separate interviews, both editors said they don't expect to divide the workload into distinct subject areas, aside from a few exceptions. "He knows more about physics than I do," Greenhouse said. "She speaks French, and I do not," Winslow Yost said. "But I would consider both of us generalists," Greenhouse said. "I think we will make decisions together." Greenhouse, who is expecting her first child next month, said the timing of the new job is "radically shocking" for her. "Some things will sort themselves into one half of the head or the other, as we go," Winslow Yost said. "But the idea is not to divide things into two camps, which is, as I understand, how Bob and Barbara did it. They had to agree on every piece that went in, even if it took weeks of hammering out." Hederman said that Mendelsohn, in his role, would be in the office perhaps one day a week ("maybe more, that's up to him"), and that his longtime relationship with Silvers, the Review and many of the magazine's contributors could only help the younger co editors as they begin their term. "It's been hard," Winslow Yost said of the time since Silvers's death. "The whole place was conceived around him; the way the physical space worked. All of that was based around the very idiosyncratic and not replicable way he worked. It's taken a while to learn how to function as a magazine without him there." He went on to say that "one person can't do it in the way it needs to be done," and that the past five months without a top editor have been "an incredible period of people sharing responsibility" and a model for how things will look going forward. Greenhouse said that some of the changes she envisions at the magazine are not radical but things that others, including The New Yorker, have done, like podcasts, newsletters, events and more outreach on college campuses. A news release announcing the new editors also mentioned that the first prizes of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation will be awarded at the end of 2019. These prizes ranging in value from 15,000 to 30,000 are designed to support writers working on "in depth political, social, economic and scientific commentary, long form arts and literary criticism and the intellectual essay."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
SUCCESSION 9 p.m. on HBO. "Time for a blood sacrifice." That's the ominous message Logan Roy, the Waystar Royco chief executive and family patriarch, left viewers with in the final minutes of Season 2's penultimate episode. Having testified before Congress following an explosive whistle blower allegation against his company, Logan , his family and his close associates head to the family's Mediterranean yacht to plot their next steps. But who will take the fall to preserve the company? Logan will have to weigh which one of his children or loyal cronies is expendable, even as some suggest that it's his head that may have to roll. WHY WE HATE 10 p.m. on Discovery. This new nonfiction series from the executive producers Alex Gibney and Steven Spielberg examines what drives human beings to hate. By looking at everyday examples of violent disagreements over sports, politics, race, religion and social beliefs both out loud and online along with mass atrocities like the Holocaust, the show works to unravel the science and the evolutionary basis behind destructive human behavior. It's tapped a team of experts, including scientists, an extremism expert and an international criminal lawyer. The filmmakers hope that by untangling this complex topic, people can better understand their own minds and work to keep hate from spreading.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
Michalis Sarris, the Cypriot finance minister who negotiated Cyprus's bailout agreement with international creditors, resigned on Tuesday, citing the beginning of a government inquiry into the collapse of the country's banking industry. President Nicos Anastasiades accepted the decision by Mr. Sarris to step down, and the government quickly appointed Harris Georgiades, the deputy finance minister, as his replacement. On the heels of Cyprus's 10 billion euro, or 13 billion, bailout announced last week, a political blame game has broken open in the halls of power. Mr. Sarris has faced strong criticism for his handling of the crisis and had been under pressure from some factions in the Cypriot Parliament to step down. He is also one of several people now facing an investigation by Cypriot officials over his role in the country's banking crisis. Before taking the helm as finance minister in the government that came to power in February, Mr. Sarris was chairman of the board of Laiki Bank, which effectively collapsed last week. Laiki is being merged into the Bank of Cyprus in a deal under which depositors will lose up to 60 percent of their savings in excess of 100,000 euros. Under his watch, a stint of eight months through August 2012 in which he tried to salvage Laiki, the bank suffered steep losses, mostly on a mountain of soured loans to Greek and Cypriot businesses and individuals. Cypriot banks also took a hit from their heavy holdings of Greek government bonds, which incurred big losses in the international bailout of Greece. On Tuesday, some of the curbs Cyprus imposed on removing money from banks were softened. The restrictions had particularly hurt businesses that were not permitted to make large payments on debts they owed in the past two weeks. The Finance Ministry lifted the ceiling on transactions between accounts and other banks to 25,000 euros from 5,000 euros. Other restrictions remain in place, including 300 euro daily withdrawal limits. Mr. Anastasiades on Tuesday appointed a three judge panel to look into how and why Cyprus edged close to a financial disaster that threatened to make it the first country to exit the euro. In a speech, he said the crisis arose from inept actions and omissions by people in charge of the banking sector and the economy. The most contentious decision in the first deal, which the Parliament rejected, would have imposed a 6.75 percent tax on bank deposits of less than 100,000 euros. Before it was abandoned, the plan was roundly criticized by economists in Europe and elsewhere as threatening the integrity of the deposit insurance system throughout the 17 country euro zone. Kevin Spacey was ordered to pay 31 million to the 'House of Cards' studio after sexual harassment allegations. Netflix buys a visual effects company in a move to support its global ambitions. It was agreed to by Mr. Anastasiades in consultation with Mr. Sarris, who presented the deal to the Cypriot public in a televised news conference from Brussels on March 16. After the Cypriot Parliament roundly rejected that plan, Mr. Sarris flew to Moscow to seek alternative sources of funding for Cyprus and its teetering banks. Those talks went nowhere. "Mr. Sarris's credibility was at near zero both nationally and with foreign lenders after he supported the first failed plan to tax depositors and then returned empty handed from Moscow," said Mujtaba Rahman, a senior analyst at the Eurasia Group. The main provisions of the bailout deal will remain in place, including the breakup of Laiki Bank and the overhaul of the Bank of Cyprus. But the Cypriot Parliament must still vote on a memorandum of understanding with the so called troika of international organizations the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund that agreed to the bailout. That memorandum, still being drafted, will outline the budget cuts and other conditions Cyprus will have to meet to receive its allotments of money. A parliamentary vote is expected in coming weeks. The governments of Germany and Finland, under their national rules on bailout loans, are also expected to seek the approval of their Parliaments. The memorandum will probably be the subject of heated debate in Nicosia. Many lawmakers, already unhappy with the tough capital controls that have been slapped on bank accounts for the better part of a month, are dismayed by what they see as harsh terms that will tip Cyprus's already enfeebled economy over the edge. But Mr. Sarris's resignation should "help the Cypriot government win approval for the bailout program in the Cypriot Parliament," said Mr. Rahman, the analyst. Michael Olympios, chairman of the Cyprus Investor Association, is among the many critics of the bailout deal because it wiped out the shareholders of Bank of Cyprus and will impose losses of up to 60 percent on depositors with more than 100,000 euros in their accounts. "The troika is pushing us from recession to depression," Mr. Olympios said, adding that the country may yet need to leave the euro zone. "It doesn't matter if Mr. Sarris leaves and someone new comes in. If you don't change the policies that are being imposed on us, then forget it."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Global Business
LOS ANGELES Zion Williamson was working up a sweat. Wearing a sleeveless hoodie and a padded brace, on his surgically repaired right knee, Williamson took dribble handoffs, pulled up for midrange jumpers and drove for dunks. As a small army of assistant coaches monitored Williamson's pregame workout at Staples Center on Friday, Lonzo Ball, one of his teammates on the New Orleans Pelicans, emerged from a courtside tunnel and sat on the visiting bench. Dozens of early arriving fans remained fixated on Williamson, capturing every dribble, every shot, every breath on their phones. Ball laced up his sneakers in relative obscurity, then joined Williamson on the court for some work of his own. Not long ago, Ball was the future star, a gifted guard out of U.C.L.A. with vision and length, a fresh face for the N.B.A. and for the Lakers, who selected him with the No. 2 pick in the 2017 draft. Three years later, at the crusty age of 22, far from the glare of Los Angeles, Ball is trying to assemble his game in a new city, with a new team. "My body feels good, and my confidence is where it's supposed to be," said Ball, who scored a team high 23 points on 10 of 16 shooting in the Pelicans' 123 113 loss to the Lakers, his first game against his former team. He was out sick when the Lakers played in New Orleans earlier this season. With the Pelicans, the spotlight on Ball is more of a mellow glow. He is playing big minutes in one of the league's smallest markets, and most of the public attention has been on Williamson, the top overall pick in last year's draft, even as Williamson continues to rehabilitate from the knee injury he sustained in the preseason. Ball is one of few people who can probably relate to the various pressures on Williamson, especially now that Williamson is facing some adversity of his own. Ball knows about adversity, about expectations and injuries, about critics and cynics. He has learned to cope. "I'm getting paid to play a game," he said. Ball could not stay healthy in his two seasons with the Lakers. He injured his knee as a rookie, then missed the second half of last season with a sprained ankle. "Terrible for me and I know for the fans," he said. When Ball was healthy, he labored with his jump shot and his consistency. And in Los Angeles, not far from where he grew up, the pressure only mounted in part because he was teammates with LeBron James, who was supportive of Ball's development but wanted to win right away. At the same time, Ball dealt with off court issues. A loudmouth father. A business that went awry. He wound up suing Alan Foster, a family friend, for more than 2 million in damages, accusing Foster of embezzling money from Ball and Big Baller Brand, the sneaker company that Ball co founded with his father, LaVar. Ball's tenure with the Lakers came to an end in June when they agreed to ship him to the Pelicans as a part of their blockbuster trade for Anthony Davis. Brandon Ingram and Josh Hart were also sent to New Orleans in the deal, and it signified a fresh start for all three players. But Ball needed it most. "I think he did as well as anyone could," Hart said of Ball's time with the Lakers. "He didn't let the outside noise affect his decision making or his play." The Pelicans did not get off to a dream start this season, which should not have been a huge surprise considering the loss of Williamson and an overhauled roster. It takes time for young players to form chemistry, and the players who came over from the Lakers are still young. Ingram and Ball are 22, and Hart is 24. But before their game against the Lakers, the Pelicans had won five of their last six and Ball was coming off his best game of the season. In a 15 point win over the Houston Rockets last weekend, he finished with 27 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists while shooting 7 of 12 from 3 point range. "I always felt like when I took the job that he would be a good 3 point shooter for us," said Lakers Coach Frank Vogel, who was hired about a month before the team agreed to trade Ball. "He's just a terrific all around player. His playmaking, his extra pass mind set, the defense and steals and blocks I'm not surprised that he's having success." Pelicans Coach Alvin Gentry likes that Ball plays with pace, that he finds open teammates, that he has refined his shooting technique. Ball, who shot 31.5 percent from 3 point range with the Lakers, was making 35.8 percent of his 3 pointers for the Pelicans ahead of their game against the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. His mechanics remain a work in progress no one is mistaking him for Ray Allen but he has improved, and he praised the assistant coach Fred Vinson for helping him along.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
"It was a pretty quiet moment," Jacob Sousa said this week from his job at the L.A. Louver gallery in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, where David Hockney's solo exhibition "Something New in Painting (and Photography) and even Printing ... Continued" is on view. "There were only a couple of gallery visitors, and one of my colleagues said, 'Joni Mitchell is here,' so I grabbed my camera and waited for her on the second floor." It was there that Ms. Mitchell spotted Mr. Hockney, an acquaintance, and where Mr. Sousa asked the two if he could capture the moment. "She smiled and stepped in front of the painting and took David by the hand," the photographer said of a gentle image that, posted on Valentine's Day to the gallery's Instagram account, quickly went on to garner more than two million impressions and to be liked and reposted and commented upon by people as disparate as Josh Groban, Lana Del Rey and members of the British Parliament.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
BRUSSELS It has been more than two years since the ash plume from an Icelandic volcano paralyzed European skies and galvanized support for a unified system of air traffic management. But political momentum for an overhaul has stalled even though Europe's patchwork of air traffic control fiefs is so notoriously inefficient that even on clear days airlines and travelers waste time and money on too few flights, too many delays and too many illogical, circuitous flight paths. Hoping to renew the sense of urgency, the European Union's transport commissioner plans to turn up the heat. He intends on Thursday to threaten legal action against member governments that do not soon take serious steps toward integrating their air traffic control operations. The long term goal is a complete rethinking and streamlining of a half century old system that is now fragmented across 27 members of the European Union and an additional 12 nearby countries. "We remain a long way from creating a single European airspace," the commissioner, Siim Kallas, said in prepared remarks that he plans to deliver Thursday at a conference of regulators, air traffic management bodies and airline executives in Limassol, Cyprus. "There are some signs of change, but overall progress is too slow, and too limited. We need to think of other solutions and apply them quickly." Quickly, in this case, means meeting an initial Dec. 4 deadline that the E.U. has set. By that time, all European Union members are expected to complete agreements to merge their various national airspaces into nine "functional airspace blocs." And by early next year, the countries will be obliged to demonstrate clear progress on reducing costs in the control system and increasing air traffic. Improvements cannot come quickly enough in the view of David McMillan, director general of Eurocontrol, an agency in Brussels that is responsible for coordinating the flow of air traffic in what are now 39 jurisdictions. "This is a huge change management project," he said, "and there is no single, clear leader to drive it." The European Union has sought for more than a decade to unify the crazy quilt of national air traffic control systems. The aim is to reduce or eliminate differences in procedures that officials say are responsible for about 5 billion euros ( 6.5 billion) in unnecessary costs each year not to mention millions of tons in wasted fuel and added carbon emissions from inefficient routes. This year was meant to be a crucial one for pushing through the master plan, known as the Single European Sky. Legislation passed by the European Parliament in 2009, for example, envisioned the creation of the nine airspace blocs, which would each adopt common operating procedures, technologies and fee structures a first step toward full alignment the law envisioned by 2020. The law also required members of the European Union, beginning this year, to meet a series of annual performance improvement goals aimed at lowering air traffic management fees, reducing travel delays and easing aviation's burden on the environment. Today in On Tech: Imagine not living in Big Tech's world. Dollar Tree will raise prices to 1.25 by the end of April. But the plan has met resistance from European governments wary about sacrificing too much sovereignty over their airspace and giving up authority over their air traffic management agencies, many of which are effectively arms of national transport ministries. Several of the airspace bloc agreements have been signed, but little progress has been made toward carrying them out. And in a dynamic not unlike the one that has played out in Europe's handling of its sovereign debt crisis, Brussels has lacked the power to compel member states to abide by their commitments. That is why Mr. Kallas intends to apply pressure with his speech at the Single European Sky conference in Cyprus. Aides say he is to describe new legislation the European Commission, the European Union's executive arm, plans to draft next spring to accelerate the pace of the overhaul. The legislation would require the countries within each of the nine airspace blocs to develop joint operating plans and assess progress toward efficiency goals. It would also seek to reinforce the powers of Eurocontrol, the air network manager, giving it more authority in airline route planning and in designing a Pan European airspace. Many aviation industry players express frustration that the urgency after the 2010 volcanic ash cloud when Europe's disjointed reaction to the crisis led to mass confusion for nearly a week and stranded millions of air travelers quickly dissipated. "When the ash cloud happened, it was suddenly clear to everybody what the benefits would be of a harmonized European system," said Hemant Mistry, director of industry charges at the International Air Transport Association. "But now when it comes to the practicalities, there are still too many players taking defensive positions." The association said that the cost of Europe's fragmented air traffic system resulted in nearly 18 million minutes in ground delays in 2011 about two minutes for each flight and nearly 1 billion euros in extra en route costs because of cumbersome flight routes. The inefficiencies, the association says, also accounted for more than eight million tons of extra airline carbon emissions which the European Union began taxing this year. Most of those costs, European officials said, were being passed on to passengers in the form of higher ticket prices. Air traffic control, according to estimates, represents as much as 12 percent of the cost of a one way ticket within the European Union. The commission says national air traffic agencies are partly to blame for the system's outsize costs because many of them have taken on tasks like weather monitoring and staff training that could be outsourced to specialized contractors for less. But the air traffic agencies say the savings goals initially set at an average 3.5 percent a year through 2014 do not fully take account of significant fixed costs built into their operations. Those costs include large and complex infrastructure as well as labor costs and pension obligations, which are subject to negotiation with unions and can make up half of their operating budgets. "The challenge is trying to get to grips on how to do all that in a very complex environment," said Richard Deakin, the chief executive of NATS, Britain's air traffic agency. "At end of day, a lot of our costs are actually not things we can control ourselves."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Global Business
OCEAN'S 8 (2018) 8 p.m. on HBO; stream on HBO Go or HBO Now; rent on Amazon, Google Play or YouTube. When this female driven spinoff of the "Ocean's" trilogy hit theaters, most critics agreed that the A list ensemble cast gave the movie its oomph, but that it should have stayed in the hands of the original "Ocean's" director, Steven Soderbergh. Here, Gary Ross delivers a lukewarm caper starring Sandra Bullock as Debbie Ocean, the equally criminal sister of Danny Ocean. Fresh out of prison, Debbie hatches a monumental heist: snatching a 150 million dollar Cartier necklace off the neck of an actress (Anne Hathaway) during the annual Met Gala. Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling and Sarah Paulson to name a few play her co conspirators. In her review, Manohla Dargis said a subplot involving guy troubles proves "needless." She adds: "The movie sounds and narratively unwinds like the previous installments, but without the same easy snap or visual allure." PLANET EARTH 6 a.m. on BBC America. More than a decade ago, "Planet Earth" dazzled viewers and set the benchmark for nature series with its gripping overview of wildlife across habitats. This weeklong marathon features episodes from that landmark series, as well as similar programs like "The Blue Planet" and "Africa." It begins with a behind the scenes episode on the making of "The Hunt."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
Brake problems have prompted Nissan to recall about 153,000 sport utility vehicles from the 2013 14 model years and Suzuki to recall 210,000 motorcycles, the manufacturers have informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Nissan recall covers the 2013 14 Nissan Pathfinder, the 2013 Infiniti JX35 and the 2014 Infiniti QX60, according a report Nissan posted on the N.H.T.S.A. Web site. About 101,000 of those are Pathfinders. Nissan says that during light braking on rough roads, the antilock braking system can allow "stopping distances that are longer than customer's expectation for the given pedal force. This may increase the risk of a crash." The automaker is not aware of any accidents related to the problem, Steve Yaeger, a spokesman for Nissan, wrote in an e mail. This is the third recall of the 2013 Pathfinder and Infiniti JX35 this year. Previous problems involved brakes and air bags. N.H.T.S.A. is also investigating reports of transmission problems on about 110,000 Pathfinders and JX35s from the 2013 model year.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
Last year, Amanda Morgan watched a production of "My Fair Lady" at the Sydney Opera House, drove from Queenstown to Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island, roamed through lavender fields in Provence and spent a week in Mykonos. She celebrated Christmas in Amsterdam and New Year's Eve in Paris. When the coronavirus struck the United States, Ms. Morgan, 40, canceled this year's big trip, which would have taken her to Jordan and Egypt in early May. She spent her vacation neither floating in the Dead Sea nor wandering around the archaeological site of Petra, but kayaking and watching cotton candy sunsets at the Inns of Aurora, a resort in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. "If I can see something truly beautiful four hours away as opposed to halfway across the world then I'm fortunate to be able to have that opportunity," said Ms. Morgan, who lives in New York City and works in the financial services industry. This summer, most vacationers followed Ms. Morgan's playbook. She drove. She spent much of her time outside. And she eschewed splashy international experiences for humbler ones close to home. Amanda Morgan in front of Cayuga Lake in May. If that sounds quaint, if not an outright throwback, it is. Certain midcentury preferences like driving over flying and a focus on domestic exploration experienced a revival that made summer travel feel like 1965, not 2019. The conditions and causes were different because of this pandemic, but the trend lines this summer were clear: What's new is old is new again just add Google Maps, face masks and curbside pickup. When Ms. Morgan left her Manhattan apartment in May, she steered her rental car northbound on Interstate 81. More than 50 years ago, that highway was instrumental in turning upstate New York into an easy to reach getaway for city residents. As a 1969 Times article put it, "there can no longer be any excuse as there was years ago that poor transportation was balking a holiday in the Finger Lakes playground." In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, as the Interstate Highway System developed, driving became the norm for family trips. Some 85 percent of Americans vacationed by car in 1963 or "hit the road to vacation fun," as the trend was described in a Times article that year. In turn, road trips became a cultural rite of passage for American families. "Gas stations offered maps highlighting potential destinations. Automobile companies produced all sorts of marketing materials telling parents how to travel," said Eric G. E. Zuelow, a professor of history at the University of New England and author of "A History of Modern Tourism." This year, Jessica Nabongo, 36, the founder of the travel website The Catch Me If You Can, began a series of drive and fly road trips throughout the Lower 48. She hit New England earlier this summer and will tackle California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Utah this month. Virus tests precede each leg. Ms. Nabongo, who is Black, said one of her concerns besides the coronavirus was confronting anti Black racism in parts of the country, a country now engaged in a widespread reckoning over race. Yet she has always found joy in traveling by car, which she believes "allows you to explore deeply and on your own time." "When you fly, you just get where you want to go and you don't think at all about what you're flying over," said Anthony Harkins, a Western Kentucky University history professor who studies the cultural implications of air travel and transportation. "Driving allows the possibility of better understanding the country its geography, its culture and historically it has helped us understand what it means to be an American." Jessica Nabongo, at the headquarters of Ben Jerry's Homemade ice cream in Vermont. Ms. Nabongo wasn't the only one on the road. One AAA forecast released in June put summer numbers at nearly 700 million road trips (a decrease of only 3 percent from last year) with driving accounting for 97 percent of all travel. Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection launched its first ever road trip travel insurance. Even New Yorkers bought cars. From March on, gas prices have been significantly lower per gallon than last year, according to the federal Energy Information Administration, and many travel operators have leaned into the road trip's resurgence. A partnership between the travel company Black Tomato and Auberge Resorts Collection produced four new drives that visit regions like New England and California wine country; a Mercedes Benz is available to borrow. Relais Chateaux, an association of luxury hotels and restaurants, added three new United States road trips to its decades old "Routes du Bonheur," or "roads of happiness," program. The pandemic, with its travel restrictions at home and abroad, has forced travelers to look again to their own backyards. From April to June, in three consecutive monthly surveys of about 1,000 respondents, Skift Research found that the top choice for a "first trip," selected by about 40 percent of respondents, has been consistent since April: driving and staying within 100 miles of home. But the lure of travel persists. "We believe we must travel, and we have internalized that need," Dr. Zuelow said. "The centrality of tourism is deeply rooted in us as modern people because we tie a lot of our identity to the places we go. So when there's a moment of crisis, we still want to travel, but we fall back on what's realistic at the time." When considering where to go in May, Ms. Morgan researched drive to regions that promised an escape from what she called her "concrete box" in Manhattan. Summer vacationers across the country flocked to old is new destinations that promised fresh air and sunlight: Angelenos to Palm Springs or Santa Barbara, Chicagoans to the Great Lakes, Washingtonians to Dewey Beach, Del., and New Yorkers to upstate, like the Finger Lakes, the Adirondacks and the Catskills. "After decades of hearing 'the Catskills died,' there has been a renaissance," said the photographer Marisa Scheinfeld, who has documented the region's history in the book "The Borscht Belt." "Covid has added fuel to the growing fire because people are not flying to Paris. They're going to proximally close places from home." As of mid August, the bed tax collection also referred to as a "tourist tax" was up 20 percent this year, compared to last year, according to the Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association. In the Hudson Valley, Mohonk Mountain House had one of its most successful sales weeks in its 151 year history in August; 87 percent of the resort's guests this summer arrived from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Most summer visitors at High Peaks Resort, in the Adirondacks, also drove from within the Tristate Area; the resort was almost fully booked in July and August. Finger Lakes Premier Properties, a vacation rental company, is up 10 percent in bookings compared to 2019; August, in particular, was up more than 40 percent. "By being able to bring along their own shelter and gear, families could maintain a degree of control over their accommodations," said Mr. Ratay, the road trip expert. "I think that idea of control is also why we're seeing a return of camping in the age of Covid 19." More than 60 percent of the 100,000 campsites listed on the online marketplace Campspot saw 25 percent more bookings this July, compared to last July. R.V. rentals and Airstream sales were up; camper vans were "in" again. LOGE, an outdoorsy hospitality company was nearly sold out across all its five properties over Fourth of July weekend. Collective Retreats, a glamping company, also saw strong numbers; bookings for the locations in Wimberly, Texas, and Vail, Colo., were up 40 percent from last year. "A trip to Europe in 1968 was a pretty big deal it gave you some serious social cachet and cultural capital," Dr. Zuelow said. "But even those who could afford to travel overseas were still supposed to go see the National Parks they represented a shrine of American ness." Visitation to national parks surged in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Once again, the system which offers ample open space and privacy experienced high demand this summer, with some parks and seashores seeing higher numbers in July and August than those months last year. Cabins and campgrounds at Yellowstone National Park, which began a limited reopening in June, were sold out for the summer and saw double digit increases in early bookings for next summer, compared to last year's early bookings, according to Xanterra Travel Collection, which operates the park. Last month, Jeff Miller, 41, rented an R.V. and drove with his girlfriend from Los Angeles to Zion National Park and several other national parks. "It had been so long since I had been on a hiking and outdoors trip, and it felt so great to be doing something that still felt safe," said Mr. Miller, 41, the frontman for the band Black Crystal Wolf Kids. "I had forgotten how much I love the beauty of the United States." Similarly, after being cooped up for months, Ms. Morgan "felt human again" simply by catching sight of Cayuga Lake. "The goal was to feel safe but not wear a mask 24/7 on vacation and the best way to do that was creating a trip where we could do creative things outdoors," she said. With reliable cleanliness and security, motels rose in popularity in the 1950s, when the Holiday Inn franchise became an alternative to the independent tourist cabins that were considered dodgy and inconsistent. "Chain motels were predictable, family oriented and easy to find, and they set motorists' minds at ease," said Roger White, the road transportation curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. "Suddenly, families who were never previously able to afford to fly to their vacations were able to afford it. That made it possible to go to much more distant destinations," Mr. Ratay said. United States airlines carried more than 205 million passengers in 1975, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. That number ballooned to nearly 382 million a decade later and has risen steadily since (save for a few small dips, including in 2001), culminating in more than 926 million last year. Also last year, a record 93 million Americans traveled abroad. This summer, by contrast, was about what Ms. Nabongo called "slower, more local travel." No longer, she said, will "go big or go home" or "do it for the 'gram" be the focus. That's the benefit, perhaps, to travel's retrograde: more attainable expectations, less pressure, more mindfulness in the moment. "For me, travel means to leave your home travel isn't necessarily how far you can get from your home," Ms. Nabongo said.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
Even before Howard Salzberg announced his intention to open the gates of Camp Modin in Belgrade, Maine, for the summer defying a drumbeat for cancellation during the coronavirus pandemic he was getting pitched. And pitched and pitched and pitched. By the companies selling masks, face shields, gloves and massive tents like you'd see at an outdoor wedding. By the companies pushing plans for chartered planes and buses to transport campers from Miami, Boston and New York. By the state of the art thermometer guys. By the hand sanitizer station people. But mostly there are entrepreneurs selling services to test for the virus. "This has been the Wild West of testing," Mr. Salzberg said. "Everyone wants to do testing." Summer camp is one of the first industries with an urgent deadline to figure out a way to bring back a large number of people to one place. It's something of a laboratory for companies, some hastily formed, trying out the consumer testing market. Schools, universities, corporate offices and entertainment venues are being pitched now as well. They'll be watching to see how opening works out for summer camps. "Camp is the guinea pig," Mr. Salzberg said. More precisely, the guinea pigs are children, who are statistically less vulnerable to suffer from acute symptoms of Covid 19. Lori and Joey Waldman have operated Camp Blue Ridge in Clayton, Ga., since 1992, after taking over from Mr. Waldman's parents, who opened the camp in 1969. The Waldmans considered pitches from two companies and fielded other offers too, including one bragging of a connection to a friend working for President Trump's administration who could help them get tests, and another who claimed to know Vice President Mike Pence's brother (which, this person claimed, could help them secure tests that require just 30 seconds to process). "They are crawling out of the woodwork," Ms. Waldman said. It all seemed too good to be true, and the Waldmans decided not to open camps this summer as normal. "We just decided that this is so beyond testing," she said, "and nobody has the answers." In states where government health officials are permitting sleepaway camps to operate, the camps are striving to create quarantine like conditions, under which children and most staff members remain on the grounds throughout the summer. There are still plenty of uncertainties. This is where testing services come in. They are being marketed by companies like Rapid Reliable Testing, which was created in April. "This is a hot, hot topic," said Ari Matityahu, 30, one of two men handling the company's camp outreach, during a webinar last month that more than 25 camp directors Zoomed into. The other man, Joe Hoenig, 56, who told the webinar attendees that he is a former camp director and current camp owner, was hired as a consultant by Rapid Reliable Testing to help make connections to camp directors. Mr. Hoenig emailed many in the field. "I know these are tough times for camps and tough decisions that will need to be made. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! We all need to be prepared if and when we have the green light to open Camp this summer. We are a large Health Care company that is doing Covid 19 testing for large corporations and organizations," he wrote. (A spokesman for Rapid Reliable Testing said he could not provide names of those "large corporations and organizations.") Rapid Reliable Testing is a subsidiary of the company that owns Ambulnz, a private fleet of vehicles driven and operated by health care providers for nonemergency transport, often taking patients back to nursing home and rehabs after medical procedures. During the peak of the coronavirus crisis in New York in March and April, Ambulnz was subcontracted through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response efforts for nonemergency transport of patients, some of whom had Covid 19. The company created a protocol for testing its employees. But the rest of Ambulnz's business was hurt by stay home orders that diminished procedures that weren't urgently needed. Faced with the prospect of laying off part of its work force, and after being asked by a nursing home to help test its employees, Ambulnz executives decided to start another company that would meet anticipated demand for consumer testing and also give opportunity to idling E.M.T.s and other health care workers, said Anthony Capone, the chief technology officer for Ambulnz and Rapid Reliable Testing. Who should get a booster shot? It depends, Dr. Scott Gottlieb says. Virginia's new lieutenant governor elect says she won't force vaccines. To conduct the tests, Mr. Capone, 32, collaborated with Mako Medical, a six year old laboratory company in North Carolina that processes medical tests including routine blood work and genomics testing.Since March, Mako Medical has processed more than 100,000 coronavirus tests, said the company's chief operating officer, Josh Arant, 31. Mr. Matityahu (hired by Ambulnz in January by Stan Vashovsky, 47, the company founder) had the idea to aim first for the summer camp market. "I have a passion for camp," said Mr. Matityahu in an interview. He also exuded excitement for camp to the participants of the webinar, telling them, "I've been a camp director for the last 9 years." During the webinar, Mr. Matityahu reminded the camp directors of their problem "Never, ever do any of us on this call want to be known as 'the Covid Camp,'" he said and offered a solution. Investing in test services sold by Rapid Reliable, which he said would cost 137.50 per test, will help achieve the goal of "mitigating the risk of Covid 19, the spread of it," he said. The test results, he said, would take no longer than 48 hours. He said that optimally camps would retest each camper upon arrival and several times more through the summer: six times for a seven week session and four times for a five week session. "We're here to provide services with our lab partners like Mako Labs that will offer a turnkey solution to help you test not just your campers but your entire staff, front end and back end of camp," Mr. Matityahu said. Last week, Rapid Reliable sent an email to prospective camp clients saying it would drop its price to about 90 per test. Through Mako Medical, Rapid Reliable is offering a test that involves a health care professional inserting a swab midway up a child's nose "like the Hamptons for the virus," as one doctor put it and twirling it to collect a sample. Most of what we know about coronavirus comes from adults with symptoms. "It's very difficult to make a statement that the data between children and adults is 100 percent comparable or 100 percent not," Mr. Arant said. "But we haven't seen a vast difference so far." Many of these tests can have high rates of false negatives. Some camps will use a variety of tests: before the session begins, upon arrival and multiple times through the summer. "We're the guy necologist," said Jason Feldman, 48, one of the company's founders. "Women have good access to health care that men don't have." He said research showed that 70 percent of men don't get routine annual physicals and that, on average, men are dying five years younger than women. The idea was: "If we could help them with their physical performance, sexual performance and mental performance," he said, "maybe we could also help them prevent heart disease. We're not the online pharmacy selling sex drugs." In his work for Vault, Mr. Feldman has developed a relationship with RUCDR Infinite Biologics, a lab services business run out of Rutgers University that has developed an at home collection kit. Mr. Feldman realized that the Rutgers lab might help him help camps to open, so he shifted his focus from men's health. "It was serendipity," said Mr. Feldman, who previously worked for The Body Shop and until last year was head of the Prime Video Direct division at Amazon. Here is his pitch to camps: They provide their campers' parents with a link to the Vault platform and parents sign up and request a coronavirus test. A kit will then arrive by UPS overnight. It's a plastic tube you spit into, much like the consumer DNA test kits familiar from popular genealogy websites. Parents enter into a Vault Zoom room and connect with a health care provider who will watch the child spit into the tube, verifying that the child is providing the sample. The online health professional also makes sure the child provides enough spit and properly reseals the tube. The sample gets dropped into a UPS overnight box and lands at the Rutgers lab in New Jersey. Results come back within 48 hours. "Right now we don't have any data that should suggest that the test should perform any worse in children," said Dr. Alex Pastuszak, 41, a urologist who is Vault's chief clinical officer. How Much Camp Will There Be? In New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced earlier this week that the state will allow day camps to open on June 29 and will decide "in the coming weeks" if sleep away camps will be permitted to operate. Jay Jacobs, 64, owns six camps, three sleep away and three day camps, in New York and Pennsylvania. He plans to open the day camps and one sleep away camp, relying on services from Vault and Rapid Reliable Testing for campers and staff members. He will pay for the testing of his staff. Parents will pay for the testing of campers before they leave for camp, and the Mr. Jacobs will pay for subsequent tests conducted on the campers. Amid the uncertainty, Mr. Jacobs has been trying to calm the nerves of parents by sharing the details of his testing approach in several long emails to parents. "While we are choosing to make a different decision than some of our colleagues, we more than respect their decisions. We just believe that with resources, knowledge and a lot of hard work, we can open and run camp safely," wrote Mr. Jacobs, who is also the chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee. But camps will only be the guinea pigs for a short time. The rest of us are up next. One camp in Wisconsin had hoped to test incoming campers with a saliva test that offers results in 30 minutes but this month told parents it was moving to a testing Plan B. "The test we had planned to use at the bus site appears to no longer be an option for us," the camp alerted parents this month, "as the demand for this test has dramatically increased due to our now competing with large organizations such as the N.H.L., Hollywood studios, and Amazon."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead. 'THE TRANSFIGURATION OF BENJAMIN BANNEKER' at La MaMa (previews start on Jan. 23; opens on Jan. 24). The celebrated puppet maker Theodora Skipitares returns with a new show about an 18th century free black man who distinguished himself as an astronomer, a horologist and a creator of almanacs. Assisting the puppets some of them 12 feet tall are members of the Soul Tigers, the marching band from Benjamin Banneker Academy in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. 866 811 4111, lamama.org THE BIG APPLE CIRCUS at Damrosch Park (closes on Feb. 2). This popular local circus folds its big tent. The current iteration is sometimes racier than usual, but who can't help enjoying the Lopez Troupe riding bicycles on a high wire or Jayson Dominguez surviving the Wheel of Death? The real stars: the magnificent Savitsky Cats, balls of fluff with acrobatic chops. 212 257 2330, bigapplecircus.com 'QUEENS ROW' at the Kitchen (closes on Jan. 25). Richard Maxwell's play, set in the aftermath of a future civil war, ceases the hostilities. Ben Brantley wrote that this series of three monologues, each spoken by a woman, is a testament to the forms of faith "that allow human beings to endure amid unspeakable loss and privation." 212 255 5793, thekitchen.org 'SING STREET' at New York Theater Workshop (closes on Jan. 26). The musical adaptation of John Carney's 1980s Dublin romance, directed by Rebecca Taichman, steps away from its synthesizers for now. Producers have announced a Broadway transfer that will keep intact much of the original cast, who also sing and play their own instruments. Ben Brantley described the current version as a "promising but still unfulfilled adaptation." 212 460 5475, nytw.org	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
ANTHONY POWELL Dancing to the Music of Time By Hilary Spurling Illustrated. 453 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. 35. Anthony Powell is hardly the only author who is remembered for just one major work. In his case, it was the fruit of 25 years' labor a sweeping 12 volume tableau of bohemian and upper class life in early and mid 20th century England that he named after Nicolas Poussin's painting "A Dance to the Music of Time." When the final volume was published in 1975, Powell was in his 70th year and had effectively completed his life's work. The problem, so to speak, is that he then lived long enough to see the world and literary taste change drastically. And while some contemporaries, like Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell and Graham Greene, remained household names, Powell came to belong to another age. His good fortune was that, years before his death in 2000, a writer and admirer, Hilary Spurling, agreed to write his biography. Spurling, author of an acclaimed two volume biography of Matisse, was evidently in no hurry, because "Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time" came out in Britain only last year and now in the United States. But she may in fact have done her old friend a favor by waiting so long: Through her sympathetic portrait, she can now introduce him and his chef d'oeuvre to a new audience. For Powell fans of yesteryear, she offers more; finally we learn just how closely his life is mirrored in "Dance," as Powell himself referred to his work. Like its narrator, Nick Jenkins, Powell felt out of place among his richer and posher friends at Eton and he was unhappy at Oxford. And like Jenkins, Powell later worked for a down at heel publisher before becoming a book reviewer and struggling to be noticed as a novelist. Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. 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The parallels are just as close in the volumes of "Dance" that I find the most entertaining, which are inspired by Powell's experiences in the late 1920s and '30s when he mixed with a motley crowd of sex , booze and drug driven artists, musicians, actors and writers while at the same time trying his luck with naughty debs and engaging with decadent aristocrats. With volumes published every two years, what gives "Dance" its saga quality is that many of the same characters, starting with several fellow Etonians, keep reappearing over the decades, with many readers' favorite the unpleasant, ambitious and amoral Kenneth Widmerpool featuring in the first and last volume and most in between. And while Jenkins himself remains a shadowy figure, in Powell's words "more to be pitied than blamed," he is given a wonderfully acerbic and baroque way with words. Here, for instance, is how he introduces a teenage Widmerpool: "It was on the bleak December tarmac of that Saturday afternoon in, I suppose, the year 1921, that Widmerpool, fairly heavily built, thick lips and metal rimmed spectacles giving his face as usual an aggrieved expression, first took coherent form in my mind. As the damp, insistent cold struck up from the road, two thin jets of steam drifted out of his nostrils, by nature much distended, and all at once he seemed to possess a painful solidarity that talk about him never conveyed." From early in the life of "Dance," it became a literary game to identify the people behind its main characters. "Crude and reductive attempts to pair individuals in the 'Dance' with real life models exasperated him," Spurling writes, "although inevitably in fiction, as in dreams, characters take shape from a starting point in real life." And, she admits, there are many close likenesses, among them Nick's musician pal Hugh Moreland and Powell's friend and composer Constant Lambert as well as the fictional novelist X. Trapnel and the writer Julian MacLaren Ross. The socialite and writer Barbara Skelton even recognized herself as the irrepressible and seductive Pamela Flitton. "Dear Tony, I am suing naturally," she wrote to Powell. "In the meantime can you advise me a good publisher for my new novel?" Long before "Dance," though, Powell was himself learning the ways of love sometimes being taught, as in his affair at the age of 22 with Nina Hamnett, a worldly bohemian 15 years his senior, who picked up "my little Etonian" in a Paris bar. As a badly paid editor in a publishing house, he was also soon moving in literary circles, with Waugh and Greene among his new friends. Powell's first novels, while well received, sold poorly, all the more frustrating since Waugh had already achieved success with "Vile Bodies." Powell's closest friend at the time was another aspiring novelist, Malcolm Muggeridge (later a famous television pundit), with whom he would wander Regent's Park discussing ideas. After Powell's largely uneventful army experience as a noncombatant in World War II, Muggeridge hired him as a book reviewer for the weekly Punch. Another good friend was Orwell, who had failed to win recognition with "Animal Farm" and was struggling to complete "Nineteen Eighty Four" while terminally ill with tuberculosis. Visiting him months before his death in 1950, Powell and Muggeridge "found George dreadfully decayed but otherwise entirely himself, still smoking and coughing, with a bottle of rum secreted under the bed which the three of them finished off between them," Spurling writes. By then, Powell's social circle had been transformed by his marriage in 1934 to the daughter of an Anglo Irish peer, Lady Violet Packenham. For a half century, they held court in a manor in Somerset, although Spurling reveals that during the war Lady Violet fell in love with another man. "She never said who he was, when or where the affair started or how far it got," but she reportedly later told Orwell's wife, Sonia, that "he was the love of her life." After the success of "Dance," Powell wielded his increased power as an at times caustic book reviewer for The Daily Telegraph and, in the remaining decades of his life, he published new novels, his memoirs and his journals. Then, in 1990, when The Telegraph ran a nasty review of one of his collections a review written by Waugh's son Auberon, no less he resigned in a huff. Given to depression throughout his life, he also had to face betrayal by friends. Muggeridge had already upset him by complaining of the "inherent drabness" of Volume 7 of "Dance" and bemoaning its narrator's "snobbishness." Powell was no happier when he was targeted in "gossipy and disobligingly frank extracts" of Waugh's diaries, published posthumously. And after Powell's own death, Spurling notes, V. S. Naipaul, an early admirer of "Dance," "reversed his view, characterizing the sequence as irremediably trivial and clumsy." Unsurprisingly, Spurling begs to differ. "Time in Powell's work," she notes, "is perpetually on the move, treacherous and disruptive, always liable to shatter an illusion or dislodge a prop concealing or protecting sometimes painful realities." She also endorses Powell's view that "Dance" describes "the process of living." In the end, though, she cannot distance herself from the man she first met in 1969. "He was a captivating friend, generous, affectionate, consoling and often absurdly funny," she writes. And as she demonstrates here, she too has proved a loyal friend.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
Domestic animals can contract parasites from insects and ticks, prey, soil or other animals and can spread them to humans, pets or wildlife. Dogs can give humans rabies, and cows can give people a diarrhea causing parasite called Cryptosporidium. But dogs often only go outside with their owners on leashes, and cows don't usually get to snuggle on our sofas. Cats lead different lives. They may go out hunting on their own and return for a nap on their person's lap or bed. And the diseases cats can spread can be pretty virulent, from cat scratch fever to a parasite called toxoplasma gondii, the litter box parasite that doctors tell pregnant women and immune compromised people to avoid. Cats also can spread feline immunodeficiency virus, which makes them more susceptible to parasites, and spread it to other cats, even cougars. To Ms. Chalkowski, the indoor/outdoor dichotomy of cats' lives presented an opportunity to better understand how environmental exposure may put them at risk. She and her team compared data from 21 studies in countries ranging from the United States, Europe and Australia to Pakistan, Chile and Brazil that documented parasitic infections in pet cats living strictly indoors, or with outdoor access excluding feral cats. They also homed in on particular parasites like the ones already mentioned, which have potential to spill over into other animals. "Over so many different studies, with so many different parasites, in so many different countries: No matter where you keep your cat indoors, it reduces risk of parasitic infection," Ms. Chalkowski said.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Science
Judge Pamela Campbell, left, and Kenneth Turkel, a lawyer for Hulk Hogan, who described the video in question as "just porn." The retired wrestler Hulk Hogan was awarded 115 million in damages on Friday by a Florida jury in an invasion of privacy case against Gawker.com over its publication of a sex tape an astounding figure that tops the 100 million he had asked for, that will probably grow before the trial concludes, and that could send a cautionary signal to online publishers despite the likelihood of an appeal by Gawker. The wrestler, known in court by his legal name, Terry G. Bollea, sobbed as the verdict was announced in late afternoon, according to people in the courtroom. The jury had considered the case for about six hours. Mr. Bollea's team said the verdict represented "a statement as to the public's disgust with the invasion of privacy disguised as journalism," adding: "The verdict says, 'No more.' " The damages awarded to Mr. Bollea on Friday were compensatory: 55 million for economic harm and 60 million for emotional distress. Punitive damages will be established separately, which raises the prospect that Gawker will have to submit to a detailed examination of its finances in court so the jury can assess the scale of the damages. Gawker's founder, Nick Denton, said in his own statement that the jury did not hear all the facts. "We feel very positive about the appeal that we have already begun preparing, as we expect to win this case ultimately," he said. The meaning of the verdict will not be clear for some time. But the perception that a Manhattan media company, noted for its wry tone and its insistence that nearly any topic is fair game, was brought low by a celebrity fighting for privacy is most likely to resonate widely across the industry. At issue in the case, in Pinellas County Circuit Court, was a grainy black and white tape made in the mid 2000s, which showed Mr. Bollea having sex with the wife of a friend of his at the time, Todd Clem, a radio shock jock who had legally changed his name to Bubba the Love Sponge Clem. Gawker posted a brief excerpt in a 2012 post by Albert J. Daulerio, the site's former editor in chief, that mused on the appeal of celebrity sex tapes. The case represented a peculiar clash of worlds, and it was a surreal spectacle. Mr. Bollea explained his relationship with Mr. Clem, and the ways in which Mr. Clem had encouraged him to sleep with his wife. He also drew a distinction between himself and Hulk Hogan, who he suggested were separate personas. Mr. Daulerio, who was named in the suit along with Mr. Denton, decided to joke about child pornography in his deposition, which shocked the court. And the jurors had to try and make sense of it all. Netflix buys a visual effects company in a move to support its global ambitions. 15 minimum wage for federal contractors will take effect Jan. 30. Mr. Bollea's lawyers said that the publication of the video was a gratuitous invasion of privacy, and had no news value. One of them, Kenneth G. Turkel, took particular aim at the contention that Gawker's posting of the video was an act of journalism and was therefore protected under the First Amendment. He described the publication as "morbid and sensational prying." He maintained that had the site's editors been operating under the rules of professional journalism, they would have contacted Mr. Bollea to ask his permission to publish the video, or at least to warn him that they were going to do so. In any case, Mr. Turkel said, it served only as fodder for readers' clicks and a source for advertising revenue, Mr. Turkel said. Gawker had argued that its posting of a brief excerpt of the tape was protected by the Constitution, and that Mr. Bollea had given up his right to privacy by talking often in public about his sex life. "He has chosen to seek the spotlight," a lawyer for Gawker, Michael Sullivan, said. "He has consistently chosen to put his private life out there." In his closing statement for the defense, Mr. Sullivan insisted that uncovering the sometimes less than laudatory activities of public figures "is what journalists do, and at the end of the day it's what we want journalists to do." The verdict is a blow for Gawker, which has rebranded itself as a politics site since it published the tape and has sought to clean up its image in the wake of a series of scandals. The company is technically required to post a bond, which is capped at 50 million, before appealing. But it will almost certainly appeal that bond. The potential effect on the business, which employs about 250 people across seven websites, was not immediately clear. The company recently took significant outside investment for the first time, specifically to prepare for the case, and has been confident it can meet any financial demands the case places on it. In the statement on Friday, Gawker said its team was "disappointed the jury was unable to see key evidence and hear testimony from the most important witness." That was an apparent reference to Mr. Clem. According to documents unsealed on Friday, the radio host initially told federal investigators that Mr. Bollea was aware that his tryst with Mrs. Clem was being recorded. But he later changed that account after Mr. Bollea sued him, saying the former wrestler did not know a camera was present. Apparently fearing that if he testified in the trial he could be subject to prosecution for giving differing accounts of the events, Mr. Clem invoked his right to not incriminate himself and was not called as a witness.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Media
Bar Association Leader Is New Caretaker of Aretha Franklin's Estate None Charles Sykes/Invision, via Charles Sykes, via Invision, via Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. Reginald M. Turner, president elect nominee of the American Bar Association, was appointed temporary caretaker of Aretha Franklin's disputed estate on Tuesday as her sons continue to battle in court over who controls the rights to her image and music and how her assets should be distributed. Judge Jennifer Callaghan of the Oakland County Probate Court chose Mr. Turner, a longtime friend of the Queen of Soul based in Detroit. His responsibilities will include completing negotiations for two tributes: National Geographic Channel is to devote a season of its "Genius" series to Ms. Franklin, starting in May and starring Cynthia Erivo, and MGM is scheduled to release a movie starring the Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson in October. Mr. Turner replaces Sabrina Owens, a niece of Ms. Franklin who resigned as executor, citing the disagreements among the family members. Mr. Turner was recommended by lawyers for Kecalf Franklin, 49, the singer's youngest son. When Ms. Franklin died in August 2018, it was believed she had no will, and her four sons expected her estate to be split evenly among them. They agreed to appoint Ms. Owens as the personal representative, as executors are known in Michigan. In 2019, Ms. Owens and David Bennett, Franklin's longtime personal attorney, disclosed that at least two handwritten wills had been found in one of her homes. Reginald M. Turner, the new temporary executor of the Franklin estate, at a congressional hearing in 2005. Carol T. Powers for The New York Times Those documents, one dated 2010 and one dated 2014, contradicted each other and set off a family battle that appears to be heading to trial later this year. Lawyers for Kecalf Franklin, in particular, have been highly critical of Ms. Owens and Mr. Bennett's handling of the estate. Mr. Bennett said Ms. Franklin died owing 8 million to the IRS and that efforts to monetize her work and belongings were intended to pay that down. Mr. Turner, a former president of the National Bar Association, whose members are primarily African American lawyers, judges and legal scholars, sits on the boards of Comerica Inc. and Masco Corp. He is a former member of the Michigan State Board of Education and was chosen unopposed as president of the American Bar Association, a post he will assume in August of 2021. Lawyers for Ms. Franklin's eldest son, Clarence Franklin, had asked the court to appoint Andrew Mayoras, a Detroit area probate attorney, as executor. Mr. Mayoras is known as the former co host of a REELZChannel show "Fortune Fights" about celebrity inheritance disputes. Both Mr. Turner and Mr. Mayoras appeared in court Tuesday to answer questions. Mr. Turner quoted a fee of 350 per hour; Mr. Mayoras set his rate at 325. The judge appointed Mr. Turner for an initial term of 90 days, with no explanation of her decision. "She gave the city so much, and she gave me so much," Mr. Turner said of Ms. Franklin after the decision. "She didn't have to befriend me. So I owe this to her."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
The early years of the American nuclear program were dominated by men in the mold of Curtis LeMay, the Air Force general who had overseen the firebombing of Japan during World War II. His philosophy of how to win modern wars, Kaplan writes, was simple: "Bomb everything." For many years, LeMay exercised remarkable influence over nuclear policy by maneuvering to secure the Strategic Air Command's near total control of the arsenal while avoiding any meaningful civilian oversight. By 1960, he had put an enduring stamp on the atomic age through the Single Integrated Operational Plan, or SIOP, a list of all the nuclear weapons in the American arsenal and their intended targets. Reflecting LeMay's maximalist approach to firepower and minimalist approach to sparing civilians, the SIOP called for the president to fire thousands of nuclear weapons in the event of an armed conflict with the Soviet Union. Nine would strike Leningrad; 23 would hit Moscow. A Soviet city similar to Hiroshima in population and density would be struck with four bombs that would together yield more than 600 times the blast power of the atomic bomb that the United States dropped on the Japanese city in 1945. ("The Bomb" lacks an account of the decision making behind that attack an unfortunate omission, given the insight that Kaplan could likely bring to bear.) Shortly after the SIOP was completed, President John F. Kennedy took office. The new secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, received a briefing on the targeting plan from Gen. Thomas Power, a protege of LeMay, who privately described Power as a sadist. One target was a radar field in Albania. "Mr. Secretary, I hope you don't have any friends or relations in Albania," Power said at one point to McNamara with a chuckle, "because we're going to have to wipe it out." McNamara was not amused. He came away "as shocked and appalled as he'd ever felt in his life," Kaplan writes. Today, McNamara is best remembered for his leading role in the bloody escalation of the war in Vietnam. Before that debacle, however, he was one of the first senior officials to embrace the idea of a smaller nuclear arsenal governed by a less grotesque doctrine. But McNamara and everyone who has tried since him failed to solve what Kaplan reveals as a basic puzzle of nuclear strategy: "how to plan a nuclear attack that was large enough to terrify the enemy but small enough to be recognized unambiguously as a limited strike, so that, if the enemy retaliated, he'd keep his strike limited too." The truth is that by the time the Soviets had developed a sizable arsenal of their own, "there was no scenario in which using nuclear weapons would give the United States or any country an advantage." In order to deter the Soviets, however, the president and everyone around him had to pretend otherwise. And so a staggering cycle arms race, stalemate, arms race carried on. One of the most fascinating tales in Kaplan's book concerns a consequential break in that pattern, brought about in part by an unlikely figure: Dick Cheney. As George W. Bush's vice president in the 2000s, Cheney would emerge as a fierce hawk an advocate for covert action, preventive war and torture. But as defense secretary under Bush's father, Cheney helped usher in dramatic cuts in the bloated nuclear arsenal by finally breaking SAC's grip. In 1989, a Pentagon analyst named Franklin Miller alerted Cheney to the fact that, in order to forestall cuts to the arsenal, SAC ignored official doctrines and simply found targets for every existing weapon, regardless of their strategic value. Cheney ordered SAC to submit to a review, led by Miller, which found outrageous redundancies and ultimately led to a reduction in the arsenal, which shrank from around 12,000 weapons to fewer than 6,000. In the subsequent years, the numbers kept coming down. But the basic logic remained in place, and radical changes to nuclear doctrine have remained elusive. Obama, for example, explored the idea of declaring a no first use policy that is, pledging that the United States would use nuclear weapons only in retaliation to a nuclear attack. But he ultimately opted against it.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
As I stared into my Styrofoam container of fried chicken gizzards, I considered my mission. I had set out to explore the culinary delights of the Mississippi Delta, hoping to discover foods with rich histories unfamiliar to those who had never visited. These gizzards were a start, but I had my eye out for tamales, neck bones, pies topped with ankle deep meringue. I wanted to explore the established restaurants and the odd hole in the wall joints. But I hadn't quite made it to Mississippi yet; I'd stopped 20 miles short, across the Mississippi River in Marvell, Ark. Eating at the Double Quick gas station a small chain based in Indianola, Miss., scattered throughout the Delta, and known for its soul food offerings of fried chicken and fish and stomach engorging sides didn't feel like cheating, though, as the gastronomic borders in the deltas of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi tend to blur. In these epicurean time capsules, created by insurmountable and harrowing poverty, locals prepare and enjoy dishes that stretch ingredients sourced from the land's nutrient rich earth and blended from a stew of cultural influences. My reverie was interrupted by an elderly woman at the booth across from me, asking if I was one of the Teach for America teachers in town. I looked up and explained that I lived in New Orleans. "New Orleans," she said with all the energy the offensively steamy Delta day would provide. "Never been that far from here, but I got to get some of that great food and gumbo before I die." I popped a few final gizzards into my mouth, chewed through their strange gumminess and heat tinged saltiness, and got up to leave. As I drove across the river, I reflected further on a region that had been unchanged by time. Time and the economic pressures of the era we live in. A shrinking job market has led to a shrinking population and rampant poverty. A renewed effort by the Mississippi Tourism Association has helped create a greater flow of tourists to the region by creating the Mississippi Blues Trail and the Mississippi Freedom Trail. But there are a growing number of individuals visiting the Delta specifically for its food. "For some reason the food in the Delta is just different," said Sylvester Hoover, a blues and civil rights guide and owner of Hoover's Grocery, which I visited in Greenwood, Miss. "It's got a different taste to it. Turnip greens here don't taste like turnip greens outside of here. None of your foods taste the same as it does here in the Mississippi Delta because in the Delta a lot of it was raised here. It's got a different, good dusty taste to it." Once I made it into Mississippi, I aimed to find more of that food and figure out what about it made people drive to the poorest area in the country. And I started in Clarksdale. Right at the famous crossroads where the late blues musician Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul, where Highway 61 and 49 intersect, I came across Abe's Bar B Q, famous for its barbecue and hot tamales. Opened by Lebanese immigrants in 1924 (it moved to its current location in the mid 1930s), Abe's is an institution. Paper plates are slathered with barbecue ribs, pulled pork, burgers and a constant flood of chili; the frozen grape leaves available for order are the only giveaway of its ethnic background. Phyllis Fowler, sister of the current owner, Pat Davis, worked at the restaurant then owned by the eponymous Abe in high school and recently returned after retiring from a different career. It's very much a family run operation that includes cousins and her nephew. After I took my time consulting the menu, she recommended a burger with coleslaw and barbecue sauce. "It's what I grew up on," she said. "Wrap it in foil for 30 minutes and it's just perfect." I added an order of tamales topped with the house chili and cheese and went to town, ignoring her prescribed 30 minute wait, but the potency of the food made each bite more difficult than the last. The tamales were covered in so much chili I couldn't tell how many there were. How the tamale made its way to Mississippi is still debated. Some say it arrived with the migrant laborers who came in to help with the cotton harvest. Others claim Mississippi soldiers from the Mexican American War returned with tamale recipes, and a few assert tamales are a result of a Native American population with a surplus of maize. Robert Johnson references the cornmeal and pork packaged treat in his 1936 song "They're Red Hot," in which he tells the story of a girl who is selling tamales "two for a nickel, got four for a dime." Whatever the true history, tamale production throughout the Mississippi Delta remains high. Whose is best is hotly contested, but in the spirit of the other trails the Southern Foodways Alliance, headquartered in Oxford, Miss., cobbled together a trail of its own for the gastronomically curious the Hot Tamale Trail. Traveling its route proves that no two tamales are the same. (Doe's Eat Place in Greenville, Reno's Cafe in Greenwood and the White Front Cafe in Rosedale are a few other classic tamale joints worth checking out.) "Mile High" coconut meringue pie, a signature item at the Crystal Grill in Greenwood, Miss. Robert Rausch for The New York Times Forty minutes south of Clarksdale sits Cleveland, and the Senator's Place, a soul food restaurant that offers plate lunches and a simple cafeteria like decor. Opened in 2003 by Willie Simmons, a Democratic state senator who has represented his district since 1993, the restaurant pays homage to Senator Simmons' mother who fed 11 children on the recipes Senator Simmons' kitchen staff now use. While there I gorged myself on a plate of smothered chicken, candied yams, collard greens with ham and neck bones. "We eat practically every neck bone they send down South as well as the ones that are here because neck bones is kind of a special meal," Senator Simmons told me, "especially when you can find the ones that we have that are meaty. When you season it properly, some folks say it becomes a delicacy." Neck bones come from the pig and were long considered a throwaway piece of the animal. The intrepid people of the Delta didn't let that food go to waste and have always boldly cooked a cut many dismissed as inedible. It is considered a staple of soul food cooking and has recently gained popularity an analogous reclamation to the more mainstream fandom surrounding pork belly. "It used to be a cheap item, but the more demand you have for it, like anything else, the more the price tends to go up," Senator Simmons said. "We're seeing the cost of neck bones increase over the years, but it continues to be one of the items people love to eat." The restaurant "has grown on me for 60 years," said Johnny Ballas, who still cooks in the kitchen and pulls 70 hour workweeks, and who told me that the secret of the meringue is in the simple syrup. "The best thing about it is seeing families in the tradition of children bringing their children, and I've seen all that from fathers bringing their kids and them bringing their kids now." But there's an interesting dichotomy growing in Greenwood and outside of it. A "New South" has emerged. Though its ideas are somewhat vague, it tries to promote the belief the South has become more diverse, progressive and healthy. It's a dismissal of the grease. The Delta Bistropub, co owned by Fred Carl Jr. the founder and former chief executive of Viking Range Corporation, a company that has helped keep this small Delta town alive and the James Beard nominated chef Taylor Bowen Ricketts, offers small plates and upscale cocktails, but the food remains powerfully Southern to appease the expectations of tourists and locals alike. Ms. Ricketts came to Greenwood from Oxford to start the Delta Fresh Market, a cafe and farmers' market, and slowly developed an appreciation for her new town. The farm to table movement started in the Delta long before it became a national trend, she said. It's this sort of authenticity that excites Ms. Ricketts, and though this isn't where she is from, it is what has made it home. "I cried for three days when I moved here," she said, leaning forward on her stool and resting her elbows on her bar. "But now, I don't know why I hate to love it so much. There's something about the dirt. It gets stuck in your toes." Pickled onion hush puppies with pimento cheese queso and andouille sausage at the Delta Bistropub. Robert Rausch for The New York Times	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
When Morgane Sezalory, the gamin behind the Parisian label Sezane, is putting together a new collection, she does something that runs antithetical to conventional business thinking: She singles out the pieces that feel special and decides to sell less of them. "My team and I always look at the pieces like this," Ms. Sezalory said. "There are things that you don't care if your friend in the office also has, and then there's the one that you wouldn't want everyone to have." Those more exciting items will show up in limited quantities as part of a capsule collection that is released each month, while the rest go in the label's seasonal collection. This approach, in which labels engineer a so called drop to stoke demand, is happening more and more. It's a strategy that street wear brands like Supreme have perfected over the years, and one that other contemporary labels, including Reformation and Everlane, are finding success with. The point of drops isn't just to sell; it's to sell out. It's see now, buy now or it will be gone forever. Items rarely go on sale, and usually only best sellers are rereleased. "Having something no one else has, I think that's the true luxury today," said Ms. Sezalory, who now has a shop in NoLIta, the company's first outside of France. Though Sezane is reasonably priced dresses are generally under 200 and maintains a friendly girl next arrondissement attitude, pieces sometimes sell out so fast that nabbing one can feel worth bragging about. And the quick turnover keeps customers (whose attention spans are shrinking at an ever faster clip) entertained. For Ms. Sezalory, 32, the idea of releasing items in drops came by necessity and convenience, rather than by clever marketing. Twelve years ago, she began selling vintage clothing and accessories on eBay. She had an eye for what would sell and knew how to present items in an aspirational way that was uncommon among many eBay vendors. Before long, she was earning enough money to make a full time gig of it. In 2008, she introduced her first online shop, Les Composantes, which sold vintage and reworked vintage pieces. To save herself multiple trips to the post office, she would release all of the new goods on one day each month in what she called "rendezvous," informing customers via newsletter. Sometimes the new batch would sell out within hours, she said. Eventually Ms. Sezalory decided she was ready to build a full fledged fashion label. Despite having no formal training, she began designing clothing and accessories heavily influenced by Paris street style and the vintage items she loved, calling her new label Sezane (a contraction of her first and last names). Though her creations were no longer one offs, and she had help with those trips to the post office, she kept the monthly rendezvous, which, she said, felt "special." Each capsule is introduced with an extensive photo campaign with distinctive casting and a new setting. "The first thing I discovered when I was on eBay was the power of a nice picture," Ms. Sezalory said. "Back then, women were not used to buying clothes online, so you had to show them through a picture how the fabric is, how to wear it. I wanted the girl to feel like she can touch the clothes, and see how she could mix it with something. I'm still very obsessed with this." It's the reason, she said, that Sezane often photographs its clothes in far flung locales and never in a studio. "When the customer discovers the collection, she also discovers a new feeling, a country," Ms. Sezalory said. "And since we've been there, too, we can share with her the good addresses of where to eat, what to do." Like the store in Paris, the NoLIta outpost, at 254 Elizabeth Street, is named L'Appartement and is styled after the apartment of a woman you want to hang out with for a little while, maybe learn something from. "Fashion is not only fashion," Ms. Sezalory said. "It's also about inspiration." In a concession to customer demand, Sezane has started to offer seasonal collections that stick around longer, and this month it introduced La Liste, its first permanent collection. It offers "iconic Parisian" staples that Ms. Sezalory described as "the main pieces every woman should have in her closet, but not boring." But the monthly rendezvous will remain.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. "I get invited to everything, and everywhere I go, everyone wishes they had my job. But that's not true here," said Pablos Holman, a self described futurist and inventor who has worked on lasers that kill mosquitoes and machines that suppress hurricanes. "There's geniuses everywhere," he said, motioning to the pair talking next to him, the theoretical physicist Lisa Randall and the computer scientist Stephen Wolfram. "I don't even register on this scale." We're at Mars, an exclusive three day conference at a midcentury modern hotel here in the California desert run by Amazon and its founder, Jeff Bezos, for some of the world's most successful geeks. For its first two years, Mars was largely secret; the most prominent image that leaked was a photo of Mr. Bezos piloting a 13 foot robot last year. This year, Amazon lifted the veil and invited a handful of reporters into Mr. Bezos's brainiac pow wow. Mr. Bezos was visible throughout, sitting front and center at presentations and posing for photos with attendees in front of a Blue Origin space capsule. His booming laugh was easy to pick out in the crowd. When I arrived at the Parker Palm Springs hotel where the conference was held, three separate conference workers tried to carry my bag. In my room, the lights were dimmed, a cheese plate was waiting, and an Amazon Echo was playing bossa nova. A note said to keep the Echo. (I didn't.) Atop a collection of more high end swag was a note from Mr. Bezos: "We'll consider this gathering a big success if you find something inspiring." While there were dozens of multimillionaires among the attendees, many savored the luxury. "This is quite opulent compared to what I'm used to," said Ann Karagozian, a rocket scientist from the University of California, Los Angeles. "Definitely not any academic conferences." At dinner, seats were preassigned. After dark, free booze flowed from makeshift bars and attendees lit up high end cigars. Mr. Bezos held court around the fire pit Sunday night, tumbler of whiskey in hand. He wore the down Patagonia jacket given to each guest a style that has become a sort of tech industry uniform with jeans and cowboy boots. One attendee described the get up as Silicon Valley meets West Texas, where Blue Origin has its main launch site. Mornings were reserved for show and tell. About a dozen attendees presented on novel businesses or scientific breakthroughs, from new techniques for studying supermassive black holes to computer chips implanted in brains that can resolve symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Rich Mahoney, head of a "powered clothing" start up called Seismic, showed off leotards with built in sensors and electric motors to mimic muscles designed to help elderly or disabled wearers stand from chairs. "Intelligent, wearable strength," he said. "This is a new clothing paradigm." There was one clear rock star: A yellow four legged robot named SpotMini that strutted back and forth on stage as a sea of smartphone cameras focused in. It was the newest invention from Boston Dynamics, the Defense Department funded firm that Google recently sold to SoftBank. After the presentation, Mr. Bezos and SpotMini led the crowd to lunch. Throughout, Amazon executives referred to repeat guests as alumni or "returning campers." Attendees seemed universally smitten with the conference; some suggested they were a part of history. Ken Goldberg, a roboticist from the University of California, Berkeley, compared Mars to Athens 2,000 years ago, showing Raphael's fresco "The School of Athens" during a presentation. "People would be hanging out, discussing ideas, having arguments, and a big topic at the time was space," he said. "It's like a true salon of its time," said Brogan BamBrogan, an entrepreneur with a walrus mustache who now runs Arrivo, which aims to build high speed transportation networks using levitating cars in highway medians. Some attendees said they were so impressed by the guest list they were unsure they belonged. The serial entrepreneur Dean Kamen, best known for inventing the Segway, said, "You feel like you're walking around here as an intellectual midget." In the afternoon, we had a choice of activities, from falconry to Navy Seal training to sausage making. Group meditation was popular. On Tuesday, a collective "ohhhmmm" rang out across the hotel grounds. Eighteen of us, including me, flew aerobatic planes. Most who signed up were eager to hop into the cockpit; a few later had to use the barf bag. Many were paired up for "dogfights" in which they chased each other in the sky. We were allowed to steer the plane for periods; the pilot in back also had a hand on the controls. In one dogfight, Takeo Kanade, 72, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and robotics pioneer, vanquished his opponent, Aaron Dollar, 40, an up and coming roboticist at Yale.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
In a 1993 Paris Review interview, Don DeLillo called the Warren Commission's report "the Oxford English Dictionary of the assassination and also the Joycean novel." He admired the way it captured "the full richness and madness and meaning" of the events surrounding President John F. Kennedy's death in Dallas. At 26 volumes, the report's abundance impressed him, too. "When I came across the dental records of Jack Ruby's mother I felt a surge of admiration," DeLillo said. "Did they really put this in?" The Mueller report is not that sort of kitchen sink chronicle. At 448 hungrily awaited pages, it is long but hardly an epic. It perhaps necessarily lacks both the novelistic sweep of the 9/11 Commission Report and the intimate "prurient" would be a more exact word scene setting of the Starr report on President Bill Clinton. ("She and the President kissed. She unbuttoned her jacket; either she unhooked her bra or ... ") The Mueller report is a dense slab of verbiage. It is not written in bureaucratese, but it is not far from it either. If you were to put a droplet of its syntax under a microscope, you'd find a swirling necktie pattern of small white starched shirts and three ring binders and paper cups of stale black coffee. Reading between the lines, you might spy tiny handcuffs as well. This is not a narrative that warms in the hands. There is no sweeping language. It appears to have been designed to make minimum political impact. Because its language about not exonerating Trump is written in the negative, the most important sections are hard to quote. A typical line is: "A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts." A plausible title for the paperback editions that will soon be in bookstores might be, "We Didn't Not Find Anything." Reports by special counsels and select congressional committees are a genre of their own by now. The Mueller report is a thorny, patriotic addition to this curious American shelf. Its findings, especially those about the president's ostensible attempts to obstruct justice, have been called a road map for further congressional action and other investigators. With its blacked out redacted passages, the report more closely resembles a reverse crossword puzzle. We will collectively be solving for its inky elisions for some time, perhaps the rest of our lives. So much of what's in the Mueller report is already known, thanks to what never again should be referred to as "fake news," that reading it is like consuming a short story collection that's already been excerpted in every magazine you subscribe to. But its two volumes nonetheless have the power to shock and appall. Volume One is a report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It commences, like a super sleuth literary or political biography, with tempered gloating about the author's indefatigable fact finding. 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It ends by noting that the special counsel's office "interviewed approximately 500 witnesses, including almost 80 before a grand jury." The authors wish to be transparent and helpful. For older readers, the report pauses to explain, in footnotes, what an online troll is, as well as things like botnets, spearphishing emails and malware. The Russians worked diligently to subvert the 2016 election, and the Trump campaign was grateful for the support. There was perhaps no collusion, to use a word that Mueller dislikes. (He prefers "conspiracy.") But there was cheerleading. There was dancing in subversion's end zone. The theme of the Mueller report, like the theme of Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge," is lies and the souls of those who tell them. Through the entirety of the report, Trump is observed to lie, at almost every moment, like Falstaff telling Hal how many thieves he fended off. Others tell untruths for the president, sometimes at his request, sometimes out of loyalty, and get caught in gummy webs of their own devising. In Volume One, we're reminded of the fake Facebook and Twitter accounts that churned out pro Trump propaganda. The authors reprint a poster, created by the Russians, for Pennsylvania rallies under the title "Miners for Trump." In Volume One, too, the prevarications of figures like Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. and Michael Cohen, among many others, are intensely scrutinized. Fetishizers of crime novel forensics will enjoy details like this one, about Erik Prince, the founder of the security contractor Blackwater: "Cell site location data for Prince's mobile phone indicates that Prince remained at Trump Tower for approximately three hours." There is not space to divulge the context, but I hope the phrase "a long caviar story to tell" written to Manafort by the Russian and Ukrainian political consultant Konstantin Kilimnik enters the lingo, perhaps via a Gary Shteyngart novel. Volume Two of the Mueller report, like the second volume of Bob Dylan's greatest hits, is the more stereophonic and satisfying. It is more cohesive; the narrative about obstruction flows, and is blunt in its impact. This is not the place to rehearse all of the details. Please feast on the reporting elsewhere in this newspaper. Yet two scenes are indelible. We will be running up against them in films, plays, novels and histories for the remainder of our terms on earth. The first is the account, like something out of reports of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon in the fevered last days of Nixon's presidency, of President Trump learning from Jeff Sessions that a special prosecutor had been appointed. According to the report, the president "slumped back in his chair and said, 'Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'm fucked.'" The second, most resonant, moment occurs when Trump asks his White House counsel, Donald McGahn, "Why do you take notes? Lawyers don't take notes. I never had a lawyer who takes notes." The report continues: "McGahn responded that he keeps notes because he is a 'real lawyer' and explained that notes create a record and are not a bad thing. The President said, 'I've had a lot of great lawyers, like Roy Cohn. He did not take notes.'" Two thoughts: McGahn is one of the few Trump advisers who come off even remotely well in this account. America will never get Roy Cohn out of its moral DNA. Throughout the report, the special counsel's team bends over backward to give the Trump administration the benefit of the doubt. If the Mueller report were to analyze the aftermath of young George Washington chopping down the cherry tree, it would include lines like: "It is possible that Mr. Washington swung his ax 27 times in the direction of the tree because he was attempting to ward off a hornet. It is also possible that the tree begged to be chopped down." The Mueller report tells you what it is going to say, says it, and then tells you what it just said. It is hardly pleasurable to read, on textual as well as emotional grounds. It is ill making about the amorality of an administration. The new Ian McEwan novel, "Machines Like Me," will be out soon in America. It contains a line that echoed for me across the time I spent with the Mueller report: "I'd never thought that vomiting could be a moral act." The Mueller report feels less like an ending than an uncertain beginning. It plants seeds into the ground.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. By contending this week at the Players Championship, Rory McIlroy is delivering a reminder that the rounds are long, but the years are short. A cherubic cheeked McIlroy turned 20 on Monday of his debut at the PGA Tour's flagship event at TPC Sawgrass in 2009; four days later, he missed his first, and only, cut of that tour season. He has since collected 14 tour victories, including four majors, and held the men's world No. 1 ranking on seven occasions. Next month, McIlroy will make his fifth attempt to complete a career Grand Slam at the Masters, but first things first: On Sunday he will aim to close out a victory after a number of close calls this year. With a two under par 70 on Saturday, McIlroy is tied for second with Tommy Fleetwood (70) at 14 under, one stroke behind Jon Rahm of Spain, who carded a 64, one stroke shy of the course record. The key to Rahm's resplendent round was the four par 5s, which he covered in five under five strokes better than McIlroy and two better than Fleetwood. "I was committed on each shot, and it worked out," said Rahm, who eagled the par 5 11th after he hit his 4 iron second shot to inside 4 feet. It was an exceedingly rare example maybe only the second or third time in his professional career, Rahm said where he pulled off a shot exactly as he had visualized it. Rahm's strategy on Sunday as he goes for his third official PGA title and seventh over all since he turned pro in 2016, is straight out of a mindfulness memo. "Be decisive, commit to one thing and worry about what I have to do every single shot," he said. McIlroy, who has never cracked the top five in nine previous starts here, hurried through his postround comments so he could wring the last rays of light out of the day on the range working out the kinks in his swing after he found only four fairways. "Just maybe getting ahead of it a little bit," McIlroy said, adding, "Maybe just getting a little quick from the top, probably something very simple." At least McIlroy will not be the last one waiting on Sunday, as he avoided the final pairing, where he is 0 for 9 dating to January of last year. Fleetwood received the honors over McIlroy, with whom he was paired Saturday, on a technicality; Fleetwood had started the day hitting first. McIlroy, 29, will play with Jason Day (12 under) in the second to last group, which was his starting post the last time he captured a title, at the 2018 Arnold Palmer Invitational. McIlroy vowed not to worry about his failure to seize opportunities be it on the par 5s on Saturday or in all the Sunday rounds he has strung together in 2019. In five starts this year, McIlroy's lowest finish is a tie for sixth. "I showed some character out there, showed some grit," he said, adding, "I'm still right there going into tomorrow." McIlroy described every day, and each week, as a clean slate. "It's a new opportunity," he said. "That's the nice thing about our game, which doesn't happen in some other sports, and it's nice to take advantage of that luxury." Tiger Woods, a two time champion, took advantage of a new day on the course's iconic island hole, the par 3 17th, making a birdie a day after carding a quadruple bogey 7. He found out well after the fact from a Golf Channel report that on Friday, he could have played his third shot, which also found the water, from the grass path that leads to the green, roughly 40 feet from the pin, instead of from the drop area 80 yards away, because his ball had trickled into the water from the pathway. "I just didn't know that was where the ball had crossed," Woods said Saturday after signing for a 72, which left him at three under. "There's no marshals up there, and so it is what it is." Rahm knows being the 54 hole leader offers no guarantees; in the first 19 events of the 2018 19 season, 10 players who slept on the third round lead have held the trophy on Sunday. Rahm said he expected McIlroy "to come out guns blazing," and added, "Hopefully, I can just stick to my game and kind of forget that he's there." Rahm cannot afford to overlook Fleetwood, a four time winner on the European tour who is searching for his first PGA Tour title. Fleetwood finished third last week but struggled with his swing on Saturday, finding 11 greens five fewer than in the first round. But he was glad he persevered. "Just happy that I sort of managed to get through that day while not feeling all that great," Fleetwood said.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
Handel's "Messiah" was written in late summer and premiered in April 1742, in Dublin; when it came to London, it was the following March. It may surprise those who associate it with bundling up for the cold that the oratorio was originally Easter music. "Messiah" does end with the death and resurrection of Jesus, but its first part reaches a smiling climax with his birth. And for whatever other reasons, perhaps among them springtime competition from the likes of Bach's "St. Matthew Passion," the work crept comprehensively, irretrievably into December. It now dominates that month's classical music calendar; nothing else in the repertory has such a firm grip on any season. Its rollout in New York has become one of the city's most predictable rituals. St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, with its pristine choir of men and boy trebles, tends to go first; its performances were last week. Then comes the New York Philharmonic, whose "Messiah run opened on Tuesday evening at David Geffen Hall and continues through Saturday. Then the floodgates open: Over the next week come Handelian offerings by Kent Tritle's Oratorio Society of New York (Thursday) and his Musica Sacra (Monday), the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Friday and Sunday) and the mighty amateur Masterwork Chorus (Sunday). Julian Wachner leads three performances of what may well be the most intense "Messiah," with the forces of Trinity Wall Street Friday through Sunday. (They're sold out, but Saturday's performance will be streamed at trinitywallstreet.org.)	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
The Dodgers rushed out of the dugout after Julio Urias struck out the final Rays batter of the night on Tuesday. ARLINGTON, Texas At the very end, 2020 did what it does best, intruding on joy with an unwelcome risk or reward calculation. Justin Turner, part of the soul of the Los Angeles Dodgers, learned that he had tested positive for the coronavirus during the World Series clincher on Tuesday night at Globe Life Field. Then he defied orders from Major League Baseball security and celebrated on the field with teammates and family members, at times without wearing a mask. Turner, an integral member of six Dodgers playoff teams that fell short of a title, had been removed from Game 6 two innings before reaching the long awaited summit: a 97 mile an hour fastball from Julio Urias that the Tampa Bay Rays' Willy Adames took for a third strike, the final out of the season. Turner's replacement at third base, Edwin Rios, had the view Turner must have always imagined. "In the moment, it's gut wrenching," said shortstop Corey Seager, who hit .400 and was named the World Series most valuable player. "You don't know what to do. You want that man beside you. We've done a lot on this field and to not be able to have him there and finish it, that hurts. That hurts a lot." It was so different 32 years ago in Oakland, Calif., the last time the Dodgers won the World Series. After Orel Hershiser finished a nine inning masterpiece in Game 5, the only unwelcome presence was a woman in a pink sweater hounding him to film a Disney commercial. "You look to the camera, say it, and you keep celebrating with your teammates," Hershiser said by phone on Tuesday afternoon. "And then she goes, 'That camera, say it again!' So as long as you give them a good take, you only have to do it twice, because you have to do it for Disneyland and Disney World. And then the very next day you go there, for truth in advertising. It was unbelievable." These days, it is hard to imagine an innocent, uncomplicated jaunt to a crowded theme park. How will Los Angeles honor the Dodgers now? Who knows. In a statement on Wednesday, the team promised a celebration but said it would "wait until it is safe to do so," without specifying when or how. "Someday someday soon, I hope we are going to celebrate and we are going to be there, and there's going to be a parade and there's going to be tens of thousands of Dodger fans," said starter Clayton Kershaw, his championship quest finally realized in his 10th trip to the postseason. "I don't know when, I don't know how soon. But whenever that day comes, I know J.T. is going to be there, and it's going to be a special thing." "I think they're already champions because of 2017 and the cheating," Hershiser said. "But the main thing the more micro is that these guys need to be in conversations on a daily basis about winning, not about 'when are you going to win?' None Everyone Loves Ohtani: The Angels' two way star was a unanimous pick for A.L. M.V.P. and his superfans redefine devotion. Phillie Phavorite: Bryce Harper truly committed to Philadelphia and now he's back on top of baseball, winning the N.L. M.V.P. Cy Young Winners: Milwaukee's Corbin Burnes and Toronto's Robbie Ray had hit rock bottom before they worked their way up to stardom. Baseball Is Stuck in Neutral: The potential of a lockout has a star studded group of free agents waiting for the dust to settle. Free Agency Tracker: Get the latest updates on signings, contract extensions and trades. "Justin Turner has talked to me about this, and so have others: Every conversation that they have with a waiter, with charity work, with their friends, with neighbors, walking through the grocery store and somebody stops them, sooner or later, the conversation's going to get to: 'When are you guys going to win it? It's been too long.' They need to have all these conversations turn positive. "And that's what we experienced in our life. The equity from winning a world championship in Los Angeles is huge. You're remembered for the rest of your life. You might get a table at a restaurant, you might get a drink bought for you, you get a smile and somebody comes by your table and says, 'Thank you so much for '88.' You get all these positive stories and vibes. And I think this generation of players, as good as they have been and as much as they have sacrificed and earned and then to get it stolen from them they deserve those conversations more than anybody." Dave Roberts, the team's current manager, said the members of the 1988 team, from Hershiser to Kirk Gibson to Manager Tommy Lasorda, had been gracious and unfailingly supportive of the current team's quest to win another. But the title drought had shadowed a consistently strong franchise. Teams led by Mike Piazza, Adrian Beltre, Manny Ramirez and Adrian Gonzalez could not win a pennant. The Dodgers have had even deeper rosters lately, and this year's National League West title was their eighth in a row. To any observer, including members of the 1988 team, they were due for glory. "It's over for us," said Mickey Hatcher, the spare outfielder who became a folk hero with two homers in the 1988 World Series. "I talked to Mike Scioscia the other day, and it's like: 'You know what, these guys, they need to come through with it this year.' "We had our reign, nobody's ever going to take that away from us. We had a special team with magical stuff that happened that year with Orel and Gibby and a lot of other things. Those will always be there; Orel and Gibby are going to keep us on the map for a long time, just with what they did in our World Series. But it's time." The 1988 Dodgers were not far removed from the franchise's previous title, which had come against the Yankees seven years earlier. This victory is no sweeter than it would have been any other year, Kershaw said, but reliever Kenley Jansen acknowledged the frustration that preceded it. Jansen, a three time All Star closer, signed with the Dodgers from Curacao in 2004, when he was 17. He has twice walked off the mound after World Series heartbreak a wild (and, in retrospect, suspicious) 13 12 defeat in Houston three years ago and the Rays' improbable 8 7 comeback on Saturday. Roberts passed him over for the clincher on Tuesday, but Jansen understood. "It's a team, man," Jansen said. "We all want that moment, but Julio was throwing the ball really well. It's awesome. I feel like I'm a true Dodger now. After 32 years, the trophy's going back to L.A. I will cherish this moment my whole life." Urias draped the Mexican flag over his shoulders for his postgame interview Tuesday, honoring the home country he shares with Fernando Valenzuela, the ace of the 1981 champions. As the final pitcher in the World Series, Urias, 24, also conjured memories of another young lefty, Johnny Podres, who closed out the franchise's first title for Brooklyn in 1955. "It was the most important out, and everyone was waiting for that," Urias said through an interpreter. "All of L.A. was expecting that, and I'm thankful to God that we were able to achieve it."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
If you read the commentary coming out of New York and Washington, or speak with elites in Western Europe, it's easy to find people panicking about the loss of "American leadership." From Joe Biden's campaign pledges to trans Atlantic think tanks, exhortations to revive American supremacy and contain China are everywhere. They have reason to be worried: This moment is shaking the foundations of America's hegemony. It is painfully clear that the United States is ill equipped to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, which does not play to American strengths (we can't shoot it, after all). President Trump has for years been dismissing allies and antagonizing international institutions. And China is seemingly laying the groundwork for its arrival as a great power. American officials are now talking openly about a "new Cold War" to confront Beijing, and China now seems such a threat that Hal Brands of the American Enterprise Institute wonders whether the United States should get back in the business of covertly toppling unfriendly governments. It's unsurprising that establishment pundits, American policymakers and their allies would be alarmed about American decline. The United States and Western Europe have been the winners of the process that created this globalized world, the main beneficiaries of Washington's triumph at the end of the Cold War. But a lot of people feel very differently. In early April, I received a message from Winarso, a man I know in Indonesia who runs an organization that cares for the survivors of the mass murder that took place there in the 1960s. He was trying to raise money to buy rice so his community wouldn't starve under lockdown. A dollar still goes a very long way in Indonesia, as Winarso knows too well. To explain America's economic and political power, he points to the Cold War. It's easy to see that Washington was truly victorious in the 20th century, he told me, because "we all got the U.S. centered version of capitalism that Washington wanted to spread." I asked him how America won. He answered quickly. "You killed us." I have spent the last three years with the losers of that great game, the individuals whose lives were shattered so this global order could be constructed. I spent most of my time interviewing the victims and survivors of a loose network of mass murder programs that targeted civilian opponents of Washington's Cold War allies. I got to know people on four continents who lived through the coups and C.I.A. plots that Mr. Brands is talking about. To fully understand the nature of American power and its future their experiences are as important as those of anyone in a Paris boardroom or Washington think tank. Winarso's country is the most significant example. In 1965 and 1966, the American government assisted in the murder of approximately one million Indonesian civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the Cold War Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country, and policymakers at the time understood it was a far more valuable prize than Vietnam. But it's largely forgotten in the English speaking world precisely because it was such a success. No American soldiers died; little attention was drawn to one more country pulled, seemingly naturally, into the United States' orbit. But the process was not natural. The U.S. backed military used a failed uprising as a pretext to crush the Indonesian left, whose influence Washington had been seeking to counter for a decade, and then took control of the country. Recently declassified State Department documents make it clear that the United States aided and abetted the mass murder in Indonesia, providing material support, encouraging the killings and rewarding the perpetrators. It was not the first time the United States had done something like this. In 1954, the American ambassador to Guatemala reportedly handed kill lists to that country's military. And in Iraq, in 1963, the C.I.A. provided lists of suspected communists and leftists to the ruling Baath Party. Indonesia in 1965 was the apex of anti Communist violence in the 20th century. The slaughter obliterated the popular, unarmed Partai Komunis Indonesia, the largest Communist party outside of China and the Soviet Union, and toppled President Sukarno, a founding leader of the Nonaligned Movement and an outspoken anti imperialist, replacing him with General Suharto, a right wing dictator who quickly became one of Washington's most important Cold War allies. This was such an obvious victory for the global anti Communist movement that far right groups around the world began to draw inspiration from the "Jakarta" model and build copycat programs. They were assisted by American officials and anti Communist organizations that moved across borders. In turn, leftist movements radicalized or took up arms, believing they would be killed if they attempted to pursue the path of democratic socialism. In the early '70s, right wing terrorists in Chile painted "Jakarta" on the houses of socialists, threatening that they too would be killed. After the C.I.A. backed coup in 1973, they were. Brazilian leftists were threatened with "Operacao Jacarta," too. By the end of the 1970s, most of South America was governed by authoritarian, pro American governments that secured power by mass murder. By 1990, death squads in Central America pushed the Latin American death toll into the hundreds of thousands. In North America and Europe, if people think about these terror campaigns at all, the narrative is too often that the United States made alliances with unsavory characters, who committed unfortunate abuses. That is wrong. The United States government was behind much of the violence, and it was far from inconsequential. Most nations in the former third world were set on their current path by conflicts that took place during the Cold War. The violence made possible a version of crony capitalism that comprises daily reality for billions of people, and it is an integral part of the version of globalization that the world ended up with. No reasonable person denies the great things the United States did in the 20th century, or that many countries enjoyed prosperity while in happy alliances with Washington. But as we move deeper into the 21st century, Americans are going to need to confront the darker side of American hegemony because much of the rest of the world already has. Part of the reason the current order is so fragile is because so many people around the world know, indeed can physically feel in their bodies, that Washington used brutality to construct it. We do not know yet what the world would look like were China to take up the position the United States is losing. There is no reason to believe that just because this world order has blood in its roots, something better will spring to life if it dies. As Americans reckon with and fret about their country's diminished position in the world, we need to understand that the United States is not, in fact, beloved as a beacon of freedom, democracy and human rights. From Argentina to the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor to Iran, millions of people are skeptical of Washington's intentions, even if they have no particular desire to emulate China's government, either. A failure to recognize reality, however, and a desperate attempt to claw back a deeply imperfect global order, could be very dangerous for everyone. Vincent Bevins ( vinncent) is the author of "The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World." The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We'd like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here's our email: letters nytimes.com. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter ( NYTopinion) and Instagram.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
SINGAPORE Ken Kwek watched as investigations into Harvey Weinstein's treatment of women in October 2017 ignited the MeToo movement and led women across the globe to share their experiences of sexual abuse and workplace harassment. Yet here in his home country, the conversation was more muted. In Singapore, a wealthy one time British colony known for its glittering skyline and ethnic diversity, many still hold to another century's view of the roles of men and women. Victims of sexual misconduct often face shame and blame, and the global reckoning seems far away. Mr. Kwek, a playwright, decided it was time to bring this sensitive topic to Singapore. In May, his play "This Is What Happens to Pretty Girls" was performed to sold out audiences, sparking a new wave of conversation, yet it left some wondering whether a drama that put a stark spotlight on a persistent problem can prompt lasting change. Sexual harassment "is as endemic a problem here as anywhere else, but it just manifests itself in a different way," Mr. Kwek said. "In this part of the world, in Singapore, you are talking about a passive and nonconfrontational culture." "This is a big deal for Singapore," said Danielle Pereira, a Singaporean lawyer and spokeswoman for a campaign by the Association of Women for Action and Research, or AWARE. "It really opens a dialogue," she said. In the wake of MeToo, Singapore's Sexual Assault Care Center reported a 79 percent surge in cases, as more women sought help privately. Yet few stories surfaced publicly and resistance to speaking up remained. Allegations of sexual misconduct cast a spotlight on the victim and her family, with the potential for dire career consequences. Public sentiment continues to be largely skeptical of victims. A recent Ipsos survey of Singaporeans revealed that nearly 41 percent of respondents considered false accusations of sexual harassment a bigger problem in the country than unreported acts. In the United States, by comparison, a recent survey by the University of California, San Diego, found less than 10 percent of respondents said they believed people making high profile sexual misconduct allegations were "purposely lying." Mr. Kwek, 40, has developed a reputation as a provocateur in Singapore, known for tackling fraught subjects that trigger discussion. In 2012, a film he wrote and directed, "Sex.Violence.FamilyValues," was banned in Singapore over concerns that a scene was racially offensive. "Pretty Girls" stems from Mr. Kwek's work with Adrian and Tracie Pang, the husband and wife artistic directors at the Pangdemonium Theater Company, a prominent local troupe also known for taking on plays with difficult themes. In the fall of 2017, as they were working on a play that included a story of sexual assault as one thread of the plot, the headlines about Mr. Weinstein and others reverberated. The Pangs and Mr. Kwek decided to shelve the original idea and create a new production tackling MeToo issues head on. "It is not about the entertainment," Ms. Pang said. "I actually do want to make people uncomfortable because when you are uncomfortable it makes you think about why are you uncomfortable." Mr. Kwek, a former journalist at The Straits Times, used his skills as a reporter to shape the story. Over the course of several months he interviewed circles of friends and acquaintances then strangers until he had talked with about 100 women and men about their sexual misconduct experiences. Mr. Kwek also consulted with counselors at the Sexual Assault Care Center to learn about the manifestations of trauma. Victims who feared that coming forward with their stories could jeopardize their reputations and careers felt more comfortable talking with Mr. Kwek, he said, knowing that their identities would be hidden behind a veil of anonymity and filtered through the lens of fiction. Mr. Pang, who also acted in the play, said, "People are harboring these stories and are keeping them so close to our chest and having this need to speak up about it." Woven together are stories of a brash tech executive struggling with a childhood sexual assault; a young female engineer who faced retaliation after rejecting sexual advances from her boss; a student who pursues a professor and assaults her; and a radio host confronted by someone he assaulted in his youth. "It is not a play about rape," Mr. Kwek said. "It is a play about how people's sexual behaviors lead to devastating emotional consequences." Broader themes emerge about the perils of toxic masculinity, the damaging effects of workplace sexual harassment, the meaning of consent and the perpetuating cycles of abuse. And while much of the MeToo movement has focused on women's stories of abuse, the play puts a spotlight on the role that men play. "The onus is on men to take the movement seriously and process it and think about whether they have been culpable or complicit in some way," Mr. Kwek said. The play's title was lifted from an interview Mr. Kwek conducted during his research a line a female human resources executive said and one women have routinely been told when reporting workplace harassment and was an attempt to provoke viewers to question the very notion. "There is a very dark bitter irony of the title," Mr. Pang said. Mr. Kwek and the Pangs said they were nervous about how "Pretty Girls" would land in Singapore, where media and entertainment are highly controlled by the government. In addition, they said that they were worried the play would polarize audiences, and that social media mobs would attack. "My fellow Singaporeans are scary," Mr. Kwek said, remarking on the socially conservative sentiment in society. "I am as afraid of my neighbors censoring me as the state authorities." Yet "What Happens to Pretty Girls" opened in May to critical acclaim, and during its 16 day run, the play sparked conversations about MeToo issues in Singapore. Viewers took to social media to share their thoughts, and by the final week of performances the 615 seat theater was selling out. Some critics, though, said it raised a lot of questions but didn't provide enough solutions. One Sunday, after a matinee performance, a talk back conversation with audience members covered several topics, including questions about consent, how to help survivors who don't want to talk about their experiences and the value of an apology. "I feel less ashamed," one woman said. Mr. Pang said that even after the show closed, the theater company was flooded with feedback, including a note in recent days from a man who said he was able to open up and seek therapy about sexual abuse he suffered 33 years ago, when he was 10. The play had a limited run, leading some to question whether it would unleash a broader discussion or whether those conversations would fade after the curtain fell. "When it is such an isolated, short run, whether that in and of itself will have a lasting impact remains to be seen," said Ms. Pereira, of AWARE. The Pangs said they were considering whether the play could have a life outside Singapore. They may submit it to a theater festival in London. "The subject matter itself is universal," Ms. Pang said. "It is happening everywhere."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
Flatiron Books, the publisher of "American Dirt," said Wednesday that it was canceling the author's book tour because of safety concerns. In a statement, Bob Miller, Flatiron's president and publisher, said, "Based on specific threats to booksellers and the author, we believe there exists real peril to their safety." "American Dirt," a novel by Jeanine Cummins about a Mexican woman and her son fleeing to the United States to escape cartel violence, came out last week and seemed poised to become one of the year's biggest books. It made its debut at No. 1 on The New York Times's best seller list for hardcover and for combined print and e book fiction this week. But the book has also encountered a backlash, with Latinx writers and community members criticizing Cummins's depiction of the migrant experience and accusing her of appropriating it for profit. Miller acknowledged some of the criticism in his statement, saying that "we made serious mistakes in the way we rolled out this book." He added: "The discussion around this book has exposed deep inadequacies in how we at Flatiron Books address issues of representation, both in the books we publish and in the teams that work on them." He said "there have been threats of physical violence," which prompted the cancellation. Instead, the publisher plans to organize town hall style meetings featuring Cummins and "some of the groups who have raised objections to the book." Some of the book's critics, however, expressed skepticism about the threats. "We have no knowledge or involvement in these safety concerns," said Roberto Lovato, a writer involved in the media campaign DignidadLiteraria, which has encouraged debate over "American Dirt" and sought to highlight the works of other Latinx writers. Cummins "has a right to come out and share her book like any other author," Lovato said. "We have a right to be critical of what we consider bad literature that doesn't represent the serious issues that we deal with every day." The controversy surrounding "American Dirt" "has sparked an overdue public conversation," the free speech nonprofit PEN America said in a statement. "As defenders of freedom of expression, we categorically reject rigid rules about who has the right to tell which stories. We see no contradiction between that position and the need for the publishing industry to urgently address its own chronic shortcomings," it added. "If the fury over this book can catalyze concrete change in how books are sourced, edited, and promoted, it will have achieved something important." PEN also condemned overheated online rhetoric and "vitriol aimed to shut down discussion and enforce silence." Another free speech organization, the American Booksellers for Free Expression, echoed those views in a statement on Wednesday, saying the group opposes "any actions expressly intended to cancel author or book events regarding 'American Dirt' or any title," and advocating for the right of booksellers "to curate their stores and to schedule events as they see fit, in light of their communities and the staff." Flatiron originally planned an elaborate book tour for "American Dirt," with appearances in 40 cities across the country. Some bookstores found themselves under pressure to pull the plug on their events even before the publisher's announcement. Valerie Koehler, the owner of Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, canceled a signing this week for "American Dirt" after receiving multiple emails and phone calls from people who threatened to organize a boycott of the store and to protest during the signing. Blue Willow is still selling the book. "The vitriol level on this has been high and pretty disturbing to me," she said. "We felt like it was best we not subject our customers to that." Left Bank Books, an independent store in St. Louis, also called off an event with Cummins after receiving numerous messages urging the store to cancel her appearance. "We sincerely believed it would be an opportunity to have an overdue public conversation about the deplorable actions of our country towards people at the border," a note on the store's website says. The store said the criticisms "felt like a challenge to do better." "Everything was so escalated, we wanted to slow down, stop and back away," said Kris Kleindienst, co owner of Left Bank. "We are carrying the book and are happy to talk about it anytime." Oprah Winfrey, who selected "American Dirt" as her January book club pick, has also attracted criticism for her choice. She later said that she would "bring people together from all sides to talk about this book and who gets to publish what stories" and would stream the conversation on her Apple TV Plus show in March. Members of DignidadLiteraria said in a statement on Tuesday that they "have no interest in a dialogue with Jeanine Cummins" but would rather focus on systemic issues of inclusion within Oprah's book club and the publishing industry. On Wednesday, more than 80 writers, many of them award winning novelists of color such as Carmen Maria Machado, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Luis Alberto Urrea, signed a letter asking Winfrey to reconsider her selection of "American Dirt." "The book club provides a seal of approval that can still, we hope, be changed," read the letter that was published on Literary Hub. "The book is widely and strongly believed to be exploitative, oversimplified, and ill informed, too often erring on the side of trauma fetishization and sensationalization of migration and of Mexican life and culture." Some booksellers said it was unfortunate that independent stores had been mired in the controversy. "I really feel for these bookstores that are under pressure to cancel events that they were trying to host to engage the public in a broader discussion," said Lissa Muscatine, the co owner of Politics Prose in Washington, D.C., which hosted an event with Cummins last week. "The public may have a right to be critical of the author, and our events make room for that." She added that the store hadn't received any complaints from customers about the event for "American Dirt," and that the conversation around the novel had been "very lively and very engaged."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
Earlier this year, the National Academy of Sciences announced to the world the creation of programmable living organisms called "xenobots," minuscule blobs of jury rigged frog cells capable of a pulse and an appetite, and of executing computer driven functions, as if with "minds" of their own. To anyone who follows biotech more than books, this is all probably less than shocking. Still, spare a thought for the novelist Adam Levin, who has spent the last decade wrestling just such a "botimal" out of his imagination and onto the page. As of this writing, the xenobot remains homely and lab bound, whereas the "Curio" the theoretical center of Levin's new novel, "Bubblegum" is a mass produced commodity of weaponized cuteness, a kind of unholy hybrid of Giga Pet and Mogwai and Turing machine: velvety soft, forearm length, "a flesh and bone robot that thinks it's your friend(r)!" Still, the question this admirably bonkers and fitfully phenomenal book jazz hands its way around is more or less the one now mooted by reality: Where does "functioning" end and life begin? Our guide to the novel's near fetched universe is a man not of science but of art: a novelist cum memoirist cum unemployed schlub named Belt Magnet, of the fictional Chicago suburb of Wheelatine, Ill. Belt lost his mother to cancer as a preteen, and apart from a ritual sacrifice of virginity in his late 20s he hasn't had a relationship with a woman since. Now chain smoking his way toward 40, he ekes out a living on disability checks, lives at home with Dad, and (that suburban death sentence) lacks even a driver's license. "D.U.I.?" someone asks. "No," he says. "I just let it expire." On the surface, this Magnet might seem almost demonstratively chargeless, a Bartleby of the Midwest. As his memoir within a novel unfolds, though, we get some biographical facts as outlandish as Belt's name: the cultlike enthusiasm surrounding his out of print first book; his fraught childhood friendship with golden boy turned billionaire astronaut "Jonboat" Pellmore Jason; the "unspecified psychotic disorder" that leads Belt to believe he can hear the suicidal pleas of certain inanimate objects through a telepathic "gate" above his right eye ... and oh yeah, that time back in the '80s when he euthanized a bunch of rusty swing sets with a baseball bat and was subsequently paired, as a therapeutic gambit, with a beta testing "botimal." Twenty odd years on, he still has it stashed in its protective sleeve: by far the world's oldest surviving Curio, yclept Kablankey. Such giddy making plot points demand more room than I'm giving them, so perhaps it's no surprise this mammoth book should feel as lengthy as it is. Still, as if abashed by its own high spirits, "Bubblegum" relegates the highest proof premises to back story, from which waft notes of sci fi and satire. The foreground, by contrast, is mostly a ruminative tromp through a few days in Belt's current life: a trip to the White Hen to buy smokes, to the bank to get money for said smokes, to the playground to smoke them, home again for a cuddle sesh with Kablankey and thence to a climactic brunch over at the Pellmore Jason estate. The funky emphases of the book's first half recall William Gibson's line about the future being here, just unevenly distributed. Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. None Learn what you should be reading this fall: Our collection of reviews on books coming out this season includes biographies, novels, memoirs and more. See what's new in October: Among this month's new titles are novels by Jonathan Franzen, a history of Black cinema and a biography by Katie Couric. Nominate a book: The New York Times Book Review has just turned 125. That got us wondering: What is the best book that was published during that time? Listen to our podcast: Featuring conversations with leading figures in the literary world, from Colson Whitehead to Leila Slimani, the Book Review Podcast helps you delve deeper into your favorite books. Yet as Levin's previous novel, "The Instructions," demonstrated even more amply (at 1,000 plus pages), you don't come to this writer for elegance of proportion. You come for comedy, for sensibility, for style; and in this sense "Bubblegum" is prodigiously sustaining. Its diction has the casual artfulness of pre distressed denim: the "flan colored Bentley," the "drool of freezing rain," Dad bowlegging around the house like "a gunslinger high on good paregoric." And Levin unspools seemingly every rhetorical trick in the trivium. The specter of botimal "overload" boasts a nightmarish intensity, but then again, is our own consumer experience any less masochistic? Like his close contemporary Joshua Cohen, no haikuist himself, Levin can make the kitchen sink ambition of (mostly white, mostly male) midcentury postmodernism feel positively new, bidding fair for the maximalist mantle of a Pynchon or a Stanley Elkin. But Levin's consuming interest in everyday subjectivity equally pulls in the direction of minimalism; what engorges the sentences here is actually the kitchen sink of consciousness, or, as Belt's mother puts it from her deathbed, "all those asides and thoughts within thoughts." Dilating endlessly, harrying propositions into neuroses, Levin also owes a subtle debt to pre postmodernists like Thomas Bernhard and perhaps Gertrude Stein. And then there's his inborn ear for every shade of human babble, here a transcendent four hander, there a screwball travelogue, everywhere argot and idiolect and argument. When it's humming, the pileup of plenitude and emptiness is as future perfect as the Curio itself, the sound of the day after tomorrow: "Having slipped the eyebrow flexing compilation into the living room player, I was just sitting down to unsleeve Kablankey when my father, bruised greenly below the right eye, appeared in the doorway." The downside of such rampant felicity is its aptitude to push up on anything that moves. (Or, to put it another way, when you're holding a baseball bat, everything starts to look like a rusty swing set.) Conversations grow uniformly windy; for each charming gust of Chicago cross talk, we get an exhaustingly exhaustive monologue on handkerchiefs, or tax planning. As for our hero, it can take him paragraphs to down a glass of water, whole pages to reach the teller window. Nor is this quite the hermeneutics of David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon" or Beckett's "Molloy": At the end of paragraphs or pages, water and teller window aren't so much seen anew as written into oblivion. Which is one way "Bubblegum" seems weirdly at war with the novelistic form itself. The other is in its flickeringly adolescent view of human nature; a onetime student of psychology and social work, Levin appears to have at some point ingested a large dose of Skinnerian behaviorism that sits oddly against his writerly interest in the mysteries of character and motivation. As with "The Instructions," this novel's presiding philosophical shades are solipsism and interpersonal brutality, resulting once more in a narrator of rich if ingrown innocence unnerved by the nasty brutality of less innocent others. This self canceling quality, though intermittent, quickens in the figure of the Curio. In "Bubblegum"'s Earth 2.0, the internet as we know it has never existed, so this botimal fills its role in the consumer tech landscape. Not only are Americans transfixed by their "cures"; frenzied by adoration, they compulsively kill them, often in acts of literal consumption. The specter of such botimal "deactivation" boasts a nightmarish intensity. Then again, isn't our own consumer experience marked by masochism as much as sadism? And how disturbed can we really be by the violation of robots' personhood when the persons doing the violating seem, themselves, so robotic? Neither as majestically inscrutable as Kafka's panther nor as pointed as "Infinite Jest"'s fatally addictive videocassette, the Curio thus spends much of the book somewhere in the horse latitudes of allegory. In the end, though, Levin's faith in his flesh and bone robots yields a stunning transubstantiation. Having borne his cure nobly into old age, and having finally taken leave of Jonboat after their long, expository brunch, Belt relaxes into a long third act where he begins, at last, to live. And here, we feel, is the organism "Bubblegum" has been engineering all along. "According to my panic," Belt says, in a voice of funny and rueful wisdom, "the world was random and randomly brutal, and thinking in terms of responsibility was just a way to avoid facing the fearsome truth: that, as always, and like everyone else, I lacked control over just about everything, my death was encroaching, as was the death of anyone else I cared about." But then "guilt and panic gave way to hope, to reason, to reasonable hope or hopeful reasoning who could tell the difference?" It's as if Kablankey has been a kind of transitional McGuffin, a stand in not only for the interwebs or mother love but for every last soft fixation we must leave behind in order to achieve midlife, where at best "all signs pointed to maybe, for sure." Levin's brains may have earned him a cult like Belt's, but here he swells to a democratic reach. Give him a try sometime. His gate's wide open.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
At around 11:15 on Monday morning, when Manhattan was mostly empty because of the Labor Day holiday, Graham Norton, the BBC talk show host, entered the ABC Carpet Home store on Broadway and 18th Street. Dressed in a dark green, intricately patterned Thorsun shirt and slate gray Citizens of Humanity jeans (the same outfit he had worn earlier in the day on "Good Morning America"), he had on his face the anticipatory look of a child about to run free in his favorite toy shop. Mr. Norton, 54, first visited the store about 15 years ago, when he had just bought a two bedroom mews house in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. "I was doing my talk show five nights a week, and all this money was rolling in," he said. "I went a little crazy and bought this house that I neither need nor use a lot. But I love New York." Soon after he bought the house, a friend brought him to this temple of luxurious bohemia to buy some sheets. "We walked in and it was just love at first sight," he said. "This place is just amazing." We quickly headed up to the fifth floor, billed as "classic timeless," and wandered around a grouping of eclectic furnishings: some new, some old (and occasionally tattered) and all carrying hefty price tags. "That's rather nice," he said as he paused to look closer at a vintage love seat with pale flowered fabric faded by time and worn away in one spot, and its matching sofa. The love seat was 2,250, the sofa, 4,400. "Hmmm," Mr. Norton said, walking away. "Oh, that's lovely," he said as he passed a couch by the New York furniture designer John Derian, part of a collection sold under the Cisco Brothers brand. "I like all of this. They are all quite nice." Across the room he spotted an oddly patterned couch that he found intriguing: "It looks like it's a repurposed denim skirt." But as we got closer, he fingered the fabric and said dismissively, "Oh, that would wear really badly." A striking chair in a delicate deep blue fabric was also rejected for practical reasons: "I have dogs, so that's not happening." While we moved on, Mr. Norton turned to me and said, "It's so funny. When I walked into the 'Good Morning America' building this morning, there were all these people there checking my ID and asking who I was and why was I there. Then after I had been on the show, and I came back out, they all asked me to take a selfie with them. They still didn't know who I was, but they had seen me being interviewed and they knew I was famous, and that was enough." Mr. Norton had been on "G.M.A." (and would later be on "The Rachael Ray Show" and "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert") to promote the United States publication of his first novel, "Holding," a murder mystery set in a village in rural Ireland similar to the one Mr. Norton grew up in. With its tale of provincial life, gimlet eyed spinsters and thwarted love not to mention the discovery of a dead body it feels almost like a Miss Marple mystery written by Colm Toibin. Mr. Norton, who has drawn high ratings for almost 20 years, is the author of two best selling memoirs, but this is his first novel. "It's a recognizable structure," he said over lunch (a fried fish sandwich and a glass of chardonnay) at ABC Cocina, where we went after he had bought a Frette duvet cover to replace the one he had bought 15 years earlier. "You find a body. Then you find a second body. And then you go from there. And there is a reason to keep you reading. Even if it's an awful book, you still keeping reading it to find out what happened." ("Holding" is not an awful book. It is actually quite a good read, and received largely enthusiastic reviews when first published in Britain. It is also being made into a TV movie.) Sergeant Collins's anguish over his bulk, and his constant rebukes to himself about how much he eats, feel awfully close to the bone, as it were. Was Mr. Norton fat as a child? "Mentally, yes," he said. "I think everyone has a very dysfunctional relationship with food." But he said he was determined that P. J. not lose weight, as part of a happy ending: "That was not going to be his story." He added, "I have a very overweight friend, and she read the book. And I know she read it, because she texted me, 'Have your book. Reading it!' And she has never mentioned it again. And I have never mentioned it again. And I wonder if that's the reason because I'm describing a world that she knows very well and that she assumes I do not. But who knows? Maybe she just hated the book." The genesis of the plot came from a story his mother told him about an abandoned house in the Irish town of his youth, and the three unmarried sisters who lived there. "To be honest, to do that story justice, the book would have had to have been an almost 'Remains of the Day' kind of thing," Mr. Norton said. "But I didn't have the skill set to do that. So I decided to kill someone and turn it into a murder mystery." Becoming a fiction writer is the latest career move for someone who, with his talk show, TV specials, hosting gig for the Eurovision contest and even an "agony uncle" advice column in The Telegraph, exemplifies the word "workaholic." At the BBC, he earns a reported 900,000 pounds a year (roughly 1.17 million), which makes him one of the highest paid stars in British television. The salary also caused a certain amount of eye rolling in British media circles recently, when the government funded BBC was forced to disclose the salaries of its stars and it was revealed that there was a wide discrepancy between what the network paid its male and female employees. That was not Mr. Norton's most famous brush with the tabloid press, however. A few years ago, an ex boyfriend gave an interview to a British newspaper in which he said that the two broke up because Mr. Norton "could drink up to four bottles of wine in an evening" and seemed to care more about his two dogs than him. "That's probably the only real kiss and tell I've been involved in; it was something, to feel really betrayed," he said. "What's good, of course, is that it makes you feel a lot better about the breakup. And the odd thing was, in Britain, it was almost like I planted that story, because of the amazing amount of good press I got from it. 'Yeah, I like to drink and I like dogs.' Those happen to be two very important things to the British people." Mr. Norton is now single and lives in an apartment in the Wapping neighborhood of London with Bailey, a Labradoodle and Madge, a terrier. ("The shelter named her Madonna, but I thought, 'I can't have a dog named Madonna,' and so I changed it to Madge.") He seems content with that arrangement. "The reality is that, as you get older, the more fussy you become," he said. "But the older you get, the less right you have to be fussy." Or as he told one interviewer: "I would prefer to live alone than with towels that are folded incorrectly."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
Auto China 2014 officially opened to the public on Monday at the China International Exhibition Center, Beijing's convention center, with a glittering, seemingly endless array of new transportation offerings that underscored the growing importance of the Chinese market in the automotive industry. Volkswagen, for example, chose the show in China over the New York International Auto Show, which is happening concurrently, as the more important site to unveil three important new models: a refreshed Touareg sport utility; the hottest Golf hatchback ever, the 395 horsepower R 400; and a sleek New Midsize Coupe concept. Although the models that VW showed in Beijing were adjusted to suit Chinese tastes, each will also be offered in other markets worldwide, with minor changes made for each target demographic, the company announced. "The Golf R 400 that was shown in Beijing, that's a good example of a global car for VW," Scott Vazin, a VW spokesman, said in an interview. "The basic platform is on our MQB tool kit, which makes it highly flexible and adaptable to any market in which we sell. We just need to adjust things to make it viable for other markets." The importance of the China market to Volkswagen is critical, Carsten Krebs, a company spokesman, said in an email. "This will give you a flavor how important this market is for us," he said. "We delivered 3.26 million cars in China; 9.73 units globally. China represents roughly 30 percent of VW's overall volume on a global basis." Starting years ago, high volume automakers like Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors established solid footholds in the Chinese market. This has proved a wise move, as China has rapidly transitioned from a nation of bicyclists to what has become the world's largest automotive market. Other automakers, like the ones from Japan, seemed to have gotten off to somewhat belated and more uncertain starts, and, as evidenced at this year's Beijing show, they are still playing catch up. Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, Toyota and Lexus each introduced polarizing new models and concepts in Beijing that all appeared to be searching for an elusive lost chord to resonate with Chinese buyers. Honda showed the Concept B hybrid and the Spirior sedan concept two models with protruding noses that failed to wow. Likewise, Lexus showed its scissor nosed NX crossover, a production ready model that bears a strong resemblance to the concept that was widely panned at its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show last year. Nissan's Lannia sedan concept also seemed to be something of a miss. But even those lackluster efforts received warmer welcomes than those of homegrown Chinese models, from brands like Dongfeng, Chery, Changan, Haval, Zoyte and others. Chinese buyers, judging by sales results, seem to prefer foreign cars. A rare hit among the misses could be Geely's Cross PHEV concept, a clean design with an environmentally friendly powertrain. This is not a complete surprise; the Cross HPEV was designed by Peter Horbury, the well regarded stylist from Volvo. The show, also known as the 13th Beijing International Automobile Exhibition, runs until April 29.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
The first 15 minutes of "End of the Century," the debut feature film from Lucio Castro, flirt with banality, hard. Och o hits an Airbnb on the Barcelona coast and gets up to not much at all. He dines alone, drinks beer, visits the beach and exchanges glances with a guy about his age. Eventually he calls to the fellow from his balcony. He comes up. Introductions the fellow is named Javi flirtation, exploratory kisses and sex ensue. What does not ensue is a gay variant of "Before Sunrise" or "Brief Encounter," as much as the movie seemed to have been heading for some such thing. The measured ordinariness of its first section has been a sly setup for a poetic film that handles narrative as a kind of scarf dance.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
In a note to staff members, the two executives said they would continue to ensure "that there is a very clear segregation between our journalism and the commercial interests and activities of the company." The Times, like all print newspapers, has been struggling to adjust to a rapidly shifting media landscape, as readers moved first to the web, then to smartphones and social networks. The newspaper started a paywall, to charge digital readers, in 2011, and had 910,000 digital subscribers in the last quarter of 2014. Half of its digital readers now come from mobile, the company said. Mr. Wilson, 59, said in an interview that one of the core challenges for The Times is that readers "are inundated with information every hour of the day except when they're sleeping. That needs to inform the way we present the news." In that environment, he said, "how people experience The New York Times, the quality of that experience, is just as important as our news report." He will be working with the newsroom, he said, and with others in the company who are designing and building a portfolio of digital offerings to present the newspaper's journalism. That will involve, he said, working on the current lineup of apps and other media products, and perhaps adding more new products and channels in the future. "In this environment," he said, "we're moving past the point where a single presentation of our news report can satisfy our readers."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Media
Now in its 91st year, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a quintessential American holiday staple. This year's lineup of balloons includes Pikachu, SpongeBob SquarePants and several trolls (from the movie of the same name) . If you're in New York, the parade begins at 9 a.m. E.S.T. on the Upper West Side and finishes near Herald Square, home to the world's largest Macy's store. If you're looking for something a bit less traditional, consider riding off Thursday's meal with the Pilgrim Pedal Ride on Friday, Nov. 24, a family friendly biking excursion that weaves through Brooklyn and Queens. The event, which begin at East 23rd Street and the East River, includes a "sit down social" breakfast at a Brooklyn diner midway through the ride. Other New York area events and attractions for the holiday weekend include the Bryant Park Winter Village, a gift centric market in Midtown Manhattan , and the annual Day after Thanksgiving Hike on Staten Island. More to Do in New York 36 Hours in Latino New York City Want the 'Real' Brooklyn? Go Cheap Luxury for Less in New York City	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
Marcus Thames, right, with Cameron Maybin in 2007. Thames was one of the players who guided a young Maybin when he was with the Tigers. Early in his major league career, Curtis Granderson never went hungry around Dmitri Young, particularly in Kansas City, Mo. Whenever the Detroit Tigers traveled there, Young, one of the elder Black players on the team, would invite his younger Black teammates outfielders Nook Logan, Marcus Thames, Craig Monroe and Granderson to his hotel suite to enjoy a catered buffet usually made up of macaroni and cheese, cornbread, collard greens and barbecued meats. They would fill their bellies, laugh and talk about life and baseball for hours. "We'd all just be hanging out and fighting over the last piece of oxtail," Granderson recalled recently. Added Young: "That good old soul food." Without realizing it at the time, Granderson was participating in an unofficial tradition that has been handed down through generations in the sport: The older Black players are responsible for looking out for the younger ones. It has often involved gifts or meals, but those simply provide opportunities to get together, to offer support and to make the newbies feel welcome in a sport where the presence of African American players has shrunk over the past several decades, to just 8 percent of the major leagues this season. Just one Black American player Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers is playing in this year's World Series. "Man, that's ridiculous," said Young, 47, who last played in the majors in 2008 and is now the head baseball coach at Camarillo High in California. "For the history of the game, it dwindles down to this." This year complicated the pay it forward practice. When the coronavirus pandemic wiped out the 2020 minor league season, recently drafted Black players' orientation into professional baseball was put on hold as they missed out on the camaraderie of a clubhouse. So Granderson, 39, and the others leading the Players Alliance, a nonprofit formed after the killing of George Floyd that now includes more than 100 former and current Black players, looked for a modern way to carry on the tradition. That is why, not long after the Major League Baseball amateur draft in June, Granderson, the president of the nonprofit, was sitting at his computer at his Chicago home with a notepad and his cellphone. He researched the list of 160 players selected in the five rounds and found that 15 of them were Black. Then he reached out to each one of them via text message or direct message on social media with an invitation. "Thank you very much, Instagram," Granderson, who retired earlier this year after 16 major league seasons, said in a phone interview. None Everyone Loves Ohtani: The Angels' two way star was a unanimous pick for A.L. M.V.P. and his superfans redefine devotion. Phillie Phavorite: Bryce Harper truly committed to Philadelphia and now he's back on top of baseball, winning the N.L. M.V.P. Cy Young Winners: Milwaukee's Corbin Burnes and Toronto's Robbie Ray had hit rock bottom before they worked their way up to stardom. Baseball Is Stuck in Neutral: The potential of a lockout has a star studded group of free agents waiting for the dust to settle. Free Agency Tracker: Get the latest updates on signings, contract extensions and trades. After Granderson welcomed the draftees into the nonprofit which was created this summer to build Black participation in the sport he sent them each a Zoom link. As soon as the outfielder Baron Radcliff, the Philadelphia Phillies' fifth round pick out of Georgia Tech, joined the video call from the link, he was floored when he saw the faces of players he had idolized or watched on television C.C. Sabathia, Andrew McCutchen, Delino DeShields Jr. and Torii Hunter. "Whoa, this is crazy," said Radcliff, 21. Radcliff was one of nearly a dozen draftees who joined the hourlong chat. After an introduction, they broke into small groups, many of them paired with current and former players of the same organization or city. The Mets' draftee Isaiah Greene talked to Dominic Smith, a current Mets first baseman and outfielder, and Sabathia, a longtime Yankees pitcher who retired last year. Ed Howard, the Cubs' first round pick from Mount Carmel High in Chicago, asked current and former major leaguers about what to expect in spring training and about their paths through the minor leagues. He was encouraged to connect with Cincinnati Reds pitcher Amir Garrett and the prospect Hunter Greene, he said, because it meant that when he was in Arizona for spring training or instructional league, "I got people I can count on and talk about things." "There's not a lot of Black players in the game," added Howard, 19, "and just being a mentor helps me feel more comfortable on this new journey, going around different places to play, being around different people and things like that. They talked a lot of about being myself and being a good example for people coming up behind me." Radcliff said he already had some idea of what to expect because his father, a former Royals minor leaguer in the 1990s, had passed along his experiences. (Back then, African American players made up as much as 19 percent of the major leagues.) Still, Radcliff said, it was jarring to arrive at the Phillies' instructional camp last month and see only two other Black players, out of the nearly 60 present. On the Zoom call, he said, he tried to be a sponge. "They talked about making sure you're hustling," said Radcliff, an Atlanta native, "because there are stereotypes of Black players in pro ball and they don't want us to fall into that trap. It was all good advice." The young players were also all added to a large GroupMe message chain with all of the players in the nonprofit, from Yankees star Giancarlo Stanton to Sabathia. Howard already had Granderson's number (the two had crossed paths before in Chicago), and he said he has stayed in touch with Jason Heyward, a Black outfielder for the Cubs who reached out after Howard was drafted by the team, and Tim Anderson, a Black shortstop for the Chicago White Sox. Since the Zoom meeting, Radcliff said, he has talked frequently with two others from Georgia in the group: Edwin Jackson, who last pitched for the Tigers in 2019, and Dexter Fowler, a St. Louis Cardinals outfielder. "It's crazy having all these guys' phone numbers in my phone," Radcliff said, adding later: "I don't want to be a bother 'Oh, hit me up.' But every time I've hit somebody up, I always get a response and it's always cool." Cameron Maybin, a 14 year veteran outfielder who played for the Cubs and Tigers this season, said the Zoom call was also "an incredible platform" for the draftees to share their own experiences with racism, as well as an opportunity to ask questions about entering professional baseball before even stepping foot on a major league field. When Maybin first reached the major leagues with the Tigers at 20 in 2007, he said older players such as Gary Sheffield, Thames, Young and Granderson took him under their wings. They told him to "be seen, not heard" a common piece of advice Black players give each other in professional baseball. "They were teaching me from a young age how I needed to move," said Maybin, now 33, who helped found the Players Alliance. "And I didn't realize it until I got older. Then you're like, 'Damn, these dudes were really trying to help me make sure I didn't stub my toe on the way.'" The acts of kindness by one teammate in particular during Maybin's rookie season have forever stuck with him. Granderson, who was 26 at the time, let Maybin sleep on his couch in Detroit for a week after his call up, then took him out to eat in every new city they visited that season. "This dude took me everywhere," Maybin said. "Everywhere." Granderson took the mentorship tradition to heart throughout his career. He sent equipment to minor league, college or youth players who were in need and would take teammates along to meals. He hosted an annual cookout, mostly for his Black teammates, at his cousin's home in Florida during spring training. "It was stuff that was happening all around us that you just didn't say was mentoring," he said. "It's just what you did." The person who did that for Granderson was Young, who also gave younger Black players bats, DVDs of "Chappelle's Show" to watch on the road, and jewelry after Young signed a four year, 28.5 million contract with the Tigers in 2002. When Young first reached the major leagues with the Cardinals in 1996, he said, he received similar treatment from multiple players: Royce Clayton, who always took him to lunch; Ray Lankford, who bought him suits so he could dress like a big leaguer; and Brian Jordan, who always offered advice. And when he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds two years later, Young's mentor was Jeffrey Hammonds, who often invited him to his room after games to have a drink and talk shop for two to three hours at a time.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
THE BUYER His search took some unexpected turns, but Matt Payne is pleased with the end result. After two years of touring the country with traveling shows and "making 200 or 300 a week, plus free housing," Matt Payne had had enough. So, around four years ago, Mr. Payne, who is from Lexington, Ky., and studied musical theater at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va., moved to New York. He and a friend rented a 1,200 one bedroom in South Harlem. In their 350 square feet, Mr. Payne, now 27, slept on a Murphy bed in the living room while his roommate had the bedroom. Both worked as waiters. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Payne's father offered to give him 20,000 to help with a home purchase. Thrilled, Mr. Payne planned to spend around 200,000 on a co op that allowed a 10 percent down payment. He intended to remain in Harlem, "which has become really nice and popular," he said, but also expensive. "He wasn't afraid of doing some renovations, and he realized because of his budget it was going to be a fixer upper anyway," said his agent, Amanda Schmieder of Reliance Realty, with whom his landlord connected him. He hunted primarily for an income restricted co op converted under a Housing Development Fund Corporation program. "There is a very small window for these H.D.F.C. co ops," Ms. Schmieder said. "You can't make above a certain amount of money, but they also require a large cash down payment. We ran into a lot of pitfalls." Mr. Payne first tried to buy a two bedroom with a maid's room on St. Nicholas Avenue in south Central Harlem. He negotiated the 210,000 asking price to 197,500, but the apartment was sold to another party. He was interested in two units at a building in the Hamilton Heights section of Harlem. For a two bedroom, Mr. Payne could not get the price below 220,000; he then negotiated a smaller two bedroom to 148,000. But the co op board deemed his income insufficient. Meanwhile, desperate for more space, the roommates moved to a three bedroom for 2,400 a month near City College in Hamilton Heights with another friend. "For the first time in my life, I kind of decorated," Mr. Payne said. He halted his search, intending to keep saving. But one day last summer, his roommate called him at work: Their building was in flames. Mr. Payne lost most of his furniture and all of his clothing. Of all the residents in the 41 unit building, he was the only one he knew of with renter's insurance, he said. His policy paid 20,000 for property damage plus several thousand dollars more for living expenses. "I tell everyone I meet you should get renter's insurance," he said. Mr. Payne and his roommate moved in with a friend who had two small extra rooms in West New York, N.J. They paid 550 a month each. Meanwhile, "I had this big hunk of cash I was not immediately spending and could put on an apartment if I needed to," Mr. Payne said. By now, he was so interested in real estate that he had earned his license and started working part time with Ms. Schmieder. But he did not give up his night job as a waiter at a seafood restaurant on the Upper West Side. Mr. Payne resumed looking for a place, finding a fifth floor walk up on West 122nd Street in Central Harlem for 181,000. The long, skinny layout had almost 700 square feet. The building did not allow washer dryers and had no laundry room. "He struggled with it so much," Ms. Schmieder said. "He couldn't get past the fact there was no laundry." With his original roommate happily situated in New Jersey, Mr. Payne no longer insisted on two bedrooms and in the end, he did not go the H.D.F.C. route. Last fall, while apartment hunting for a client in Inwood, he came upon a studio in a conventional six story elevator building, for 180,000. Although Inwood was north of his target area, Mr. Payne loved the large foyer, sunken living room and separate kitchen. The unit was in good condition. The building had a laundry room. He offered 168,000, with a 15 percent down payment. Monthly maintenance is in the mid 500s. Mr. Payne closed in the spring. With just 500 square feet, "I worry a little bit about space," he said, "but one of the good things about the fire is I don't have a lot of stuff right now." A customer at the restaurant where he works, Donald Hill of Donald Hill Interiors, was downsizing and gave him some "furniture I could never afford," Mr. Payne said. He doesn't mind the hilly walk from the train or the trek up a steep street. And he can easily walk to the Target just across the Harlem River in Marble Hill. "That is the first thing I tell people," he said. "There's a Target 10 minutes away."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
This polished sphere was fashioned from a meteorite that crash landed into a dry riverbed in Russia. On Wednesday it soared again, not through space but at an auction house, snagging 130,000 nine times its asking price. The meteorite was a part of a cosmic collection put up for sale at Christie's in London. But it was one of only a few space rocks to take off. The meteorite encrusted in extraterrestrial gemstones, given a high valuation of 1.1 million, did not sell. Neither did some of the other heavy hitters such as the 639,000 Martian meteorite, a 426,600 chunk of the Chelyabinsk fireball that exploded over Russia in 2013 nor the 355,500 rock that looks like a metallic screaming face. James Hyslop, Christie's specialist in science and natural history, said in a video accompanying the auction that he priced meteorites based on their size, where they came from, their scientific importance and the story behind their discovery. Fragments that were once part of the moon or Mars are of particular value, he said. In an email after the auction, Mr. Hyslop offered his reasons for why some items sold and some didn't. "We saw in the sale that lots with lower estimates sparked particularly competitive bidding and sold well," he said. He added that the size and weight of the more expensive meteorites might have made them somewhat less accessible than the smaller, less expensive lots, which may be why many did not find buyers. But before you go hunting for the next million dollar meteorite, know that it's rare to unearth a space rock. In fact, most of the things that people think are meteorites are not meteorites at all. Many are "meteorwrongs": chunks of rock and metal that masquerade as meteorites. Just ask Randy Korotev, a lunar geochemist from Washington University in St. Louis, who has come across countless cases of mistaken identity while studying moon rocks. Or better yet, don't ask Dr. Korotev, as his email has been clogged with meteorite identification requests for more than a decade. Since 2006 he has received nearly 18,000 emails from people asking him whether they have found a space rock, including more than 1,280 requests so far in 2016. "It's becoming overwhelming," Dr. Korotev said. "I spend several hours every week answering email." Only about one in every 1,000 finds turns out to be an actual meteorite, he said. Most of the "meteorwrongs" are actually masses of iron, glassy byproducts from smelting ore called slags, or igneous rocks with small cavities called vesicular rocks. But he has also come across musket balls, grinding balls and bowling balls. Dr. Korotev's personal website now carries a disclaimer for people who think they have found a meteorite that could make them rich. His advice: Turn to his self test checklist and meteorite realities list before pressing send on that email.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Science
In Russian soccer, it was Sochi 2, Krasnodar 0. In Turkish basketball, Fenerbahce 84, Tofas 75. In women's Australian rules football, Greater Western Sydney 26, Adelaide 21. These scores, which would ordinarily be buried in the blizzard of worldwide sporting results, stood out this weekend. Not because the games were particularly remarkable, but because they were played at all. All of the major leagues in the United States, plus golf, tennis and other sports have shut down because of the spread of the coronavirus. The top soccer and rugby leagues did the same in Europe. Just about all sports in China and Japan have been idle for weeks. The soccer slate for Sunday, normally chock full of games from nations big and small, consisted of matches in only a handful of regions: South and Central America, Africa, Australia, Russia and some former Soviet nations, and some Asian countries that were not at the epicenter of the pandemic, like Vietnam and Singapore. The rest of the world was virtually sports free. Here is a look at the games and events that are still bring held. For now. None Week 11 Predictions: Here are our picks against the spread. N.F.L. Tightens Covid Protocols: As cases rise and Thanksgiving approaches, the league is requiring masks inside team facilities and increasing testing. The Packers' Defense Is Their M.V.P.: Green Bay's oft overlooked defense has kept the team from falling out of the Super Bowl chase. The Long Path to the Super Bowl: With 18 weeks in the regular season and fewer teams earning byes in the playoffs, the Super Bowl is still a long way off. Playoff Simulator: Explore every team's path to the postseason, updated live. While human sports have been shutting down, horse racing has proved to be surprisingly resilient, even in places like France and Britain, which are all but closed down. In New York, restaurants and schools were ordered closed, yet Aqueduct was open for horse racing without fan attendance this weekend, financed by bettors at home and at simulcast locations. On Monday, the New York Racing Association said the track would continue to offer live racing. There was also racing at Gulfstream in South Florida and Santa Anita in California. There were no fans, but jockeys, trainers and, of course, horses were all busy with their usual jobs. "Very strange," jockey John Velazquez told The Miami Herald of racing at a nearly empty Gulfstream Park. "It's a little bit sad." Cheltenham in England ran its prestigious horse racing festival last week, and 250,000 fans showed up over the four days, down just 5 percent from last year. Spectators pressed eagerly against one another to cheer Al Boum Photo to a repeat victory in the Gold Cup, and Princess Anne and other members of the royal family were among them. With the conclusion of the festival, racing in Britain will now take place without fans at least through the end of March. And the mushers kept mushing at the Iditarod trail sled dog race in Alaska, which neared its finish. Because the race is nearly 1,000 miles, "they do a very good job of social distancing," Heidi Hedberg, Alaska's public health director, told The Washington Post. Dener Barbosa of Brazil won a Professional Bull Riders event in Duluth, Ga., held without spectators over the weekend. Ultimate Fighting Championship held its scheduled mixed martial arts card in Brasilia on Saturday night without fans in attendance. The fights were shifted from the subscription service ESPN to ESPN, which understandably is eager for live programming. The National Collegiate Wrestling Association held its wrestling championships in Allen, Texas, for schools not part of the N.C.A.A. More than 600 athletes participated. "I think a lot of this is driven by fear," the executive director, Jim Giunta, told The Dallas Morning News. "We're going to do everything in our power to create an environment that's more than safe for our athletes. But after we do everything we can do, we're going to operate on faith rather than fear." Premier League Darts took place last week in Liverpool as scheduled with the usual rowdy crowd enjoying their pints at communal tables. The next round was set for Newcastle on Thursday, but because of crowd gathering rules in the Netherlands, the final in Rotterdam was postponed until the fall. In snooker, Judd Trump won the Gibraltar Open on Sunday. Spectators were limited to 100, and no referees were used. The Tour Championship in Wales was still on, beginning on Tuesday, and the world championship was to follow. Game On ... and Then Game Off Liga MX in Mexico was one of the most prominent soccer leagues in the world that was still in action, and played its games through Sunday. But the league announced a suspension of its season immediately afterward. An Olympic boxing qualifying event in London started on Saturday, with more than 300 fighters but no fans. "All of the teams have been told to adopt regular hand washing," organizers said. Then, on Monday, organizers changed their minds and suspended the event until May or June.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
Travelers can take advantage of extra savings by booking tours during India's off season, and some deals extend to travel beyond summer. Safari parks offer peak wildlife viewing in April and May, while mountainous regions provide respite from the heat in June. On the Go Tours is offering two India tours for the price of one on bookings made by April 15. The discount applies to all India tours fewer than 12 days in length for select departure dates until Dec. 31. Rates range from 768 to 948 per person, with accommodations, breakfast and transfers included. An 11 day Taj and Raj itinerary includes stops at the Taj Mahal and the historic havelis of rural Shekhawati (from 1,785 versus 3,570 for two travelers). Five India tours from Peregrine Adventures are 15 percent off (promo code 30273 by April 15 for travel through Oct. 31). The Essence of South India tour includes two nights in Munnar, a tea growing region in the Western Ghats mountains (from 2,112). The Rajashthan Revealed tour includes morning and evening safaris at Ranthambore National Park, where tigers emerge in warmer months seeking watering holes (from 2,461). Tours include accommodations, breakfast and transportation. G Adventures has several different land and river cruise tours of India discounted 20 percent to 40 percent. Summer is a good time to visit the mountainous region of Ladakh, where a two week trekking tour is available in June (from 1,879 versus 2,349). The National Geographic Journeys Ganges River cruise includes a stop in the Unesco protected Fatehpur Sikri, where 16th century sandstone monuments and temples from the Mughals' first planned city still stand ( 2,099 versus 3,499). Accommodations, some or all meals, and transportation are included (book by April 30 for departures before August).	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
The photos you share online speak volumes. They can serve as a form of self expression or a record of travel. They can reflect your style and your quirks. But they might convey even more than you realize: The photos you share may hold clues to your mental health, new research suggests. From the colors and faces in their photos to the enhancements they make before posting them, Instagram users with a history of depression seem to present the world differently from their peers, according to the study, published this week in the journal EPJ Data Science. "People in our sample who were depressed tended to post photos that, on a pixel by pixel basis, were bluer, darker and grayer on average than healthy people," said Andrew Reece, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and co author of the study with Christopher Danforth, a professor at the University of Vermont. They found that depressed participants used fewer Instagram filters, those which allow users to digitally alter a photo's brightness and coloring before it is posted. When these users did add a filter, they tended to choose "Inkwell," which drains a photo of its color, making it black and white. The healthier users tended to prefer "Valencia," which lightens a photo's tint. Depressed participants were more likely to post photos containing a face. But when healthier participants did post photos with faces, theirs tended to feature more of them, on average. As revealing as the findings are about Instagram posts specifically, both Mr. Reece and Mr. Danforth said the results speak more to the promise of their techniques. "This is only a few hundred people, and they're pretty special," Mr. Danforth said of the study participants. "There's a sieve we sent them through." To be included in the study, participants had to meet several criteria. They had to be active and highly rated on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform, a paid crowdsourcing platform that researchers often use to find participants. They also had to be active on Instagram and willing to share their entire posting history with the researchers. Finally, they had to share whether or not they had received a clinical diagnosis of depression. Out of the hundreds of responses they received, Mr. Reece and Mr. Danforth recruited a total of 166 people, 71 of whom had a history of depression. They collected nearly 44,000 photos in all. The researchers then used software to analyze each photo's hue, color saturation and brightness, as well as the number of faces it contained. They also collected information about the number of posts per user and the number of comments and likes on each post. Using machine learning tools, Mr. Reece and Mr. Danforth found that the more comments a post received, the more likely it was to have been posted by a depressed participant. The opposite was true for likes. And depressed users tended to post more frequently, they found. Though they warned that their findings may not apply to all Instagram users, Mr. Reece and Mr. Danforth argued that the results suggest that a similar machine learning model could someday prove useful in conducting or augmenting mental health screenings. "We reveal a great deal about our behavior with our activities," Mr. Danforth said, "and we're a lot more predictable than we'd like to think."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
"Aw, guys, that is adorable. Trump is pardoning his kids and his house pets." TREVOR NOAH "And he's not even pardoning them for anything specific. Trump is just handing out pardons like they're gift cards: as Trump 'I figured I'd let you pick your own crime, so enjoy. Do something crazy, you know? Live a little.'" TREVOR NOAH "Of course the big question now is, can Trump legally pardon himself? Because you see, no one knows for sure. But I actually want Trump to try it, just because it will be fun to see how he'll do it. He'll probably be in the mirror like, as Trump 'I hereby pardon you. No, I pardon, stop pointing at me. I'm trying to pardon you. You're pardoned. You're so good looking, but you're pardoned.'" TREVOR NOAH "It's not a great look for your presidency when your biggest accomplishment is 'most family members pardoned.'" JIMMY FALLON "It's pretty crazy, the last person who needed pardons for their whole family was Charles Manson." JIMMY FALLON "According to legal experts, Trump's children may need pardons due to potential conflicts of interest arising between their business dealings and conversations with their father. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner needs a pardon for the time he killed a drifter just so he could feel something." JAMES CORDEN	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
A sprawling, elegant apartment that once belonged to Roone Arledge, who ran ABC Sports and News, in the exclusive Rosario Candela designed building sold to a hedge fund manager and his wife, who also own Brooke Astor's former co op directly above it, for 28,500,000 and was the most expensive closed sale of the week, according to city records. The residence, No. 15, which takes up nearly the entire 15th floor of the 20 story 1930s limestone and brick building at 73rd Street, was purchased by Daniel S. Sundheim, the chief investment officer of Viking Global Investors, and his wife, Brett. The Sundheims bought the Astor apartment, which was on the entire 16th floor and part of the 15th, in October 2011 for 21 million. That unit was listed for 46 million. The nine room, 4,500 square foot apartment on the 15th floor, which could now be combined with the unit upstairs to create an apartment that encompasses all of the 15th and 16th floors, was initially offered in a private sale by the Arledge family in June 2013 for 29 million. (Roone Arledge died in 2002; his wife, Gisele, in 2010.) It was relisted with Brown Harris Stevens in October for 38 million. Monthly maintenance is around 14,300, according to StreetEasy. Both grand and intimate, No. 15 consists of three main bedrooms, each with an en suite bath, along with two staff rooms with a shared bath, and is reached by a private elevator landing that opens onto a 30 foot long gallery. There are also three terraces, one of which provides glimpses of Central Park, and three marble fireplaces.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
Scott Nadler's home in Oceanside, N.Y., was among the thousands severely damaged when Hurricane Sandy's storm surge pummeled the South Shore of Long Island nearly a year ago. There was some relief, however, in finding that although saltwater had flooded his garage, the 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 he'd owned for 10 years was repairable. Quick action helped prevent the car's total loss. Within a day, Mr. Nadler, who drives a tractor trailer for a living, flushed the engine fluids, preventing the internal havoc that saltwater might cause. His insurance company paid about 10,000 for mechanical repairs and thousands more for a new interior, a thorough cleanup and some repainting. The work was done by White Glove Custom Collision in Baldwin, N.Y., and Mr. Nadler was pleased to again be driving his Chevy, an icon of the muscle car era, before the storm's one year anniversary. "That car is a part of me," he said. Fortunately for Mr. Nadler, the Chevelle was covered by a collector car insurance policy. Had it been deemed a total loss, as often happens with cars flooded with saltwater, Mr. Nadler's policy would have paid a guaranteed sum that he and Hagerty, which specializes in collector vehicles, had agreed to when the policy was purchased. Several companies offer such policies, which also include liability and other types of coverage, and can be later updated to reflect changes in the car's potential resale value. Collector car policies typically place some restrictions on the car's usage, including annual mileage limits, for example. The importance of buying specialized insurance was probably the most valuable lesson that stuck with classic car owners in Sandy's aftermath. A standard auto policy pays what companies define as the actual cash value, which may be many thousands of dollars below the car's true market value, according to Rick Drewry, senior claims specialist for collector cars and motorcycles at American Modern Insurance. He said the company's collector car policies included an agreed value provision. "It's peace of mind that if it's totaled, it's a contract price," Mr. Drewry said. "You know exactly what you'll get." The wording is important. Another type of policy, called stated value by insurance companies, is not the same thing. Although the car owner can set a value for the car, an insurance claim payout could potentially reduce that to account for depreciation since the policy was purchased. That distinction has been a sore point for many homeowners, whose policies covered wind damage but not the destruction caused by water from Sandy's storm surge. Mr. Nadler's Chevelle was one of 1,213 Sandy related claims that the company addressed. Mr. Hagerty said that more than 70 percent of those were total losses, though many more cars than that were ruined some 250,000 in all, according to estimates from the Insurance Information Institute. "We estimate that there were probably 10,000 collector cars at or near total loss," he said. "It takes three feet or less of water to destroy a car. If it was submerged up to the windshield in saltwater, that's pretty much a total." Valley Stream, a few miles inland from Mr. Nadler's house, suffered far less, but Kevin Mackay dealt with the effects of saltwater damage to his customers' Corvettes. His shop, Corvette Repair, assessed 15 newer and classic models. One client lost seven cars. But for some who asked Mr. Mackay to store their cars before the storm struck, there was good news. "We picked up about a dozen cars," he said. "One customer who stored two Corvettes was glad he did; his garage was destroyed." Insurance companies judged most of the cars that Mr. Mackay inspected to be total losses. He was able to save a couple, including a 1967 Sting Ray. Water had covered its seats and console but stopped below the fuse box and main wiring harness. A Corvette's fiberglass body will not rust, but the rest of the car is vulnerable. Value is a determining factor in whether a car should be restored, Mr. Mackay explained. A well optioned vintage Corvette with rare performance equipment can be worth more than 100,000, making expensive repair work viable. "With the later model cars, because of the computers, once saltwater gets in they're totaled," he said. "Salt acts like acid on metal and electrical parts." One 1998 model could not be saved. "That car had been fully submerged. It was covered in slime and mold," he said. "The later models might be worth 10,000 to 30,000, but you could have 50,000 or more in damage, so the insurance company totals it." Michael Zachowski, whose 1976 Triumph TR6 was insured by American Modern, was one of many owners to experience Sandy's extraordinary inland reach. When he built his home on the Mullica River in rural Sweetwater, N.J., 10 years ago, longtime residents there told him flooding would not be a worry. Still, he had the house built on a slab raised nine feet, and the garage was raised seven feet. Before the hurricane made landfall, Mr. Zachowski moved the family's cars to higher ground on his street. The TR6 stayed in the garage. "I never thought the Triumph would be affected," he said. The Atlantic Ocean, more than 20 miles to the east, pushed through Great Bay and moved the snaking river in the opposite direction. Around midnight, with water lapping at his garage, Mr. Zachowski and his son, Zachary, 17, rushed to elevate the Triumph using the car's scissor jack. The water rose quickly, coming within an inch of entering the house and flooding the garage to 23 inches. The carpets and seats of the British roadster were soaked, but fortunately not with saltwater. "We pay regardless of whether they try to move the car or not," he said. "But in so many instances, cars could have been saved by moving them just a half mile." Far from any flooding, another yellow Triumph did not fare as well as Mr. Zachowski's car. Mark Hagan, an artist, jazz musician and inventor, had stored his 1973 GT6, which was in excellent original condition, in the garage at his Nyack, N.Y., home. Through the night, Sandy's punishing winds brought down 20 trees on his property. One crushed the garage and damaged the Triumph beyond repair. Mr. Hagan did not have collector car insurance but rather a standard auto policy with a stated value rider. He had set the car's worth at 7,000, which he admitted was about half its market value. "I did that to keep the premium low," he said. Although the 7,000 payout he received was double what Mr. Hagan had paid for the car, it was not enough to replace the GT6. He instead invested the money in aquaSketch, which makes a wrist worn underwater writing slate that he invented a device that might be useful for insurance adjusters working during a storm. Many owners couldn't bear to part with their saltwater damaged treasures. Mr. Hagerty said that half the owners who received guaranteed value payouts for their ruined cars also exercised their right to buy them back for the salvage value, either to repair or use as a parts source for restoring a similar model. It was a similar story at American Modern. "We carefully explain what they'd be facing in trying to restore such a car," Mr. Drewry said. "They're not easy restorations. But if you're doing the labor yourself, it's not a bad car to buy."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
A University of Illinois policy requiring NPR member station reporters to disclose information about sources who say they were sexually harassed or assaulted is coming under fire from media organizations and free speech advocates, who say the rule will have a chilling effect on reporting about sexual misconduct. An investigation published in August by NPR Illinois and the nonprofit outlet ProPublica's Local Reporting Network found that the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign had repeatedly protected the reputations of professors who had been accused of sexual misconduct. Along with the articles, they asked people who had experienced sexual misconduct at Illinois colleges and universities to share their stories via an online form. The form specified that the accounts would not be shared or published without permission. NPR Illinois reported that after the investigation was published, the university, which owns the license for the station, said that its journalists could not promise confidentiality to students, employees or faculty members in the University of Illinois system who contacted them to report sexual misconduct. The journalists were considered "responsible employees," meaning that they were required to pass on the allegations to the institution because of Title IX rules, the university said. Title IX is a 1972 civil rights law that protects people from sex based discrimination in education programs or other activities that receive federal funds. The station's leadership and staff published an open letter to the university asking for an exemption to that policy. They argued that prohibiting journalists from receiving confidential information was "antithetical to freedom of the press and editorial independence." The signees wrote that the university's counseling center was exempt from the rules, and requested a similar policy. The letter noted that the policy has broad implications for NPR member stations around the country. While member stations are independently owned and operated, about two thirds of the stations are either licensed to, or affiliated with, colleges or universities. Isabel Lara, a spokeswoman for NPR in Washington, said in an email that the organization "believes it is critically important for member station newsrooms to have independence in news gathering and editorial decisions." She noted that while NPR Illinois is part of the University of Illinois system, the university has no editorial control or oversight of the content it produces. More than 20 media organizations also signed on to a Nov. 6 letter from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press calling on the university's board of trustees to change the policy. They included Dow Jones Company, Politico, and the Committee to Protect Journalists. The letter argued that the policy would chill coverage of the university's handling of sexual misconduct cases, and that suppressing coverage would allow systemic abuse to continue. "The First Amendment, the Illinois reporter's privilege and the purpose of Title IX itself all provide support for an exemption in this case," the letter said. The Better Government Association, the Illinois Press Association and the Illinois News Broadcasters Association have also sent letters opposing the policy. Ford and Rivian no longer plan to work jointly on electric vehicles. Elizabeth Holmes took the stand in her trial. Follow along with our reporters. Ken Griffin, head of Citadel, bid highest for a copy of the Constitution. On Monday, senior lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union sent the board another letter. The lawyers, Rebecca K. Glenberg and Sandra S. Park, argued that it was crucial to allow people who experienced harassment or assault to seek help or publicize their stories without setting off an investigation. A survivor of sexual misconduct may choose to confide in a reporter for any number of reasons. They may want their story to help others in similar circumstances but do not want to be further identified for fear of retaliation. They may know that their experience is representative of a larger issue that should be more widely known. They may simply be uncomfortable invoking the university's formal accountability mechanisms. In any case, the university should not close off this option for confidential disclosure. But the university has not budged. In a statement, Thomas P. Hardy, a University of Illinois spokesman, wrote that "making sure that all employees report any instance of sexual misconduct is part of how we protect students." "We have reviewed the legal and policy implications," the statement said. "The University of Illinois system has determined that requiring media employees to adhere to the 'responsible employee' reporting requirements is in the best interest of our students and would not violate any constitutional or other legal protections." For the time being, ProPublica , which is not subject to the university's rules, is screening the stories being submitted, and said it would not share the information with NPR employees if doing so would go against the source's wishes. Mary Hansen, an editor for the project at NPR Illinois, said that the university had not asked the station to identify sources for work that was already published. But the policy was preventing journalists from working on potential follow up stories. "This is having an effect on our reporting right now," she said. Ms. Hansen was planning to travel to Chicago on Thursday to voice her concerns at a meeting of the university's board of trustees.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Media
Megan Dorathea Byrne and Kevin Eli Jason were married Aug. 18 in Brooklyn. The Rev. William G. Smith, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at St. Charles Borromeo Church. The couple met at Stanford, from which each received a law degree and the groom received a master's degree in public policy. The bride, 30, works at the Center for Appellate Litigation in Manhattan, where she serves as appellate counsel for indigent criminal defendants. She graduated from Indiana University. She is the daughter of Noreen Hensley of Lebanon, Ind., and Robert Dixon of Indianapolis. She is the stepdaughter of Rob Hensley.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
New Yorkers in truly affordable apartments sometimes find their sweet deals come with sacrifices. In a city of soaring real estate prices, New Yorkers love to hear the tales of people who found the Promised Land: a truly affordable apartment. Such places are the stuff of city lore: a three bedroom in Manhattan that rents for less than 1,000 a month; a Lower East Side one bedroom that cost a mere 2,000; an East Village co op with maintenance charges of 545 a month. The children who grow up in these treasured homes, either rent regulated apartments or limited equity co ops which go for a fraction of what they are worth on the open market, to buyers who agree to a similar discount when they sell can have an inside track. Some get their names on a waiting list for a home at the earliest opportunity. Others have the coveted right of succession. Holding onto such a New York City real estate prize into the next generation often requires foresight and its own kind of sacrifice, but those who have managed to do so say that the apartments can provide much more than shelter: their very affordability can shape the arc of a tenant or owner's life. In a city where people move frequently, these tenants share the experience of living their entire lives in a single building. And while peers struggle to pay rent, they make professional choices uninfluenced by the high price of housing, but shaped instead by the home they've always had. In 2010, Josh Schaffner's parents left their rent regulated apartment in Inwood for a limited equity co op elsewhere in Manhattan. Mr. Schaffner, then 25, marched straight into the office of the Inwood property management company. For hours, managers pored over his file box, which was stuffed with years of bank statements, credit card statements, tax returns and cellphone bills. Finally, management handed him his parents' lease with their names scratched out and his written in their place. Rent for the three bedroom apartment in an elevator building was less than 1,000 a month. Mr. Schaffner had anticipated the event for years. Knowing that eventually his parents would leave his childhood home, he had meticulously kept residency records so that he could meet the burden of proof to claim succession rights: The apartment had to have been his primary residence for at least two years, and he had to be a family member. "What other 25 year old keeps a file box of every statement, every tax return?" Mr. Schaffner said. "I felt like I had been working toward something and I'd finally won it, which is a weird feeling to have, because it's a place to live it shouldn't be something you win." The incentive to stay put offers a real financial reward: New Yorkers who had lived in the same apartment for more than five years as of 2012 paid a median monthly rent of 1,057, substantially less than the 1,444 paid by people who had moved recently, according to data provided by the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy of New York University. Parents living in limited equity co ops, such as Mitchell Lama buildings, add their children to waiting lists years before they will need an apartment. And families in rent regulated apartments plan for their children to claim the lease eventually. "It was impressed upon me and my sister that we would want to put our names on as many Mitchell Lama lists as possible," Mr. Schaffner said. "If we ever wanted a place of our own, we would have to go through the New York channels that we were trained in." Mr. Schaffner's sister now owns a studio apartment in a Mitchell Lama limited equity co op on the Upper West Side. She bought it for 30,000 in 2012, a decade after she had begun putting her name on various waiting lists. But such opportunities are becoming rare, as more apartments are deregulated and as affordable housing programs are phased out and the units converted to market rate. Between 2002 and 2012, the number of rent regulated apartments in the city dropped by 8 percent, a loss of 87,820 units, according to the Furman Center. During the same period, six Mitchell Lama co op buildings, with a total of 3,432 limited equity units, left the program. Mayor Bill de Blasio, who made the shortage of housing for working class New Yorkers a campaign issue, has said he hopes to build or preserve 200,000 affordable units over the next 10 years. Even for those fortunate enough to be born into low cost housing, waiting lists can last for years and the various programs have different qualification requirements. Rent regulation comes with guidelines for succession, and limited equity co ops have their own rules as well. Many of these programs have income limits, with surcharges billed to high earners. Also resident in the building with Mr. Torres are (front row): his sister Mia and his grandmother Alicia; (back row) his girlfriend, Stepheny Stephens, and his father, Jose. Karsten Moran for The New York Times "I remember people getting on the list," said Dorie Paparo, a freelance writer who grew up on the Lower East Side in East River Housing, a limited equity co op until the late 1990s. "It was just what people did. Everyone would ask, 'Are you on the list?' " In 1994, when Ms. Paparo was 23, her name came up. For less than 2,000, she bought an 800 square foot one bedroom apartment in the complex that had been her lifelong home, and where her mother still lived. A few years later, the complex ended the restrictions. Apartments now sell for market rate a one bedroom sold in December for 449,000. "It didn't even occur to me how lucky I was," Ms. Paparo said. "It's only looking back that I realized I had this sweet deal." What differentiates New Yorkers who live in such situations from their peers is that they can make career choices unencumbered by an outsize housing bill. In 2011, over half of the city's renters paid at least 30 percent of income for rent and utilities, and 31 percent paid more than 50 percent, according to the Furman Center. Arismendy Feliz and his mother pay 580 a month in maintenance for the one bedroom co op they share in the Bronx. His mother bought the apartment for 250 in 1989 through a low income housing program. Mr. Feliz, 30, bought half of his mother's shares when he turned 18. Over the years, the co op has become part of Mr. Feliz's professional sphere. An artist, he now runs an artist collective called X Collective out of a vacant studio unit that the co op owns but has been unable to rent out. "For now, it's just continuing to fuel my life and inspire me," Mr. Feliz said. "It's allowing me to do what I'd like to do in terms of being an artist." "It gave me the chance to have the career that I always wanted without having to worry about how I was going to pay my bills," Ms. Leitner said. In 2003, Ms. Leitner married. Her parents retired and moved to Florida, transferring the shares of their apartment to her. She and her husband, who now have two children, combined the units, creating a spacious four bedroom two bath apartment with an open floor plan, an up to date kitchen and two balconies. Seward Park is now a market rate complex. Of the few four bedroom apartments available on the Lower East Side, the average price in January was 3.595 million, according to data provided by MNS. Resentment can run high among New Yorkers who pay market rate, particularly renters. Depending on how frequently the apartment has changed hands, an identical apartment in the same building can command a vastly different rent. Tensions can also arise within limited equity co ops, as some tenants want to preserve the programs while others see the potential gold mine that awaits them if they could sell their homes at market rate. Although some limited equity programs are permanent, others, such as Mitchell Lama co ops, allow shareholders to remove their building from the program after a number of years, a process that includes a two thirds majority shareholder vote. "Rent regulation provides affordability to the people who have those apartments," said Jonathan J. Miller, the president of the appraisal firm Miller Samuel. "But it doesn't provide affordability to new residents of New York coming in." Nearly 1 million of the 2.2 million rental units in New York City are rent regulated, according to the Furman Center. However, not all rent regulated apartments are cheap. Some in less expensive areas can rival the neighborhood's market rate. But in sought after areas, the difference between a market rate unit and a regulated one can be huge. There are far fewer limited equity co ops. In 2012 Mitchell Lama, the largest limited equity program in the city, had 66,500 such units. Mr. Miller points to rent regulation as a key factor driving up market rate rents. With nearly half of the housing stock regulated, landlords charge a premium for what remains, he said. With stakes so high, landlords sometimes offer rent regulated tenants six figure buyouts. If they suspect a tenant doesn't have a right to the apartment, they hire private investigators, challenge claims and take cases to court. Rent regulated tenants who own a modest country house in, say, the Berkshires affording it because they pay a relative pittance for rent are often the targets. Ella Leitner lives in the Seward Park Cooperative in downtown Manhattan with her husband, Brett, their children, Sasha, 6, and Zachary, 4, and their dog, Quincy. Karsten Moran for The New York Times "You better have your ducks in order," said Steven W. Birbach, the chairman of Carlton Management, "because you can bet that due to the pot of gold that awaits the owner of that apartment, they are going to be making sure that you've done everything right." At the same time, New Yorkers who grew up in neighborhoods that were all but abandoned by landlords in the '70s and '80s now find themselves priced out of the very blocks their families struggled to improve. "These were the buildings where the front lights were on, the door was locked," said Andrew Reicher, the executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, an advocacy group. "They helped spur the redevelopment of neighborhoods, and now that the neighborhoods are gentrifying, they are the only affordable buildings that are left." Marcel Torres, 31, has always lived in the same East Seventh Street building. In the 1970s, his grandmother led rent strikes against the landlord for failing to supply heat and maintain the building. Eventually the city took over the property, and in 1991, the tenants bought the building, each one paying 250 for an apartment. Mr. Torres shares an apartment with his father, his 12 year old sister and his girlfriend; they pay 545 a month for maintenance. He hopes eventually to buy or rent a unit in the building, but worries it may not be easy on a struggling actor's salary. Recently, apartments in the building have sold for close to 400,000, which is far below market rate for the East Village, but more than Mr. Torres can afford. "If it was back in the day, and we had known what we know now," Mr. Torres said, "we would have kept every unit in the building." Family members bought some, but not all, of the 24 units. Several of Mr. Torres's aunts and uncles live in the prewar building; their presence creates a kind of family compound. Mr. Torres remembers Christmas mornings when the halls would rumble as his cousins ran from door to door in celebration. The basement is lined with paintings, photographs and the skateboards that the Torres cousins rode in the streets as children. The basement community room, with well worn sofas and a makeshift bar, was recently decorated for Mr. Torres's grandmother's 90th birthday. Living one's entire life in the same place can be both comforting and unsettling, with some wondering what it would be like to live in another neighborhood. "It plays tricks with your memories," said Ms. Paparo, now 42. "I'll walk down the street and get a flash. If I lived elsewhere, I wouldn't have the ghosts of my past jumping into my everyday experiences." Her son learned to ride his bike in the same ball field where she learned, and childhood playmates still live nearby. When Ms. Paparo's mother died last November, neighbors she had known since childhood provided solace. "The last few months I've had a different perspective on it," she said. "All of a sudden it was really lovely to have that community." Yet if you never leave your childhood home, the quirks that irritated you as a child don't leave either. When Mr. Schaffner was a boy, the kitchen sink gurgled without warning making a vexing gassy sound that could be stopped only by turning on the faucet. Now, at 29, he finds that bubbling sound still annoys him. Similarly, when Ms. Leitner's parents visit her at the Seward Park Cooperative, her father moves the sugar back to where he stored it when he owned the place. Last spring Mr. Schaffner's fiancee, Offira Gabbay, joined him and his roommate in the Inwood apartment, giving up a cheerful one bedroom in Brooklyn. The couple had spent months debating which apartment to keep, but there was really never much of a choice. Ms. Gabbay's rent was 1,272 a month for a 450 square foot space; Mr. Schaffner's was less than 1,000 for a three bedroom. "New York is increasingly a difficult, hard place to find reasonable housing," said Arlene F. Boop, a lawyer who specializes in tenant rights. "If you've got one version of it, you're trapped." As his 30th birthday approaches, Mr. Schaffner has begun to contemplate the possibility that he might spend the rest of his life in the apartment where his parents were married and where he grew up. "I'm plenty happy where I am," he said. "The only reservation that I have is that I never had the choice to go anywhere else ."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
The best gift any of us can give to newborn babies is to point their sleep deprived parents in the direction of a good 529 or other college savings plan and then seed the account with a little bit of money. It was hard to avoid this conclusion in the midst of a recent baby boom among money writers at The New York Times. Tara Siegel Bernard, a personal finance reporter, recently delivered her first child, and Paul Sullivan, the "Wealth Matters" columnist, welcomed his second. I wanted to get both babies a little something, but knowing what I know about how much four years of college will cost, I couldn't in good conscience send a stuffed animal or a security blanket. You would think that the state sponsored 529 plans around the country would be welcoming givers like me who want to take this sort of initiative. But the process of tossing some money into an account is not as easy as it could, or should, be. The hassles have given rise to several registry services that let you use credit cards to pay for a 529 gift and spare you the need to contact the plans or the parents. Recently, however, the industry group that represents 529 plans and the companies that serve them raised questions about whether the start ups were violating securities laws. Why would they do such a thing, when the services seek only to collect assets to deliver to the 529 funds on a silver platter? To figure out the answer, it helps to start with a bit of refresher on how the 529 plans work. Anyone can open an account for himself or herself, or for someone else. States run the plans, and you can set up an investment account that allows you to choose among various mutual funds. Money in these accounts grows tax free, and you can withdraw it without paying any capital gains taxes as long as it's used for educational expenses. Moreover, a majority of states offer income tax deductions or credits when people deposit money. This is all nice and will become more so if our tax rates rise in the next decade or two. And the earlier you start, the more the money has time to grow (and the more you save on taxes). The "Cost of Waiting" calculator on BlackRock's Web site illustrates this nicely. Assume that college requires 40,000 today per year and that the cost will increase 4 percent a year for the next 18 years. If you assume that you'll earn a 6 percent annual return on your investments and that your child will need just four years to finish college after starting at age 18, you'd need to save 444 a month to pay for 50 percent of the bill, if you start saving when the child is born. Wait just five years, however, and you have to save 731 a month to reach that same goal. (There's a link to the calculator from the online version of this column, so you can enter your own numbers.) A college that costs 60,000 a year today could very well cost close to 500,000 for four years once today's newborns enroll if the costs rise at an annual clip of 4 percent. So parents, forget about the fancy layette sets. Open a 529 account and register for cash gifts. Upromise offers a service called Ugift in eight states where the Sallie Mae unit helps runs 529 plans. About 42 million in gifts have arrived since 2008. AllianceBernstein even has a feature that lets you put money into someone's 529 account via a direct debit from your bank account. I knew Mr. Sullivan had a 529 plan in Nevada, so I called the plan's toll free number, credit card in hand, hoping that I could tell the company the child's name and deposit some money. But the phone representative told me that such a thing was not possible for security reasons, even though I didn't need or want any of the child's account information. In fact, I was prepared to hand over my own bank account number just to complete the task. Why wouldn't the state let me give this way? "The last thing we want to do is not take your money," said Jeff Howkins, president of Upromise Investments, which helps run this particular plan. "We have looked at how we could modify it from time to time, but part of the value proposition we're selling is compliance and controls." So I'm stuck writing a check to the Nevada plan, pestering the groggy Mr. Sullivan for his account number, writing it on the memo line of the check and then dropping the check in a mailbox. Considering the rigmarole, you can see why entrepreneurs at sites like Gradsave, FiPath, GiftofCollege and GiveCollege have all piled in to try to make giving easier. They allow anyone to give money to anyone else's plan, no matter where it is. I experienced a few hiccups testing the sites this week, but it's the 529 industry's response to the gifting companies that seems most noteworthy. In February, the College Savings Plans Network, an industry group, issued a hyperventilating statement accusing the start ups of all sorts of things. The group raised concerns about the fees the new companies charge, usually a handful of dollars a gift. I buy GiveCollege's argument, however, that this is the rough equivalent of sales tax or shipping that you'd pay for an alternative gift. Then, the 529 network warned that "these services don't always have the best track record of ensuring the appropriate contribution is made, leaving it to you to police your account." That sounds an awful lot like an accusation of outright theft. But Mary Anne Busse, a chairwoman of the group's legal and regulatory affairs committee, said that it was only meant to refer to the fact that two members of the organization tested the start ups and that those tests did not result in the proper crediting of donations. "We'll take a look at our statement and evaluate whether we want to update that," she said. "We're not suggesting that every aggregator is taking money or being careless or negligent." That said, it did send a cease and desist letter to GiftofCollege questioning its solicitation of contributions that it directs to 529 plans. The implication that the company might be illegally acting as a broker of securities led the company's founder, Wayne Weber, to temporarily close the site to new gifts and team up with a brokerage firm to ensure that regulators could not accuse him of breaking any rules. "Companies like me, in my opinion, are not supposed to be the ones depositing funds into an S.E.C. regulated fund," Mr. Weber said. "I completely shut it down because I thought, for me, that we needed to make sure we were staying in compliance." The Securities and Exchange Commission did not want to comment on any particular company, given that specific facts can make judgments like this a close call. But David W. Blass, chief counsel for the division of trading and markets, wrote in an e mail that generally "the hallmark of being a broker dealer is the receipt of a commission or other transaction based compensation in connection with a securities transaction." Oddly, neither the industry group nor any of its members chose to send a cease and desist letter on this topic to Gradsave, which is a larger operator. And Gradsave has a different view of the law. Marcos Cordero, the site's co founder, said he believed that its processing fee was neither a commission nor "transaction based compensation." He said that when Gradsave handed money over to a 529 account, any securities transactions occurred inside of that account according to the wishes of whoever controls it. "Gradsave is not effecting or participating in that underlying securities transaction," he added by e mail. I had not anticipated starting the week thinking about baby gifts and ending it with S.E.C. lawyers. And if any whiff of regulatory uncertainty makes you uncomfortable, you may be stuck waiting for the newborn's parents to open an account and give you the account information so you can give directly. Still, it's ultimately for the good that industry outsiders are making the 529 plans a little uncomfortable. Here's hoping they respond by making gift giving more seamless and convenient.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Your Money
Take Gabe Tesoriero, 46, who traveled to Marfa, Tex., about five years ago and returned home to New York with a silver and turquoise ring in tow. Since then, Mr. Tesoriero, the executive vice president of media and publicity at the record label Def Jam, has collected quite a few silver and turquoise rings, giving some away to friends, and keeping some for himself. "I've always had this fascination with the American West it's very sexy, there's something that's masculine and heroic about it," he said. "And, for me, turquoise can be both masculine and sort of mystical at the same time." During a trip to Santa Fe this year, Brian Phillips, the founder of the public relations firm Black Frame, bought four turquoise and silver rings at the Rainbow Man, a store that specializes in Native American and Hispanic arts and crafts. "I like things that look like they were excavated from the earth or were buried at the bottom of the ocean, things that have marks of age and heritage," he said. The trinkets also align with macro trends in the men's wear market, said Brian Trunzo, the senior men's wear editor at the trend forecasting firm WGSN. He sees this as the manifestation of two things. "It's sort of the modernization of Americana, a lot of which is rooted in the appreciation of the great outdoors," he said. "And this vintage revival, which has turned Santa Fe into the Mecca of the vintage world."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
"These are very simple moves," Carmen de Lavallade told members of Dance Theater of Harlem recently. The young women gathered around her, soaking up every word and gesture that she had to offer, were transfixed by her hands. For this moment in "Dougla," Geoffrey Holder's celebrated 1974 ballet that she is helping to revive for the company, she fanned her elegant fingers in the mesmerizing way that she does most everything. "Simple things are the hardest," said Ms. de Lavallade, the 87 year old dancer, actress, choreographer and widow of Holder. "You think, 'Oh, it's just there.' No. It's not. It's very difficult. Everything has to speak. You have to be precise. The more you stretch your fingers, it looks like they're blossoming." The dancers tried it a few times until their wrists softened and upturned fingers splayed and danced like hers. "Oh, my gosh," Ms. de Lavallade said approvingly. "What a difference." In "Dougla," sweeping skirts for both women and men, designed by Holder, matter as much as the choreography. "We don't see pageantry very often," Ms. de Lavallade said in an interview before a recent rehearsal. "Geoffrey was a master at it. It's like watching a painting move." Holder, who was born in Trinidad and died at 84 in 2014, was a force in the form of a dancer, choreographer, actor, composer, designer and painter. (You might also remember him from the Uncola 7 Up commercials of the 1970s and '80s.) He met Ms. de Lavallade when they were cast in Harold Arlen's "House of Flowers," a Broadway musical that featured a wealth of important figures in the dance world, including Alvin Ailey, Louis Johnson and Arthur Mitchell, who was a founder of Dance Theater in 1969. "Dougla" hasn't been performed by the professional company since 2004, the year that the company went on hiatus because of financial difficulties. Reviving "Dougla" for Dance Theater's season at New York City Center, beginning April 4, has been a group effort, masterminded by Ms. de Lavallade and her son, Leo Holder, 61, who is supervising the production. Former Dance Theater members have helped: Along with Kellye Saunders and Keith Saunders ballet masters with the company Donald Williams and Charmaine Hunter have worked with the cast. Tania Leon's shimmering, percussive score, created with Holder, will be performed live, and Dance Theater will be joined by guests from Collage Dance Collective. There are soloist roles namely the bride and the groom but the ballet, featuring 25 dancers, achieves its power through unison scenes in which the classical body must become more grounded by using fluid hips and an open chest to dig inside the music's driving pulse. In "Dougla," a grand and earthy mainstay of Dance Theater's repertory for years, repetition is used in abundance as dancers and their costumes spin in sync. There are details from Indian dance that crop up, in facial expressions and in vibrating fingers, and the dancers possess a sense of majesty. "There's nothing like a big group that is just absolutely together," Ms. de Lavallade said. "You cannot be yourself. You have to be like one person." Ms. de Lavallade wasn't involved in the creation of the ballet, but she said: "I remember him working on this and running out and getting the materials. Just like when he worked on 'Timbuktu.' There wasn't a piece of lame left in New York City." Holder directed, choreographed and designed the costumes for "Timbuktu," a 1978 musical. (He also directed and designed the costumes for "The Wiz," which won him Tonys in both categories in 1975.) In the case of "Dougla," Ms. de Lavallade said: "There were different versions. It kept changing. Things do that. We're putting back certain things from the first and rearranging. Not that much just little bits and pieces. It's like a hunt to put it back together." Mr. Holder, who designs graphics and scenery for movies and television, has been consumed with organizing his parents' archives in recent months. "I'm basically here to provide context and to make sure that the choreographer is still in the house," he said with a laugh. He didn't want "Dougla" to be seen as a museum piece. In order for it to live for a new generation of dancers, Mr. Holder brought a hefty object for each of them to hold: a silver and turquoise ring that belonged to his father. "I wanted them to understand what kind of force created this particular piece," said Mr. Holder, whose father was a towering 6 foot 6 with a melodious, booming voice. "The person who wore that ring was not 5 foot 2 and sitting in a corner. When those lights go up, they have to be that grand." Ingrid Silva, who plays the bride, performed "Dougla" as a member of the Dance Theater of Harlem ensemble in 2008. She said she knows there's expectation in presenting such a large ballet that is so closely connected to the original Dance Theater, but she sees it as a way to reach future generations. "That gives it a lot of weight," Ms. Silva said. "I didn't have that before." And Ms. de Lavallade, as a coach, is trying to make it personal for the dancers. After a rehearsal, Mr. Santos recalled that she told him, "'This is your solo. So when you're dancing it, yes, you're dancing it for us, but we're here to watch you.' She'll say something and it's so simple but it resonates throughout the room everyone gets back up and it's like, all right let's do this for real this time." She helps them with focus, with projection qualities that are essential in displaying Holder's pageantry. "It's a different kind of energy," Ms. De Lavallade said. "You have to sustain the movements to make them reach the back of the hall or to fill the space, you have to work together. You have to put yourself in the position of where are you? In your mind, you're in this village or wherever you want to be. It's like an actor: You can't just say the words." But bringing the choreographic machine that is "Dougla" to life depends on more than projection. It's everything working together at once. "The costumes are talking too," Ms. de Lavallade said. "They're dancing, you are dancing, the music is just divine and it's very exciting. I love dancing costumes. The skirts are singing, and everybody's got to be on the same note."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
Taja Lindley, a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist and activist, will spend the next year doing an unconventional residency she'll be collaborating with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, working on a project that deals with unequal birth outcomes and maternal mortality for pregnant and parenting black people in the Bronx. Ms. Lindley is one of four artists who were selected this year for the City's Public Artists in Residence program, or PAIR, which is managed by New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs. The program, which began in 2015, matches artists and public agencies, and the artists are tasked with developing creative projects around social issues. Read more about why America's black mothers and babies are in crisis. Ms. Lindley will be working with the Tremont Neighborhood Health Action Center, part of the department of health, in the Bronx. "People who are black are met with skepticism, minimized and dismissed when they seek health care," Ms. Lindley said, "and the voices of black people can really shift medical practices and city practices, so I'll really be centering those voices." She said that performance, film and storytelling are likely to be incorporated in her project. The other three artists selected this year are the artist Laura Nova, who will be in residence with the Department for the Aging; the artist Julia Weist, who will be in residence with the Department of Records and Information Services; and the artist Janet Zweig, who will be in residence with the Mayor's Office of Sustainability. Each will receive 40,000. There is a three month long research phase and then the artists will spend a minimum of nine months creating and producing their work.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
Bill Gates met Melinda French in the 1980s, when he was Microsoft's chief executive officer and she was a young associate product manager there. They married in 1994. Now, they are the guiding force behind one of the world's most influential philanthropies. The foundation that bears their names granted approximately 3.4 billion last year to projects in global development, health and American education. For their public health contributions, Mr. Gates, 57, and Ms. Gates, 49, received this year's Lasker Bloomberg Public Service Award from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. We spoke for 55 minutes before the award ceremony last month; an edited and condensed version of the conversation follows. Ms. Gates, you've become a leading advocate for family planning. What caused you to make it central to your foundation's work? MELINDA GATES Well, you know, as I was traveling in Africa for the foundation, I would go out to speak with women about vaccines. They'd walk great distances to take their children to these very small clinics to receive vaccines. And if you'd talk to the women, they'd be pretty outraged about the fact that they didn't have access to contraceptives. They kept saying, "I used to get a contraceptive shot; I walk to the clinic, and it's not there now." And I kept hearing this over and over. The clinics were stocking contraceptives because of AIDS. But condoms were stocked in! Women in the developing world will tell you they cannot use condoms. They can't negotiate a condom even in their marriage because they're either suggesting their husband has AIDS or that they do. I thought something should be done. Do you get criticized for your support of family planning? BILL GATES Well, certainly contraceptives get you into at least on the borderline of a very controversial set of issues. But that's fine. M.G. It's not controversial in many, many other places in the world. And just because it's controversial doesn't mean you shouldn't do the right thing for women. If women are telling you that, "I don't want to have seven children, I can only feed two or three, but I don't have a way to plan for those children," we should do the right thing, regardless if it's controversial. When you were considering marriage, Melinda, was the thought of marrying a man so powerful, so wealthy, intimidating? M.G. Well, I grew up in a family where my parents really taught us that everybody's the same. It doesn't matter what job you have, where you stand in the world. So I didn't grow up with this sense of, some people are "up here" and other people are "over here." And you know, I met Bill when we were both still young. I was 23 and he was 32, and he was still building the company. I saw what that took. So while the media would talk about him in one way, that wasn't the person I knew... So we grew during those times together. Did you two discuss what your marriage might be, that it could be a partnership to create change? B.G. Well, we knew that there were a lot of things we were embarking on together: helping each other in our work and aspirations, having a family. And we knew that there'd likely be substantial wealth from the success of Microsoft and that we'd get to figure out how to give back. We talked about that early. M.G. I quit Microsoft when our first daughter was born, in 1996. And so I was getting a bit more time to travel and to see things on the ground. I would come home and talk to him about hearing from these women in the villages and men in India. Bill was very interested. He'd go and pull reports to see whether what I was saying matched. And so we were learning together, and there was already this energy around, like, "What would be possible for a foundation? What difference does a vaccine make?" And so we started taking meetings with scientists around vaccines and that really got us going. There haven't been many marriages like yours. Did you have any models? B.G. I don't think so. Smiles There were the Curies, Pierre and Marie Curie M.G. Don't think you're going to move a lab into the foundation, the radioactive one. Your foundation has spent millions on an AIDS vaccine. You've experienced promising starts and a succession of disappointing trials. Do you still have hope? B.G. I don't totally agree with the way you characterized it.... There's about four or five different paths, each of which are showing very good results in monkeys. Your foundation sponsors contests soliciting novel ideas for difficult problems. You recently held one to create a sustainable toilet. How did that go? B.G. That's absolutely a work in progress. We're just going to stick with that until there is a toilet cheap enough to deploy in all the world's slums and that has the same positive characteristics of a flush toilet. That is, it gets rid of the disease causing agents and doesn't create a bad smell. The flush toilet is one of those things where it works for the rich world, but the cost of plumbingall those slums and using all that water and processing plants, that's not affordable. There are a lot of failed projects in that area. I think there were like 12 entrants in the most recent competition , and we gave four prizes. Now we're back talking with those contestants about taking the best ideas and seeing if something can actually be deployed. In 2006, Warren Buffett committed 31 billion to your foundation. After his announcement, all three of you appeared on "Charlie Rose," looking beyond happy. B.G. That was a fun day. You know, sometimes, when I come back to New York, I think about that day because it was an amazing thing... Warren had experienced a tragedy only a couple years before that. His wife had passed away. And that forced him to think about philanthropy. You know, Warren was thrilled about it. He made it fun. I gave him a copy of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," which is the Adam Smith book that predates "The Wealth of Nations." It's got the idea that generosity is sort of this inherent characteristic of mankind. So you don't hold with Richard Dawkins about the "selfish gene"? B.G. Well, I believe in most things Richard Dawkins says. You know, one of my favorite books is Steven Pinker's "Better Angels of Our Nature." It looks at burning witches at the stake, genocide, slavery, violence and how it's gone down over time. And so there is an emergent fact that we're treating each other better over time. Philanthropy fits into that. Law fits into that. Improving living conditions ... is certainly part of that. I don't think there's anything, when you get down at the level Dawkins is talking about, that contradicts this as an emergent property at the societal level. Mr. Gates, you're a big reader. Do you use bound books or e books? B.G. I'm still in the process of changing. Some books are so obscure that they're not available in digital form. I like to annotate. To the degree I need a device, I need one where I can do the annotation in the digital format. They are getting better all the time. The e books are easier for searching and things like that. So I'm in a transition where I use a real mix. Periodicals I mostly read online, whereas books, a lot of them, I still read on paper. Five years from now, those will be gone. A lot is made of the fact that you never finished college. People say, "You don't need a degree look at Bill Gates." B.G. Well, I love taking courses, as much as anyone I know! Online. The Learning Company I've done 30 of their offerings. ... If people think I had some distaste for taking courses, they have the wrong impression. I was just in a hurry to be in on the ground floor of what the microprocessor enabled. It turned out I probably could have waited a few years, and Microsoft still would have been the pioneer. But my co founder, Paul Allen, and I felt like we wanted to do it right away. M.G. And our three kids are getting the message that they should finish college. From both of us! About a third of your wealth is in the foundation, and more to come. Do you think your children might someday regret your generosity? M.G. The children already know our intentions. We talk about it in the house. They are very focused on where they are going to go to college, what their life might be after college. But they know that the vast majority of these resources is going back to society. And they're O.K. with that. They know what our life's work is. They travel a lot and they feel good about it.	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Most of baseball's 30 teams will hold their first official workout for pitchers and catchers on Wednesday. By the middle of next week, position players will join them without a few well known faces. We knew we would not see Adrian Beltre, Victor Martinez, Joe Mauer, Chase Utley and David Wright, who have all retired after distinguished careers. We did not know that three prominent All Stars from last summer Bryce Harper, Craig Kimbrel and Manny Machado would also be absent. You won't find lockers in Florida or Arizona for Dallas Keuchel, Mike Moustakas, Adam Jones, Josh Harrison, Carlos Gomez, Evan Gattis or a trio of Gonzalezes: Carlos, Gio and Marwin. As those free agents also wait for jobs, the game goes on. The unsigned drift about like Tom Hanks roaming his old school grounds in "Big" wearing a business suit instead of his junior high baseball jacket. Kids still play ball in the park. His world still spins without him. In absence of a boardwalk fortune telling machine, we can't predict where all those players will end up, and how the spring training story lines will change. For now, here are 10 sources of intrigue: BOSTON RED SOX The Red Sox are seeking to become the first team to win consecutive World Series since the 1998 2000 Yankees. They open camp in Fort Myers, Fla., without Kimbrel, the closer they passed over to collect the final three outs of the World Series at Dodger Stadium last fall. Starter Chris Sale came in from the bullpen instead, and this season the Red Sox, despite bringing back almost their entire championship roster, must continue to improvise in relief: They lost Joe Kelly to the Dodgers in free agency, have kept Kimbrel in limbo, and have signed no replacements. YANKEES In Tampa, Fla., the Yankees have no such worries. They brought back Zack Britton and signed Adam Ottavino, who will join Chad Green, Dellin Betances and Aroldis Chapman to form an imposing bullpen. The Yankees have fully embraced the modern pitching structure, emphasizing quality over quantity from starters. Only Luis Severino worked 180 innings last season, and the newcomer James Paxton a six year veteran has never reached the 162 inning threshold to qualify for an earned run average title. METS In Port St. Lucie, Fla., the Mets have a similar look. They also signed two veteran relievers their former closer, Jeurys Familia, and the left hander Justin Wilson and traded for the All Star closer Edwin Diaz. The National League East should be one of baseball's most competitive divisions, but with Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Zack Wheeler at the front of his rotation, the new general manager Brodie Van Wagenen concedes nothing. Van Wagenen has also improved the position player depth for the Mets, who plan to spread around playing time to finally keep their roster healthy. MIAMI MARLINS Down the road in Jupiter, Fla., the Marlins changed their uniforms but kept the same dominant color: funereal black. The teardown by Derek Jeter, their chief executive, continued with last week's trade of J.T. Realmuto, the best catcher in baseball, to Philadelphia for prospects and catcher Jorge Alfaro, who last season became the first player to record more than 130 strikeouts, fewer than 20 walks and no more than 10 home runs in a season. On Tuesday, at least, Jeter did add a catcher with a sterling resume: his old pal, Jorge Posada, who joined the organization as a special advisor. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS While Realmuto is gone from Jupiter, another star arrived, on the Cardinals' side of the complex: first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, acquired in a trade from Arizona in December. Goldschmidt is the kind of slugger the Cardinals have missed since Albert Pujols left after the 2011 season, and also brings a good glove to the team that led the majors in errors last season. The Cardinals also signed reliever Andrew Miller as they seek to get back to the playoffs for the first time since 2015. SEATTLE MARINERS That postseason less stretch is a small fraction of the longest playoff drought in the majors. The Mariners, who train in Peoria, Ariz., have not been to the playoffs since 2001, when a rookie named Ichiro Suzuki arrived from Japan. Suzuki, 45, is back this spring after an awkward shutdown last May. The Mariners open this season in Japan, where expanded rosters will make it easy to accommodate a homecoming for Suzuki, who has piled up 4,367 hits since he began with the Orix Blue Wave in 1992. Suzuki actually fits the theme of this roster, which has been loaded with veteran placeholders by Jerry Dipoto, the aggressive general manager who is building for a brighter future that never seems to arrive. LOS ANGELES ANGELS Dipoto was the Angels' general manager for their last playoff appearance, in 2014, when they were swept in three games by Kansas City. That remains the only postseason experience for the incomparable center fielder Mike Trout, who reports to Tempe, Ariz., with just two seasons left on his contract. Trout, the pride of Millville, N.J., attended the Philadelphia 76ers' N.B.A. game against the Lakers on Sunday, and he wasn't rooting for the team in purple. The Angels hope to convince Trout to resist the pull of home and spend his entire career in Anaheim, but they have made only modest investments this winter, spending about 32 million in one year deals for catcher Jonathan Lucroy, starters Trevor Cahill and Matt Harvey (remember him?) and closer Cody Allen. CLEVELAND INDIANS Cleveland shed Allen and Miller from its bullpen, and also parted with eight different hitters who started in the playoffs: Yonder Alonso, Michael Brantley, Melky Cabrera, Yandy Diaz, Josh Donaldson, Edwin Encarnacion, Yan Gomes and Brandon Guyer. Another, the star shortstop Francisco Lindor, strained his right calf recently and might not be ready by opening day. The Indians can still smile when they watch their talented starters train in Goodyear, Ariz., but the fragile state of the rest of this roster just might give an opening to someone anyone? in a very weak American League Central. CHICAGO CUBS Like Cleveland, the Cubs have returned to the playoffs in both seasons since the two clubs faced off in a thrilling World Series in 2016. Last season, though, Chicago collapsed over two dreary days at Wrigley Field, losing a one game division playoff to Milwaukee before dropping the wild card game to Colorado. The Cubs train in Mesa, Ariz., where Manager Joe Maddon lives. The Cubs have replaced several of Maddon's coaches recently and did not extend his contract beyond this season if they start slowly in Chicago, might they give him a one way ticket back to Mesa? CINCINNATI REDS The N.L. Central should be a challenge again, because even the worst team is trying. Before their current stretch, the Reds had not finished in last place across four consecutive seasons since the 1930s. They're tired of it, and bring a rebuilt rotation to Goodyear, Ariz., with Sonny Gray, Tanner Roark and Alex Wood joining Luis Castillo and Anthony DeSclafani. The Reds also acquired outfielders Matt Kemp and Yasiel Puig from the Dodgers, and hired friendly faces to new manager David Bell's staff. The pitching coach Derek Johnson worked with Gray at Vanderbilt, and the hitting coach Turner Ward knows Puig from Los Angeles. Puig liked to kiss Ward after homers as a Dodger, so perhaps he will show up early to Reds' camp on Thursday Valentine's Day.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with supporters in Concord, N.H. Mr. Biden has estimated his public option health plan would cost 750 billion over 10 years, far cheaper than a "Medicare for all" system. CONCORD, N.H. One after another, voters at a recent campaign event here for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. expressed utter comfort with the centerpiece of his health care platform: an idea once so controversial that Democrats had to drop it from the Affordable Care Act to get the landmark law passed. The proposal would allow people of all incomes who aren't old enough for Medicare to choose health coverage through a new government run plan that would compete with private insurance, known by the less than catchy shorthand "public option." A decade ago, the issue created such deep internal divisions among Senate Democrats that they ultimately dropped the idea from their bill, even though the public option was strongly favored by many liberals and a majority of House Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But now, with two of the leading Democratic presidential candidates, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, calling for a government controlled single payer "Medicare for all" system as they compete for support of the party's liberal wing, a public option is looking like a safe moderate position and even a realistic policy goal. Not only are most of the other Democratic presidential candidates proposing some version of it, but Ms. Warren, facing trepidation over her 20 trillion single payer plan, now says she would start her presidency by pushing for a public option and would wait until her third year in office to seek "Medicare for all." During the Democratic candidates' debate on Wednesday, as Mr. Biden and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., warned again that "Medicare for all" would mean taking away the choice of private insurance, Ms. Warren said her intent was to create a public option first to "get as much help to the American people as we can as fast as we can." About two thirds of voters like the idea of a public option or Medicare buy in, according to several recent national polls. This month, the Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll, which has asked voters about the plan four times since July, found that 65 percent of the public favors the idea, compared with 53 percent who support "Medicare for all." Large majorities of Democrats and independents favored a public option in Kaiser's November poll, as did 41 percent of Republicans roughly the same level as earlier Kaiser polls found but down from an unusual spike of 58 percent in October. "I think our goal should be to try to get everybody in America to have health insurance, and I think the easiest and fastest way is what Vice President Biden is proposing to have the public option." said Dr. Alexandra Argasinski, 56, an internist who buttonholed Mr. Biden about his plan here in Concord after he served chili with firefighters. Nancy Downing, 42, a receptionist from Concord, said she admired Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders for wanting to achieve free government health care for all. But she said Mr. Biden and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who has also proposed a public option, are more appealing to her because they are more realistic about long term spending. "They're great ideals," Ms. Downing said of the Warren and Sanders' "Medicare for all" plans, "but I'm just not sure we can pay for it." The public option plans offered by Mr. Biden and Mr. Buttigieg would require much less federal spending than Ms. Warren's 20.5 trillion proposal to provide generous health benefits, at no cost, to all Americans. Mr. Biden has estimated his plan would cost 750 billion over 10 years; Mr. Buttigieg has said his version, which he likes to call "Medicare for all who want it," would cost 1.5 trillion. Mr. Biden and Mr. Buttigieg 's plans would automatically enroll uninsured Americans in the new government health plan and allow anyone else to opt in if they wished. Both candidates would offer more generous premium subsidies than the Affordable Care Act provides and cap people's premium costs at 8.5 percent of their income. People with premium subsidies would have deductibles of roughly 1,000 or less. Mr. Buttigieg's plan would go a step further, retroactively enrolling anyone who had remained uninsured but ended up sick. Although most of the other Democrats who qualified for Wednesday's debate support the idea of a public option, few have released detailed proposals. Some candidates, like Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur, say they hope a public option would lead to "Medicare for all;" others, like Ms. Klobuchar and Tom Steyer, a former hedge fund investor and a billionaire, consider it an end in itself. The public option that Ms. Warren has proposed as a bridge to her "Medicare for all" plan would go further. It would be free for all children and for households with incomes at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, which is currently about 51,000 for a family of four. For people who earn more, premiums would be capped at 5 percent of income; there would be no deductibles and "modest" out of pocket costs. Ms. Warren has not said how much this public option plan would cost the government, but it would be considerably less than "Medicare for all;" during Wednesday's debate she said it would cover 135 million people about 40 percent of the population for free. If Ms. Warren was hoping for a second look from Democrats alarmed by her single payer plan, she found one in Betsy Loughran, 79, of Tamworth , N.H. Ms. Loughran, who used to run a nonprofit social services agency, said she found Ms. Warren's proposal for an interim public option "much more palatable, frankly" so much so that she would now consider donating to her campaign. "It would be no slam dunk even to get a public option through Congress," said Ms. Loughran, adding that Ms. Warren's full throated support of "Medicare for all" had made her more interested in centrist candidates like Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Klobuchar. "But if Elizabeth backs off and has a transition plan that would allow people to keep their private health insurance, that makes much more sense." The difference between Mr. Biden and Mr. Buttigieg on health care is largely one of tone: Mr. Biden focuses on preserving and improving the Affordable Care Act; Mr. Buttigieg emphasizes that a public option would provide "a glide path" to single payer by gradually siphoning though never forcing customers away from private insurance companies through lower costs. "I fundamentally believe there's no going back," Mr. Buttigieg said on his campaign bus last week. Mr. Biden, during a town hall in New London, did look back. He reminisced about the birth of the Affordable Care Act, saying, "I was there when we passed that, broke my neck getting it passed." Now, he added, it was time to "make it Bidencare by passing a public option." Beyond the questions about how the public option would work are bigger political questions about getting such a measure through Congress, even if it does have broad bipartisan support from voters. As voter support for a public option has strengthened , industry opposition remains fierce. A group of doctors, nurses, community hospitals and insurers called the Partnership for America's Health Care Future warns that a public option could bankrupt rural hospitals , whose financial health is already poor, and could raise premiums for some. Recent state level efforts to adopt a public option also suggest the industry resistance could be formidable. In Washington State, where Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law the nation's first public option in May, he and other supporters had to make big compromises to get it passed, abandoning the idea of the plan paying Medicare rates considerably less than what private insurance pays and letting private insurers run the new plan instead of the government. Similarly, an ambitious public option bill in Connecticut died in June after the state's insurance industry revolted. The state official leading the charge for the public option told The Hartford Courant that the chief executive of Cigna had warned that the company would leave the state if it was enacted. On his campaign bus in Concord, N.H., the other day, Mr. Buttigieg said he believed public pressure would force such a measure through Congress. He added, "I think it's going to be really hard for members of Congress to stare down their constituents and say no." At a barn party for Mr. Buttigieg, Dave and Mary Ingalls, a retired couple from Methuen, Mass., said they wanted more people to have access to health care, but not at the expense of the type of private insurance they enjoyed over the span of their careers. "That's one of the reasons I'm standing in this barn seeing my breath," said Mr. Ingalls, 71. "I think that's un American. America is about choice not, oh, suddenly we have a gigantic new bureaucracy that may or may not work."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
Like Coretta Scott King, they operated within a regime that was both punishing and exhausting for being so utterly beholden to the politics of respectability. The pressure to disprove pervasive cultural stereotypes of slovenliness, ignorance, criminal threat and rapacious sexuality meant striving for perfection always. One could not risk being charged with the slightest human fallibility for fear of deadly retribution. The harshly unforgiving surveillance of the larger white community was reiterated within black communities as the stress of constant, and sometimes cruel, self surveillance. Living with terror is the thread that runs through "My Life." This is a tale of church assaults before Dylann Roof, of cattle prods before there were tasers, of nooses before there were chokeholds, of Cointelpro before there was Breitbart, of voter suppression before anyone bothered to deny it. King's earliest memories include her parents' home being burned down when she was 15 years old. As she grows up, neighbors disappear. Bodies are found hanging from trees. Among the in laws, her husband's mother was shot and killed in the middle of a church service by a mentally disturbed man; his brother was found floating in a pool under suspicious circumstances; and when his father, Martin Luther King Sr., passes away at the age of 84, it marked "the first time any senior member of the King family had died a natural death." Some say that religion is, at base, a mechanism to handle the human response to mortality and loss. And for all the death and tragedy in "My Life," it is King's grounding in her husband's theology of peaceful resistance that enables her survival against excruciating odds. Nonviolence, she reiterates, is not a matter of passively accepting whatever happens. It is active. It is a practice. As her husband preached: "Justice is really love in calculation." That power, of love as calculation, composes King, binds her together, time and again. Her practice of such belief is meditative, and becomes reflected in her diction: She speaks of endurance, overcoming, soul sustenance for the long term. There is little in the way of open sadness in this book; after her husband's assassination, she turns to the project of creating the King Center as a monument to him, filling the emptiness with boxes of his notes and speeches. By the same token, there is a marked absence of expressed joy, other than at the birth of her children. Her emotions are muted in a way that is intriguing rather than off putting. This disposition also presents the reader with a different way of looking at the world one of extraordinary calm and the purest resolve. It is restful somehow, and generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture of 24/7 emotional display. King's language does not privilege personal happiness, private delights, exuberant emotional extremes of any sort. Rather, her life is filtered through prescribed priorities, devotions, principles, commitments. This is life lived in service to others rather than with concern for individual regard or even personal safety.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
Coca Cola is among the companies that have limited their ad campaigns during the coronavirus crisis. In all the times Takeshi Sato had walked through Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo's answer to Times Square, he had been more or less surrounded by ads. But on March 23, he noticed something strange looming over the pedestrians: an empty sign. "I thought, 'Oh, this is not normal,' and I remember feeling depressed," Mr. Sato said. "But it's understandable that advertisers want to stop running ads on billboards, because fewer people are going out." Even in 2011, after a devastating earthquake and tsunami, the billboards in that part of town were full, he said. The blank spot in Shibuya, facing one of the world's busiest intersections, suggested the far reaching effects of the coronavirus. "A lot of advertisers are just pulling back the tide's going out," said Garrett Johnson, an assistant marketing professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. "If the economy is not doing well, if firms are bleeding cash as a result of Covid, we're not going to be seeing too much advertising." Ads became an unavoidable part of modern life for a simple reason: They work. Each dollar that companies spent on advertising in the United States last year led to 9 in sales, the research firm IHS Markit estimated. And while the barrage of marketing messages can seem like background noise, their absence would be conspicuous. The ad industry employs about 500,000 people in the United States. Their work blankets movie screens, smartphones, buildings, stadiums and inbox clogging promotional emails. Companies that regularly buy ads are the lifeblood of TV networks, podcast companies, news outlets, lifestyle publications and pretty much all of the internet and when they spend less on marketing, there is a ripple effect. During the Great Recession, more than 60.5 billion in global ad spending evaporated, according to the WARC research group. It took eight years for the industry to fully recover. Close observers of how the advertising business has fared in recent weeks say the new crisis may be worse. "It was a seismic shock, possibly the biggest we have faced, ever," said Harris Diamond, the chief executive of the advertising company McCann Worldgroup. "It all took place in a very short period of time, and is having an impact everywhere we communicate." Overall spending on digital ads for March and April is down 38 percent from what companies had expected to lay out, and ad spending has fallen 41 percent on TV, 45 percent on radio, 43 percent in print publications, and 51 percent on billboards and other outdoor platforms, according to the trade group IAB. Advertising giants like Interpublic Group and Publicis have suspended their financial forecasts, saying they were uncertain about the future. The Cannes Lions conference, one of the biggest events on the ad industry calendar, was postponed last month, then canceled early on Friday. How Theranos changed tech coverage: 'You can't just buy what they're selling.' One meme stock lawsuit against Robinhood is dismissed, but others loom. The major TV networks will not be hosting their annual New York gathering, known as the upfronts, to hype their fall shows before an audience of corporate sponsors and ad executives. Similar events for digital platforms like YouTube and Hulu were also postponed. "We're working through this as it's unfolding, just like everyone else," said Patty Morris, an assistant vice president of marketing for the insurance company State Farm. "There are things happening that we've never seen before." State Farm had planned to advertise during National Basketball Association games and the N.C.A.A.'s annual men's basketball tournament. It had also expected to run ads during coverage of the Summer Olympics on Peacock, the streaming service that NBCUniversal is scheduled to start nationwide on July 15. And now? "We're trying to deal with all of the cancellations, trying to understand what's happening here," Ms. Morris said. With production studios shut down, and filming of commercials at a standstill, a bare bones style of advertising has emerged. On a recent night, the NBC late night host Jimmy Fallon read out a State Farm ad in the manner of a podcaster at the start of his shot from home episode of "The Tonight Show." After plugging the insurance giant, Mr. Fallon held up a scrap of paper on which one of his daughters had scrawled the company's website address. On YouTube, the "Tonight Show" episode was preceded in some cases by a State Farm commercial called "New Normal," a mash up of old footage and videos made by nonprofessionals. Many companies are trying to protect their brand names by keeping their ads away from media reports about overrun hospitals, joblessness and death. As news organizations ramp up their coronavirus coverage, they are losing out on the revenue that would have come their way in more pleasant times, because many companies have stipulated that their ads must not appear near articles that include outbreak related keywords. British news organizations, including The Guardian and Daily Mail, wrote in an open letter this week that so called blacklisting will cost news outlets more than 60 million if the pandemic lasts another three months. "Readers are relying on us right now, and we are relying on advertising," the publishers noted. In online ads, Audi and Volkswagen have spread out the letters and symbols in their logos to encourage social distancing. A Times Square billboard made for Coca Cola by a McCann agency also presented the company logo with the letters spaced apart. A recent commercial from Lincoln, part of Ford Motor, underscored the theme of isolation. Created by the Hudson Rouge agency, the ad repurposed footage of a woman and a child in a sparsely decorated house in the middle of nowhere. A voice over seems to address life during quarantine: "More than ever, your home is your sanctuary." The commercial then shows Lincoln picking up a car that needs servicing and leaving a loaner vehicle in its place.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Media
FRANKFURT The president of the European Central Bank on Thursday played down risks reverberating from his native Italy, evading questions about what policy makers might do if the country's chaotic politics become a threat to euro zone stability. "That's democracy," Mario Draghi said at a news conference after the E.C.B. Governing Council left the bank's benchmark interest rate at 0.75 percent. The Italian elections late last month failed to give any party a mandate to run the country. Market interest rates on Italian bonds have gone up only a little since the vote, Mr. Draghi pointed out. The subdued market reaction was a sign that bond investors were taking democracy Italian style in stride, he said. "Markets were less impressed than politicians and you," Mr. Draghi said to reporters at the news conference. Italy was just the "angst of the week," he said. But he also offered reassurance that the E.C.B. would continue to keep interest rates low and allow banks to borrow as much money as they wanted at the benchmark interest rate. "Our monetary stance will remain accommodative as long as needed," he said, reinforcing his vow from July to do whatever it took to preserve the euro zone, which marked a turning point in the crisis. The Bank of England, whose monetary policy committee also met on Thursday, likewise decided to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record low of 0.5 percent amid doubts about the strength of economic recovery in Britain. The British central bank maintained its program of economic stimulus at PS375 billion, or about 560 billion. Some economists had expected the British central bank to expand its stimulus program to help keep the economy from falling back into recession, from which it emerged in the third quarter of last year. While most analysts had not expected the E.C.B. to act on rates this month, some argued that it should have. The Continent remains in recession, and unemployment is at a record high of nearly 12 percent. On Thursday the E.C.B.'s own economists issued slightly more pessimistic forecasts for this year and next, predicting that euro zone output would fall by 0.4 percent this year and rise 1 percent next year. With inflation well below the E.C.B. target of about 2 percent, some economists argued, there was plenty of space for a cut especially when Italy is again raising concern about the integrity of the euro zone. "By the normal standards of central banking, a case for easier monetary conditions does not get better than this," Carl Weinberg, chief economist of High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, New York, wrote in a note to clients before the rate announcement. The Italian elections failed to produce a candidate capable of forming a strong government. A quarter of the vote went to the anti establishment party led by Beppe Grillo, a comedian, showing that voters were tired of austerity and no longer had faith in the political class. Fears that the euro zone would break up have eased since last year, when Mr. Draghi announced that the central bank was prepared to buy bonds of stricken countries in unlimited amounts to keep their borrowing costs under control. But before the E.C.B. would intervene in bond markets, governments would have to agree on measures to reduce debt and improve the performance of their economies. Italy would have difficulty meeting those conditions without an effective government. Kevin Spacey was ordered to pay 31 million to the 'House of Cards' studio after sexual harassment allegations. Netflix buys a visual effects company in a move to support its global ambitions. Mr. Draghi refused to specify how the E.C.B. might react if Italian bond yields rose to levels that threatened the government's ability to service its debt, as happened last year. The E.C.B. plan to buy bonds as necessary is "an effective backstop," he said. Mr. Draghi did, however, express concern about youth unemployment, which has reached astronomical levels in Spain and other countries and which he blamed on governments. "Unemployment is a tragedy; youth unemployment is an even greater tragedy," Mr. Draghi said. He criticized European labor laws, which protect older workers and force young people to bear the brunt of a downturn. But he added, "There is very little the E.C.B. can do about that." He gave no indication that the central bank would put more emphasis on jobs or other economic indicators in setting monetary policy, as the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve have been doing. The E.C.B.'s mandate requires it to focus primarily on inflation, but it is allowed to pursue economic growth as long as price stability is not threatened. Mr. Draghi said he saw no sign of deflation a broad decline in prices that, by discouraging consumer spending and business investment, can be more economically destructive than runaway inflation. Asked whether rising stock prices signaled a bubble in asset prices, Mr. Draghi said it was too difficult to give a clear answer. The E.C.B.'s approach differs from that of the Bank of England, which has been trying to revive economic growth by keeping interest rates low and encouraging banks to lend more, even though inflation continued to hover above its target, also 2 percent. The pound has tumbled this year and fallen to its lowest level against the dollar in almost three years as some investors anticipated the central bank would inject more money into the ailing economy. Brian Hilliard, an economist at Societe Generale in London, said more stimulus, or so called quantitative easing, was just a matter of time. "If you're worried about growth and not inflation, you're going back to quantitative easing," he said. But Mr. Hilliard also warned that allowing the pound to fall could be a risky strategy because it would ultimately push up the price of goods and services in Britain. Higher consumer prices could damage economic growth, he said. Mervyn A. King, the governor of the Bank of England, who is due to be replaced by Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, in about four months, was one of three monetary policy committee members who voted last month in favor of more economic stimulus. Mr. King has repeatedly said that more needs to be done to provide credit for businesses. The central bank's current lending program suffered a setback when lending in Britain fell at the end of last year. Mr. Carney has been trying to dampen expectations in London that he would radically change the way the bank helps the economy. He previously suggested that he would continue to allow inflation to remain above the target while seeking to revive the economy. Signs of an economic recovery in Britain remain weak. Retail sales rose last month but manufacturing surprisingly shrank in February and activity in the construction sector also declined. Britain lost its Aaa credit rating last month from Moody's Investors Service, which cited continuing weakness in the economy. The rating cut was widely expected but still offered ammunition to those critical of Prime Minister David Cameron's austerity plan. The opposition Labour Party argued the debt downgrade was proof that the austerity measures went too far and were strangling growth.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Global Business
Is it really possible for economy passengers on long haul flights to look forward to the in flight food? Now, on some airlines, that answer may be a "yes." While back of the plane cuisine doesn't exactly have a reputation for being appetizing, and amenities for economy fliers are increasingly few and far between, several carriers are taking the opposite approach by elevating their main cabin food on long haul flights and, in some instances, the alcohol, too. Much of this push is coming from international carriers, but Delta is a United States airline that is part of the trend. Many airlines promote their lavish meals and premium wines and liquors for first and business class passengers, said Paul Tumpowsky, co founder and chief executive of the New York travel agency Skylark, but until recently, economy passengers have been largely neglected. Now, he said, tasty economy class food is no longer an oxymoron. "Competition among airlines is growing by the day, and having good food is a memorable gesture that goes a long way in building a repeat customer base," he said. Here, six airlines aiming to make eating in economy a not so average experience. SINGAPORE AIRLINES Serving generous portions of sumptuous, flavorful food in economy is a priority for this Asian carrier. Besides the two entree choices, there's an additional "Deliciously Wholesome" menu of healthful dishes such as quinoa with ratatouille and chickpeas and Oriental style steamed fish. Those who want to imbibe have their pick of top shelf spirits; also, the legendary Singapore Sling cocktail, made with gin and pineapple juice, is always available. EVA AIR Will it be wok fried pork along with Smirnoff vodka on the rocks for dinner? Or is cuttlefish in a five spice sauce and a Bombay Sapphire gin more your fancy? For economy passengers on this Taiwanese airline, these are just two of many food and beverage options. The selections always include one Western entree and emphasize seasonal ingredients. On significant Taiwanese holidays, fliers can try traditional dishes like stir fried chicken and vegetables with egg fried rice around Chinese New Year. AIR FRANCE The French take great pleasure in good food and wine, and according to Ghislaine Van Branteghem, Air France's catering product manager for long haul flights, the airline wants to extend that philosophy to the skies, including to its economy passengers. All meals begin with an aperitif of a glass of champagne along with salted biscuits, and the entrees, such as chicken in a spicy sauce with baby vegetables, are usually accompanied by a wedge of Camembert cheese. Between meals, snack carts full of pastries and French chocolates are set up in the galleys, and on some routes, ice cream is served. SWISS As a Switzerland based airline, this carrier prides itself on serving economy passengers Swiss food and beverage items including chocolate bars, beers and wines. On flights originating in Switzerland, the carrier collaborates with Hiltl, the renowned Zurich vegetarian restaurant, to offer meatless meals like Thai massaman vegetable curry. And fliers with gluten and dairy allergies will appreciate the lactose free chocolate bars, coffee creamer and yogurt and gluten free candy bars and cakes. TURKISH AIRLINES Authentic Turkish cuisine prepared daily from scratch is offered to economy fliers of this Istanbul based airline. Turkish olive oil and butter, along with a different Turkish spice each month, accompany all breads, and main course selections might be shish kebabs or eggplant stuffed with ground meat. Sweets such as sultac (Turkish rice pudding) as well as freshly brewed Turkish tea cap off all meals, and alcohol options include liquors from premium international brands as well as a range of Turkish wines and liquors. DELTA AIR LINES Economy passengers don't have to fly internationally to get a taste of Delta's improved in flight food: The carrier now offers free meals on a dozen of its longest domestic flights, including service between Kennedy International Airport in New York and Los Angeles International Airport. Fliers receive menus with three choices each for breakfast and lunch, such as a fruit and cheese plate with cheese from the popular Murray's Cheese store in New York and a whole grain veggie wrap. Snacks have also been upgraded with choices from familiar brands such as Kind bars and Squirrel Brand almonds. Next up for the airline: a more attractive culinary program on international routes including possible partnerships with well known chefs.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
On a windy winter Thursday evening, six women clustered around a table in the airy, modern Manhattan apartment of Ann Shoket, the former editor in chief of Seventeen magazine. Between them sat two large platters of pizza and several half empty bottles of rose. The group had gathered for the latest of Ms. Shoket's regular dinners, which formed the basis of much of her research for her new book, "The Big Life." A guide for women in their 20s and 30s who are hungry for a job they love, a supportive network of friends, respect from their bosses and partners who want all those things for them as badly as they do, the book is littered with references to Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Instagram, Tinder and South by Southwest. It reads in many parts like a magazine unsurprising given Ms. Shoket's previous job with quirky sidebars and interviews with women like Jennifer Hyman, a founder and the chief executive of Rent the Runway, and Alicia Menendez, an anchor on Fusion. Alexandra Dickinson, 31, the chief executive and founder of Ask for It, a company that offers leadership and negotiation training, had just spoken about advising clients who felt that they had to "wait for their turn" rather than asking for a promotion or a raise. Across from her sat Alessandra Biaggi, 30, the former deputy national operations director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, who wants to run for office eventually. "The wait your turn thing resonates with me so much, especially with politics, because that's what I'm getting from people," Ms. Biaggi said. Sarah LaFleur, 33, the founder and chief executive of MM.LaFleur, a clothing brand, said: "I grew up in Japan, and I thought I wanted to be in politics, too. But it just wasn't a thing you heard often." "That's exactly the problem," Ms. Biaggi responded. "Little girls should grow up and be like, 'I want to be a nurse, a doctor, a politician.' It should be normal. We need women at the table." She added that she wants to open the door to more women joining politics but struggles with the tension between being herself and what she imagines people think she should be. "It's amazing all these stale ideas that get stuck in your head," Ms. Shoket said. Earlier that day, at NeueHouse, a co working space in Manhattan, she had reflected on her own evolution. "When I left Seventeen, I felt very strongly that I had something to say for the generation that grew up with me into the next stage of their life," said Ms. Shoket, 44, who had been at CosmoGirl for eight years before joining Seventeen in 2007. "We had had all these deep emotional conversations about how you navigate the terrain of adolescence," she said. "Why did that stop when you turned 20?" "The Big Life" is a guide for women in their 20s and 30s who are hungry for a job they love, a supportive network of friends, respect from their bosses and partners who want all those things for them as badly as they do. A book had long been on the table, and Ms. Shoket decided it was time to write it. But before she did, she wanted to brush up on the topics that matter to women in their 20s and 30s. So about a year ago, she decided to host a dinner with a few of them. "It went for hours and hours," she said. "We talked about relationships, about pressure, about equality. We talked about where their ambitions come from and what they hear from their parents." She decided to have more dinners. Eventually, she formalized the questions that kept coming up into a list that covers work idols ("Who is your icon of where you'd like to be in five years?"), generational differences ("How do you think differently about work than your parents did?"), imagined deadlines ("What do you feel you must accomplish by the time you're 30? And what will happen if you don't?") and more. In the first few pages of her book, Ms. Shoket encourages readers to host their own get togethers. "It shouldn't just be the six or eight women I can fit around my dining room table who could benefit from talking about this," she said. "This should be a conversation that's happening at dining room tables, propped up on pillows on floors, on little fold up tables sitting in front of the TV, everywhere." With its community building component and its message of fighting for the success happiness support triad, "The Big Life" may inevitably inspire comparisons to Sheryl Sandberg's 2013 book, "Lean In." "I think that 'Lean In' and Sheryl Sandberg did a phenomenal job of starting a conversation about women and ambition at exactly the right moment," Ms. Shoket said. "But I felt when I read it that it really didn't connect with millennial women." In the chapter on finding a "Big Love," Ms. Shoket, who is married and has two children, writes: "Having a child is serious business, but there is no reason you should be worrying about nannies and school pickup schedules at this stage of young Big Life." The most practical parts of the book are tips on getting the first job, mastering the interview and dressing for success. When it comes to dating, she advises young women to approach relationships the way they do their careers: with patience for the process and with no expectation of settling. Ms. Shoket assumes her readers want a new world order one in which they are unafraid to jump from job to job, from one opportunity to the next. "They want to move up and around, move fast, cover a lot of ground," she said. She says she still struggles with the question of how to be taken seriously as a woman in industries dominated by men (something Ms. Sandberg reckoned with in "Lean In" that remains just as relevant for the younger generation).	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
Ireland's most significant contribution to automotive history may have been genealogical: Henry Ford's father was an Irish immigrant, and in 1917 the automaker, already wildly successful, reconnected with his roots by opening a factory in Cork. Although the plant closed in 1984, Henry Ford Sons still operates there as a sales enterprise for Ford Motor. Renault has also built cars in Ireland, as have British Leyland, Datsun and Toyota. And John Z. Delorean produced about 9,200 of his DMC 12 sports cars in Northern Ireland in 1981 82. Ireland also managed to spawn a few of its own marques through the years, though they were short lived and mostly uncelebrated. According to the Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885 1968, the Alesbury a car powered by a Massachusetts made Stevens Duryea engine and riding on solid tires was produced in Ireland from 1907 08. Half a century later came the Shamrock, an ill fated quasi copy of big American cars of the era but only in its bodywork. The car had a short, 98 inch wheelbase and overhangs that caused observers at the time to compare it to a parade float. Even worse, it was powered by an anemic 53 horsepower 1500 cubic centimeter 4 cylinder engine. Amid money troubles, the company was only able to crank out eight of the fiberglass bodied cars.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
When summer arrives in New York City, so will a cavalcade of hip hop acts spanning generations. While the Pulitzer Prize winner Kendrick Lamar and ASAP Ferg will embody the genre's present at Hot 97's Summer Jam on June 10, the City Parks Foundation's SummerStage Festival will look further into hip hop's past, with free shows by Big Daddy Kane, Talib Kweli, Pete Rock and the Lox. The festival as a whole will offer more than 100 free shows spanning pop music, opera, dance, and spoken word across the five boroughs. Performances kick off in Central Park on June 2 with the jazz singer Gregory Porter. The following week on June 9, there will a tribute to David Bowie, with performers including the Donny McCaslin Group, who played on his last album, "Blackstar." Rhiannon Giddens, a MacArthur Fellow, performs June 16, while Eddie Palmieri and Tony Vega team up on Aug. 26. And the Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series will visit all five boroughs across the summer. In dance programming, the Alonzo King LINES Ballet will perform on July 25 in Central Park. And in a series of open workshops starting on June 22, instructors from Alvin Ailey will teach the group's seminal work, "Revelations," for dancers of all levels.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
Whether championing math, poetry, or just how to be a decent human being, the inspirational teacher is as familiar to movie audiences as the class stoner. "Critical Thinking" does little to detach itself from genre cliche; yet this heartfelt drama about a rough and tumble group of high schoolers who claw their way to a national chess tournament has a sweetness that softens its flaws. Based on a true story and set in an underserved Miami neighborhood in 1998, the movie drops us into the boisterous classroom of Mr. Martinez (played by the director, John Leguizamo).	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
"I want people to know that they were more than just adult companions," Petina Gappah said of David Livingstone's workers, who are the central characters in her new book, "Out of Darkness, Shining Light." "They were people with their own wishes, own desires and own motives." The floppy disk where Petina Gappah saved early drafts of her historical fiction novel "Out of Darkness, Shining Light" now serves as a lucky charm, 21 years after she began. It took that long because the story she wanted to tell was a complex one: that of the arduous, nine month journey in 1873 of 69 workers as they transported the body of the explorer David Livingstone from the interior of Africa to the coast of Zanzibar, where he was carried to Britain for burial. It took so much research that Gappah, 48, finished and published three other books over the time she worked on it, while navigating a career as an international trade lawyer in Geneva. She scoured book fairs and museums, acquiring a first edition of Henry M. Stanley's "How I Found Livingstone," as well as other "Livingstonia" related to the man, who died in what is now Zambia as he searched for the source of the Nile. "I remember at one time spending something like 4,000 for a huge collection of stuff," Gappah said. "I had to not eat lunch for three months." Yet she couldn't shake her interest in his legacy. "Livingstone is the only missionary who still has monuments to his name in almost every African country he traversed," she said. "That says something extraordinary, I think, about his character." "Out of Darkness, Shining Light," out in September from Scribner, is Petina Gappah's fourth book. Inspired by William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," Gappah initially wrote her novel through the shifting perspectives of 15 characters , but she later pared it down to two: Halima, a cook who isn't afraid to speak her mind ( "I do not know what I have ever done that I should be surrounded by ugly men," she says at one point), and Jacob Wainwright, a former slave who received a formal education and became a translator. "Out of Darkness, Shining Light" is one of our most anticipated September titles. Read more about it and the other 16. Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. None Learn what you should be reading this fall: Our collection of reviews on books coming out this season includes biographies, novels, memoirs and more. See what's new in October: Among this month's new titles are novels by Jonathan Franzen, a history of Black cinema and a biography by Katie Couric. Nominate a book: The New York Times Book Review has just turned 125. That got us wondering: What is the best book that was published during that time? Listen to our podcast: Featuring conversations with leading figures in the literary world, from Colson Whitehead to Leila Slimani, the Book Review Podcast helps you delve deeper into your favorite books. "Middlemarch," another of Gappah's favorite books, also informed her approach. "What George Eliot does is center these huge reforms happening in England on individuals in a tiny little town," she said. "That was a model that I thought, wow, that is something I could use in my own writing." With "Shining Light," which Scribner is publishing in the United States on Sept. 10, she wanted to shed light on individuals like Halima and Jacob, who might not otherwise receive much attention, as well as on the East African slave trade that many of them witnessed firsthand. 'Expectations that were put on me' Gappah first read about Livingstone as a 10 year old, when she was one of a handful of black students at the predominantly white Alfred Beit School in Harare . She struggled to regain her native language of Shona when she went on to St. Dominic's Chishawasha, a girls' boarding school. After earning a law degree at the University of Zimbabwe, she continued her studies at Graz University in Austria and the University of Cambridge in Britain, experiences she called "dislocating" because of her race and the challenges of picking up new languages (she speaks four: Shona, English, French and German). She later moved to Geneva and worked at the World Trade Organization for 17 years, before returning to Harare, where she now lives. Although she was writing all that time, Gappah felt obligated to pursue what her family considered a "professional" career in law, finance or medicine. "It was particularly important in my family because I was the very first ever descendant of all my ancestors to go to university. There were expectations that were put on me," she said, and she also had four younger siblings for whom she wanted to set an example. In 2007, she submitted a short story to the online writers group Zoetrope Virtual Studio, where it attracted the interest of the publisher of the literary journal Per Contra. She still has the check, never cashed, that she received as payment. "It was a symbol of something amazing, that not only could I write something that people liked, but I could actually get paid for it," Gappah said. "For me that was the beginning." 'Stories that make you cry and laugh' Gappah has at times felt dissatisfied with her writing, finding both inspiration and frustration in literary masterpieces. "I would write something, and then I would think it's not good enough. Then I would read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison or 'Middlemarch,'" she said, "and I would think, I am never going to be George Eliot, so why bother? Then I would give up." Other words by Morrison helped reinvigorate her. In a Paris Review interview, Morrison spoke about the importance of revision, which motivated Gappah to keep going. She landed a two book deal with Faber Faber in 2008, publishing a short story collection, "An Elegy for Easterly," followed by a novel, "The Book of Memory," with the London based publishing house. A second collection, "Rotten Row," came out in 2017. "Elegy for Easterly" won the Guardian's 2009 First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. The Nigerian writer Chika Unigwe calls Gappah "a master of the tragicomedy," adding: "Not many writers are able to pull off stories that make you cry and laugh at the same time." The New Yorker's fiction editor Deborah Treisman, who edited Gappah's "A Short History of Zaka the Zulu" for the magazine in 2016, said she remembers being "particularly impressed, in that story, with the way that she melded both the specifics of her characters and the sociopolitical context Zimbabwe's cultural and economic divisions." Zimbabwe, the setting for her many of her stories, will also be in focus in Gappah's next books, which, like "Shining Light," she expects to be historical fiction. "I thought, let me write the story of the black people of Zimbabwe," she said, "the others who are not being talked about." Follow New York Times Books on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, sign up for our newsletter or our literary calendar. And listen to us on the Book Review podcast.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
This decision elevates the individual employer's beliefs above those of his or her many employees. An employer who doesn't approve of contraception should not use it. But why should that employer be able to say to people who do not share that conviction, "No, you cannot have insurance coverage to pay for it"? The essence of a democracy is that people with different characteristics and beliefs show tolerance and respect for one another. That means that even if I do not agree with your opposition to contraception, I accept your right to hold that belief. But if you are an employer who, because of your beliefs and your power as the provider of my insurance interferes with my right to follow mine, that is a problem. Today it is contraception; what other beliefs will be affected tomorrow? Stephen M. Davidson Philadelphia The writer is professor emeritus of health policy and management at Boston University and author of "Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System." Allowing women access to birth control is not the central point in the Supreme Court ruling. It is about religious freedom. Religious freedom is one of the founding tenets of the United States, one that seems to be forgotten in these days of modern rights and nonreligious beliefs. I am Catholic, a woman and a believer in birth control. I do not believe, however, that the state, or public opinion, should be able to step in and dictate to a religious community what it should or should not be able to stand for, believe in and have to allow. You write: "It's hard to imagine the conservative justices of this court, especially, allowing employers to claim a moral exemption and require their employees to pay out of pocket for, say, a treatment for Covid 19. That sounds absurd." It sounds absurd to me, too, until you consider that there is a large and vocal anti vaccine movement in this country, and there are religious groups that object as well. So I can well imagine the next case being from a company run by someone who has a religious or moral objection to vaccines. When does this end? When we have universal health care and take employers out of the equation of making decisions about the health care and morality of their employees. If the Supreme Court says some religious belief is all that's needed to ignore the rules of our society, then I am going to start a new religion in which a key tenet is that taxes are the work of the devil. Re "Lt. Colonel Who Testified Against Trump Will Retire" (news article, July 9): It is a tragic day for America when the decorated Iraq war veteran Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman is forced to retire because he has been bullied and betrayed by his commander in chief. Out of all the chaos of the Trump era, Colonel Vindman stood out for his humility, moral courage and unflinching dedication to duty and country. I was deeply moved by his testimony during the House impeachment hearing when he reassured his Ukrainian born father, "Do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth." We need more truth tellers like Colonel Vindman to understand and act upon the urgent challenges facing our country, starting with the corruption and incompetence of President Trump. This November, let's all find the moral courage to choose truth over lies. The Home Care Association of New York State has joined labor and caregiver organizations in pressing Albany and Washington for remedy. Funding is urgently needed for wages that match the courage of caregivers at a time when Medicaid rates fall short of this obligation, with warnings of still further state budget cuts to come. Home care has also appealed to all levels of government for personal protective equipment access and prioritization. Equipment inequities have required collective work by home care agencies in every borough of New York City who are voluntarily organizing citywide P.P.E. distribution centers for home care providers and workers. A dedicated collective effort by government, payers and emergency management is needed to further provide these most essential protections. Al Cardillo Albany, N.Y. The writer is president of the Home Care Association of New York State.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
The Lopez Obrador government's measured approach to battling the coronavirus played out this weekend in a full soccer schedule and a crowded music festival. "Yes, there's worry," one fan said, "but you have to have fun." MEXICO CITY Before she headed to the soccer game this weekend, Gabriela Gomez considered the matter of the coronavirus and its transmissibility in crowds. But she wasn't going to let fears of a global pandemic stand in the way of witnessing a special moment: For the first time since the founding of Mexico's women's professional league, two of its teams were playing in Mexico City's landmark University Olympic Stadium. "Worry? Yes, there's worry," Ms. Gomez said as she sat with her niece on the concrete bleachers watching Pumas play their crosstown rivals Cruz Azul on Saturday. "But you have to have fun." In the United States, President Trump has declared a national emergency, and state and local authorities have closed schools and businesses and canceled many large gatherings and nearly all sporting events. And in Central America, some governments have imposed increasingly restrictive travel and quarantine measures, and banned large gatherings. But in Mexico, where at least 53 confirmed cases have been reported, the administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has taken a far more measured approach. Its critics have called it lackadaisical. Mr. Lopez Obrador and his administration have resisted calls for travel restrictions and a suspension of mass gatherings, among other measures, saying the government does not want to act rashly, or prematurely. On Thursday, a deputy health minister, Hugo Lopez Gatell Ramirez, said there was no scientific evidence that travel restrictions "can play a relevant role" in the protection of public health. He also pointed out that Mexico was preparing for a key tourism season coinciding with Easter vacations and spring break, when thousands of visitors from North America normally descend on Mexico's resorts. "Restricting international travel to Mexico is not planned, nor is it being considered," Mr. Lopez Gatell said. Mr. Lopez Obrador who had been struggling with a stagnant economy, soaring violence and a sinking approval rating even before the outbreak seems to have set the tone for the nation's response. He has insisted that his government is on top of the matter, and has suggested politics are underpinning any criticism of his administration's approach. He has even ignored Mr. Lopez Gatell's recommendation that Mexicans temporarily abstain from the tradition of greeting each other with hugs and kisses. "Look, this thing about the coronavirus, that you can't hug," Mr. Lopez Obrador said at his daily news conference earlier this month. "You have to hug, nothing is going to happen." On Saturday, the president posted a video of himself on Twitter that showed him wading through a crowd in the state of Guerrero, shaking hands and hugging and kissing admirers, including children. "There's a natural propensity of the people to hug him and kiss him and take selfies," Mr. Lopez Gatell said on Thursday, speaking of the president. "And he himself is a very generous and affectionate man and also hugs." As recently as Friday morning, Mr. Lopez Gatell said the administration would wait for the appropriate moment to order more severe, and more widespread, measures to control the possible spread of the virus. "If these interventions are done too soon, the only thing that happens is that they are applied when they are not useful, and when they have to be applied, there is already an economic and social wear and tear," he said. "So, we ask, we call for calm in this regard." By Friday night, however, the number of confirmed cases had shot up. The federal government was spurred to take more robust action, and health officials called for the suspension of "nonessential services," including seminars, classes, forums and other small scale events that have a low economic impact. Further measures were announced on Saturday. The Pumas Cruz Azul game one of several professional soccer matches contested in crowded stadiums across Mexico on Friday night and Saturday was also one of the last. On Saturday afternoon, while the women's teams played before a crowd of more than 22,000 fans, the authorities announced that the remainder of the weekend's league matches would be played in empty arenas. That would include a much anticipated match between the Mexico City rivals Club America and Cruz Azul, which would take place in the cavernous Azteca Stadium. The league announced Sunday that it would suspend the season after the Club America Cruz Azul match on Sunday night. The school Easter break was expanded from two weeks to a month beginning on March 20, and federal health officials recommended that all "nonessential activities" be suspended starting on March 23 and that large scale events with more than 5,000 people be postponed. But officials and organizers gave the green light to Vive Latino, a major two day music festival in Mexico City, which drew tens of thousands of people to its first day of performances on Saturday. As fans pressed together for hours in front of enormous stages, social media posts showing the crowds drew scathing replies aimed at both organizers and attendees.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
A logistics center near the Chinese port of Tianjin in December. China's ports are operating smoothly, freight agents say, but getting goods to and from docks has become difficult. SHANGHAI Some docks in China are clogged with arriving shipping containers or iron ore. Warehouses overflow with goods that cannot be exported for lack of trucks. And many factories are idle because components are not reaching them. As Beijing tries to jump start an economy hobbled by its coronavirus epidemic, one of the biggest obstacles lies in the country's half paralyzed logistics industry. China has some of the world's biggest and newest seaports and airports, but using them has become a lot harder because of roadblocks, quarantines and factory closings. Global shipping has been one of the biggest casualties. More tonnage of container ships is idled around the world now than during the global financial crisis, according to Alphaliner, a shipping data service. Daily charter rates for tankers and bulk freighters have plummeted more than 70 percent since early January as China buys less oil, iron ore and coal, said Tim Huxley, the chief executive of Mandarin Shipping, a Hong Kong based freighter shipping line. Ports and their customs offices are operating fairly smoothly, said several freight forwarders, who are essentially travel agents for cargo shipments. The difficulties lie in getting goods to and from the docks. The slowdown in China is already being felt in the United States. In January, container volume dropped 2.7 percent at American ports, according to Panjiva, a research unit of S P Global Market Intelligence. And officials say they expect much bigger declines as the crisis goes on. "The overall economic impact of these types of emergencies is often in the tens of billions of dollars," said Cary Davis, an official with the American Association of Port Authorities. "Due to the coronavirus outbreak, cargo volumes at U.S. ports might be down by 20 percent or more on a year on year basis compared to 2019." Chinese government agencies have announced a series of measures in the last few days aimed at getting the country's trucking fleet and ports humming again. But no one can say how quickly activity will return to normal. Places like Jiangxi Province and the metropolis of Chongqing this week ordered the removal of most of the countless roadblocks and checkpoints erected by towns and cities to keep infected travelers out. Shanghai agreed on Tuesday to let trucks enter and leave the city with few health checks, even as people arriving in cars and buses remain subject to lengthy scrutiny and, in some cases, 14 day quarantines. Some factories still have goods that they produced and never shipped in January, before the Lunar New Year holiday that turned into a monthlong nationwide shutdown. "There is a backlog of factory production to be shipped once factories reopen, and there is insufficient trucking capacity," said Brian Wu, the chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Freight Forwarding and Logistics. Ford and Rivian no longer plan to work jointly on electric vehicles. Elizabeth Holmes took the stand in her trial. Follow along with our reporters. Ken Griffin, head of Citadel, bid highest for a copy of the Constitution. Seaport cranes and other equipment seem to be operating normally in China, although a shortage of trucks has made it hard for some ports to distribute goods once they have been unloaded. "We don't see any abnormal situation in the ports most of the ports and for that matter the customs, are working at full capacity," Mr. Wu said. About three fifths of China's trucking capacity is working again, A.P. Moller Maersk Group of Denmark, the world's largest shipping line, said in a statement Thursday. The company said three of China's biggest coastal ports Shanghai, Ningbo and Xingang were clogged with refrigerated containers full of imported vegetables, fruit and frozen meat. Maersk has responded with a 1,000 per container fee for electricity to prevent spoilage before trucks can be found to ship the food inland. The disruption is evident across the Pacific. The Port of Los Angeles, which handles more containers in a year than any other in the Western Hemisphere, expects in the first three months of the year its biggest decline in volume since the financial crisis, according to its executive director, Gene Seroka. Ship operators have canceled about 40 sailings to the port from Feb. 11 to April 1, a drop of about 25 percent from the typical volume after the Lunar New Year, Mr. Seroka said. Overall container volume at the port is expected to be down 15 percent in the first quarter compared with the same period last year. At the same time, exports and empty containers are piling up, he said. And even though an eventual recovery should lead to a rebound in imports from China, it will not restore all of the shipments that have been canceled.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Economy
There's an old saying: If you want to make a small fortune in the wine business, start with a large one. Many a wealthy person has discovered the axiom's truth the hard way, buying a winery with the idea of being a gentleman farmer, overseeing a picturesque and prestigious business, with the added bonus of living atop a hillside covered with vines. Reality often intervened. The long term capital investment, large fixed costs and delayed revenue there are at least six years between planting vines and having a wine ready to sell either forced the dreamer out of business or turned the enterprise into a charming but money losing hobby. But today's Napa and Sonoma regions, still the epicenter of American wine, are increasingly populated by a different breed of hardheaded types. They created serious wealth with their first career and have no intention of treating their second one any differently. In fact, they are fascinated by the myriad challenges of making a wine business work and they would take failure to make a profit as a personal affront to the egos they developed in investment banking, technology and other typical first careers. As Richard H. Frank, the former president of Walt Disney Studios who owns Frank Family Vineyards in Calistoga, Calif., put it, "The people who are making money, they are doing it because they are applying the same principles that made them their other money in the first place." For people looking to have their names on bottles, there are many ways to go, and prestige rises with the level of commitment. On the starter end of the scale is a club like the invitation only Napa Valley Reserve, whose 500 members can participate in creating a limited edition wine every year under the supervision of the team behind the cult favorite Harlan Estate. Or they can just show up to enjoy the fruits after putting down a refundable deposit of 155,000 to 175,000, along with dues and the cost of their wine allocation. Then there is the "custom crush" route: Would be Mondavis get their hands on grapes (buying them or growing them) and rent a winery and team to make the wine, in that way avoiding the fixed cost of a large facility. A high priced consultant can help. Finally, there are all in types like Charles J. McMinn, a venture capitalist who founded and sold Covad Communications before the tech bubble burst. He was typical in the way he started his wine country life. "We didn't know we were going to be in the wine business until two weeks before we bought this property," said Mr. McMinn, the owner of Vineyard 29 in St. Helena, Calif. "We thought we were looking for a weekend house." That was in 2000. These days, Vineyard 29 produces 10,000 cases a year across nine wine varieties, mostly made from Napa vineyards that Mr. McMinn owns. His Vineyard 29 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 won a coveted 100 points from the critic Robert Parker. The old stone winery of Frank Family Vineyards. Despite stumbling into winemaking, Mr. McMinn said he saw Vineyard 29 as a start up, something he had much experience in, albeit in a very different industry. "From Day 1, I viewed this as a business," he said. "We quickly realized, you can't build a profitable 500 case winery. Because the fixed costs will kill you. You have to have a winemaker, a cellar master, a distribution system. The salaries of that exceed the revenue." Mr. McMinn calls the hobbyist approach the "cult model." He elaborated in an email: "You purchase three acres of grapevines and throw all the money you have into making the best possible 400 cases of wine. At 500 a bottle, this isn't a big business. Yes, you might get a very high score, but this only equals out to a couple million dollars. When you take into account the fixed costs of a winemaker, vineyard crew and winemaking facility, you can't expect to make a lot of money when all is said and done." He calls his own approach the chateau model a profit minded business, though hardly a large conglomerate. "I tried to figure out, what's the maximum number of cases I can make without compromising quality?" he said. "And that came out around 10,000." (According to Napa Valley Vintners, a trade association, 80 percent of its members make 10,000 cases a year or fewer.) Industry experts say there was a sea change that can be traced to the more highly competitive landscape after 2001. "We find that most of the people coming in are pretty well informed about the business aspects now," said Robert Nicholson of International Wine Associates, a firm that advises on winery mergers and acquisitions. "It's very unusual that it's just a well to do wine lover. That's largely in the past." Mr. Price discovered the wine business when TPG bought Beringer Vineyards in Napa Valley. "I got to see the business side," he said. "I went, 'Aha, you can do this and make a lot of money too.' " The huge growth of the wine industry means more competition now, Mr. Price said, but certain technological advances have changed the game in favor of savvy newcomers. The logistics of shipping can be outsourced, as can website design and legal compliance. "You don't have to do soup to nuts yourself," he said. "Eighty percent of the work is being done by someone else. But you still have to build a brand, and that's the hard part." Mr. Price added that time was the essential ingredient: "Success is correlated to age. If you're invested in hard assets, it takes about 10 years to get to profitability." Richard Frank, a former Disney executive, owns Frank Family Vineyards in Calistoga, Calif. Those who are making money in wines, he said, "are applying the same principles that made them their other money." He said that rule held true for his own properties. The newer brands Lutum, Three Sticks and Head High "are still on that treadmill to glory," Mr. Price added with a chuckle. Mr. Frank, the former Disney executive, compared his trajectory to those of others in Napa Valley. "I may have started in the one camp and ended up in the Chuck McMinn camp," he said of his level of investment, which increased up over time. Mr. Frank bought a home in Napa's Rutherford district in 1990 that came with a vineyard, and for a while he was happily maintaining it and selling off the grapes. It was "no harm, no foul" as a business proposition, as he put it. Then, with a partner, he bought an existing winery and turned it into Frank Family Vineyards. It produces 75,000 cases a year. Mr. Frank called it "very profitable," especially for his higher end wines, but noted that slow growth was essential. "This is not a profit and loss business, it's a cash flow business," he said, because it requires constant re investment. Because distributing wine is a complicated, expensive and state by state affair, Mr. Frank's other piece of advice was that starter wineries must be able to sell to people on the premises. "If you don't have a direct to consumer business, it's a money pit," he said. Despite being in Napa for decades now, Mr. Frank has never quite left the hard charging Disney boardroom style behind. Four years ago, on his honeymoon in Italy, he spent part of the time on the phone, negotiating the purchase of a prime, 80 acre vineyard in the Rutherford district. Mr. Frank said it was simply a reality of taking the business seriously: "You have to take advantage of opportunities when you have them."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Your Money
Some of the protesters against Gov. Jay Inslee's stay at home order in Olympia, Wash., on May 9 carried signs doubting the dangers of the coronavirus. It's a mistake to believe most conspiracy theories, but it's also a mistake to assume that they bear no relation to reality. Some are just insane emanations or deliberate misinformation. But others exaggerate and misread important trends rather than denying them, or offer implausible explanations for mysteries that nonetheless linger unexplained. This is as true in the Trump era as in any other. Extraterrestrials are probably not among us, but we keep being handed new evidence that the U.F.O. phenomenon is real. QAnon is a landscape of fantasy, but the fact that powerful sexual predators have ties to presidents, popes and princes is a hard post Jeffrey Epstein truth. Sometimes, though, conspiracy theories outlive the reality that once sustained them, surging in popularity just as the real world is making their anxieties irrelevant. And something like that may be happening right now with conspiratorial thinking about the so called New World Order. On the one hand, the coronavirus is inspiring a surge of N.W.O. paranoia, a renewed fear of elite cabals that aspire to rule the world. But at the same time, the actual new world order, the dream of global integration and transnational governance, is disintegrating before our very eyes. The phrase "New World Order" was lifted by the conspiracy minded from the optimistic rhetoric of George H.W. Bush, and since then the paranoia and the facts have always existed symbiotically. The fantasy is looming totalitarian control, black helicopters descending, secret Bilderberg plots. But it's been encouraged by various undeniable realities the growth of transnational institutions, the manifest power of a global overclass, the often undemocratic expansion of the European Union and the rise of digital surveillance and the ties binding China and the U.S. into "Chimerica." Now it's being given new life by the response to the coronavirus, which is being cast as a pretext for some sort of one worlder takeover with Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci held up as potential masterminds, "test and trace" as a scheme for permanent surveillance. These fears span the political spectrum, but because the global overclass tends to be secular and hostile to traditional religion, fears of one world government have long been particularly strong (and flavored with end times anxiety) among conservative Christians. And in the current moment, with church closures as a precipitating force, such fears have reached even into the Catholic hierarchy, where at least two cardinals signed a statement written by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano a whistle blower against sex abuse cover ups turned traditionalist gadfly describing the coronavirus lockdowns as a possible "prelude to the realization of a world government beyond all control." But unlike in the 1990s or 2000s, when New World Order paranoia exaggerated real developments and trends, in the current moment the reality is the opposite of what is feared. Instead of leading to some sort of globalist consolidation, the rule of the coronavirus is unraveling internationalism everywhere you look. The virus has exposed global entities as either weak and politically compromised, in the case of the World Health Organization, or all but irrelevant, in the case of the United Nations. It has restored or hardened borders, impeded migration, devolved power from the international to national and the national to local. And it has spurred renewed great power rivalry, with "Chimerica" dissolving and a trans Pacific Cold War looming. Yes, some forms of test and trace may increase tech industry surveillance power. But in every other respect, the trends and institutions that provoke new world order paranoia are likely to emerge from this crisis battered, discredited or permanently weakened. The same counterpoint applies to the narrower, less apocalyptic suggestion that the pandemic lockdowns are an expression of late stage liberal cosmopolitanism, of the liberal technocrat's obsession with physical health and state control. (My friends R.R. Reno of First Things and Daniel McCarthy of Modern Age have both offered variations on this argument.) In reality, late stage liberalism is obsessed with health and state supervision for the purposes of personal liberation, pleasure seeking, tourism and commerce. So a period of lockdown and closed borders is not the apotheosis of liberal cosmopolitanism, but its temporary negation. (And it's not a coincidence that the most self consciously secular and cosmopolitan of Western countries, Sweden, has kept the bars open and aimed for herd immunity instead.) That temporary negation doesn't mean the liberal order is about to give way to a new post liberal age, and neither does the weakness of the W.H.O. or the E.U. mean that globalism, ideological and institutional, will simply disappear. But in the post pandemic era both liberalism and globalism may seem more like zombie ideologies, ghosts of the more ambitious and utopian past, than ascendant forces capable of inspiring either hope or fear. And those who presently fear them, even to the point of paranoia and conspiracy, may come to realize that they were mistaking spasms for real strength, and the bitter twilight of the globalist era for a new world order's dawn. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We'd like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here's our email: letters nytimes.com. 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Clockwise from top right: Rajas and calabacitas enchilada at Kachina Cantina at the Maven Hotel; the Clyfford Still Museum; bike shares outside the flagship REI store; morning in Confluence Park. Our columnist, Jada Yuan, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2018 list. This dispatch brings her to Denver, Colo.; its Downtown area took the No. 30 spot on the list and the city is the 12th stop on Jada's itinerary. The silhouette of a massive construction crane loomed against the brilliant reds and purples of a Colorado sunset sky. "This is the classic view of Denver right now," my friend Rachel Fleming said. Ms. Fleming is an anthropologist who's lived in Denver for a decade and works in the area's booming tech industry. We played violin together as teenagers in Santa Fe, N.M., and like many of my high school buddies, she left the West only to wind her way back there because she missed the mountains because once they're in your blood, you always do. The construction crane was looming over The Source, one of the many gourmet food halls that have popped up around the city in the last five years. It's in the River North Arts District (RiNo), an epicenter for microbreweries, fancy restaurants, new apartment buildings and abundant street art a 10 minute walk from Lower Downtown (LoDo). My mom grew up in Colorado Springs, an hour's drive south of here. I've spent the past 22 years visiting the state regularly to see friends or to go snowboarding. I hadn't spent much time in Denver's urban center, but of my 52 Places destinations, I was sure it would feel the most familiar. I didn't know, though, that it would remind of another home of mine: New York City. Here's a starter guide to the city's rich art, food and outdoors scenes. Bring good walking shoes. The Source, an "artisan" market housed in a reclaimed 1880s iron foundry with a new skyscraper hotel attached, was one of three food halls I went to in six days. Industrial in design, its centerpiece is a fresh and tasty sit down restaurant, Acorn. I'd make a return trip for another flight from Crooked Stave, a brewery specializing in wild and sour beers. My favorite was the more casual Central Market, set in an airy, refurbished 14,000 square foot building in RiNo. It offers take home butchery and seafood as well as gourmet pizza, salads, and ice cream. (It felt most analogous to St. Roch Market in New Orleans, where I'd been on stop No. 1 of this trip.) Also enticing, particularly for the younger set, is Avanti F B in the hip Lower Highlands (LoHi) neighborhood across the river from downtown. A collective test kitchen for local chefs, it has a terrific view, outdoor fire pits and a lively bar scene that rages till 1 a.m. on weekends. Save room for the 4 s'more with Nutella and bacon from the Brava! Pizzeria della Strada stand. In contrast to those sprawling food halls, the entrance to my one can't miss restaurant of the trip, El Five, was located in an actual parking garage in LoHi. Go early or make a reservation and you can breeze past the host and up the elevator to the fifth floor (L5, get it?). The Mediterranean tapas cuisine was excellent, but you're there for the spectacular three sided views. Best of all is the wallpaper, made of reclaimed Egyptian movie posters, surrounding diners with forlorn, beautiful faces who look like they could use a drink. The 54 million renovation of Union Station, a 1914 vintage train depot, has turned it into something like New York's Ace Hotel a hip gathering spot only with transportation schedules. The station's lobby is filled with library like long tables and comfy leather chairs where a diverse cross section of the city types away on their laptops. I loved the farm to table sandwiches at light filled Mercantile Dining Provision so much I went twice. The same company behind Union Square, Sage Hospitality, also runs Denver's newest hip hotel, The Maven, where I stayed (for 169 to 209, plus tax and a 20 a night amenities fee) next to Coors Fields on a historic site called the Dairy Block that once housed a dairy. The lobby has a similar library like feel, plus an indoor Airstream trailer that sells coffee and breakfast burritos. You know a hotel is doing something right when museum directors ask if you've visited it. The Art, a Hotel, where I stayed one night for 235 has a mesmerizing Leo Villareal light design installation at its entrance, one of Deborah Butterfield's life size metal horses that looks like it was woven with twigs, and a video of dogs going up and down the elevator with you. It's in walking distance of all major art institutions. Tired of seeing art displayed in plain white rooms? Make a special trip to the vastly expanded and newly reopened Kirkland Museum of Fine Decorative Art. Named after the late abstract painter and Denver resident Vance Kirkland, it features the work of some 1,500 artists and designers, laid out in a unique salon style. Diamond shaped chairs by Frank Lloyd Wright and an undulating cardboard ottoman from Frank Gehry might be next to a painting from an obscure Colorado surrealist. All the paintings are from Colorado artists, and the collection of midcentury modern decorative pottery is particularly charming. Organizing principals are loosely chronological, and never boring. The will of the pioneering Abstract Expressionist painter C lyfford Still (1904 1980) stipulated that his collection be awarded to an American city that presented the best plan for a museum solely dedicated to showing it in its entirety. Denver won, and the result is the Clyfford Still Museum, an impressive concrete structure with huge walls for displaying the artist's immense canvases, and textured ceilings that let in daylight in fractured patterns. On the Street and On Tap The best way to see Denver's booming art scene is to simply walk around RiNo, where many businesses commission murals to draw in customers, and an art event literally puts a fresh coat of paint on the neighborhood each year resulting in something amazing to see on nearly every public wall. I toured with Alex Roth, a Colorado native who works for the luxury travel club, Inspirato, and offered to be my guide. He also introduced me to the art of wandering into Denver's many microbreweries, such as Our Mutual Friend, which itself had a mural storefront of neon colored camouflage. It's important to note that RiNo is as much a story of gentrification as it is of growth. In 2005, artists who'd moved into the area's abandoned industrial buildings came up with the name as a way to sell more art. Commercial and residential real estate followed, and have pushed into the historically black parts of town particularly the Five Points neighborhood to significant controversy. Confluence Park, which reopened last year after a two year renovation, is really more like a set of river trails. Pop by for contemplative views of the water, and to see a cross section of the city, by bike or foot. The unprepared can pick up something at the flagship REI store right on the park and a tourist attraction in itself, built in a landmark former power company plant. You don't have to go far for a more immersive natural experience. Red Rocks Amphitheater 30 minutes away by shuttle or car on concert nights is also a great place for hiking and watching the moon rise over the plains. And Chautauqua Park in Boulder, an introduction to the vast array of hiking and rock climbing in the Flatiron Mountains, is accessible from Denver by a 50 minute Regional Transportation Denver bus plus a short taxi or ride share to the trailhead. The evening I went, we happened upon dozens of juniors and seniors from Silver Creek High School in nearby Longmont taking their prom pictures. Trudging through spring snow in a ball gown and heels seems to be a particularly Coloradan rite of passage. Have a car? Drive to spectacular hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park or Estes Park, or take a drive on the Peak to Peak highway above Boulder. Arapahoe Basin and Loveland Ski Areas are both about an hour's drive of the city and involve less time in traffic than better known resorts. Then Again, Skip the Car Everything I know from having grown up in the sprawling American West led me to assume that of course I'd need to rent a car in Denver. I immediately regretted that decision. Street parking is nearly impossible downtown. I forewent my hotel's valet parking for what I thought was a cheaper option at a nearby parking garage and still wound up with an 112 bill for five nights. Lyft or walking almost always seemed like the better option, particularly if I wanted to have a drink with a meal. The only time I used the car was going to and from the airport. If you're going to the mountains a lot, yes, get one. Otherwise take the shiny new light rail from the airport to Union Station (40 minutes and 9 each way) and relax knowing there's a bus to Boulder, a train to Golden, and a shuttle to ski areas, plus ride shares whenever you need them.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
The query hung in the staticky silence for what felt like an eternity, although it was probably less than 10 seconds. It sounded like any delay on any of a million conference calls happening daily across America during the coronavirus pandemic. Only this question was coming from the chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr., who was trying to locate his colleague Justice Sonia Sotomayor during the Supreme Court's first oral argument to be held over the telephone. The hearing was also broadcast live to the world, another first. Various scenarios presented themselves: Perhaps Justice Sotomayor had lost her connection to the call. Perhaps she was making a sandwich and had forgotten to unmute her phone. Suddenly her voice came crackling through the line. "I'm sorry, Chief," she said, before turning to interrogate Erica Ross, one of the lawyers on the call. In normal times, the court's routine on argument days is as strictly choreographed as a religious service the lawyers waiting patiently at their tables, the great hall filled with hundreds of members of the public, all sitting dutifully on long wooden benches, whispering to one another, until the buzzer sounds at 10 a.m. on the dot, and everyone rises as the justices emerge from behind a curtain to take their assigned seats. So it was tempting on Monday morning to imagine where, exactly, everyone was. Were the justices sitting on their respective living room couches, clad in black bathrobes? Were the lawyers standing at lecterns built of empty Amazon boxes, speaking to cutouts of the justices taped to the fridge? Like so much else that we thought would never happen and yet suddenly has, it was an unprecedented moment. It was also, as Supreme Court arguments go, largely forgettable. Monday's case, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com, involved the question of whether a business could trademark a generic name by adding ".com" to the end of it not an issue that galvanizes the American public. (The justices are hearing seven more arguments over the next two weeks.) Following the marshal's customary introduction of the justices "The honorable, the chief justice and associate justices of the United States Supreme Court. Oyez, Oyez, Oyez!" Chief Justice Roberts began speaking, his voice slightly tense and echoing. The discussion among the justices and the lawyers for both sides then veered quickly into what Justice Antonin Scalia, arguing against live broadcasts about four years before his death, called "all sorts of dull stuff that only a lawyer could understand and perhaps get interested in." Anyone who wasn't turned off by the arcane topic of trademark law might have been by the less than ideal sound quality, which, as with much about the Supreme Court, was both charming and irritating. There's no magic to streaming oral arguments live; federal appeals courts and state supreme courts around the country have been doing it for years. The nation's highest court, however, has steadfastly resisted. Its only concessions to 21st century technology have been to release same day transcripts of oral arguments on the court's website and audio recordings of those arguments at the end of each week. It's especially frustrating because every current sitting justice previously supported broadcasting arguments, but all overruled themselves after joining the court. "The day you see a camera coming into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body," retired Justice David Souter once told a House subcommittee. "It's incredibly overdue," said Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, a nonprofit that has pushed for the justices to broadcast the arguments live. "It's not that hard. I think maybe it's a generational thing, but the Supreme Court is finally realizing that this is a very basic and well understood way that government officials interact with and give access to the public. "I'm just hopeful that the justices themselves have a positive reaction to it, because it's going to be a little different for them as well." Alas, Chief Justice Roberts seemed intent on acting as though nothing was out of the ordinary. He kept the arguments moving at a brisk clip, interrupting the lawyers regularly to ensure that each justice had a chance to speak. Even the famously silent Clarence Thomas asked questions, which he has now done only three times in the last decade. Hearing his rumbling baritone in real time was as jarring as the fact of the broadcast itself. Monday's arguments raised another question: Is the Supreme Court a place or a process? On one hand, it's oddly powerful to hear the often dreary business of government being conducted live, even though we have been watching the other branches do it for decades. Even if most Americans have neither the time nor the desire to listen to hourlong legal debates, "at least we should have that opportunity as taxpayers in a democracy," said Mr. Roth. "If you have a public exercise of public officials and modern technology affords the ability to hear them live, that live access should not be withheld." After listening to the arguments on Monday, it was hard to see what the big deal was. On the other hand, I sympathize with the justices' ambivalence. Having attended many arguments over the past seven years, I know the irreplaceable quality of watching justice play out live in a room filled with people a physical space where we go to resolve our disputes without resorting to violence. The court's authority, and thus its power to command obedience, derives in part from its mystique, which explains why its members have so jealously guarded their distance. Will that authority be diminished when all Americans are able to listen to the justices doing their job in real time, on scratchy conference calls stripped of the pomp and grandeur of the courtroom? On balance, I think not. There are plenty of ways for the justices to convey the gravity of their role even in these changed circumstances. Before Monday's argument, Mr. Roth was hoping Chief Justice Roberts would take this rare opportunity to offer a brief civics lesson to Americans "to explain rules of the game," as Mr. Roth said. For example, when the justices interrupt the lawyers, as they often do, "they aren't trying to be mean, or to make the lawyers look silly." Chief justices and judges on other courts have done this to good effect, Mr. Roth said. "Most Americans' understanding of court is from TV, which is almost always trial courts." But in the Supreme Court, as in all other appeals courts, "there's no jury, no swearing in of witnesses." As it turned out, Chief Justice Roberts made no acknowledgment of the situation, offered no national civics lesson. In fact, a person reading the transcript would have no indication that anything was amiss, with the possible exception of a comment by Lisa Blatt, a veteran of the Supreme Court bar who was representing Booking.com. "I have searched every grocerystore.com looking for toilet paper," Ms. Blatt told the justices at one point. ("The last time 'toilet paper' was mentioned in a SCOTUS argument was 1987," tweeted Tony Mauro, a longtime Supreme Court correspondent for The National Law Journal.) In the end it was left to Justice Stephen Breyer, among the chattiest and most informal of the justices, to inject some humanity into the proceedings. After beginning his first question to Ms. Ross, the government's lawyer, he stopped himself, gave a laugh and said, "Good morning, anyway!" "Good morning," Ms. Ross replied with what sounded, through the static, like a small sigh of relief.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
Olivia Wilde, 33, is known for her work as an actress, but these days she is trying on multiple roles. Recently she was the executive producer of "Fear Us Women," a documentary that follows a volunteer soldier in the YPJ, an all female Kurdish army. Also keeping her busy: acting in and producing the crime drama "A Vigilante," out later this year, and touting True Botanicals, a skin care line for which she serves as a brand ambassador. Born in Manhattan, raised in Washington, D.C., and now living in Brooklyn, Ms. Wilde uses her days off to pop into the Brooklyn Museum for First Saturdays or to do hip hop yoga in Union Square. Find out more about her wellness and beauty routine, below. I do enjoy the ritual of my morning. It helps me wake up psychologically as much as physically. I wash with True Botanicals Hydrating Cleanser it's really gentle. Then I spritz on some of the Nutrient Mist. Of all the True Botanicals products, it's one of my favorites. It always smells amazing. I use the brand's face oils, too. If I'm having breakouts, I use the one they have for clearing up skin, and then the tinted SPF. If I'm running around, I like Ursa Major Essential Face Wipes because they clean and moisturize at the same time. I've been on a search for natural deodorants that actually work. I have two I feel I can rely on: Soapwalla and Agent Nateur.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
The First Trend of New York Fashion Week New York Fashion Week began with a lunch and a dinner despite the fact that fashion people famously don't eat. They do, however, love a metaphor for change. Could it have been a coincidence that Diane von Furstenberg , who recently gave up her mantle as chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America , and Tom Ford, who assumed it, each had their own foodie idea? It really was more like a message: This season is not going to be like all other seasons. "Someone asked me, 'Why a dinner?'" Mr. Ford said Friday evening at Indochine , the palm sprinkled Vietnamese restaurant on Lafayette Street that has been a fashion canteen since it opened in 1984 . It was Day 1 of New York Fashion Week and, as one of his first public acts as CFDA chief, Mr. Ford had decided to invite about 35 of New York's emerging fashion names to break bread with international editors and critics. Or rather, eat chicken spring rolls, spicy beef salad and steamed Chilean sea bass, among other things. There were editors of Vogues British, Mexican and Spanish (plus Anna Wintour, of course); the designers Emily Bode , LaQuan Smith , Matthew Adams Dolan and Claudia Li (to name a few). There was a lot of schmoozing and table hopping. "When you've had dinner with someone," Mr. Ford said, "seen them, talked to them, you look at what they do in a very different way." He's a director. You can't blame him for trying to shape the scene. The previous day, at her headquarters on 14th Street , Ms. von Furstenberg had invited 30 women over to inaugurate her post CFDA life. "It is a relief to finally be out of that box and do things without feeling everyone has to follow," said Ms. von Furstenberg, who had used her new freedom to skip a show and instead focus on an idea. Which also happened to be what she said was the idea behind her clothes, and which she had decided was time to turn into a "movement." "In charge!" she said, which was shorthand for her brand of female empowerment, as well as the name of a new networking platform she has created with LinkedIn . She was wearing a necklace she had designed with the words "In Charge" in diamond studded script; her "In Charge" manifesto had been painted on the walls, and she had put together a tossed salad of entrepreneurs, artists and C.E.O.s to kick it off. Gloria Steinem and Arianna Huffington were there; so was Jennifer Hyman from Rent the Runway; the artist Ashley Longshore ; Anne Pasternak , director of the Brooklyn Museum ; and Anu Duggal of the Female Founders Fund . They were seated along two long tables speckled with lush dahlias and carefully constructed platters of crudites , fennel salad and grilled squash with beet puree, munching on charred asparagus and passing a mic. They were talking about what it was like not to be the only woman in a room, and sharing stories about wrap dresses (of which there were many on display, many of them leopard print). Brooke Baldwin of CNN said her mother had bought her a wrap dress as a power dress to wear to her second job in television and she now had that dress hanging on her office wall to remind her of where she came from, and of her mom. Whitney Tingle of Sakara Life, the plant based food delivery service, said she was wearing a wrap dress that actually had belonged to her mother. Ms. von Furstenberg (who is also starting a newsletter titled The Weekly Wrap, in which she will interview women she admires) said that she remembered when she created the style 45 years ago in her factory. "That is sustainable fashion," the designer said. And hospitality could be a new trend. After power poses and power shoulders: power meals. It's a matter of taste, really.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
Nicholas Mosley, an experimental writer whose 1965 novel "Accident" became the basis for a Joseph Losey film with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, and who wrote an unsparing two volume biography of his father, the fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, died on Feb. 28 at his home in London. He was 93. The death was confirmed by his son Marius. Mr. Mosley spent much of his life in the malign shadow of his father, a onetime Labour member of Parliament who founded the British Union of Fascists in 1932. The party openly supported Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, promoted anti Semitism and engaged in violent clashes with opponents. Sir Oswald and his wife, Diana Guinness, one of the Mitford sisters, were interned in 1940, and the party was banned. (Sir Oswald's first wife, the former Lady Cynthia Curzon, died when Nicholas, her son, was 9.) The couple spent three years in a house on the grounds of Holloway Prison and, after being released, lived under house arrest for the remainder of the war. Nicholas, known as Nick, distanced himself from his father. After leaving Eton, he was commissioned as a captain in a rifle regiment and saw action in Italy. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1944. When David Garnett recommended his first novel, "Spaces of the Dark" (1951), to the new publishing firm of Rupert Hart Davis, he suggested that Mr. Mosley might want to use a pen name. Mr. Mosley rejected the idea. With the publication of his experimental third novel, "Meeting Place," he began building a reputation as one of Britain's most adventurous postwar writers. He blended, in an idiosyncratic way, Christian ethics and experimental technique, presenting knotty psychological problems elliptically, with cinematic crosscuts, staccato dialogue and flashes of action. "Small gestures, looks, ways of talking and moving or maintaining silence are particularized, while the larger actions that enclose them move in widening circles from opacity to enigma," the novelist Saul Maloff wrote in The New York Times Book Review of "Impossible Object" (1968), a family drama told in eight seemingly independent stories. That description fit more than one novel by Mr. Mosley. He continued to push the outer limits of narrative in the five volume series known as "The Catastrophe Practice," which he began in 1979. The fifth volume in the series, "Hopeful Monsters" (1990), told the intellectual and political history of the 20th century through the eyes of a German Jewish psychoanalyst and her husband, an English physicist. It won the Whitbread Award. The novelist and critic A. N. Wilson called it "the best English novel to have been written since the Second World War." Mr. Mosley told The Independent in 2003: "One of the psychological reasons that I tackle the subjects I tackle, is that I have my own troubles with my own heritage. This makes me interested in the hard things going on in the world." When Mr. Mosley's father ran for Parliament in the late 1950s on an anti immigration platform, his son, who had recently abandoned his atheism and converted to Christianity, confronted him. "I was full of passion, but I didn't know if I was trying to save his soul or my own," Mr. Mosley told The Guardian in 2009. "When eventually I was let into his office, I said to him, 'You are being wicked. You're being insane. Just as you were in the 1930s.'" The two did not speak for many years. Two volumes of the biography of Sir Oswald Mosley. Just before his death in 1980, Sir Oswald asked his son to write his biography and left him his papers. The resulting book, "Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896 1933," appeared in 1982; it was followed a year later by "Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933 1980." The books were praised as honest and insightful. Jon Manchip White, reviewing the one volume American edition in The Chicago Tribune, called it "a brilliant and a painful book, fascinating on both the emotional and the intellectual level." Sir Oswald's widow thought otherwise. In "Efforts at Truth: An Autobiography" (1994), Mr. Mosley recorded her reaction to the biography as "the degraded work of a very little man." In one letter to the media, she wrote: "It's all very well having an Oedipal complex at 19, a second rate son hating a brilliant father, but it's rather odd at 60. Nicholas wants to get his own back on his father for having had more fun than he's had." Nicholas Mosley was born on June 25, 1923, in London. On the death of his aunt, Irene Curzon, in 1966, he became the third Baron Ravensdale, and from his father he inherited the title of baronet. He grew up, from the age of 4, in a large Elizabethan farmhouse in Denham, Buckinghamshire. After graduating from Eton and leaving the military, he studied philosophy for a year at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1947 he married Rosemary Salmond. The marriage ended in divorce. He later married Verity Raymond, who survives him. In addition to her and to Marius, their son, Mr. Mosley is survived by three children from his first marriage, Ivo, Robert and Clare Mosley; a stepson, Jonathan Bailey; a half brother, Max; 19 grandchildren; and 10 great grandchildren. Mr. Mosley suffered from a heavy stammer. Sessions with Lionel Logue, the speech therapist who had worked with King George VI, did not cure him, but did, he later said, give him confidence and hope. Mr. Mosley dismissed his early novels, written under the influence of Proust and Faulkner, as "very Angry Young Man, all gloom and doom." After falling under the influence of the Rev. Raymond Raynes, the superior of a monastic order known as the Anglican Community of the Resurrection, he began editing The Prism, a small religious magazine. He also wrote "The Life of Raymond Raynes" (1961) and "Experience and Religion: A Lay Essay in Theology" (1965). He returned to fiction, in "Meeting Place," with a new stripped down style and a new fictional approach. "I'm going to the inner ways of seeing things," he told The Review of Contemporary Fiction in 2002. "What is important is the way of seeing the story." In "Accident," his breakthrough novel, the death of a young man in a car crash becomes a study of marriage, infidelity and manipulation. Mr. Pinter, intrigued by Mr. Mosley's oblique way with narrative and psychology, approached him to turn the book into a screenplay for Mr. Losey, with whom he had worked on "The Servant." Dirk Bogarde took the lead role of an Oxford don in the film version, released in 1967.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
The most important question today is not what President Trump has learned from his bout with Covid 19. Trump is one of those leaders who never learns and never forgets, as the saying goes. The most important question is what have we as citizens learned and, in particular, what have Trump's supporters learned? Because the debate over Trump himself is over. The verdict is in: He cast himself as Superman, but he turns out to have been Superspreader not only of a virus but of a whole way of looking at the world in a pandemic that was dangerously wrong for himself and our nation. To re elect him would be an act of collective madness. But while I see it that way, and maybe you see it that way, will enough Trump voters see it that way? That will depend on Joe Biden's ability to help them see all the big and small things where Trump has been so fundamentally mistaken. The list of "small" things is long: Caution in a pandemic is not a sign of weakness, but of wisdom. Face masks in a pandemic are not cultural markers, just common sense protection that says nothing other than "I'm a responsible person who wants to protect myself and my grandparent, myself and my customer, myself and my co worker, myself and my neighbor from an invisible pathogen." Machismo in a pandemic is not strength. Resisting mask wearing in a pandemic is not safeguarding freedom. Lockdowns in a pandemic are not an abridgment of our rights of assembly or speech. Blue states aren't more attractive to the coronavirus than red states. Scientists are not politicians. Politicians are not scientists. Everything is not politics. Lysol is a disinfectant for cleansing counters, not your lungs. Our choices were never masks OR jobs but masks FOR jobs the more your employees and customers wear them, the more your business can stay open and flourish. The big things Trump got wrong were twofold. The first was how to lead in a pandemic. The quality of our leadership in general is always a serious business, but in a pandemic, it becomes a matter of life or death. Leaders at every level teachers, scientists, principals, presidents, school superintendents, hospital directors, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors, media, parents are all being looked to for direction today more than ever because so many people feel disoriented and unmoored. Donald Trump proved to be the worst kind of leader in a pandemic a morally reckless leader. "When it comes to living in the face of uncertainty, people tend to fall along a spectrum, reflecting their attitudes toward individual freedom versus responsibility and their disposition toward risk taking," explained Dov Seidman, the founder and chairman of the ethics and compliance company LRN and the How Institute for Society, which promotes values based leadership. You can see this spectrum starkly in how people contracted the virus and dealt with Covid 19, said Seidman. "First, there were those along the spectrum who were just unlucky and unfortunate wrong place, wrong time when a tiny invisible pathogen was present." Second, he added, "there were frontline workers, heroes, who bravely ran toward the virus to help save others and were infected by it in the process. Third, there were individuals who were reckless and did not wear masks or stay six feet apart, harming themselves, their family, friends and co workers, too." And finally, said Seidman, there were the leaders: "There were those in positions of power and authority whom people were trusting for lifesaving guidance. Some shouldered their responsibility, knowing that in this time of crisis more people than ever would heed their advice and emulate their example, if they behaved accordingly. Other leaders, though, did not lead that way; they actually encouraged people to ignore the science and let down their guard. That is moral recklessness." As a result, concluded Seidman, "today, we have a real crisis of leadership and authority people don't know who to trust and what to believe. But what is clear is that leaders who can put more truth into the world than they muddy and put more trust into the world than they erode matter now more than ever those are the leaders we admire and whom history will remember well." Trump and Fox News and Facebook will not be among them. They will be remembered for how much truth they muddied and how much trust they eroded, which together have helped to compromise our country's cognitive immunity our ability to sort out facts from fiction and our social immunity our ability to face this crisis together. The second big thing Trump got completely wrong is: You don't mess with Mother Nature. This pandemic was a natural systems event. But Trump looks at the world through markets, not Mother Nature. He and his advisers consistently downplayed the virus so as not to panic the market, whose rise they saw as Trump's ticket to re election. At a White House briefing back in March, Kellyanne Conway literally sneered at a reporter who implied in her question that the virus was not being contained. "Do you not think it's being contained in this country?" Conway barked at the journalist. "You said, 'It's not being contained,' so are you a doctor or a lawyer when you're saying it's not being contained? That's false. You just said something that's not true." Of course, it was true. While Trump and his advisers were playing down the virus to protect the market, Mother Nature was silently, inexorably, exponentially and mercilessly spreading the coronavirus around our nation, irrespective of state boundaries or political affiliations. Conway herself now has Covid 19. In a pandemic, Mother Nature asks you and your leader three basic questions. (1.) "Are you humble? Do you respect my virus? Because if you don't, it could hurt you or someone you love." (2.) "Are you coordinated in your response to my virus, which I evolved to find any crack in your individual or communal immune system?" And (3.) "Is your adaptation response to my virus grounded in chemistry, biology and physics? Because that is all I am. If it is grounded instead in politics, ideology, markets and an election calendar, you will fail and your community will pay." When it came to Mother Nature, Trump was not humble, he did not seek national coordination in response to the virus and he did not ground what strategy he had in chemistry, biology and physics, but rather in ideology, politics, markets and an election calendar. Our nation has paid a huge price for that. Trump wanted us to believe that we had only two choices: open the economy and ignore the virus, as he claims to prefer, or close the economy and fear the virus, as he claims Democrats prefer. It's a fraud. Our real choices were to open the economy smartly or to open it recklessly. That is, open the economy by doing the easy things, like wearing masks and social distancing, so people could shop, go to school and go to work with a reasonable prospect of not getting sick, as Joe Biden proposes, or open the economy recklessly, without masks, and force people to risk getting sick every time they go to work or school, as Trump demands. Trump did not respect Mother Nature or us. All I can do now is pray that enough Trump supporters have learned that and vote against him between now and Nov. 3. The lives and livelihoods of many Americans depend on it. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We'd like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here's our email: letters nytimes.com. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter ( NYTopinion) and Instagram.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Zion Williamson, the Pelicans' cornerstone forward, will have a new coach in New Orleans next season as he tries to rebound from an injury plagued rookie season. The Pelicans fired Coach Alvin Gentry on Saturday with one year left on his contract. The widely expected move came the day after the Pelicans had returned home from a disappointing showing in the N.B.A. restart at Walt Disney World. Two of the first five teams eliminated from the N.B.A. bubble made major moves in response to their early exits. Before Gentry's ouster, Sacramento General Manager Vlade Divac stepped down under pressure on Friday after the Kings had extended their league leading playoff drought to 14 seasons. New Orleans was one of six sub .500 teams given a chance by the league's return to play format to force their way into the postseason, joining the 16 teams that had attained playoff positions when the season was suspended indefinitely on March 11. The Pelicans won just two of eight games and finished 21st out of 22 teams. After missing nearly two weeks' worth of basketball activities in the N.B.A.'s so called bubble, attending to what the Pelicans described as an urgent family matter and completing a subsequent four day quarantine before he could rejoin the team, Williamson played no more than 27 minutes in his five games in Florida. Williamson also missed the first 43 games of his rookie season after undergoing surgery in October to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee and wound up playing in just 24 of New Orleans's 72 regular season games. He posted big numbers when he did play, though, becoming the first rookie since Shaquille O'Neal in 1992 93 to average at least 20 points (22.5) while shooting better than 55 percent from the field (.583). Gentry, who is owed an estimated 5 million next season, coached the Pelicans for the past five seasons, posting a record of 175 225 (.438), but managed just one playoff berth amid a seemingly constant swirl of injuries. New Orleans reached the second round of the playoffs in 2017 18 and then endured a season of tumult in 2018 19 that ultimately led the star forward Anthony Davis to force a trade to the Los Angeles Lakers in July 2019. The Pelicans' struggles last season, however, did put them in position to win the 2019 draft lottery and the right to select Williamson out of Duke. With Williamson, Jrue Holiday and Brandon Ingram who was acquired in the Davis deal on the roster, New Orleans is expected to attract a strong field of candidates to replace Gentry. The former Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue, the former Milwaukee Bucks and Nets coach Jason Kidd and the former Nets coach Kenny Atkinson have already been mentioned as potential successors. The Pelicans join the Chicago Bulls as the only current teams with coaching openings, but the Nets are expected to conduct a broad coaching search that would also include Lue and Kidd when their stay in the bubble is over. The Nets have said repeatedly that their interim coach, Jacque Vaughn, will also receive consideration for the full time post. "I'm grateful for and appreciative of Alvin's commitment to the organization and, most importantly, the local community," David Griffin, the Pelicans' executive vice president of basketball operations, said in a statement. "These types of moves are often about fit and timing, and we believe now is the right time to make this change and bring in a new voice." Williamson was held out of the Pelicans' final two games in Florida after they had been eliminated from playoff contention, but he seemed to acknowledge in his final interview session with reporters on Thursday morning that playing at his listed weight of 285 pounds might have contributed to his injury issues this season. Williamson said he planned to spend the off season doing the requisite "work on getting my body where it needs to be." When pressed about his weight and conditioning, Williamson said: "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But I'm going to stick to the opinions of the people closest to me and my team and just go from there."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
There's no eye of newt or toe of frog in "Roald Dahl's The Witches," Robert Zemeckis's take on the 1983 book just a mischief of mice, a cantankerous cat and an occasional s s snake. There are people, too; some buzz around in the background while others push the story forward. Chief among these are an unnamed orphan, call him the Boy (Jahzir Bruno, sweetly sensitive), and his loving grandmother (Octavia Spencer), who form a wee bulwark against witches who appear fair but are most foul. Narrated by a distracting Chris Rock, the story primarily takes place in flashback, in 1967, starting with an accident that kills the Boy's parents. He moves into the Alabama home of his Grandma, whose warm embrace eases his pain. Zemeckis, working from a script written with Kenya Barris and Guillermo del Toro, handles this setup effortlessly, with his two cozily inviting leads, low key visual panache and customary restive camerawork. Within minutes, Zemeckis has created a vibrantly inhabited world, even if the golden oldies on the soundtrack are overly familiar, as is his habit, and Grandma's caky cornbread looks more Northern than Southern. The witches sidle in, disguised and cunning. One materializes in a once upon a time tale; another pops up in the present. Amid intimations of doom, Grandma and the Boy decamp to a resort hotel, a nonsensical turn that's effectively a narrative contrivance. There, they soon find themselves facing down a coven of witches stirring up trouble. United by their hatred of children, the twisted sisters are led by the Grand High Witch (an amusing Anne Hathaway), who arrives with a black cat, a trunk stuffed with cash and a vile plan. Speaking in a vaguely Eastern European accent with Nordic notes, she has a cavernous mouth and jagged teeth right out of del Toro's imaginarium.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
"I have a love for '40s vintage glamour," said Cynthia Erivo at the final fitting for her Tony Awards dress. Shown here with Virginia "Gigi" Burris O'Hara, a milliner. Getting Dressed for the Tonys With Cynthia Erivo "Something is missing," said Cynthia Erivo, the Tony award winning actress, as she judiciously eyed her reflection in the airy studio of Chris Gelinas, a designer. She was wearing a dress adorned from one shoulder to the next with hundreds of ostrich feathers, some of which were shipped to California and hand dipped in a delightful lemon yellow dye. This was two days ago, at a final fitting for two dresses for the Tonys one she will wear on the red carpet and one she will wear for a special performance. On cue, Mr. Gelinas and Ade Samuel, her stylist, got to work. They tucked an inch of fabric here, took scissors to the feather lining there, and deepened the slit to reveal a part of Ms. Erivo's tattoo, attempting to conjure the necessary allure and pizazz. At the suggestion to add more feathers the pair took to the ground, kneeling at the base of Ms. Erivo's dress where the unfinished ends flirted with the studio's hardwood floor. "I have a love for '40s vintage glamour," said Ms. Erivo during the quiet frenzy happening around her, while Caleb, her Maltipoo, lounged on the brown leather chaise and Drake's voice crooned in the background. The look including the ombre effect created by the delicate layering of the feathers to the hourglass silhouette evoked the style of Josephine Baker, one of Ms. Erivo's inspirations. Sitting atop Ms. Erivo's shaved head was an accompanying headpiece by Gigi Burris made of the same plumage, in addition to turkey and goose feathers. To say a lot has changed in the two years since Ms. Erivo and Mr. Gelinas collaborated on her last Tonys look, a gown inspired by Diana Ross, would be an understatement. Since her Tony win for her Broadway debut as Celie in "The Color Purple" in 2016, Ms. Erivo has made a transition to film, appearing in Drew Goddard's "Bad Times at the El Royale" and Steve McQueen's "Widows" last year. She has also just finished filming as Harriet Tubman in "Harriet." The looks both play with white aimed to celebrate serendipity, as well as "the purity of this new phase and this new era," said Ms. Samuel, whose styled celebrities include Yara Shahidi and Michael B. Jordan. The Tonys are always about channeling glamour, but, she said, this year's look is about introducing the world to a Cynthia Erivo who knows she is "on the precipice of something astounding." Halfway through the fitting, when Caleb has fallen asleep and Ms. Erivo has finished her phone calls, including one to her best friend in London, Ms. Samuel and Mr. Gelinas tried affixing the feathers to the slit. Mr. Gelinas animated the string of feathers with delicate twists and with the help of Ms. Samuel held it up for Ms. Erivo's approval. The feathers fluttered with Ms. Erivo's every move as she posed in front of the mirror. "Now, we have a dress," she said, and smiled. "Onto to the next, people." "What I love about Cynthia is that she doesn't just have opinions, she has a real vision," said Mr. Gelinas. He described their relationship like working with a sibling throughout the process they texted every other day and, because she was shooting a film, conducted the first fitting over FaceTime. "This is gorgeous," said Ms. Erivo, as she twirled in the mirror. "That has to be where it starts: Am I going to feel good in this, whether or not people like it? If the answer is yes, then it's probably the right thing to wear."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
ORLANDO, Fla. The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the University of Central Florida. No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a student's speaking into a hands free cellphone to an accomplice outside. The 228 computers that students use are recessed into desk tops so that anyone trying to photograph the screen using, say, a pen with a hidden camera, in order to help a friend who will take the test later is easy to spot. Scratch paper is allowed but it is stamped with the date and must be turned in later. When a proctor sees something suspicious, he records the student's real time work at the computer and directs an overhead camera to zoom in, and both sets of images are burned onto a CD for evidence. Taylor Ellis, the associate dean who runs the testing center within the business school at Central Florida, the nation's third largest campus by enrollment, said that cheating had dropped significantly, to 14 suspected incidents out of 64,000 exams administered during the spring semester. "I will never stop it completely, but I'll find out about it," Mr. Ellis said. As the eternal temptation of students to cheat has gone high tech not just on exams, but also by cutting and pasting from the Internet and sharing of homework online like music files educators have responded with their own efforts to crack down. This summer, as incoming freshmen fill out forms to select roommates and courses, some colleges Duke and Bowdoin among them are also requiring them to complete online tutorials about plagiarism before they can enroll. Anti plagiarism services requiring students to submit papers to be vetted for copying is a booming business. Fifty five percent of colleges and universities now use such a service, according to the Campus Computing Survey. The best known service, Turnitin.com, is engaged in an endless cat and mouse game with technologically savvy students who try to outsmart it. "The Turnitin algorithms are updated on an on going basis," the company warned last month in a blog post titled "Can Students 'Trick' Turnitin?" The extent of student cheating, difficult to measure precisely, appears widespread at colleges. In surveys of 14,000 undergraduates over the last four years, an average of 61 percent admitted to cheating on assignments and exams. The figure declined somewhat from 65 percent earlier in the decade, but the researcher who conducted the surveys, Donald L. McCabe, a business professor at Rutgers, doubts there is less of it. Instead, he suspects students no longer regard certain acts as cheating at all, for instance, cutting and pasting a few sentences at a time from the Internet. Andrew Daines, who graduated in May from Cornell, where he served on a board in the College of Arts and Sciences that hears cheating cases, said Internet plagiarism was so common that professors told him they had replaced written assignments with tests and in class writing. Mr. Daines, a philosophy major, contributed to pages that Cornell added last month to its student Web site to bring attention to academic integrity. They include a link to a voluntary tutorial on avoiding plagiarism and a strongly worded admonition that "other generations may not have had as many temptations to cheat or plagiarize as yours," and urging students to view this as a character test. Mr. Daines said he was especially disturbed by an epidemic of students' copying homework. "The term 'collaborative work' has been taken to this unbelievable extreme where it means, because of the ease of e mailing, one person looking at someone else who's done the assignment," he said. At M.I.T., David E. Pritchard, a physics professor, was able to accurately measure homework copying with software he had developed for another purpose to allow students to complete sets of physics problems online. Some answered the questions so fast, "at first I thought we had some geniuses here at M.I.T.," Dr. Pritchard said. Then he realized they were completing problems in less time than it took to read them and were copying the answers mostly, it turned out, from e mail from friends who had already done the assignment. About 20 percent copied one third or more of their homework, according to a study Dr. Pritchard and colleagues published this year. Students who copy homework find answers at sites like Course Hero, which is a kind of Napster of homework sharing, where students from more than 3,500 institutions upload papers, class notes and past exams. Another site, Cramster, specializes in solutions to textbook questions in science and engineering. It boasts answers from 77 physics textbooks but not Dr. Pritchard's popular "Mastering Physics," an online tutorial, because his publisher, Pearson, searches the Web for solutions and requests they be taken down to protect its copyright. "You can use technology as well for detecting as for committing" cheating, Dr. Pritchard said. The most popular anti cheating technology, Turnitin.com, says it is now used by 9,500 high schools and colleges. Students submit written assignments to be compared with billions of archived Web pages and millions of other student papers, before they are sent to instructors. The company says that schools using the service for several years experience a decline in plagiarism. Cheaters trying to outfox Turnitin have tried many tricks, some described in blogs and videos. One is to replace every "e" in plagiarized text with a foreign letter that looks like it, such as a Cyrillic "e," meant to fool Turnitin's scanners. Another is to use the Macros tool in Microsoft Word to hide copied text. Turnitin says neither scheme works. Some educators have rejected the service and other anti cheating technologies on the grounds that they presume students are guilty, undermining the trust that instructors seek with students. Washington Lee University, for example, concluded several years ago that Turnitin was inconsistent with the school's honor code, "which starts from a basis of trusting our students," said Dawn Watkins, vice president for student affairs. "Services like Turnitin.com give the implication that we are anticipating our students will cheat." For similar reasons, some students at the University of Central Florida objected to the business school's testing center with its eye in the sky video in its early days, Dr. Ellis said. But recently during final exams after a summer semester, almost no students voiced such concerns. Rose Calixte, a senior, was told during an exam to turn her cap backward, a rule meant to prevent students from writing notes under the brim. Ms. Calixte disapproved of the fashion statement but didn't knock the reason: "This is college. There is the possibility for people to cheat." A first year M.B.A. student, Ashley Haumann, said that when she was an undergraduate at the University of Florida, "everyone cheated" in her accounting class of 300 by comparing answers during quizzes. She preferred the highly monitored testing center because it "encourages you to be ready for the test because you can't turn and ask, 'What'd you get?' " For educators uncomfortable in the role of anti cheating enforcer, an online tutorial in plagiarism may prove an elegantly simple technological fix. That was the finding of a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in January. Students at an unnamed selective college who completed a Web tutorial were shown to plagiarize two thirds less than students who did not. (The study also found that plagiarism was concentrated among students with lower SAT scores.) The tutorial "had an outsize impact," said Thomas S. Dee, a co author, who is now an economist at the University of Virginia. "Many instructors don't want to create this kind of adversarial environment with their students where there is a presumption of guilt," Dr. Dee said. "Our results suggest a tutorial worked by educating students rather than by frightening them." Only a handful of colleges currently require students to complete such a tutorial, which typically illustrates how to cite a source or even someone else's ideas, followed by a quiz. The tutorial that Bowdoin uses was developed with its neighbor colleges Bates and Colby several years ago. Part of the reason it is required for enrollment, said Suzanne B. Lovett, a Bowdoin psychology professor whose specialty is cognitive development, is that Internet age students see so many examples of text, music and images copied online without credit that they may not fully understand the idea of plagiarism. As for Central Florida's testing center, one of its most recent cheating cases had nothing to do with the Internet, cellphones or anything tech. A heavily tattooed student was found with notes written on his arm. He had blended them into his body art.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Education
William M. Hoffman, whose epochal play "As Is" was in the vanguard of Broadway's coming to grips with the AIDS epidemic and who wrote the groundbreaking libretto for John Corigliano's opera "The Ghosts of Versailles," died on Saturday in the Bronx. He was 78. The cause was cardiac arrest, his husband, William Russell Taylor II, said. Mr. Hoffman began his career as a book editor at Hill and Wang, where he published gay and lesbian playwrights in the "New American Plays" series and in the 1979 anthology "Gay Plays: The First Collection." In doing so, he promoted the careers of Jane Chambers, Tom Eyen, Joe Orton, Robert Patrick and Lanford Wilson, among others. He followed his success as a writer by teaching, as a professor of journalism, communication and theater at Lehman College of the City University of New York, and as the host of "Conversations with William M. Hoffman," a regularly scheduled program in which he interviewed theatrical and musical personalities on the cable channel CUNY TV. In 1985, Mr. Hoffman's "As Is" and Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" "represented the opening salvo in the theatrical war against AIDS," Prof. Roger W. Oliver of The Juilliard School and New York University wrote in The Juilliard Journal in 2010.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
There are two intertwined mysteries at the heart of "Furious Hours," Casey Cep's meticulously researched narrative about an Alabama preacher accused of multiple murders, and the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist who tried and failed to tell his story. The first section of the book, a spellbinding true crime story, follows the Rev. Willie Maxwell, who allegedly killed five family members for insurance money in the 1970s. In a stranger than fiction twist, Maxwell himself was killed in 1977, shot at a funeral ceremony for one of his alleged victims by one of her grieving relatives. But the other mystery proved even knottier. It involved reconstructing years of investigative work done by Harper Lee, who was fascinated by the Maxwell murders and worked on a true crime book about the case that she titled "The Reverend." To this day, it remains unclear how much she wrote, why she stopped writing or whether she finished the book. Cep may not have fully solved the cases, but she collected enough clues and vivid details to tell a captivating story. Below is an edited transcript of a recent interview with Cep about how she retraced Harper Lee's steps. Q. Which was the harder mystery to unravel, the story behind the alleged murders, or what happened to Harper Lee's unfinished manuscript? Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. None Learn what you should be reading this fall: Our collection of reviews on books coming out this season includes biographies, novels, memoirs and more. See what's new in October: Among this month's new titles are novels by Jonathan Franzen, a history of Black cinema and a biography by Katie Couric. Nominate a book: The New York Times Book Review has just turned 125. That got us wondering: What is the best book that was published during that time? Listen to our podcast: Featuring conversations with leading figures in the literary world, from Colson Whitehead to Leila Slimani, the Book Review Podcast helps you delve deeper into your favorite books. A. I'm not sure I solved either of them. But I hope I've given people all the evidence that I can for readers to draw their own conclusions about everything, from did the Reverend do it to how did he do it if he did it, and what did Harper Lee write, what didn't she write or why couldn't she write? What was the most challenging thing about taking Lee on as a subject? There's a tremendous amount of her inner life that remains enigmatic even to those who knew her best. She just was exceedingly private. It was not even just a public facing privacy; it was even with people who knew her well, and I think in some of those core instances, she was inscrutable even to herself. It is the big mystery of what became of Harper Lee, and this is one iteration of it. I think for a lot of readers, it's unsatisfying because I don't put my thumb on the scale. I think a different writer would have made a guess. It's something I really think Harper Lee would appreciate about the book, the degree to which I tried to be scrupulous. But if you had to make a guess ... I am an optimist in general, and I'm an optimist about Harper Lee. She was an extraordinary writer and thinker, and there's a way in which she had everything going for her with this book. Look, I did it, so of course she could have, and probably did, and there's probably no one more excited to read whatever exists of "The Reverend" than me. I'm pretty sanguine. I think there's potential for her to have written the whole thing. People who lived around her on the Upper East Side heard the typewriter at all hours of the day and night. And by your account, she gathered an incredible amount of material. It was clear she had a mind for the investigation. She had all the pieces. She should be able to write it, and then we have to sit with the question of, what happened? Were you at all intimidated taking on a literary project that Lee had failed to complete? I think "Mockingbird" is one of the most extraordinary novels in the English language, and the idea that the woman who wrote that couldn't do it doesn't bode well for the likes of Casey Cep. Imagine if you thought Harper Lee was going to tell your story, and then Casey Cep, this writer you've never heard of who's never written a book, she's not even from Alabama, I think for some of these people it was like, "We get you? We were supposed to get Harper Lee and we get you?" I felt like there was one thing I could do which she was never going to do, which was talk about her. It's the story behind the story. She would never have included herself. There's an amazing moment near the end of the book when you get this trove of documents about the Maxwell case that Maxwell's lawyer, Tom Radney, had given to Harper Lee. What were some other breakthrough moments in your reporting? I had been told the court reporter from the murder trials was dead. At some point I realized I didn't know that for sure, and I was looking for women by that name, and it turned out she was alive and well. I go knock on the door, we get to talking about the Maxwell case and a couple of minutes into that conversation she goes, "Gosh, I haven't talked about this since I talked to Harper Lee." Were there any questions that you tried really hard to answer that you were unable to crack? Harper Lee smoked cigarettes like a chimney. You will notice that I do not name the brand of cigarettes she smoked in the book. She's shown holding them in some photographs but the pack is never visible. As much as I want to tell you I think they were Chesterfields, I could not say that with certainty. So I just tell you she smoked. One gets the sense that you have a real affection for Harper Lee and yet you expose her demons, her heavy drinking, her insecurities, her disdain for her hometown. Was it difficult to draw out sources on those aspects of her life? People were happy to finally get to talk about it, trusting that it would be represented in a responsible way and not a sensational way. A lot of people felt like they didn't want to embarrass her in her lifetime, but they wanted to let the world know that she struggled. What do you think Harper Lee would have made of your effort to finish the story she never told? People ask me sometimes, do I think she would like the book? I respect her enough to say, probably not. I don't think she would have approved of someone looking so seriously at her life. And yet I think that she valued the truth a great deal and would have admired the extent to which this is a book that tried to tell the truth.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books

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