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"This is a remarkable achievement," said Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at Harvard University. The image provides visual evidence that black holes exist. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole. Here it is. This is a remarkable achievement. What you're seeing here is the last photon orbit. What you are seeing is...
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Yola Yolanda Claire Quartey sang her first recording session 20 years ago, as a teenager in her English hometown, Bristol. This Sunday at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, she has been nominated for best new artist and three other awards: best Americana album for her debut, "Walk Through Fire," best American roots perf...
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There was more to Peter's crise than his worry about Patsy or growing distaste for his surreptitious assignment. He was 25, almost 26. Impatiently, he reflected that his life didn't make sense to him, a feeling that had gnawed at him for a long while. What was he doing here? He began a second novel, called "Partisans."...
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The horrifying rash of massacres during this violent summer suggests that public, widely covered rampage killings have led to a kind of contagion, prompting a small number of people with strong personal grievances and scant political ideology to mine previous attacks for both methods and potential targets to express th...
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As the crisis caused by the coronavirus continues to spiral out of control, the vast ramifications of the global economy's screeching to a halt are already on display at one of most important companies in the United States: Boeing. Boeing is the nation's largest manufacturer. It employs more than 100,000 people domesti...
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Opening in 1950s Taiwan, during the rule of the Kuomintang (the Chinese Nationalist Party), "Tigertail" introduces us to a young boy named Pin Jui. He lives with his grandparents in the countryside while his mother looks for a job. The film, streaming on Netflix, soon jumps to the present day: Pin Jui, now an old man (...
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Clockwise: Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times. George Etheredge for The New York Times. Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times. Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times Clockwise: Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times. George Etheredge for The New York Times. Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times. Kayana Szymczak f...
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THE WORLD THAT WE KNEW By Alice Hoffman Arguably, every single historical novel should evoke those two much quoted lines of William Faulkner's: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." But coming away from Alice Hoffman's gravely beautiful new novel, "The World That We Knew," historical fiction that transports you...
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Robert Hemenway's biography is a subtle blend of fact and close reading that recreates the internal mood of a black writer between the Jazz Age and the McCarthy era. Scrupulously avoiding sentiment and simplification, Hemenway has told Miss Hurston's story with as much integrity and attention to language as Miss Hursto...
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HONG KONG Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said Thursday that China would consider working with the International Monetary Fund to help shore up Europe's finances. But he left unclear whether China was willing to drop conditions that so far have made its proposed help unappealing to European nations. Mr. Wen's comments came a...
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Some Tips for Small Foundations Seeking to 'Punch Above Their Weight' For years, the John and Wauna Harman Foundation was doing what most small family philanthropies do. It was writing dozens of little checks, deciding at the kitchen table what to give. But then the next generation got involved, and it began to ask wha...
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LONDON Why are we listening to this conversation again? It's the same one that many of us have been having for more than two years and for what feels like forever. And it's not as if any of the observations being made here are at all new. Why go to the theater to hear our own unoriginal and distressing thoughts echoed ...
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SAN FRANCISCO Women will not reach parity with men in writing published computer science research in this century if current trends hold, according to a study released on Friday. The enduring gender gap is most likely a reflection of the low number of women now in computer science, said researchers at the Allen Institu...
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This year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House, open May 2 through June 1 at 125 East 65th Street, is a brick Georgian designed by Charles Platt, a self taught classical architect, landscape architect and artist, at the turn of the 19th century. From the mid 1940s until a few years ago, the house was the headquarters of the...
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Americans would be wise to brace for war with Iran. Full scale conflict is not a certainty, but the probability is higher than at any point in decades. Despite President Trump's oft professed desire to avoid war with Iran and withdraw from military entanglements in the Middle East, his decision to order the killing of ...
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SAN FRANCISCO Social media has overflowed with sexual misconduct allegations during the last few weeks. The 450 word post that Melanie Kohler put on Facebook probably had the shortest life a few hours. It may also have been the first to get its author sued. As the torrent of accusations continues, it is unlikely to be ...
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Francisco J. Ayala, one of the world's most eminent evolutionary biologists and a major benefactor of the University of California, Irvine, has resigned his position there after a monthslong investigation into allegations of sexual harassment. In a sharp rebuke, the university said it would remove his name from its Sch...
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Sleazy bars. Sex shops. Streetwalkers. That was long the dodgy mix in Zurich's fourth district, known locally as Kreis 4, a sprawling red light area next to the city's main railway station. Switzerland's largest city, however, is gambling on an ambitious development known as Europaallee to burnish the neighborhood's st...
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Imagine a country, a major Western economic power, where the coronavirus arrived late but the government, instead of denying and delaying, acted early. It was ready with tests and contact tracing to "flatten the curve" swiftly and limited its death rate to orders of magnitude lower than that of any other major Western ...
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To hear more audio stories from publishers, like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Here is a list of stories about Tom Hanks I've heard over the last few miserable months, as it appeared that politeness and civility and manners were facing an extinction event in this country. Once, in 2008, when ...
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It was not clear before Super Tuesday, but it does seem clear now, that Sanders had allowed himself to be tugged a bit too far left on culture war issues to win the white working class in 2020 the way he did in 2016, while remaining too radical on economics to reassure and win suburbanites. And the moments when Sanders...
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LONDON Facing the challenges of a cooling market in Europe, Christie's, the international auction house, said Wednesday that it intends to close its secondary South Kensington salesroom here at the end of the year and scale back its operation in Amsterdam. The proposed changes, part of a companywide review, could bring...
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AMERICAN BALLET THEATER at the Metropolitan Opera (through July 7). This weekend, the company wraps up its performances of "Giselle," the first full length ballet of the season. On Monday night, the spring gala unveils a piece d'occasion by the tap dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance. Set to recorded music by th...
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Keeping dry is just one part of staying warm wearing a lightweight, form fitting base layer under your regular clothes will help, too. ( 20 to 28 at Macy's) Wirecutter is a New York Times Company that reviews and recommends products. 52 PLACES AND MUCH, MUCH MORE Discover where you should go in 2020, and find more Trav...
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We've known from the beginning how the end will arrive. Eventually, the coronavirus will be unable to find enough susceptible hosts to survive, fading out wherever it briefly emerges. To achieve so called herd immunity the point at which the virus can no longer spread widely because there are not enough vulnerable huma...
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Credit...Alex Cretey Systermans for The New York Times At CERN in Switzerland and Fermilab in Illinois, there is always a sense of discovery about the past, present and future. Towering clouds threatened rain as I biked near the French Swiss border. My sturdy velo de ville rolled over every type of surface, and complai...
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How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Dionne Searcey, The Times's West Africa bureau chief based in Dakar, Senegal, discussed the tech she's using. What does the technology landscape looks like in West Africa? How is internet connectivity? Do people use Facebook and...
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The field of wheat seen early in "Mr. Jones" sways prettily under the sun. The director Agnieszka Holland lingers on the image, then shifts to a man busily typing in a house nearby. He's unkempt and unidentified but you will likely guess his name when he mentions "talking farm animals" and begins narrating his once upo...
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Physicists have discovered a particle that is doubly charming. Researchers reported on Thursday that in debris flying out from the collisions of protons at the CERN particle physics laboratory outside Geneva, they had spotted a particle that has long been predicted but not detected until now. The new particle, awkwardl...
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Rick Hartman had just navigated a pair of husband and wife anglers to a pretty little stretch of sapphire colored water along the scruffy sand grass shoreline of the Lower Laguna Madre, off the South Texas Gulf Coast. Normally when a redfish guide pulls a skiff into an area he wants to explore, fish bolt from it, at le...
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Coming to a showroom near you for 2014: the first sport utility vehicle in its class equipped with a 9 speed automatic transmission. It's also the first to offer a parallel parking feature. And, in 4 wheel drive models, the rear axle disconnects automatically, for fuel efficiency. Oh, yes: its name is the Jeep Cherokee...
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"There's crop diversity here," said Greg McPhee from the open kitchen at his restaurant, The Anchorage, in Greenville, S.C. "It's not quite the rice and peas culture of the coast." I was asking the chef about the cuisine of South Carolina's Upcountry in the northwestern corner of the state, a region that is defined les...
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Federal regulators are investigating whether Chrysler is acting quickly enough to recall almost one million pickup trucks over a steering system defect. It is the second time this year the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has questioned the automaker over its promptness in repairing safety defects. The ac...
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On a beautiful Thursday evening in Prospect Park, Ariel Elias, a sly young comic from Kentucky, walked down a hill, looked at a few dozen socially distanced audience members sitting near a family flying a kite, and said: "Thank you for being here and shame on you." This joke perfectly captured the odd mix of excitement...
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Garments by Rei Kawakubo from her Body Meets Dress Dress Meets Body Collection from 1997 in her show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Credit...Agaton Strom for The New York Times Garments by Rei Kawakubo from her Body Meets Dress Dress Meets Body Collection from 1997 in her show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In t...
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GENEVA Swiss citizens voted Sunday to impose some of the world's most severe restrictions on executive compensation, ignoring a warning from the business lobby that such curbs would undermine the country's investor friendly image. The vote gives shareholders of companies listed in Switzerland a binding say on the overa...
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For decades, the artist Jenny Holzer has projected phrases often borrowed sayings on surfaces such as building facades, ocean waves and mountains. But her new project, called "You Be My Ally" after a line by Sappho, includes her first smartphone app designed to let users at home superimpose some loaded quotes on their ...
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The discovery of a 9,000 year old female skeleton buried with what archaeologists call a "big game hunting kit" in the Andes highlands of Peru has challenged one of the most widely held tenets about ancient hunter gatherers that males hunted and females gathered. Randy Haas, an archaeologist at the University of Califo...
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Julien J. Studley, who arrived in New York as a young refugee from Europe and began to build a commercial real estate empire by sending penny postcards to prospective tenants from the bedroom of his fourth floor walk up, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. The cause was brain cancer, Reid Richter, a fr...
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Big Jay McNeely at the Paradiso in Amsterdam in 1988. He had a pivotal role in establishing the saxophone before the electric guitar supplanted it as the featured instrument among soloists at the dawn of rock 'n' roll. Big Jay McNeely, whose wailing tenor saxophone and outrageous stage antics helped define the sound an...
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The Atlantic, the 163 year old publication that has grown under the stewardship of Laurene Powell Jobs, announced on Thursday that it had selected a new chief executive after a yearlong search: Nicholas Thompson, the editor in chief of Wired, the tech focused magazine published by Conde Nast. It is unusual for a journa...
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Sal Giangrande is the New York Couch Doctor. The ailments he cures afflict pieces of furniture, mainly sofas, that have outwitted delivery crews or movers and gotten stuck. After Sal Giangrande and his team finish performing surgery after their drills, screw guns, rubber mallets, pliers and reciprocating saws are tucke...
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As Lulu Wang's "The Farewell" (2019) did with a Chinese American character, "Coming Home Again" looks at the impending loss of a loved one through the prism of the immigrant experience. Chang rae's petulant exasperation at a church group that comes to the apartment for a prayer meeting, and his defensiveness when expla...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. For much of her childhood, RyAnn Watson has been hospitalized for excruciating flare ups of sickle cell disease. Now 16, she takes refuge from her pain in an art studio at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. On a recent Friday, she was sketching the sandstone towers of the Smithsonian castle with a...
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How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? J. D. Biersdorfer, The Times's Tech Tips columnist and a Book Review production editor, discussed the tech she is using. As the Tech Tips columnist, you sift through lots of reader email about their technological woes. What devi...
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Sometimes, when I am feeling particularly ornery, I think that Oracle is like the Kid Rock of tech: Among the least compelling of digital celebrities in Silicon Valley, this 43 year old business software giant always seems willing to show up at the White House and enthusiastically do whatever the Trump administration w...
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MILAN How so many designers end up on the same inspirational page at the same time is one of those oddities of fashion, like the perennial re emergence of drop crotch trousers and hobble skirts, that can seem utterly incomprehensible from the outside. Yet every season one dominant trend emerges, and nowhere is it more ...
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The forthcoming film "Coin Heist" the tale of four prep school students who try to rob the United States Mint will present the first big test of a new studio with an unusual business model. Its approach? Buying other studios' abandoned scripts, and recycling the scraps into new franchises. "We're basically rummaging th...
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Beyonce on the cover of Vogue and Paul McCartney on the cover of GQ. While she told her own story, he was interviewed in depth. All glossy magazine superstar covers may look the same from a distance, but inside, you're never quite sure what you'll find. Take the October issue of GQ, which features Paul McCartney. For d...
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LONDON Europe, which led the world in creating a system of emission permits to combat greenhouse gas emissions, dealt a potential death blow to that system on Tuesday. Focusing on immediate economic concerns over future environmental ones, the European Parliament narrowly rejected a proposal to cut the number of pollut...
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THE 75TH GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 8 p.m. on NBC. The Golden Globes are usually a breezy, joyous affair, but the tone this year is likely to be much more solemn, as sexual harassment scandals hover. Many stars will wear black on the red carpet in solidarity, and the host, Seth Meyers, said he will attempt to find a balance b...
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Barbara Strauch, a reporter and editor who wrote two books about the brain and directed health and science coverage for The New York Times for a decade, died on Wednesday at her home in Rye, N.Y. She was 63. The cause was breast cancer, her husband, Richard Breeden, said. Before joining The Times, Ms. Strauch (pronounc...
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Three graduates of New World School of the Arts in Miami share advice for students interested in pursuing a dream. Alex Lacamoire has won two Grammys and three Tonys for his orchestration on "Hamilton," "In the Heights" and "Dear Evan Hansen." He attended Berklee College of Music after New World. Cote de Pablo is best ...
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The United States Open that is set to begin in New York on Monday will be far from full strength, extraordinarily far, but will it really be the Asterisk Open? As of Sunday evening, 24 of the top 100 women were missing, including six of the top eight and three of the four reigning Grand Slam singles champions: Ashleigh...
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"This is what crime is," said Tom Rob Smith, the writer behind "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story," the FX true crime series. "Crime is people being ripped from the world." He was talking just hours ahead of the mournful finale of a challenging season (the second in an anthology series that bega...
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Last month, Billy Bush sold his Chelsea townhouse for 15 percent less than he paid for it in 2015. The Manhattan real estate market got off to a strong start in 2017, with the closed sale of the second most expensive penthouse at the supertall 432 Park Avenue and a spurt of activity at other new developments. There wer...
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The 2021 N.C.A.A. women's basketball tournament will be held in one region in hopes that reduced travel will limit the spread of the coronavirus across the 64 teams expected to play, the Division I Women's Basketball Committee announced Monday, mirroring the format set last month for the men's competition. In its annou...
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Credit...Caine Delacy for The New York Times Biking the Open Road in Colorado, With a Few Bumps Along the Way The cost for two nights was 199. (The "beer option" costs an additional 30 per person.) Ahead of this trip, I had spoken with Kelly Ryan, a former ski patrol and the daughter of Joe Ryan, who founded the San Ju...
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It was midnight in the French forest off the Gulf of Gascony, and I pedaled along the deserted bike trail, fueled by the fumes of a fabulous bottle of Bordeaux and the memory of a seaside feast: oysters and turbot, overseen by a grandmotherly patronne in a flowered housedress. Far ahead my husband's bike light glimmere...
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MILWAUKEE Pat Connaughton has crammed enough high flying acrobatics into his drives down the lane as a reserve guard for the Bucks that he was invited to compete in Saturday's slam dunk contest at N.B.A. All Star weekend. He loves playing for the Bucks. He loves playing for them so much, in fact, that he is planting ro...
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Credit...Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times BLOCK ISLAND, R.I. The towering machines stand a few miles from shore, in a precise line across the seafloor, as rigid in the ocean breeze as sailors reporting for duty. The blades are locked in place for now, but sometime in October, they will be turned loose to capture ...
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Andy Murray is set to play Stan Wawrinka in the first round of the 2020 French Open: a major matchup that could never have taken place so early at a Grand Slam tournament when both were at their peaks for much of the last decade. It remains remarkably unclear how many fans will get to see them in person. "Life works in...
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Last season, when Yannick Nezet Seguin's tenure as the Metropolitan Opera's music director began, audiences had to wait more than two months for him to actually conduct something. It was worth the wait. He led a fresh, elegant and gripping account of Verdi's "La Traviata." This season the waiting period has been much s...
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AS in Christmases past, Redge Hanes had a meal with his relatives gathered at the family seat in Winston Salem, N.C. They number about 90 these days and are all descendants from the Hanes who started the hosiery company. The knitting company of T shirt renown was started by a great uncle. "All of the Hanes family was f...
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Americans who watched the political conventions on television opted for news networks with partisan fan bases to a degree unseen in recent years, another sign of an increasingly divided electorate as the nation hurtles toward the November election. Fox News, whose prime time is a destination for conservatives, accounte...
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Mr. Peck's decor, by the French (Brooklyn based) painter Jules de Balincourt, is in bright Fauve colors: a view of trees, landscape and sky, seen through a fencelike foreground of fauna. The scale and proportions are intriguingly confused: Are these trees or are we low down and looking at flowers? The 10 dancers are in...
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New Phone Friendly Version of Financial Aid Form Is Coming Out The notoriously difficult to fill out federal financial aid form known as Fafsa is going mobile. And, the federal Education Department says, it should be easier to use. The latest version of the document, formally called the Free Application for Federal Stu...
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When Ronald Braunstein conducts an orchestra, there's no sign of his bipolar disorder. He's confident and happy. Music isn't his only medicine, but its healing power is potent. Scientific research has shown that music helps fight depression, lower blood pressure and reduce pain. The National Institutes of Health has a ...
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Prime time TV viewers first got to know Donald J. Trump delivering his catchphrase, "You're fired," in the boardroom of "The Apprentice." But firing wasn't all that he did on that show. He also gave away prizes: helicopter rides, trips to Mar a Lago and in each season's finale, a job. Later, in the "Celebrity Apprentic...
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NASHVILLE In real life, Nya Collins, Jade Fuller, Kennedy Green, Emma Rose Smith, Mikayla Smith and Zee Thomas had never met as a group when they came together on Twitter to organize a youth march against police violence. It was unseasonably hot, even for Middle Tennessee, with rain predicted, and earlier protests here...
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Dan Le Batard, the flame throwing host of sports television and radio shows, will leave ESPN in January, the company announced Thursday. "It was mutually agreed that it was best for both sides to move on to new opportunities, and we worked together closely to make that possible," Norby Williamson, an ESPN executive, sa...
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Re "Split Senate Clears Trump on Each Count in Finale of a Bitter Impeachment Battle" (front page, Feb. 6): Well, it's finally over, and now come the analyses and the blowback from the White House. And what was accomplished by the impeachment effort? A lot, I think. Some good, some bad. For one thing, the House Democra...
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This summer, as much of the world remained hunkered down at home amid the coronavirus pandemic, news of a series of mysterious explosions trickled out of Iran. The blasts, which took place at military or strategic locations across the Islamic Republic, including Iran's Natanz nuclear complex, were attributed by many fo...
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At some point this year, the board decided to eliminate the policy because "it doesn't offer enough flexibility to strategically recruit and retain a talented and experienced work force," according to Amanda Hicks, a spokeswoman for the museum. The board's two principal figures said that keeping Mr. Lowry on was in the...
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USEFUL PHRASES FOR IMMIGRANTS Stories By 146 pp. Blair. Paper, 16.95. In the title story of her new collection, "Useful Phrases for Immigrants," writes, "Why didn't people in movies complain about taxes and insurance and the cost of rent?" The observation reads like the artist's statement of purpose: Her fiction favors...
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More than four months after the N.B.A. suspended its season because of the coronavirus pandemic, the league on Thursday night will stage a pair of real games ones that actually count in the standings inside its bubble at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla. To mark the occasion, the league made sure to include a bunch ...
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Short on details but long on delight, "Walking on Water" follows the artist Christo as he creates one of his large scale art installations. This cinema verite documentary centers on "The Floating Piers." That project, an orange hued, three kilometer floating walkway on Lake Iseo in Northern Italy, had been planned for ...
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Chevrolet aims to rid the Impala of its rental car reputation with distinctive new styling. Tom Voelk drives the 2014 model to see if the changes to this full size sedan are more than skin deep. My wife used to work as a sales representative for Johnson Johnson. Like many sales reps, she was provided a nondescript, ine...
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PALERMO, Sicily Off the coast of Sicily, a rickety boat of migrants is in distress. Tossed by waves and drenched, women and children scream as a voice barks, "Jump and swim!" They do, but as history shows not everyone will make it. This is the tragically familiar journey that has been made across the Mediterranean by c...
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Rotavirus disease is a highly contagious virus that can cause severe illness and death in infants and young children, but there is a vaccine that is highly effective in preventing it. A large new study confirms previous research suggesting that the vaccine may have an added benefit: lowering the risk for Type 1 diabete...
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AS temperatures heat up, so has the demand for summer homes in what some real estate agents call the "non Hampton Hamptons": Bedford, Pound Ridge and other semirural northern Westchester towns and villages with acres of open space and lots of greenery. April is described as the prime month for selling and renting vacat...
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Enjoying this newsletter every Friday? Send it to a friend, or six, and have them sign up at nytimes.com/rory. There is something unsettling about watching a soccer match played behind closed doors, in a stadium filled with echoes and air, rather than noise and life. The faces of the players, the jerseys they wear and ...
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Credit...Sasha Arutyunova for The New York Times Isabel Rose, the telegenic heiress to one of New York's best known real estate dynasties, has always had an ability to make her publicity wary family squirm. In 2005 she published a novel, "The J.A.P. Chronicles," in which she took aim at the Hermes clad, charter plane f...
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TEN DRUGS How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine By Thomas Hager Synthetic opioids drugs far more potent than anything that's come before are flooding America's streets. New users start up daily, while old users fall deeper into cycles of despair. And as officials bicker about whether addict...
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This article is part of the Opinion Today free newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it every weekday. Grimly surveying a country she described as a tinderbox, our columnist Michelle Goldberg noted over the weekend that the protesters in Minneapolis had faced "a far harsher police response than anything faced by ...
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Opinion
Each week, Kevin Roose, technology columnist at The New York Times, discusses developments in the tech industry, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Hello again! I'm back from a week spent mostly offline, and am excited to get back to the internet, where I'm sure...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
BRAD ALLEN has no time to stand around and talk. Friday is race night at Ace Speedway, so there's a drivers' meeting to convene and prerace activities to coordinate. A representative from a national racing series is waiting up in the track office, meanwhile, to discuss a coming event. And at some point Mr. Allen, Ace's...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles
In the demographic battle for Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Club Europa was a symbolic stronghold for Polish tough guys who still live with their parents against the invasion of real life "Girls" characters who still live off their parents. But with the recent opening of Good Room in Europa's surrendered hull, it's not hard to...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
Bill Withers began his recording career in his 30s, which meant he hadn't been sheltered from the everyday lives he would write about. The music of Bill Withers radiated a quality that's rare in pop songs and, really, anywhere else: selflessness. It's in the subjects that Withers, who died on Monday, chose to sing abou...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
MADRID With Spain struggling to escape the European debt crisis and facing the threat of another recession, cash strapped companies in the country are increasingly looking abroad for new business and financing and losing their Spanish accent in the process. While it is hardly a corporate exodus, the fear that the trick...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Global Business
Credit...Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times "The Post" tells of the tense days leading up to The Washington Post's decision in 1971 to publish the Pentagon Papers, the government's secret history of the Vietnam War. The New York Times had broken the story but was prohibited from running the full series after the Nixon...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
China, which has long been criticized for soaring C section rates, actually has rates lower than previously reported, although they are still quite high, according to a large new study done jointly by Chinese and American scientists. Public health alarms were raised in 2010 when the World Health Organization reported t...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
On Saturday, Henri Bendel, the department store whose brown and white stripes once defined the concept of the boutique as a carnival of gewgaws and glamour, will shut its doors for the last time. It has been a slow farewell, 24 stores blinking out like fireflies since the start of the year, culminating with the shutter...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
new video loaded: Frugal Traveler: Hop on South Africa's Scenic Night Train in 360
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
MIAMI Miami City Ballet, widely known as one of the world's leading exponents of choreography by George Balanchine, also has a record of new choreography. Its current quadruple bill, labeled "See the Music," opens with Balanchine's "Concerto Barocco" (1941) and has Nacho Duato's "Jardi Tancat" (1983), a new company acq...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
SCRIPT Rezeda Suleyman People wrote me asking can I come into your shop if I'm not Muslim? Clothes that cover your body are a standard for any woman, not only Muslim. NATALIA NARMIN ICHAEVA, Wandi muslim fashion pr Scene with the selfie stick Anyone who's not busy, come join us! WE MAKE MUSLIMS the TRENDSETTERS Ildar H...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
This College Football Team Had No Coronavirus Cases at First. Then It Shut Down. When Kansas State opened the doors to its athletic facilities, welcoming its football players back to campus starting the first weekend in June, administrators breathed a sigh of relief once the first batch of coronavirus tests came back. ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
Credit...Philippe Calia for The New York Times IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S. BANGALORE, India IBM dominated the early decades of computing with inventions like the mainframe and the floppy disk. Its offices and factories, stretching from upstate New York to Silicon Valley, were hubs of American i...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Jordan Uhl, a political consultant and activist in Washington, D.C., wanted to make sure as many people saw these videos as possible. Encouraged by a friend, he edited together 14 clips, including one from a reporter at The New York Times of an officer accelerating and opening a car door that hit protesters. The result...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
The happily ever after delivered by Disney's "Maleficent" has vanished like a puff of bilious smoke, as its unhappy, reactionary sequel makes depressingly clear. Released in 2014, the first movie is a satisfying rethink of "Sleeping Beauty" both Disney's and Charles Perrault's that showed how intelligent intervention c...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies