World
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The New N-Word Standard Isn’t Progress
Over roughly the past two decades, American mores have been settling into an idea that when it comes to the N-word, there’s no difference between ...
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What’s Dismaying Economists the Most About the New Inflation Figures
After Thursday’s report that consumer prices rose over the past year by the most since 1982, the Federal Reserve is under pressure to squelch ...
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Lars Eighner, Who Wrote Eloquently of Being Homeless, Dies at 73
Lars Eighner, who vividly recounted his experiences with being homeless in “Travels With Lizbeth,” a book widely regarded as one of the finest ...
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For Australia, the Winter Games may be fertile ground for gold.
Australia’s Olympic history dates all the way back to 1896, when it took gold in two events at the first modern Games. The country has continued ...
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How a Tawdry Steakhouse Melee Transfixed Miami Politics
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Every so often, a petty political episode consumes Miami, its piquant details transfixing the city for days. Like the one ...
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Pentagon to send 3,000 more troops to Poland.
The Pentagon on Friday ordered 3,000 additional troops to Poland, bringing to 5,000 the total number of reinforcements sent to Europe in the past ...
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Remembering What Draws You In
Astead Herndon, who follows politics for The Times and Tottenham Hotspur because he just can’t help himself, is filling in for Rory Smith this ...
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Douglas Trumbull, Visual Effects Wizard, Dies at 79
Douglas Trumbull, an audacious visual effects wizard who, in his early 20s, created the memorable hallucinogenic sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s ...
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Paranoia About #MeToo Overreach at Harvard
Thirty-eight of Harvard’s leading lights, people who are among the most accomplished and admired intellectuals in the world, last week signed an ...
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What the Beatles Tell Us About Fame
Let’s say you’re a musician, artist or actor with dreams of making it big. How do you do that? The standard answer is: Be really excellent at ...