World
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Donald Mahler, Prolific Ballet Choreographer, Dies at 88
Donald Mahler, a ballet dancer and prolific choreographer for the Metropolitan Opera who was the director of the company’s own dance troupe, and ...
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101 of the Best Songs About California
Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg performed “California Gurls” at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles.Credit...Mario Anzuoni/ReutersWith its dreamy ...
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Putin Signals Openness to Diplomacy While Blaming U.S. for Crisis
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin said on Tuesday that the United States was trying to pull Russia into an armed conflict over Ukraine that ...
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Your Wednesday Briefing: Putin Blames the U.S.
We’re covering Putin’s comments on the Ukraine crisis, and why supply chain chaos is unlikely to end soon. Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
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Big Business Will Not Save Us From Itself
When Larry Fink, the chief executive of the asset management company BlackRock, wrote in his 2022 annual letter to corporate America that ...
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As the U.S. Pulls Back From the Mideast, China Leans In
BEIRUT, Lebanon — In January alone, five senior officials from oil-rich Arab monarchies visited China to discuss cooperation on energy and ...
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Guns, Germs, Bitcoin and the Antisocial Right
In February 2021 a deep freeze caused widespread power outages in Texas, leaving about 10 million Texans without electricity, in many cases for ...
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The Path to Social Equity in Higher Ed Doesn’t Run Through Harvard
Last Thursday, I wrote about the Harvard affirmative action case and what I see as a broken system of racial preferences at elite colleges. Today ...
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A Year After Coup, Myanmar Is Mired in Conflict and Chaos
In the days after the military in Myanmar seized power on Feb. 1 last year, millions of people took to the streets to oppose the takeover ...
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Your Tuesday Briefing
Russia called the public meeting an example of “megaphone diplomacy.” Credit...Andrew Kelly/ReutersU.S. and Russia clash at the U.N. The U.S ...