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Requiem for a Winterless Europe
Long before I knew his name, I knew Hendrick Avercamp’s paintings. They show a merry Christmassy world of funnily dressed people disporting themselves on frozen canals: paintings I knew from jigsaw puzzles and holiday cards. Here was a young couple ...
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Magazine
Willie Nelson’s Sense of Style
“Roll me up and smoke me when I die,” Willie Nelson sang from the stage of the Hollywood Bowl during his 90th birthday celebration in April. As usual, Mr. Nelson looked very much at ease. He was wearing a cowboy hat over a red bandanna, and his hair ...
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World
Criticize This African Country’s Army and You Might Be Drafted
The military junta in Burkina Faso, a West African nation struggling to defeat extremist groups, has been forcibly conscripting critics, say human rights organizations.
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World
Mongolians Are Circus Stars All Over the World, Except at Home
It’s cold as a walk-in refrigerator at the Mongolian Circus School, housed in a once proud edifice now on the verge of collapse with cracked walls, moldy ceilings and the stale smell of decades of cigarette smoke embedded into the venue’s wooden ...
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Business
Under Argentina’s New President, Fuel Is Up 60%, and Diaper Prices Have Doubled
Javier Milei warned that things would get worse before they got better. Now Argentines are living it.
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World
More Drones, Fewer Parks. Ukrainians Urge Spending Shift as War Drags On.
Protesters are lobbying city councils to freeze urban renewal projects and buy military equipment instead, part of a wider call to put Ukraine on a war footing.
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Sports
How a North Korean Soccer Prodigy Vanished, and Re-emerged
Han Kwang-song’s recent appearances in World Cup qualifiers were his first ones overseas since 2020, when U.N. sanctions led to an involuntary career break.
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Magazine
I Reneged on the Terms of My Study-Abroad Grants. What Do I Owe My Home Country?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to make amends after violating the conditions of a scholarship.
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World
My Brother’s Thanksgiving Lament
Thanksgiving began as a time of prayer. We could use some prayers right now, in a country inflamed with hate and prejudice and generational mistrust. Americans are at each other’s throats, living in different realities, fraught by two brutal ...
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Car Talk and Birthday Wishes Punctuate Biden’s ‘Trust but Verify’ Diplomacy
Despite simmering tensions, President Biden and President Xi Jinping exchanged the kind of pleasantries that adversarial leaders deploy when they are trying to make nice.