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The Quiet Magic of Middle Managers
Nobody writes poems about middle managers. Nobody gets too romantic about the person who runs a department at a company, or supervises a construction crew, or serves as principal at a school, manager at a restaurant or deacon at a church. But I’ve ...
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Fulfilling Our Mom’s Dream to See the Solar Eclipse
If all goes according to plan, on April 8, our 75-year-old mother, Nancy, will be settled into a lawn chair in Waco, Texas — some 1,300 miles from her recliner in Las Vegas — and joining a great many other Americans as they put on solar eclipse ...
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Hollywood’s New Fantasy: A Magical, Colorblind Past
Films and TV shows keep reimagining history as a multiracial dream world. Is that really a step forward?
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People Hated ‘Madame Web’ — But They Were Desperate to See Dakota Johnson Mock It.
The star has never quite said the movie was bad, but it’s fun to imagine a celebrity going scorched-earth on her own bad movie.
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Southern California Oil Sheen Is Unlikely to Stem From Spill, Tests Indicate
Samples from an oil sheen in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif., were more consistent with oil that seeps naturally.
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How to Fix the Crisis of Trust in Higher Education
Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been keeping track of every report I see about major budget shortfalls at universities. The general trend seems to be that the schools facing these shortfalls have declining enrollments, and state and federal ...
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After Six Seasons, Viewers Have an Answer: No, Love Is Not Blind
The hit Netflix dating show seems to prove that looks matter as much as ever.
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Old Hollywood Glamour at the Gap?
Unlikely, but with Zac Posen being named its creative director, you never know. Plus, fashion’s doll fixation, thrift shopping at H&M and pop-ups to pop by.
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Is Trump an Agent or an Accident of History?
In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels, a “psychohistorian” in a far-flung galactic empire figures out a way to predict the future so exactly that he can anticipate both the empire’s fall and the way that civilization can be painstakingly rebuilt. This ...
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‘As I Got to the Front of the Line, a Man Approached Me From Behind’
A quick stop at the post office, a bright spot in the sky and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
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