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Arts
Zoë Chao Identified With ‘Party Down’ a Little Too Well for a While
Starz’s beloved cater-waiter comedy hit awfully close to home when Chao was still hustling to make ends meet at a bar. She’s less worried about that now.
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Business
The Chaotic, Dispiriting Work of Liquidating Harmon Stores
Employees of the beauty and health chain said Bed Bath & Beyond’s decision to shut it down had caught them by surprise. Communication never got better.
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World
Out of Power, Trump Still Exerts It
An early-morning social media post amounted to a starter’s gun for Republican officials: Many raced to the former president’s side, denouncing a Democratic prosecutor investigating him.
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Sports
For Years She Said a Coach Abused Her. Now She Has Named a Legend.
In 2018, Jennifer Fox made an Emmy-nominated film called “The Tale” about her pieced-together memories of what she now describes as childhood sexual abuse. Laura Dern starred in the HBO drama, in which Fox unspooled what she remembered about the ...
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World
On Pets, Moral Logic and Love
In January, I fell in love with someone. It was the last thing I’d expect and caught me completely off guard. He has sandy blond hair with flecks of gray and gorgeous, sad eyes. He loves to go on walks and cuddle. His name is Herbie. He is just over ...
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World
Tradition, ‘Tradition!’ and the Memory of Topol on the Roof
A few years ago, I bought my father a T-shirt printed with the Yiddish words “Shver tsu zayn a yid” (“It’s hard to be a Jew”). The expression is something between a joke and a boast. “Shver tsu Zayn a Yid” is also the title of a Sholom Aleichem ...
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Sports
United States Blasts Its Way Into W.B.C. Semifinals
Trea Turner’s grand slam gave the U.S. a come-from-behind win over Venezuela, setting up what should be a tense game against Cuba in Miami.
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World
Trump Says His Arrest Is Imminent and Calls for Protests, Echoing Jan. 6
His indictment by a Manhattan grand jury is expected, but its timing is unclear.
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Business
The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls
ORANGE, Va. — Jeannette Walls could have had a life of leisure after the big success of her 2005 memoir, “The Glass Castle,” but she has too much energy for that. She walks fast and talks fast. Her laugh can be as loud as a gunshot. She worked as a ...
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World
In Photos: The Iraq War
The explosions on the first night, lighting up the sky as they burned through buildings below, were only the earliest blasts of the yearslong war to come. For the thousands of days and nights that followed, eruptions across Iraq came from warplanes ...
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