Year: 2023
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Food
Murder Most Unromantic in a New ‘Carmen’ at the Metropolitan Opera
A close observer might have noticed the flicker of menace that passed between the man and the woman: how his…
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He Was One of the Central Park Five. Now He’s Councilman Yusef Salaam.
Yusef Salaam stood at the front of the City Council Chamber in Lower Manhattan with his right hand raised and…
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An Overdose Antidote Becomes a Tricky Issue at Some Nightclubs
Security guards have confiscated naloxone from bar and nightclub goers, even though city officials encourage people to carry the drug…
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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…
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The Saucy Polymath Who Scandalized 17th-Century London
PURE WIT: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish, by Francesca Peacock Margaret Cavendish was an intrepid and prolific writer of…
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Russia Pounds Eastern Ukrainian City Ahead of New Year
Moscow said that it had struck Kharkiv with missiles in retaliation for what it said was a deadly Ukrainian air…
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U.S. Helicopters Sink 3 Houthi Boats in Red Sea, Pentagon Says
American military helicopters came under fire from Iranian-backed Houthi fighters in the Red Sea on Sunday morning and shot back,…
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Biden Lies Low in St. Croix During Holiday Week
The president is enjoying a working vacation, a White House official said. Residents hope to bring attention to the Virgin…
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He Killed His Molester as a Teenager. Should He Be Spared Deportation?
Marco Flores was months away from finishing his prison sentence when an immigration agent showed up last spring at the…
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Can He Condemn the Killings Without Causing More Pain?
He had spent his entire career attending to the horrors of terrorism and war, and now Chris George, 70, believed…
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