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The Best Teams That Money Could Buy
The four teams in the College Football Playoff used cash payments from fan “collectives” in unique ways to build their…
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My Neighbor Is Feeding Stray Cats, and My Yard Is Their Bathroom
Besides creating a nuisance to people, cats who roam freely can damage populations of birds and other wildlife.
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Mbongeni Ngema, Playwright Best Known for ‘Sarafina!,’ Dies at 68
Before the fall of apartheid, his plays, which also included “Woza Albert!” and “Asinamali,” challenged the South African government’s racial…
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Tom Wilkinson, Actor in ‘The Full Monty,’ Dies at 75
Wilkinson, a versatile actor who also starred in “Shakespeare in Love” and “Batman Begins,” won acclaim through decades of work…
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Why the Humanities Are Indeed Worth Teaching
Readers respond to a guest essay by a philosophy professor about difficulties defending the humanities.
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A Nursing Student Dreams of Her Own Clinic in Haiti
Naomie Ambroise, a 19-year-old nursing student, knows exactly where she’ll travel once she has her degree: Japan and Thailand are…
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Electrify All the Big, Noisy, Belching Trucks
This morning in Mott Haven, a neighborhood in the South Bronx, tens of thousands of New Yorkers — more than…
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Debbie Dingell: How to Stand Up to Trump
“Rot in hell.” Those words were part of Donald Trump’s Christmas Day message, spewed at his political enemies. The next…
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This Was a Terrible Year, and Also Maybe the Best One Yet for Humanity
As the year ends, civilians are dying at a staggering pace in Gaza and the genocide in Darfur may be…
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I Want a City, Not a Museum
Some years ago, as my mother and I were walking on New York City’s Upper West Side, she pointed out…