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Nafis Sadik, U.N. Official and ‘Proud Champion of Choice,’ Dies at 92
Dr. Nafis Sadik, a Pakistani obstetrician who as a top United Nations official ensured that women’s rights — not least…
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Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity
Brahms’s Fourth Symphony doesn’t mean anything. Like much of the classical music repertory, it has no text, no plot. It…
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Manchester United and the Mounting Cost of Failure
Manchester United’s problem has never been money. Not a dearth of it, anyway. Even now, in what may prove to…
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In Two London Plays, Being Black Means Looking From the Outside In
LONDON — It was my second time here, and I kept trying to remember if I had felt as conspicuous…
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Europeans Debate Barring Russian Tourists Over the Invasion of Ukraine
BRUSSELS — A proposal that the European Union ban visas for all Russian tourists because of the Ukraine invasion has…
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The True Legacy of Michael K. Williams
Three months before he died, the actor Michael K. Williams spent all day at a block party in the Brownsville…
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Outside Money Floods New York Congressional Races
In a feverish House race across Manhattan, a dark-money super PAC has spent more than $200,000 reminding voters that an…
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There Are Good Dining Sheds and Bad Ones, Adams Says
Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll look at Mayor Eric Adams’s assault on those outdoor restaurant sheds that have become eyesores.…
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Workers in the Catskills Can’t Find Housing. Bosses Are Trying to Help.
Cooped up in the city during the pandemic, New Yorkers flocked to Hudson Valley for the fresh air, spacious yards…
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Overlooked No More: Regina Jonas, Upon Whose Shoulders ‘All Female Rabbis Stand’
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported…