tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84152557594824028072024-03-05T19:00:25.095-08:00Today's New York TimesLewis Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12490917696595100263noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415255759482402807.post-56605092966375434412017-06-17T07:00:00.000-07:002017-06-17T10:38:03.264-07:0082. 6/17/17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">See you in July!</span></b></div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 17, 1899<br />118 years ago</h3>
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"As the outcome of quarrels over the Dreyfus affair, two duels were fought here to-day between two officers, naval and artillery, and two professors at the public school. One of each profession was wounded."</div>
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Page 2 <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F00EEDB1430E132A25754C1A9609C94689ED7CF">FEUD IN A TEXAS TOWN</a></div>
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A crowd of what is known as the Reece faction was in a saloon. All were armed, and just as a party of the opposing faction came down the street a gun of one of the Reece band was accidentally discharged. There was a rallying of forces on both sides immediately. Ranger Taylor was near the saloon, and, single-handed, he disarmed all the members of both factions ... The feud commenced in 1891, and has so far resulted in the killing of six prominent citizens of the town."</div>
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"The first outbreak [of rioting] occurred ... when the street railway company sent a car from Lake View filled with non-union employes and guarded by a force of policemen, to attempt to operate the Holmden Avenue line. The south siders did not take kindly to the imported motormen and conductors, and bricks, stones, and eggs were hurled at the car."</div>
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/us/politics/robert-mueller-special-counsel.html?_r=0">MUELLER, ONCE ABOVE THE FRAY, IS NOW PULLED IN</a></div>
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"'You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history -- led by some very bad and conflicted people!' President Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning."</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #073763; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Very bad = gave campaign $ to Dems</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #073763; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Conflicted = professional</span></b></div>
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A6 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/world/europe/uk-london.html">IN A NEW NORMAL, LONDONERS ARE RESILIENT, BUT A LITTLE SPOOKED</a></div>
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"For the fourth time in 12 weeks I marked myself safe on Facebook. In Britain."</div>
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I imagine we're going to see something like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act">The Patriot Act</a> on steroids soon in the U.K. Lacking strong First Amendment-type firewalls, civil liberties might start flying out the window.</div>
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A23 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/us/otto-warmbier-north-korea-ohio-student-home.html">AMERICAN WAS "BRUTALIZED AND TERRORIZED" IN NORTH KOREA, HIS FATHER SAYS</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He stole a poster.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They nearly beat him to death.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ever since I read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Camp-14-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/0143122916/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">this book</a>, nothing like this surprises me. Shock and disgust, yes. But surprise -- </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a good surprise would be regime change in the North.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And why blame Obama, Mr. Warmbier? I would think his anger should be directed at <a href="http://www.youngpioneertours.com/">Young Pioneer Tours</a> -- sales pitch: "budget travel to destinations your mother would rather you stayed away from" (still on the website after all this) ...</span></b></div>
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A27 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/opinion/afghanistan-pakistan-taliban.html">HOW TO BRING PEACE TO AFGHANISTAN</a></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">$30 billion in aid since 2002. Time for some <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quid_pro_quo">quid pro quo</a></i>;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"such 'sticks' are unlikely to change Pakistan's behavior, because its existential concerns are tied to broader regional priorities ... we must understand and address Pakistan's strategic anxieties."</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Key geopolitical factor: <span style="color: blue;">India</span>. Randomization of possible scenarios, including scary nuclear;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pakistan's ultimate desire: the Taliban "back into the political fold," without allowing them to control Afghanistan -- counterbalancing the Indian possibilities, while preventing the Taliban from spreading their influence across the border;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">US must stoke India-Pakistan dialogue;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">US must get serious about a political settlement in Afghanistan, including the Taliban;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">now bring in China: " ... the U.S. should work closely with China to encourage Pakistan. They risk losing their $60 billion investment if the region "remains unstable."</span></b></li>
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 16, 1873<br />144 years ago</h3>
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"The Commission found that it was unsafe to travel without protection. They were accordingly given a regiment of cavalry as an escort, of which, however, they were soon deprived by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epizootic">epizootic</a>. They subsequently were attended by a detachment of infantry, and traveled in ambulances drawn by mules. In this way they traversed the entire border from the mouth of the Rio Grande to the western limits of Texas. They found society in a greatly disorganized state. Life and property were constantly in jeopardy. Natives do not venture beyond the immediate limits of their homes except with companions and arms."<br />
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" ... if 20 little children can be shot in their Connecticut school without triggering national gun law reform, it's not likely that the wounding of several adults in Virginia will do the trick."</div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 15, 1943<br />74 years ago</h3>
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"The ruling was handed down while the nation was celebrating Flag Day in commemoration of the 164th anniversary of the Stars and Stripes."</div>
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"Objections to the salute as 'being too much like Hitler's' were raised ... some modification appears to have been made ..."</div>
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"Lieutenant [Samuel S.] Logan [22, of Paola, Kan.] was flying a Corsair with United States fighters that intercepted from forty to fifty Zeros and enemy bombers over the <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/nSyYF39WbVG2">Russell Islands</a> on June 7. As he attacked a Zero that was firing on an Army P-40, his own tail surfaces were ripped apart. He climbed from the cockpit and jumped.<br />
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When the criminal got back to his cell, his cellmate scoffed at him: You could never teach the king's horse to sing if you had a lifetime. And the man said: 'No matter. I have a year now that I didn't have before. And a lot of things can happen in a year. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And, who knows? Maybe the horse will sing.'</div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 14, 1868<br />149 years ago</h3>
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"Prince NAPOLEON ... is traveling strictly incognito."</div>
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<b>The steamship, not the country. Fantastic account of a near-disaster on the ocean, in a spot as remote as one could possibly get from civilization.</b></div>
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<b>Grant won in November, with a majority of the Jewish vote.</b></div>
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A9 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/world/africa/congo-prison-break-kangbayi.html?_r=0">OVER 900 FLEE CELLS IN JAILBREAK IN CONGO</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Violence, chaos, the daily brutality of life ...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All caused by poverty and social malaise. Could we help? No oil here, no geopolitical hotspots ...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Besides, "<span style="color: #741b47;">America First</span>," remember?</span></b><br />
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A19 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/us/trump-puerto-rico-statehood-congress.html">DESPITE A VOTE IN FAVOR, STATEHOOD OR PUERTO RICO REMAINS A DISTANT GOAL</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The article checklists all the reasons it ain't gonna happen:</span></b><br />
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was a nonbinding referendum;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Only 23% of eligible voters cast ballots;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Republicans in Congress "highly unlikely to do something that could result in five more Democrats in the House and two in the Senate;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">" ... not even Putin gets 97 percent of the vote";</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">WH statement: "only Congress can change Puerto Rico's status" seems definitive.</span></b></li>
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D1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/health/liver-bodily-function.html">THE "CONTROL TOWER"</a></div>
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"The Mesopotamians believed the liver was the seat of the human soul and emotions, and the ancient Greeks linked the organ to pleasure. The Elizabethans referred to their monarch not as the head of state, but as its liver."</div>
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My brother is a scientist. I never went to college and my memories of 9th grade biology is my teacher who talked in a low monotone, like this:</div>
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theliveristhemostimportantorganinthebodyandpleasewriteapaperaboutit ...</div>
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<li>there is no machine to replace a liver's function ... the best you can hope for is a transplant;</li>
<li>the liver grows and shrinks by up to 40% every 24 hours, while the organs around it barely budge;</li>
<li>the liver "dictates our dietary choices, particularly our cravings for sweets";</li>
<li>[here comes the technical stuff]: "hepatocytes, the metabolically active cells that constitute 80% of the liver, possess traits not seen in any other normal cells of the body" ("superunique," says one scientist);</li>
<li>the liver holds 13% of the body's blood supply at any given time;</li>
<li>"everything you put in your mouth must go through the liver before it does anything useful elsewhere in the body ..." IOW, your liver is like Sean Spicer;</li>
<li>"The liver keeps track of time"</li>
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/us/politics/trump-boasts-of-record-setting-pace-of-activity.html">FLATTERERS FIRST, THEN PRESIDENT PRAISES HIMSELF</a></div>
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From now on, I'm going to insist that my wife and children begin each day by either calling or texting me to tell me how great I am. The message must be a 100 words or more, and must include the word "awesome" at some point.</div>
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"About a third of counties nationwide have only one insurer, according to data released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a figure that has more than doubled since 2014."</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the bad news is even worse.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">45</span> is poised to make it all much much worse.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unless you happen to be in <span style="color: red;">45</span>'s tax bracket.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The article delves into the many reasons cyberwarfare is not that successful against ISIS. But -- once again -- a seemingly somewhat innocuous action by <span style="color: #e69138;">45</span> can make things worse.</span></b></div>
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"Top Israeli cyberoperators penetrated a small cell of extremist bombmakers in Syria months ago ... the intelligence was so exquisite that it enabled the US to understand how the weapons could be detonated ... this was part of the classified intel that 45 is accused of revealing when he met in the Oval Office last month with the Russian foreign minister ... his disclosure infuriated Israeli officials."</div>
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A6 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/world/middleeast/how-the-saudi-qatar-rivalry-now-combusting-reshaped-the-middle-east.html">HOW THE SAUDI-QATAR RIVALRY, NOW COMBUSTING, RESHAPED THE MIDDLE EAST</a></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Great article -- a geopolitical primer on the confusing, tangled state of affairs in the Middle East since Saudi Arabia and their closest allies initiated a boycott against Qatar.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And there's always the unexpected 3AM tweet that could set who the fuck knows <i><span style="color: blue;">what</span></i> in motion?</span></b></div>
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A25 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/opinion/halfhearted-opposition-republican-health-care-misery.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fdavid-leonhardt&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection">HALFHEARTED OPPOSITION TO MISERY</a> (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-leonhardt?8qa">David Leonhardt</a>)</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile, the man behind the curtain is trying to confuse you with secret tapes, Russian hookers and the neatly-manufactured Qatar crisis.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Please, senators -- do not allow him to destroy millions of lives.</span></b></div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 13, 1984<br />33 years ago</h3>
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What a treat! I was perusing this day's paper for this section, when I ran across this review. I had never heard of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chucho_Vald%C3%A9s">Chucho Valdés</a>, but I am very glad to make his acquaintance.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This article details the (hidden) costs beneath all this infrastructure renewal.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I think of anxiety come to life on film, I think of Akira Kurosawa's severely underrated 1955 film, "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048198/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_17">I Live in Fear</a>" (it is also known as "Record of a Living Being").</span></b></div>
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"'What you're seeing is a president who is now very publicly learning about the way people react to what he considers to be normal New York City conversation.' (As in: People in Chicago talk about the weather; in Los Angeles, movies. In New York City, they say, 'I need loyalty, I expect loyalty')."</div>
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"To escape arrest after the failure of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin shaved his beard, fled to Finland and did not appear in public for four months."</div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 11, 1960<br />57 years ago</h3>
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<b>A great Japanese film about these times is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054122/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_48">Night and Fog in Japan</a> by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651915/?ref_=tt_ov_dr">Nagisa Oshima</a>.</b></div>
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B8 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/sports/baseball/new-york-yankees-masahiro-tanaka-los-angeles-angels.html?_r=0">YANKEES PUSH TANAKA'S NEXT START BACK BY A DAY</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That's how much they paid <a href="http://m.mlb.com/player/547888/masahiro-tanaka">Masahiro Tanaka</a> to come to the Bronx and pitch for the Yankees.</span></b></div>
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"What was Trump's motive [re: Russia]? It's hard to see an innocent one. His actions look like a corrupt attempt to interfere with the due administration of justice -- that is, the independent F.B.I. investigation. Given Republican control of Congress, it's very unlikely there'll be any move to impeach until Mueller completes his inquiry. But if Mueller suggests the president could be indicted, impeachment proceedings will be hard to resist -- and then ... 'obstruction of justice' might be deemed a high crime or misdemeanor even if it would not violate federal criminal law'."</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I remember thinking how cool it was that Carter hired this Pole with such an amazing high-count Scrabble® score!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This man embodied everything a public servant should aspire to be and everything that our current president is not and could never be. RIP, Zbig.</span></b></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trump says he'll "gladly provide sworn testimony disputing Mr. Comey's charge that the president forced him out because of his handling of the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russia";</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trump says Comey's comments "had proved that there was no collusion between his campaign and Moscow, nor any obstruction of justice by the president";</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He hints again that he might have tapes;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"That was an excuse by the Democrats, who lost an election ... blah blah blah"</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"'I didn't say that,' Mr. Trump said of the request regarding the former national security adviser <span style="color: #e06666;">[and soon to be completely thrown-under-the-bus, and future convict]</span>, Michael T. Flynn. 'And there'd be nothing wrong if I did say it'."</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"I would be glad to tell him [Mueller] exactly what I just told you."</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The tapes again: "I'll tell you about it over a very short period of time ... you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer." (what can that mean? We would not be "disappointed" if there <i>are</i> tapes {unless Comey is a liar and Trump is telling the truth, |<i>hmphx, hmphxzz</i>|} -- so it must mean that there are no tapes;</span></b></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because I <i>love</i> maps! These details really explain the vote and implies future trends.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Right now, things are rather a mess, wouldn't you say, old boy?</span></b></div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 10, 1968<br />49 years ago</h2>
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"The only Negro family in this Detroit suburb of 112,007 -- the Rev. Arthur Knight, his wife and their four children -- is going to move out after two and a half years."</div>
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<b>Note that the 1960 census figure quoted is the high in "historical population" figures!</b></div>
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<tr style="font-size: 12.635px;"><th style="border-bottom: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">Census</th><th style="border-bottom: 1px solid black; text-align: center;"><abbr style="border-bottom: 0px; cursor: help;" title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom: 1px solid black; text-align: center;"></th><th style="border-bottom: 1px solid black; text-align: center;"><abbr style="border-bottom: 0px; cursor: help;" title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1860 United States Census">1860</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">355</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">—</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1870_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1870 United States Census">1870</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">530</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">49.3%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1880 United States Census">1880</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">410</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">−22.6%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1900 United States Census">1900</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">844</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">—</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1910 United States Census">1910</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">911</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">7.9%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1920 United States Census">1920</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">2,470</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">171.1%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1930 United States Census">1930</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">50,358</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">1,938.8%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1940 United States Census">1940</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">63,589</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">26.3%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1950 United States Census">1950</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">94,994</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">49.4%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1960 United States Census">1960</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">112,007</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">17.9%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1970 United States Census">1970</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">104,199</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">−7.0%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1980 United States Census">1980</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">90,660</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">−13.0%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="1990 United States Census">1990</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">89,286</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">−1.5%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="2000 United States Census">2000</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">97,775</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">9.5%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_Census" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="2010 United States Census">2010</a></b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">98,153</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">0.4%</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b>Est. 2015</b></td><td style="padding-left: 8px;">95,171</td><td style="font-size: 11.305px;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USCensusEst2015_14-0" style="font-size: 9.044px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn,_Michigan#cite_note-USCensusEst2015-14" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></sup></td><td style="padding-left: 8px; text-align: center;">−3.0%</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="4" style="border-top: 1px solid black; font-size: 11.305px; text-align: center;">U.S. Decennial Census<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="font-size: 9.044px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn,_Michigan#cite_note-15" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></sup><br />
2013 Estimate<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2013_Pop_Estimate_3-1" style="font-size: 9.044px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn,_Michigan#cite_note-2013_Pop_Estimate-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup></td></tr>
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<b>Today, 30% of Dearborn's population is Arab-American.</b></div>
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"Vice President Humphrey stands to inherit such a large share of the national convention delegates left unattached by the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy that his nomination for the Presidency seems assured."</div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 9, 1951<br />66 years ago</h2>
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"Trump asked whether Mr. Comey wanted to keep his job, an unexpected question because F.B.I. directors have 10-year terms ... my instincts told me that ... the dinner was, at least in part, an effort to have me ask for my job and create some sort of patronage relationship. That concerned me greatly."</div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Trump gladhands the Saudis;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ISIS attacks England, then Iran;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just about everybody gangs up on poor little Qatar;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Iran blames Saudi Arabia and Trump;</span></b></li>
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A22 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/climate/trump-paris-climate-timeline.html">U.S. WON'T ACTUALLY BE LEAVING THE PARIS CLIMATE DEAL ANYTIME SOON</a></div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 8, 1953<br />64 years ago</h2>
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A6 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/world/asia/kabul-bombing-death-toll-increases.html">DEATH TOLL IN KABUL BOMBING HAS HIT 150, AFGHAN PRESIDENT SAYS</a></div>
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"'Okay, I will,' [Conrad] Roy, 18, typed back, adding, 'No more thinking.'</div>
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'Yes, no more thinking,' Ms. [Michelle] Carter wrote. 'You need to just do it'."</div>
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<b><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The word "more" is superfluous. Teenagers don't think. Period. Oh yes, and</span></b></div>
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"Ms. [Lynn] Roy [Conrad's mother] said she knew little about Ms. Carter, but knew that she and her son were in close touch. 'I saw him text her,' Ms. Roy said, 'all the time'."</div>
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<b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Parents. You should have to get a license.</span></b></div>
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A16 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/us/politics/without-obama-as-a-unifier-republicans-are-fragmented.html">WITHOUT OBAMA AS A UNIFIER, REPUBLICANS ARE FRAGMENTED</a></div>
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"Six months after Republicans seized total control of Washington, the Republican agenda is not so much stalled as it is still sitting in the lot with the price sticker firmly attached, but with no apparent buyers."</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Good one, Jennifer.</span></b></div>
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D2 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/dining/roast-chicken-spatchcock-butterflied.html">ROASTING A CHICKEN? SPATCHCOCK IT FIRST</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Only one reason this is in here. I just love the sound of this word:</span></b></div>
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C4 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/movies/ascent-review.html">JAPANESE LANDMARK, IN LYRICAL WORDS AND MULTIPLE VIEWS</a></div>
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"Over more than 4,000 images, Ms. [Fiona] Tan reads from a text -- a letter, it seems, as a character named Mary, who addresses her dead partner, Hiroshi. Hiroshi responds in a Japanese-language voice-over read by the actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroki_Hasegawa">Hiroki Hasegawa</a> ..."</div>
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"'The FAKE MSM [would you please stop shouting, Mr. President?] is working so hard trying to get me not to use Social Media,' he wrote at 7:58 a.m."</div>
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"Even though the mainstream media was the target of his Tuesday morning ire, it is Mr. Trump's own team that has been pointedly critical of his tweeting habits, with members of his legal, communications and political staffs urging him to cut back on self-expression in the interest of political self-preservation."</div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Donald, you're watching the wrong TV shows. Haven't you ever seen the one where the guy says, "anything you say may be used against you in a court of law"? Really? Never seen that one?</span></b></div>
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"[Trump] went on to contradict his own aides, who have avoided the use of the hot-button phrase 'travel ban,' calling the order 'what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!' He said it would be imposed on 'certain DANGEROUS countries' and suggested that anything short of a ban 'won't help us protect our people'!"</div>
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"As F.B.I. director, Mr. Comey wrote a detailed memo after every major phone call or meeting with Mr. Trump and left those memos in the bureau's files when he left. As special counsel, Mr. Mueller has access to those memos, but the F.B.I. declined a request from the Senate Intelligence Committee for copies, citing the ongoing investigation."</div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 7, 1974<br />43 years ago</h2>
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"Asked whether he had received from Syrian leaders some indication that they would attempt to control guerrilla attacks from Syrian territory, Mr. Kissinger said: 'It would be totally contrary to any purpose that anybody may wish to achieve with respect to this to force a public disclosure of the content of these discussions'."</div>
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"Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holtzman">Elizabeth Holtzman</a> told a graduating class ... at Brooklyn College yesterday that 'an outcry' had been raised about President Nixon's 'intellectual style' and that it was heartening.</div>
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/world/europe/uk-terrorism-target.html">LONDON RAMPAGE SHOWS THE FLAWS IN STOPPING PLOTS</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This all adds up to scary times.</span></b></div>
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"Judges (largely) have not laid down for Trump; neither have Comey, the F.B.I., the C.B.O., the media or others. As a result, the U.S. remains a long way from authoritarianism."</div>
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"Unfortunately, Trump shows no signs of letting up. Don't assume he will fail just because his actions are so far outside the American mainstream. <b>The rule of law depends on a society's willingness to stand up for it when it's under threat</b>. This is our time of testing."</div>
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"News of the women-only limitation set off a storm of virtual tantrums among some boys and men. Never mind that 'Wonder Woman' could be seen at about 4,160 other theaters nationwide."</div>
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"For years, the tiny, energy-rich country of Qatar has carved out a niche in the Arab world by trying to be everything to everyone. It housed an American military base and flooded the region's airwaves with its influential media, all while keeping close ties to Iran and a wide selection of Islamist movements.<br />
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On Monday, five countries in the region announced that they were forcing Qatar to choose: its powerful neighbor Saudi Arabia, Egypt and at least three other Arab nations severed all ties with the country, escalating their accusations that the Qatari monarchy supported Sunni Islamist designs on the region."<br />
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"[Qatar] imports 40 percent of its food from the Saudis."<br />
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"Trump, by strongly embracing the Saudis, pulled the gloves off a brawl that had long threatened to turn ugly."<br />
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"'Neighbors are permanent; geography can't be changed,' [Iranian] Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on his Twitter account."<br />
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"[Qatar] has often sought to cast itself as a broker, trying to mediate the region's intractable conflicts. But just as often, it has ended up angering all sides."<br />
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" ... contradictions: Qatar has good relations with Iran, but hosts the American air base. It is helping to fight the Iranian-linked Houthi rebels in Yemen, and it is backing insurgents fighting Tehran's ally, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Yet is has also established back channels to Iran and brokered deals with it."<br />
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"'It is entirely possible that the catalyst to this crisis was the feeling in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi that the U.S. under the Trump administration is aligned with them,' said Emile Hokayem, a Middle East analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.<br />
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[Another expert] said the new moves reflected a 'bullishness' prompted by the Trump administration's stances -- on the confrontation with Iran and on a willingness to look the other way on human rights violations."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The thing about geopolitics is that one blind, stumbling, improvised move can have rippling implications far into the future:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The term "Islamic State" is used three times in the article before the seventh to the last paragraph, where we get "Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If The Times thinks their readers will not understand the term without the AKA, why do they use plain old "Islamic State" three times <i>before</i> the AKA?</span></b><br />
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B7 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/sports/kevin-pillar-toronto-blue-jays-slur.html">AN UGLY WORD. A CATALYST FOR CHANGE.</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In order to make my point, I need to state that I believe the word Pillar used was "faggot."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He yelled it at the Atlanta Braves reliever Jason Motte, who had just struck Pillar out on a "quick pitch."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although not illegal, most MLB players look at it as sort of a <i>unmanly</i> thing to do; thus the slur ...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A better thing to shout might have been something like, "Man, that was so <i>bush league</i>!"</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But that, too, could be misinterpreted. It refers to nothing more or less innocent as playing in the low minor leagues, out in the "sticks" or "bush."</span></b><br />
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"William Parry, top hat and whiskers in place, plays a town elder as well as a homeless man whose one line is especially apt: 'Change, mister'?"<br />
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D1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/science/animal-farms-southeast-asia-endangered-animals.html">ANIMAL FARMS</a><br />
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"The tigers were property of the Kings Romans Group, which operates a casino here (Bokeo Province, Laos), along with hotels, a shooting range, a cockfighting and bullfighting ring, a Chinatown-themed shopping center, and this shabby zoo."<br />
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"Ten years ago, the Hong Kong-based company signed a lease with the Laotian government ..."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Two tiger farms in China are supported by government investment ...</span></b><br />
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"There are some countries in Southeast Asia that are equipped to combat criminal networks, and some that are still struggling ... Laos, is in the category of those that are still struggling."<br />
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B4 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/us/pink-slime-lawsuit.html">TRIAL TO DECIDE IF ABC NEWS DEFAMED MEAT PROCESSOR WITH REPORT ON "PINK SLIME"</a><br />
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"A defamation trial over an ABC News report about so-called pink slime, a once-common ingredient in ground beef, began Monday. A South Dakota meat processing company says the report wreaked havoc on its business after it aired in 2012."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First of all, yea (to wreaking havoc on their business) ...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Secondly,</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ammonia, peoples.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I do not understand how this thing got this far through the courts.</span></b><br />
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 6, 1878<br />139 years ago</h2>
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Lewis Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12490917696595100263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415255759482402807.post-34621890210139686262017-06-05T08:41:00.001-07:002017-06-06T11:02:37.523-07:0070. 6/5/17<div style="text-align: left;">
A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/us/education-climate-change-science-class-students.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news">OBSTACLE FOR CLIMATE SCIENCE: SKEPTICAL, STUBBORN STUDENTS</a><br />
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"'Scientists are wrong all the time,' she said with a shrug ..."<br />
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DATELINE: Cadillac Mountain, Maine<br />
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Here in the last remaining spot of the East Coast not yet underwater, survivors gathered in the January heat (113° F.) and began boarding the last departure ship.<br />
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Almost everyone was on board. Four or five families stood defiantly behind the blinking blue fiber-optic lights which led to the ship's main entry gate.<br />
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"Bannon-Kushner?"<br />
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"Sutter-Beatty?"<br />
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A young girl, perhaps 14-years-old, stepped forward. It had started to rain. The sergeant was getting ready to close the doors, and began pleading with the young woman to please gather up her family and get on the departure ship with everybody else.<br />
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 5, 1895<br />122 years ago</h2>
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"Populists are indignant because, they say the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peter_Altgeld">Altgeld</a> Democrats are about to 'steal their thunder' at to-morrow's silver convention. H. E. Taubeneck, Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the People's Party, arrived in Springfield to-day, held several secret conferences with colleagues, and admitted with some reluctance that he was here for the purpose of protesting against the Democrats adopting principles which have long been acknowledged to be the foundation of Populism. As soon as he arrived he telegraphed for W. L. Maxwell, Chairman of the State Committee, to come to Springfield at once on important business. Arrangements are now being made by the Populists to hold a caucus here at an early date and issue an address to the people of Illinois, in which the Altgeld Democrats be branded as thieves of Populists principles."</div>
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"Sheriff Tamsen will hold an investigation at 10 o'clock this morning in Ludlow Street Jail in order to find out how Joseph Killoran and Charles Allen succeeded in almost destroying evidence of their identity by having their whiskers and mustaches shaved off."<br />
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A9 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/world/europe/london-bridge-van.html">ATTACKS NEAR LONDON BRIDGE INVOLVED SWERVING VAN AND MAN WIELDING KNIFE</a><br />
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"A man named Gerard told the BBC that he saw men stabbing everyone they could and shouting 'this is for Allah.'<br />
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He saw three men with knives 'and they stabbed a girl,' he said. 'So I follow them, toward Borough Market, they were running into the pubs and bars and stabbing everyone. They were running up, saying this is for Allah, and they run up and stabbed this girl 10, maybe 15 times'."<br />
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<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Extremely obvious point #1:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most people with even half a brain can understand that the billions of people around the world who worship Allah as their God would not recognize the Allah these scumbags are talking about.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Islam is, as much as Christianity, Judaism, Wicca, a religion of peace and love for humankind.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Extremely obvious point #2:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With every new incident, we are seeing more and more brave people like Gerard, or the Portland heroes, Ricky John Best and Taliesi Mydrddin Namkai-Meche, who died after intervening with a racist killer.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We need to truly celebrate and laud these people -- put the media spotlight on the good, not the irredeemably evil.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Extremely obvious point #3:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It sounds sorta sick when you hear the anchors saying something like -- " ... as horrible as it is, <i>only</i> seven people died. It could have been <i>so</i> much worse!"</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not for those seven families, of course. But there is a more important factor -- largely unspoken, it seems to me -- having to do with the gun laws in the U.K.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Strict. Nearly impossible for private citizens. And yes, if you stare this thing in the face -- just imagine how many lives would have been lost if guns had been involved?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And of course, the good guys had the guns and knew how to use them at the right time, in the correct proportion. One person received "nonfatal" gunshot wounds.</span></b><br />
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Travel 10 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/travel/costa-rica-eco-travel-budget-drake-bay.html">FINDING PURA VIDA ON THE COSTA RICAN COAST</a><br />
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"Costa Rica has no standing military, choosing to focus on other issues like environmental conservation. Its efforts (about 25 percent of the country is protected) have paid off: While Costa Rica occupies a mere 0.03 percent of the earth's surface, it has almost 6 percent of the world's biodiversity. It's the ideal place for an ecologically conscious vacation."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And replacing the U.S. as the worldwide leader in caring for the environment:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Despite the gross generalizations (I wish she had made a distinction between Hollywood and Indie filmmaking), I'm looking forward to seeing this. I have not seen <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_8">Monster</a>, her only other feature.</span></b><br />
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html">HOW G.O.P. LEADERS CAME TO REJECT CLIMATE SCIENCE</a><br />
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" ... a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf ..."<br />
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"Unshackled by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC">Citizens United</a> decision ... Koch Industries and Americans for Prosperity started an all-fronts campaign with television advertising, social media and cross-country events aimed at electing lawmakers who would not have to worry about new pollution regulations."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and finally</span></b><br />
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"Earlier this year, James A. Baker III, one of the Republican Party's more eminent senior figures, met with senior White House officials to urge them to consider incorporating a carbon tax as part of a broader tax overhaul package -- a way to both pay for proposed cuts to corporate tax rates and help save the planet ..."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whoa, whoa ... hold it right there, Mister Rich Guyz. We appreciate your assistance in saving our planet, but we're def not gonna stand by and let you give yourselves another massive tax cut.</span></b><br />
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'There are members from <span style="color: #cc0000;">deep-red</span> districts who have approached me about figuring out how to become part of this effort,' Mr. [Carlos] Curbelo [Republican/FLA] said. 'I know we have the truth on our side. So I'm confident that we'll win -- eventually."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On what? The tax cut or saving the planet?</span></b><br />
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A5 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/world/africa/nigeria-lagos-afrobeat-music-piracy-seyi-shay.html">AFROBEAT BRINGS PROFIT, MOSTLY FOR THE PIRATES</a><br />
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"We're no longer getting revenue from oil, so we're arguing that content is the new crude ..."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pop songs at $100 a barrel.</span></b><br />
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" ... international music distributors largely ignored the nation and its nascent middle class as a potential market. With few ways of buying the overseas music that was so popular here, illegal sales flourished."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So the music industry really has no one else to blame but themselves.</span></b><br />
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"Trying to relax at a Tex-Mex restaurant in Lagos after a recent show, Ms. Shay was sipping a margarita when a bartender interrupted repeatedly to ask how his music could get noticed. She told him to email her a demo.<br />
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'You have to put in the work,' she advised. 'Nobody is going to do it for you'."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And if that bartender has any talent, it seems like he'll be the last person to ever see any money from it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unless he gets lucky like Ms. Shay.</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lj_5w6Rqq8#action=share">Yolo Yolo</a><br />
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/world/middleeast/1967-arab-israeli-war-nuclear-warning.html">ISRAEL'S 1967 DOOMSDAY PLAN: A NUCLEAR DISPLAY</a><br />
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"Israel won the war so quickly that the atomic device was never moved to Sinai. [This] account ... reveals Israel's early consideration of how it might use its nuclear arsenal to preserve itself."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">neither shall they learn war anymore</span></b><br />
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B2 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/business/barbara-corcoran-shark-tank.html">THE POWER OF A POSITIVE ATTITUDE</a><br />
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"The minute I make a deal with someone, I put a photo of them in a matted frame on my wall. They look beautiful. They're like my kids on my walls.<br />
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But the minute I hear them sounding like a victim on the phone, I hang up, walk over to the wall and I flip their picture upside-down. They'll never succeed. Victims don't succeed."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sure would be interesting to see what percentage of photos have been flipped!</span></b><br />
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Sports Sunday 3 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/sports/no-hitter-miami-marlins-arizona-diamondbacks.html">VOLQUEZ OF MIAMI THROWS A NO-HITTER</a><br />
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Some cool factoids from the 2017 season's first no-hitter:<br />
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<li>Volquez was 1-7, with a 4.44 ERA going into the game</li>
<li>He'll be 34 in a few weeks</li>
<li>He hadn't gone longer than 6 innings in any of his previous starts this season</li>
<li>His name used to be Edison. He put an "N" between the "I" and the "S" in 2007.</li>
<li>When he signed with the Rangers in 2001, it was under the name Julio Reyes.</li>
<li>In 2015, he started Game One of the World Series for the Kansas City Royals. He was not told that his father had just passed away. Weird, until you read that his family had asked for that ...</li>
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A7 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/world/europe/russia-matilda-natalia-poklonskaya-aleksei-uchitel.html">BARED BREAST ENTHRALLS FUTURE CZAR, AND STOKES A CULTURE WAR</a><br />
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" ... the movie is an insult to the faithful, which is a crime in Russia."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course it is.</span></b><br />
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"It is an eye-catching wardrobe malfunction that beguiles a future czar."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And we all know how eye-catching wardrobe malfunctions can be, don't we?</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9QESOBmBzE&oref=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dy9QESOBmBzE&has_verified=1">Trailer, wardrobe malfunction, and all</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think I want to see this film!</span></b><br />
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A12 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/26/us/turkey-protesters-attack-video-analysis.html">DID THE TURKISH PRESIDENT'S SECURITY DETAIL ATTACK PROTESTERS IN WASHINGTON? WHAT THE VIDEO SHOWS</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is Zapruder-like in its frame-by-frame examination of video.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wow</span></b><br />
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SPECIAL SECTION F1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/31/us/a-mobster-a-family-and-the-crime-that-wont-let-them-go.html?action=click&contentCollection=Times%20Insider&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article">THE HOLDUP</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At first, I almost passed on even looking at this "special section." It seemed to be yet another piece on the old, retired gangster who's such a nice grandpa and takes out the trash on Thursdays ...</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And although it sort of begins that way, ultimately the focus shifts to a man named Ed Morlock [oh if only the gangster had been named Eloi ... oh, well] and his family.</span></b><br />
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"'I might rob an armored truck before I die,' he told me on that summer day's visit."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maybe he'll use that old wheelchair gag for real.</span></b><br />
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/world/asia/afghanistan-war-trump.html">OBAMA'S DILEMMA ON A TROOP SURGE NOW VEXES TRUMP</a><br />
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"The dispute pits two generals who had formative experiences in Afghanistan -- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster -- against political aides, led by the chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who fear that sending in more troops would be a slippery slope toward nation-building."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Look, we progressives are not isolationists.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But it is hard to argue with Bannon & Co. [yuck, I feel sick] regarding the current situation in Afghanistan. What's it been -- four or five administrations trying to help the Afghan government beat back the Taliban? Zero-sum game.</span></b><br />
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Sunday Styles 1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/fashion/dapper-dan-harlem-gucci.html">THE TAILOR OF 125TH STREET</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That is one cool-looking suit.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Great article.</span></b><br />
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Book Review 8 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/books/review/william-shatner-spirit-of-horse.html">BOLDLY SADDLING UP</a><br />
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"Shatner writes in the book about one terrifying experience -- a horse fell on his leg, and he faltered in his attempts to get off the ground afterward -- that 'gave me the insight on how to play the death scene in "Star Trek: Generations".' He writes about his thoughts on set: 'I'll just do what I did with the horse. I'll get up, I'll fall down, I'll get up, I'll fall down.' So that's what I did. It was very effective."<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps. But his last (improvised) line:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"It's been ... fun!" really sucks.</span></b><br />
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Arts & Leisure 1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/arts/music/alan-gilbert-wanted-to-save-the-new-york-philharmonic-what-happened.html">WHEN THE FIRE FADES</a><br />
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"The Brahms Violin Concerto is a musical old master painting. Unmistakably important, enduringly popular, comfortingly familiar, it's a surefire draw.<br />
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At Lincoln Center in May, this concerto did its job for the New York Philharmonic, drawing a healthy crowd to David Geffen Hall. Alan Gilbert, the orchestra's music director, led the work, took a bow and then broke for intermission."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[nice going, NYT, leaving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_Kavakos">Leonidas Kavakos</a> without a drop of ink. He actually played the concerto, ya know?]</span></b><br />
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"The audience could read in the program what was next: works by the living composers Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Esa-Pekka Salonen. There was a small exodus of new-music-phobes during intermission, and when Mr. Gilbert returned to conduct the second half, he gazed out over an auditorium that looked like Swiss cheese.<br />
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Those who stayed, cheered. Wildly. But Mr. Gilbert noticed the defections.<br />
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'Who programmed this?' he asked backstage afterward with a wry smile, a towel in one hand and a bottle of Brooklyn Pilsner waiting nearby. The programming, of course, had been his."<br />
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"His idea for his first marquee project raised a few eyebrows: He wanted the Philharmonic to give staged performances of György Ligeti's avant-garde 1970s opera <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand_Macabre">'Le Grand Macabre'</a>.<br />
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'I said, "I think this will sell out." I don't think anybody believed that.' But it did ... it was a triumph ... 'we could have done three more performances ... people were scalping tickets outside'."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So what happened to all that fire?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sounds like orchestral politics to me. How sad. I hope <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaap_van_Zweden">Japp van Zweden</a> works out well.</span></b><br />
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Sunday Review 8 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/opinion/sunday/trump-america-in-retreat.html">AMERICA IN RETREAT</a><br />
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 4, 1926<br />91 years ago</h2>
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"Mrs. Mildred Dervoe, 37 years old, who lives with her husband, Werner, an accountant, and their 13-year-old son, Harrison, at 229 St. John's Place, Broolyn, was arrested at noon yesterday by detectives of the Fifth Avenue Squad on suspicion that she was the woman who in the last five years has robbed various Fifth Avenue jewelry establishments of about $100,000 in gems."</div>
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"[She] declared she bought the diamond breastpin ... from a Mrs. Ethel Tyson of Des Moines and Chicago, whom, she said, she had met in the Ritz-Carlton. She paid very little for the article, she said, and declared that she didn't want to talk any more about Mrs. Tyson, 'because I don't want to make trouble for her, as I understand she has a hazy character'."</div>
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A20 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/opinion/the-problem-with-jared-kushner.html?_r=0">THE PROBLEM WITH JARED KUSHNER</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, Lynn, you're probably right. Like father like son, I guess.</span></b><br />
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"Stupidity, paranoia, malevolence -- it's hard to distinguish among competing explanations for the behavior of people in this administration."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I suppose when you get right down to it -- I was semi-rooting for Jared to be acquitted of all this simply because he and Ivanka represented the <span style="color: blue;">liberal</span> wing of this administration!</span></b><br />
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"No other White House -- no business, except maybe a wholly owned and rather tawdry and occasionally bankrupt commercial real estate operation -- would be run this way."<br />
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A21 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/opinion/trump-america-leadership-susan-rice.html">TO BE GREAT, AMERICA MUST BE GOOD</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rice">Susan E. Rice</a>)<br />
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"Four and a half months is not long, but President Trump has accomplished an extraordinary amount in a short time. With shocking speed, he has wreaked havoc: hobbling our core alliances, jettisoning American values and abdicating United States leadership of the world. That's a whole lot of winning -- for Russia and China."<br />
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"How consequential is this choice [pulling out of Paris agreement]? The network of alliances that distinguishes America from other powers and has kept our nation safe and strong for decades is now in jeopardy. We will see the cost when next we need the world to rally to our side."</div>
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A8 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/upshot/economic-fallout-of-climate-move-it-depends-on-how-we-value-time.html">THE ECONOMIC FALLOUT OF THE CLIMATE MOVE? THAT DEPENDS ON HOW WE VALUE TIME</a></div>
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"So the real question is not whether some jobs involving fossil fuels will go away if greenhouse gases are regulated more stringently; what matters is whether the jobs that emerge to replace them will pay better or worse."</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's time.</span></b></div>
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A15 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/upshot/a-revitalized-pittsburgh-suggests-the-president-used-a-rusty-metaphor.html">PITTSBURGH? PRESIDENT MAY HAVE USED A RUSTY METAPHOR</a><br />
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"'Trump apparently wants to take Pittsburgh back to this,' said Mr. [Dan B.] Frankel, a democrat who represents part of the city. 'We won't go back'."<br />
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"If he [Uber driver] had the president in his car, he'd drive him through the Fort Pitt Tunnel to catch the view of the city ..."<br />
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The tunnel opened when I was 7. I made this drive so many hundreds of times, I can't imagine why I ever took it for granted.<br />
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Remember to stay in the two right-hand lanes if you want to go to Oakland or Squirrel Hill.<br />
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Damn, I miss the Burgh. This is dedicated to my entire family:<br />
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"Shashank Laxminarayan Suresh, 28, a native of India who works in the data science department at the health care provider Highmark, said he had found Pittsburgh friendly and welcoming. He lives in the city's Squirrel Hill neighborhood.<br />
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'There is so much opportunity in the technology fields here,' he said, 'People want to help you here, and I have never had anyone who was unkind to me because I am an immigrant.' He added, 'It's a very happening place'!"<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let's all go to <a href="http://www.mineospizza.com/squirrel-hill.html">Mineo's</a>.</span></b><br />
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A7 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/asia/kabul-afghanistan-protest-bombing.html">VIOLENCE FLARES AT KABUL PROTEST, WITH AFGHAN FORCES FIRING TOWARD CROWD</a><br />
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"'We are still here, although the police shot at people ... we are here, and we will not leave until we reach our goal of getting justice'."<br />
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"Demonstrators began moving toward the presidential palace, some chanting, 'Death to the Taliban! Death to Haqqani!' -- a reference to the wing of the Taliban that the Afghan intelligence agency has said was behind the bombing."<br />
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C6 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/arts/music/review-new-yorks-early-music-scene-is-having-a-moment.html">FROM 1687, EARLY SOUNDS IN ALL THEIR VIBRANCY</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I was a senior at the <a href="http://academy.interlochen.org/">Interlochen Arts Academy</a>, I had an inspiring Music History teacher by the name of Knight Vernon. The course was pretty extensive and I've been an ongoing student of music history ever since.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even then, I thought that I knew a lot about Baroque and even pre-Baroque music.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One night, I stumbled into the room of our dorm staff, a guy named Tim Hubert. [Ted, do you remember him, by any chance?] His room was completely stuffed with bookshelves filled with record albums. I started to peruse ...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They were pretty much all Baroque or pre-Baroque music. Names I had never heard of. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Albrechtsberger">Albrechtsberger</a> (wrote a neat trombone concerto); <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomaso_Albinoni">Albinoni</a> concerti; and tons of stuff even more obscure. Tim could tell you every detail about every piece on every record!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thus, I didn't feel too bad when I read this wonderful review of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaventura_Aliotti">Bonaventura Aliotti</a>'s (Wikipedia, 2 lines) 1687 oratorio 'Santa Rosalia.'</span></b><br />
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"Aliotti's style recalls the operatic Monteverdi at times, without ever reaching a similar level of sustained inspiration."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then why not perform some Monteverdi? Just kidding. By that reasoning, we'd never hear any Haydn!</span></b><br />
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"Ezra Seltzer, a stalwart cellist in New York's new old-music scene, was superb in his solos."<br />
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C3 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/arts/television/kathy-griffin-donald-trump-news-conference.html">KATHY GRIFFIN IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR PHOTO</a><br />
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"'I don't think I will have a career after this,' she said tearfully. 'I'm going to be honest. He broke me'."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's so darned hard to feel sorry for her -- but this is way out there. I'm sure the Secret Service could make better use of their time.</span></b><br />
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A14 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/us/spelling-bee-winner.html">GIRL, 12, WINS SPELLING BEE, BUT EVEN SHE IS STUMPED BY THE PRESIDENT'S NONSENSE</a><br />
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"In an interview on 'New Day' on CNN, she was asked by hosts Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota to spell 'covfefe,' the bewildering nonword President Trump used in a tweet early on Wednesday morning that set off a stampede of speculation and joking on social media.<br />
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When she hesitated after asking its pronunciation and language of origin, Mr. Cuomo ribbed her: 'Stop stalling! Do you know how to spell this word?'<br />
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When she spelled it 'cofefe,' Mr. Cuomo pronounced it 'good enough' and Ms. Camerota said: 'Close. You win'."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CNN does a terrible disservice to this young woman by bringing Trump's nonsense to the forefront of the interview. She's studied for years to reach this level, and all the haircuts want to talk about is gesundzheit ...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And no -- "close enough; you win" is not what happens in Spelling Bees, as well as Scrabble®.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By the way, of all the words mentioned in the article, the winning word -- marocain -- is the only one that is good in North American Scrabble® ... it also has two anagrams:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">armonica, which takes a front-hook of "H" -- and macaroni, which takes the normal "S" back-hook, as well as the "C" (macaronic) ...</span></b><br />
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/us/politics/climate-change-trump-hoax-scott-pruitt.html">NO ONE WILL SAY IF TRUMP DENIES CLIMATE SCIENCE</a><br />
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"As a businessman, President Trump was a frequent and scornful critic of the concept of climate change. In the years before running for president, he called it 'nonexistent,' 'mythical' and a 'a total con job.' Whenever snow fell in New York, it seemed, he would mock the idea of global warming."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So what's his view today as the leader of the Free World?</span></b><br />
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"'I have not had an opportunity to have that discussion,' [said Melissa McCar ... I mean], Sean Spicer."<br />
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"'I do not speak for the president,' said Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary."<br />
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"'You should ask him that,' said Kellyanne Conway, the White House counselor."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I watched Scott Pruitt's press conference yesterday in awesome horror. He said</span></b> "the question of what Mr. Trump believed about the science never came up during the administration's deliberations over the Paris agreement."<br />
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"Spicer said twice this week that he had not had the chance to ask the president. Asked if he would find time to take the question to Mr. Trump, he said, 'If I can, I will'."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God help us all.</span></b><br />
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A12 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/us/politics/mick-mulvaney-budget-director.html">FROM SAVING KETCHUP PACKETS TO SETTING THE BUDGET</a><br />
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"When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald's and keep them in a drawer just in case there came a day when you couldn't afford to buy ketchup anymore ..."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the Depression-era parents passed this ethic down to their children.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Peek into our disorganized pantry. That's it -- right behind the extra-virgin olive oil -- 37 packets of McDonald's ketchup.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's not even Heinz, who now offer the stuff with no <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup">high fructose corn syrup</a>!</span></b><br />
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 3, 1950<br />67 years ago</h2>
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Page 1 <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B02EED7153DE03BBC4B53DFB066838B649EDE">McCARTHY DEFIANT OF SENATE CRITICS</a></div>
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"Senator McCarthy said today that sales of Russian furs in this country were a major source of income to finance Soviet espionage."</div>
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow;">But first he made sure that his wife carefully hid all her Russian mink coats.</span></b></div>
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Page 3 <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B05E7D6153DE03BBC4B53DFB066838B649EDE">HUNDREDS OF REFUGEES ASK TO STAY IN WEST BERLIN AFTER YOUTH MARCH</a></div>
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"All said they had taken advantage of police preoccupation with the rally to slip away and hide along the sector borders or with friends and relatives."</div>
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"Some of the 270 are looked upon as simply adventurers. A group of teen-agers have told the authorities that they want to join the French Foreign Legion."</div>
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"One 10-year-old said his parents were dead and that he might as well stay where there were oranges, bananas, ice cream and cake."</div>
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A8 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/world/middleeast/israel-embassy-jerusalem-trump.html">TRUMP WON'T MOVE U.S. EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM, AT LEAST FOR NOW</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What split-second choreography!</span></b><br />
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" ... as he promised during last year's campaign ... disappointing many Israel supporters."<br />
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" ... Netanyahu ... offered only modest regret for the decision publicly. 'Though Israel is disappointed that the embassy will not move at this time, we appreciate today's expression of President Trump's friendship to Israel and his commitment to moving the embassy in the future'."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Checklist time:</span></b><br />
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">China a currency manipulator -- reversed and <i>check</i>;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lift Russian sanctions -- reversed and (whew, almost got caught there!) <i>check</i>;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NATO is obsolete -- reversed (just in time) and <i>check</i>;</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rip up the Iran agreement -- nah better not -- <i>check</i>; and</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bomb Syria (even though I had said not to earlier); <i>check</i></span></b></li>
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"In 1995, Congress passed a law requiring the embassy to be moved to Jerusalem by 1999 or else the State Department's building budget would be cut in half. But lawmakers [<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">check out this freaky dance!</span></b>] allowed the president to waive the law for six months, so every six months since 1999, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Bush, Mr. Obama and now Mr. Trump have signed such waivers."</div>
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C6 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/movies/the-exception-review.html">CONSCIENCE IN WARTIME, AND ITS UTTER LACK</a></div>
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" ... Mr. Plummer, at this stage in his career, takes evident delight in the flourishes and extravagances that seniority affords."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">IOW, wow is he overacting!</span></b><br />
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"He might also have deserved a tougher, riskier, more robust movie, but on the evidence here he seems to have made the most of disappointment."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">IOW, pass.</span></b><br />
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A25 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/opinion/trump-gratuitously-rejects-the-paris-climate-accord.html">TRUMP'S ACT OF GRATUITOUS DESTRUCTION</a><br />
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"This has nothing to do with serving America's national interest. The U.S. economy, in particular, would do just fine under the Paris accord. This isn't about nationalism; mainly, it's about sheer spite."<br />
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"Much of today's right seems driven above all by animus toward liberals rather than specific issues. If liberals are for it, they're against it. If liberals hate it, it's good. Add to this the anti-intellectualism of the G.O.P. base, for whom scientific consensus on an issue is a minus, not a plus, with extra bonus points for undermining anything associated with President Barack Obama.<br />
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And if all this sounds too petty and vindictive to be the basis for momentous policy decisions, consider the character of the man in the White House. Need I say more?"<br />
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B6 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/business/media/high-times-magazine-marijuana.html">HIGH TIMES IS SOLD FOR $70 MILLION TO A GROUP THAT INCLUDES A SON OF BOB MARLEY</a><br />
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"Whereas Playboy centerfolds displayed buxom women, High Times centerfolds displayed beautiful buds."<br />
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"More than 20 percent of Americans now live in states where marijuana use is legal."<br />
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A22 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/nyregion/sound-cannon-protest-lawsuit-long-range-acoustic-device.html">NOISE'S USE AS A POLICE WEAPON COMES UNDER SCRUTINY</a><br />
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"That night, the police used a model called the 100X to emit a series of sharp, piercing beeps directed at people who in some cases were less than 10 feet away. Soon afterward, six of those who were nearby at the time and said they had developed migraine headaches, sinus pain, dizziness, facial pressure and ringing in their ears filed a lawsuit challenging the police's use of the device."<br />
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"Judge Sweet's finding that the plaintiffs had a 'cognizable claim' that their 14th Amendment rights had been violated, by an excessive use of force, means that their suit against the city and two members of the Police Department's Disorder Control Unit can proceed."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yeah, make someone deaf -- I think that qualifies as a major violation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution">14th</a>.</span></b><br />
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/trump-paris-climate-agreement.html">WIN FOR ISOLATIONISTS; CONDEMNATION IS WIDESPREAD</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Seriously, where to start?</span></b><br />
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"'I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,' the president said."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Leave my hometown out of this! You won Pennsylvania in those <span style="color: red;">red</span>, racist areas -- not the bright <span style="color: blue;">blue</span> Burgh! You represent very few of us!</span></b><br />
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"'At what point do they start laughing at us as a country?' Mr. Trump said. 'We don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore. And they won't be'."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ah, Mr. President -- except for one country in Central America and one in the Middle East, every country on earth has milk coming out of their noses, that's how hard they're laughing!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At two separate points in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-d-shear?action=click&contentCollection=Climate&module=Byline&region=Header&pgtype=article">Michael Shear</a>'s excellent article, we encounter a single, shattering economic conclusion -- one which has nothing to do with Trump's "America First" argument:</span></b><br />
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" ... the decision would ultimately harm the economy by ceding the jobs of the future in clean energy and technology to overseas competitors."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And later, we get a quote from President Obama:</span></b><br />
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"'The nations that remain in the Paris agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created'."<br />
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"Scores of staff members lined the sides of the Rose Garden as a military band played soft jazz."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yikes.</span></b><br />
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Al Gore: "It undermines America's standing in the world and threatens to damage humanity's ability to solve the climate crisis in time."<br />
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"The mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, responded on Twitter, 'I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future'."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(We are in grave) JEOPARDY question:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The answer is: Nicaragua and Syria.</span></b><br />
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B2 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/upshot/a-proven-way-to-win-in-business-have-a-daughter-hire-women.html">A PROVEN WAY TO WIN IN BUSINESS; HAVE A DAUGHTER, HIRE WOMEN</a><br />
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"[M]ale lawmakers, judges and corporate executives with daughters are more likely to support gender equity and policies that benefit women."<br />
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"[It was] found in a previous study that judges, particularly Republican ones, were more likely to vote in favor of women on issues like sex discrimination if they had daughters."<br />
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"Ivanka Trump ... has encouraged her father to include a paid parental leave policy in his new White House budget."<br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #0b5394; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yeah, that'll fly.</span></b><br />
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A19 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/science/black-holes-collision-ligo-gravitational-waves.html">FROM CHEAP SEATS ON EARTH, SENSING A TINY ECHO OF A TUMULTUOUS SPECTACLE</a><br />
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"The void is rocking and rolling with invisible cataclysms."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've read this article four times this morning. I cannot claim to understand all the science -- but it does fire up one's imagination!</span></b><br />
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"Astronomers said Thursday that they had felt space-time vibrations known as gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of mammoth black holes resulting in a pit of infinitely deep darkness weighing as much as 49 suns, some 3 billion light-years from here."<br />
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"It validated Einstein's longstanding prediction that space-time can shake like a bowlful of jelly when massive object swings their weight around ..."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here's the part that strains my brain ... but I'll quote it in full and hopefully my brother, or some other smart person, will explain it to me!</span></b><br />
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"A black hole 19 times the mass of the sun and another black hole 31 times the sun's mass, married to make a single hole of 49 solar masses. During the last frantic moments of the merger, they were shedding more energy in the form of gravitational waves than all the stars in the observable universe.<br />
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After a journey lasting 3 billion years, that is to say, a quarter of the age of the universe, those waves started jiggling LIGO's mirrors back and forth by a fraction of an atomic diameter 20 times a second. the pitch rose to 180 cycles per second in about a tenth of a second before cutting off.<br />
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Upon further analysis the signal proved to be a <b>perfect chirp</b>, as predicted by Einstein's equations."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Does this mean that Einstein invented Twitter?</span></b><br />
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C1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/movies/wonder-woman-review-gal-gadot.html">A HERO FOR OUR TIMES</a><br />
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"Must we endure another dose of the grandiose self-pity and authoritarian belligerence that have characterized the DC-Warner Bros. synergy in the 'Dark Knight' era? (This is the cue for unhinged fans to come @ me on Twitter and accuse me of being a shill for Marvel and Disney. The rest of you are invited to keep reading.)"<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At first, I couldn't decide which to do. So I kept on reading.</span></b><br />
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"It feels less like yet another installment in an endless sequence of apocalyptic merchandising opportunities than like ... what's the word I'm looking for? A movie. A pretty good one, too."<br />
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"Unlike most of her male counterparts, its heroine is not trying to exorcise inner demons or work out messiah issues. She wants to function freely in the world, to help out when needed and to be respected for her abilities. No wonder she encounters so much resistance."<br />
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Running time: 2:21. Directed by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420941/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm">Patty Jenkins</a>.<br />
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C11 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/arts/design/thoreau-american-resister-and-kitten-rescuer.html">AMERICAN RESISTER</a><br />
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"Far from being a recluse, Thoreau spent much of his time with people, often seeking them out. He had problems with some: with cocksure authorities; with self-promoters (a brief stint in Manhattan trying to break into publishing was a disaster); and with uptight members of the Concord bourgeoisie."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">IOW, with most people.</span></b><br />
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He spent a night in jail in 1846 for "refusing to pay taxes to a slavery-supporting government."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The lock and key from his jail cell are one of the show's exhibits.</span></b><br />
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 2, 1970<br />47 years ago</h2>
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Page 12 <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E1DA143CE731A25751C0A9609C946190D6CF">ISRAELIS SOBERLY OPTIMISTIC BUT DON'T FEEL PEACE IS NEAR</a></div>
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"The chances for peace in the Middle East appear more remote than ever three years after the six-day Arab-Israeli war."</div>
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"Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz ordered into effect today a "Washington Plan" that would require all contractors with Federal jobs in the nation's capital to make "good faith" attempts to increase minority hiring on all their projects."</div>
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"'Extremism bent upon polarization of our people is increasingly forcing upon the American people the narrow choice between anarchy and repression,' the Senator warned. 'And make no mistake about it, if that narrow choice has to be made, the American people, even if with reluctance and misgiving, will choose repression'."</div>
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/world/americas/cuba-trump.html">TRUMP WEIGHS REVIVING CURBS ON CUBA TRIPS</a><br />
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"President Trump* is considering reversing major pieces of the Obama administration's opening with Cuba and reinstating limits on travel and commerce, citing human rights abuses by the Castro government as justification for a more punitive approach."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-summit.html?_r=0">May 19th article</a></span></b><br />
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"Mr. Trump's apparent lack of interest in human rights also suggests that he is unlikely to complain about the justice system or the limited rights of Saudi women."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But all of a sudden, it's a huge issue vis-à-vis Cuba.</span></b><br />
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C5 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/arts/music/halsey-hopeless-fountain-kingdom-review.html">SOMETHING NEW, BUT A LOT BORROWED, TOO</a><br />
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"There isn't a flicker of musical edge on this album ..."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Are you fucking kidding me?Jeeeeeezus Christ! Jeeeeeeezus Christ!</span></b><br />
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C5 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/arts/music/dua-lipa-interview.html">A BIG, NEW VOICE, PERFECT FOR POP BANGERS</a><br />
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"When she was 11, Ms. Lipa and her family moved to <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/E9s3qMDcdxH2">Pristina</a>, the capital of Kosovo. But Ms. Lipa wanted to be a pop singer, and at 15 she persuaded her parents to let her return to London."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That's one persuasive 15-year-old!</span></b><br />
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"[H]er father, Dukagjin Lipa, is a rock musician ..."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That explains it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The song she sang on The Tonight Show -- "Scared to Be Lonely" -- was interesting enough. I particularly enjoyed the few short sections where her voice drops out, and some magical effects lift the music above the mundane.</span></b><br />
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A22 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/opinion/jared-kushner-ivanka-donald-trump-jr.html">OH DEAR. THE TRUMPS KEEP MULTIPLYING.</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gail, you make me laugh.</span></b><br />
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"The kids are not alright.<br />
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Let's see now. Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is under investigation for weird cloak-and-daggerish meetings with the Russians. Ivanka just took a bunch of money from the Saudis for her favorite charity. Eric and Don Jr. are traveling the world to promote Trump hotels and golf courses while being looked after by the Secret Service on our dime.<br />
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... Who's your favorite mini-Trump? I'm sort of attached to Eric, the one who compared waterboarding to a fraternity hazing.<br />
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Don Jr. was recently off shooting prairie dogs during their breeding season."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Except it's <span style="color: red;">not</span> funny.</span></b><br />
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A9 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/climate/qa-the-paris-climate-accord.html">THE CLIMATE DEAL, AND WHAT A U.S. DEPARTURE WOULD MEAN</a><br />
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"The rest of the world will have a lot of heavy lifting ahead of it: Current pledges, when added up, put the planet on pace to warm 3 degrees Celsius or more above preindustrial levels, an outcome with a far greater risk of destabilizing ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, higher levels of sea-level rise, more destructive heat waves and droughts, and the loss of vital ecosystems like coral reefs."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And I keep seeing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BROvLBcFfWQ">this</a>.</span></b><br />
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D1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/style/russian-baths-mermaid-spa-coney-island.html?_r=0">PARDON MY SWEAT, PASS THE BORSCHT</a><br />
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"Sweat."<br />
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"A 'kvetch und shvitz'."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sounds inviting. Except for the food.</span></b><br />
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A15 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/us/politics/covfefe-trump-twitter.html">TRUMP'S "COVFEFE" TWEET UNITES U.S. IN CONFUSION</a><br />
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"And on the 132nd day, just after midnight, President Trump had at last delivered the nation to something approaching unity -- in bewilderment, if nothing else.<br />
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The state of our union was ... covfefe."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">@Diane7A wins the prize:</span></b><br />
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"'Of course #covfefe is a real word ... it was coined during the Bowling Green Massacre.'"<br />
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B1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/technology/how-twitter-is-being-gamed-to-feed-misinformation.html">HOW TWITTER IS BEING GAMED TO FEED MISINFORMATION</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/farhad-manjoo?8qa">Farhad Manjoo</a> admits that Twitter is his "daily addiction." So I'm just gonna let fly some great quotes from his article:<br />
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"The service is insidery and clubby. It exacerbates groupthink. It prizes pundit-ready quips over substantive debate, and it tends to elevate the silly over the serious ... this week it was captivated by 'covfefe,' which was essentially a brouhaha over a typo."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brouhaha?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hahaha.</span></b><br />
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"One way to think of today's disinformation ecosystem is to picture it as a kind of gastrointestinal tract."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He then describes the intake-outtake procedure, analogizing Twitter to the digestive system.</span></b><br />
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"Unlike Facebook, which requires people to use their real names, Twitter offers users essentially full anonymity."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And there go the bots ...</span></b><br />
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"The biggest prize is to get on Twitter's Trending Topics list, which is often used as an assignment sheet for the rest of the internet."<br />
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"[T]he more I spoke to experts, the more convinced I became that propaganda bots on Twitter might be a growing and terrifying scourge on democracy."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not to mention all the covfefe ...</span></b><br />
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"'If you can make something trend, you can almost make it come true,' said Renee DiResta, a technologist who studies bots.<br />
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And if that's the case, why believe anything?"<br />
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A4 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/world/middleeast/us-begins-arming-syrian-kurds-for-final-assault-on-raqqa.html">U.S. BEGINS ARMING SYRIAN KURDS FOR ASSAULT ON RAQQA</a><br />
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"The United States has started arming Syrian Kurds with heavy machine guns, antitank weapons and other arms, a critical step in preparing a pivotal part of the force that will carry out the final assault on the Islamic State's de facto capital of Raqqa, Pentagon officials said.<br />
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The Turkish government has long insisted that the Kurdish militia is closely linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, a separatist group. That group is listed by Turkey, the United States and Europe as a terrorist organization."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All Trump cares about is fulfilling his promise to "wipe out" ISIS; surely he covfefes his path to a second term (God forbid) -- and who cares what kind of thugs he has to hire along the way to get the job done.</span></b><br />
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A8 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/climate/trump-quits-paris-climate-accord.html">AS WORLD WAITS, TRUMP VOWS DECISION ON PARIS ACCORD "VERY SOON"</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">About two hours from now, our stupid stupid president will begin the Prexit from Paris -- perhaps one of the most monumentally catastrophic decisions ever to be made with regard to life on our fragile little planet.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I guess the best we can really hope for is that we will not have passed the point of no return by the time we get a sane president again.</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/31/climate/trump-climate-paris-agreement.html">awesome graphic</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp4xv8S0jYk">little garden planet / oasis in space</a></span></b><br />
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A15 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/arts/trump-kathy-griffin.html">OUTRAGE LEADS CNN TO FIRE COMEDIAN</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">See ya, Kath. Yes you made me laugh the first few New Years ... but Anderson -- dude -- you can do much better!</span></b><br />
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A23 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/opinion/portland-train-attack-muslim.html">SPITTING IN THE EYE OF HATRED</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kristof at his best.</span></b><br />
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"America may seem leaderless, with nastiness and bullying ascendant, but the best of our nation materialized during a moral crisis on a commuter train in Portland, Ore."<br />
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"A white man riding on that train on Friday began shouting anti-Muslim insults at a black 16-year-old girl and her 17-year-old friend wearing a hijab. One can imagine people pretending not to hear and staring fiercely down at their phones; instead, three brave passengers stepped forward to protect the girls."<br />
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"We don't know if the murderer on the Portland train felt empowered to scream at a Muslim girl because of Trump's own past Islamophobic rants, any more than we can be sure that Trump's denunciation of reporters led a Montana candidate to body-slam a journalist. But when a president incites hatred, civilization winces."<br />
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"After coming out of surgery, weak but indomitable, [Micah] Fletcher wrote a poem that offers us guidance. According to The Oregonian, it read in part:<br />
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<i>I, am alive.<br />I spat in the eye of hate and lived.<br />This is what we must do for one another<br />We must live for one another.</i>"<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And his name is Micah! Chapter 6, Verse 8:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit;">He has told you, O man, what is good,<br />And what the LORD requires of you:<br />Only to do justice<br />And to love goodness,<br />And to walk humbly with your God</span></b><br />
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TIME MACHINE<br />June 1, 1915<br />102 years ago</h2>
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Page 1 <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E06E6D71338E633A25752C0A9609C946496D6CF">GERMANY THINKS REPLY COMPLETE</a><br />
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"'Time will pass and the opportunity will be given for cooler consideration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Lusitania">Lusitania</a> case. The cries of horror over American women and children will die down and I hope the views of peaceful neutral persons will gain the upper hand'."<br />
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"The German Government ... has replied in all calmness."<br />
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<b>It would be nearly two more years until the U.S. declared war on Germany.</b><br />
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Page 14 <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E07E3D71338E633A25752C0A9609C946496D6CF">FOR GERMAN CONSUMPTION</a><br />
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" ... transformed from a race worthy of the world's esteem and admiration into a people who stand apart from other nations, distrusted and feared, disturbers of the peace, a menace to the general security, and now pursuing their ends by the hideous atrocities perpetrated in Belgium and France, by deeds of monstrous inhumanity like the destruction of the Lusitania. Their ideals have been abased, their intellectual development from the high and noble things of life, while their imperial master and those about him have taught them to centre all their thoughts and all their energies upon preparation for war, the creation of an unconquerable force, adequate for defense against all the world, or it may be for establishing dominion over all the world ..."<br />
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<b>It would take the coming world war and then <i>another</i> to change this horribly ugly 1915 reality.</b><br />
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C1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/arts/design/he-tends-venices-jewish-history-she-filmed-him.html">BESIDE THE GUARDIAN OF GRAVES</a><br />
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"There are fewer than 500 Jews left in Venice, compared with the 5,000 who filled the ghetto there at its height in the 17th century."<br />
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"I have a very private relationship with God. I'm not a person who belongs to a community, but I'm fascinated by community."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Venice is in great danger due to global warming. Before we know it, it might <i>all</i> be gone.</span></b><br />
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A18 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/nyregion/sandy-of-all-things-has-helped-open-access-to-jersey-shore.html">SANDY, OF ALL THINGS, HELPS OPEN ACCESS TO JERSEY SHORE</a><br />
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"Pejorative local terms for day trippers to the Jersey Shore include 'shoobies' and 'bennies'."<br />
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A6 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/world/asia/kabul-urban-sprawl.html">URBAN SPRAWL UP MOUNTAINSIDES, WITH SPLASHES OF COLOR</a><br />
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"Kabul, Afghanistan is one of the fastest growing cities in the world; it has already expanded to more than five times its intended size."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And it probably will only get worse.</span></b><br />
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"[B]y 2060, one of every two Afghans is expected to be a city dweller."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b>
"Hundreds of thousands of people from the countryside were forced by earlier wars to flee to Pakistan and Iran, where they were introduced to better standards of living. Now back in Afghanistan, they prefer to live in the capital rather than return to their home villages. The relentless fighting in the provinces has also forced people to take to Kabul."<br />
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B7 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/05/30/us/ap-us-amazon-1.html">AMAZON'S SHARES PASS $1,000, REFLECTING ITS POWER AND GROWTH POTENTIAL</a><br />
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"Amazon accounted for 43 cents of every dollar spent online in the United States last year."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Top five companies by market capitalization:</span></b><br />
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Apple</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alphabet (Google)</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Microsoft</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Amazon</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Facebook</span></b></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without Facebook, most of you wouldn't be reading this ... but I must admit that Amazon has become the most important company in my life. No more brick & mortar, and their online experience is simply the best.</span></b></div>
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/us/politics/paris-climate-agreement-trump.html">TRUMP ADVISERS WAGE TUG OF WAR ON CLIMATE DEAL</a><br />
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"A divided White House staff, anxious corporate executives, lawmakers and foreign leaders are fiercely competing for President Trump's ear this week as he nears a decision on whether to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, the landmark agreement that commits nearly every country to combat global warming."<br />
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"Exxon Mobil's chief executive, Darren W. Woods, wrote recently that remaining in the agreement would be prudent, part of a nearly united corporate front."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I mean, c'mon -- the oil companies are for staying in!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every administration has its Presidential Influencers, trying to tilt his ear this way or that. If Ivanka can convince dad to stay, I say more power to her.</span></b><br />
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C2 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/arts/television/review-tainted-water-bad-science-and-8000-children-exposed-to-lead.html">A BATTLE OVER WATER, SIMPLE YET COMPLICATED</a><br />
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"Noncommunicable diseases were responsible for 67 percent of deaths in low- and middle-income countries in 2015, but only about 1 percent of the foreign aid and donations dedicated to health care was aimed at preventing them"<br />
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"If this was how a regional office of the E.P.A. performed under a sympathetic Democratic administration, what do we have to look forward to the next time a city's pipes start to corrode?"<br />
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"The Trump administration is proposing to cut the EPA's budget by more than 30 percent."<br />
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D4 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/dining/mezcal-bars-sustainability.html">HERE, TRY SOME MEZCAL, BUT NOT TOO MUCH</a><br />
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"The agave plant, from which tequila and mezcal are distilled, can take anywhere from seven years to decades to grow and harvest."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Great article about the conflict between enjoying an exotic product that has "long-term sustainability issues" and the harm in doing so ...</span></b><br />
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"But maybe do it in small sips."<br />
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D1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/dining/peach-crop-georgia-south-carolina.html">FEWER PEACHES? THE SOUTH IS AGHAST</a><br />
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"Georgia peach growers began selling their fruit in the Northeast in the early 1900's, partly to improve the reputation of the Jim Crow South."<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Damn damn damn. I <i>love</i> peaches.</span></b><br />
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C1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/arts/music/beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-anniversary.html">50 YEARS IN THE LIFE OF SGT. PEPPER</a><br />
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"It has been remastered once again (by Giles Martin, George's son) to give the album a broader soundstage and crisper detail, giving more separation to individual voices and instruments."<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>By the time of Abbey Road, a stereo mix was given all the careful attention it deserved -- just listen to the amazing separation and careful placement of sound over the spectrum of the stereo pan.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>But in 1967, mono still ruled -- and the Fab Four carefully supervised the mixing session; but when it came time to do a stereo mix, none of the Beatles participated; it was dashed off, like most stereo mixes of the time -- a novelty, much like Quadraphonic would become in early 70's ...</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>So this new stereo mix is both beautiful and shocking.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Paul's bass rings out with a clarity never heard on the mono mix. The same goes for George's beautiful licks, or Ringo's deep, loose toms (especially on A Day in the Life!).</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The deluxe edition includes 4 CDs and 2 DVDs (regular and blu-ray).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The first and fourth CDs are the stereo and mono mixes, respectively.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The second and third have alternate takes and mixes:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Strawberry Fields (takes 1, 4, 7, 26 and final 2015 mix) ... you can follow the production ... Martin's brilliant merge occurs at around 1:00 in the final mix.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>When I'm 64 (take 2) ... no clarinets yet.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Penny Lane (2 takes + 2017 final mix).</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A Day in the Life (takes 1 & 2; vocal overdubs/speech; orchestral overdub; hummed last chord (takes 8, 9, 10 & 11) + <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lewis-saul/a-day-in-the-life-the-last-chord">the last chord</a>.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sgt. Peppers (two takes).</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Good Morning (two takes).</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Fixing a Hole (two takes).</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Being for the Benefit (two takes).</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Lucy (two takes). [a fascinating exchange occurs between John and Paul: Paul suggests to John that he sing the lyrics more quickly ... John agrees but sings it exactly the same way he had before (it's <i>his</i> song!)]</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Getting Better (two takes).</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Within You (two takes).</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>She's Leaving Home (two takes).</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>With a Little Help (one take).</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sgt. Pepper (reprise) (one take).</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>In any case, this entire package is a complete delight in every way! The cover is rendered holographically on the box as a slipcover.</b></span></div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />May 31, 1904<br />113 years ago</h2>
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Page 1 <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A06E7DE113DE633A25752C3A9639C946597D6CF">BOY BALLOONIST DEFIES COURT</a><br />
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"To-day he begged permission to make one more attempt to beat his own record for a long-distance rise, and promised to retire from the business until he comes of age."<br />
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<b><i>If</i> he comes of age.</b><br />
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" ... for throwing a quid of tobacco at Umpire Dwyer in yesterday's game at Chicago."<br />
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<b>Career .338 (21 seasons) ... hit .426 in 1901 ... and they named the <i>team</i> after him!</b>Lewis Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12490917696595100263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415255759482402807.post-49390435939717169342017-05-30T07:40:00.000-07:002017-06-03T14:24:38.665-07:0064. 5/30/17<h1 class="headline" id="headline" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; line-height: 2.375rem; margin: 0px 0px 10px; visibility: visible;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">"Blanca Martine<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">z, who came from El Salvador with her husband (a naturalized citizen who lived in Storm Lake) and their daughter, now 5, has been at the turkey plant for two years. She earns $15.70 an hour cutting bone six days a wee, on the 6 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. shift.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">'It's very hard,' Ms. Martinez, 37, a permanent resident, said in Spanish through an interpreter. 'I'm still not used to the cold.' At work, she wears three gloves on her left hand and two on her right -- giving her cutting hand a little more flexibility.</span></div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />May 30, 1979<br />38 years ago</h2>
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"A morning cup of coffee perks up the minds of coffee drinkers partly because that is what they expect it to do ..."<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1128037/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1">Ruben Östlund</a>. Won the Palme d'Or for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4995790/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1">The Square</a>. I do not know this director's work, but I just watched the compelling trailer for his previous film, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2121382/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_2">Force Majeure</a>, and ordered it!</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000264/?ref_=nv_sr_2">Pedro Almodóvar</a> (head of jury). Man, his movies can be <i><span style="color: blue;">fucked up!</span></i> -- but many of them star <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004851/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm">Penélope Cruz</a>, so, you know, just shut up! But <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287467/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_8">Talk to Her</a> -- definitely one of the best films out there about necrophilia (see, you already do <i>not</i> want to see it, right?) -- is a true masterpiece. Most of his films -- no matter how bizarre the subject matter and junkie characters -- are filled with a kind of poignant humor, a filmic sigh ... I think he's one of the true greats.</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001068/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Sofia Coppola</a>. She had me at <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159097/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_9">The Virgin Suicides</a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_7">Lost in Translation</a> was good; <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422720/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_5">Marie Antoinette</a> was great -- she made many brave, bold choices and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000379/?ref_=tt_cl_t1">Kirsten Dunst</a> helped her pull it all off. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1421051/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_4">Somewhere</a> was somewhere in between, I think. Have not seen <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2132285/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_3">The Bling Ring</a> yet. I truly believe she's just getting started.</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011752/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1">Maren Ade</a>. Do not know her work.</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001005/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Jane Campion</a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098725/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_11">Sweetie</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099040/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_10">An Angel at My Table</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_9">The Piano</a> -- all great films. She definitely has her own, very distinctive style. I'd like to think she's a bit influenced by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654868/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_6">Ozu</a>, my film god ...</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1168657/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1">Andrey Zvyagintsev</a>. See Maren Ade. But I hear <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802154/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_2">Leviathan</a> is terrific. Have any of my readers seen it? Either of you? </b><br />
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A5 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/world/asia/india-divorce-muslims-islam-women.html">MUSLIM WOMEN IN INDIA CHALLENGE "INSTANT DIVORCE"</a><br />
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"Half of Muslim women in India are illiterate, and only 14 percent have ever worked outside the home"<br />
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"It cannot be Allah's will to break up families in this way."<br />
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<b>It certainly is not. It is the will of the mindless, spineless Human Males who see a younger gal at the office; get illicit and then say, "Talaq, talaq, talaq."</b><br />
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<b>Jewish Human Males are not exempt, either: The Talmud says that you can divorce your wife if she <a href="http://www.come-and-hear.com/gittin/gittin_90.html">burns your dinner</a>.</b><br />
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C1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/arts/music/shakira-el-dorado-chantaje-interview.html">INSPIRED AND LIBERATED</a><br />
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"Since its release last year, the Shakira song 'Chantaje' has tallied more than 1.2 billion views on YouTube and 326 million plays on Spotify."<br />
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<b>Actually, this is the first time I have ever heard this lady's music. I admit to being fascinated from the opening of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Enamor%C3%A9_(Shakira_song)">Me Enamoré</a> ... and apparently <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantaje">Chantaje</a> is a huge hit. I particularly liked "Trap".</b><br />
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<b>This is not my normal music genre of choice -- but I really liked this album. The fact that she sings (mostly) in Spanish had a lot to do with my reactions, I think. It's a sexy language, and not knowing what she was singing about helped me concentrate on the actual music, which is my main interest, in any case.</b><br />
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<b>A small complaint -- I wish she wouldn't have used so much electronic drums. My ears can spot those suckers a mile away. Hire <a href="https://petererskine.com/">Peter Erskine</a> instead.</b><br />
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"He is, in fact, the only senator for whom a simple Google search is a humbling exercise ..."<br />
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"'There are one or two jerks,' he continued. 'There are three or four folks who believe they're one of the founders of the country. But most are very, very nice.' He was asked to name the jerks. 'Nahhhhhh'."<br />
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"James R. Clapper, Jr., the former director of national intelligence, testified before the Judiciary Committee that he had experienced 'many encounters with media' in his career. 'I'm sorry about that,' Mr. Kennedy shot back."<br />
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"'Pay your taxes, Bernie! We need the money!' he cried out, for reasons that perhaps defied immediate explanation."<br />
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"Aaron Judge's power, by now, is well known around the major leagues ... Oakland starter Andrew Triggs learned how forceful Judge can be [when] on a 2-1 count, he left a 90-mile-per-hour fastball over the heart of the plate. Judge's swing had an easy motion, and the flick of his arms belied his strength, as the ball sailed 376 feet into the right-field stands for his first career grand slam."<br />
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<b>Long story short -- it's hard hard work, and federal governmental agencies are notoriously lazy. Can you believe this: a $115 million annual budget, tasked with accounting for the roughly 45,000 recoverable lost service members dating back to WWII -- and they only averaged 90 bodies annually in the past five years.</b></div>
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"According to the Berlin correspondent of the Standard, Prince Bismarck proposes to subsidize German shipping. The Chancellor has humor enough himself, but he must doubt the existence of that quality in his countrymen if he expects them to take in sober earnest his inexhaustible suggestions of State aid for everything and everybody . . . Indirect taxes compensated by direct doles, that is the <b><span style="color: red;">philosopher's stone</span></b>. Is its appearance sufficiently dazzling to make men at the coming election forget to ask for the balance-sheet?"<br />
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THE MAGAZINE 50 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/magazine/is-it-possible-to-resist-deportation-in-trumps-america.html">IS IT POSSIBLE TO RESIST DEPORTATIONS IN THE AGE OF TRUMP?</a></div>
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<b style="background-color: yellow;">"[T]he Obama administration's guidelines for the agency [ICE] specified terrorists and violent criminals as priorities for deportation. But Trump's January orders effectively vacated those guidelines.</b></div>
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A16 A <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/us/a-trump-campaign-rally-led-to-shoving-and-legal-wrangling-too.html">TRUMP CAMPAIGN RALLY LED TO SHOVING, AND LEGAL WRANGLING, TOO</a></div>
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<li><b>Matthew Heimbach (a white nationalist wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat) gave a hard shove in the back to Kashiya Nwanguma, a black college student who had been holding up a poster depicting Mr. Trump's face on the body of a pig.</b></li>
<li><b>Trump yells, "Get 'em out of here!"</b></li>
<li><b>Heimbach: "He [Trump] knew what he was asking for."</b></li>
<li><b>Two lawsuits filed:</b></li>
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<li><b>Nwanguma sues Trump (Heimbach acted as his "agent")</b></li>
<li><b>Heimbach sues Trump (Trump had "directed him and others to take action" plus I want my legal fees paid 'cuz you said you'd do that.</b></li>
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<li><b>Heimbach filed his lawsuit <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per_se">per se</a>. He spends much of his time "railing online against Jews, gays and immigrants." Mark my words, eventually he'll get a smart Jewish lawyer. They always do.</b></li>
<li><b>This should get interesting.</b></li>
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SUNDAY REVIEW 4 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/opinion/sunday/the-dumb-politics-of-elite-condescension.html">THE DUMB POLITICS OF ELITE CONDESCENSION</a></div>
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"In a 2016 study of law firm résumés, men who listed hobbies like sailing and listening to classical music had a callback rate 12 times higher than those who signaled working-class origins, by mentioning country music, for example."</div>
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<li><b style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;">Dems failure to communicate a meaningful alternative to tax cuts for the rich; and</span></b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #990000;"><span style="color: white;">MLK: "Dignity demands a job and a paycheck that last through the week." Dems needs to "take up that mantle and stop sleepwalking our way to the next electoral defeat."</span></b></li>
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ARTS & LEISURE 15 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/movies/why-end-credits-in-movies-are-so-long.html">WAITING FOR THE CREDITS TO END?</a></div>
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"At least 50 films in the movie database IMDB.com have cast and crew credits that surpass 2,000 names each."</div>
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TRAVEL 1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/travel/florida-road-trip.html">FINDING MY FLORIDA</a></div>
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"In 2012, a man in Palm Beach County, Fla. ate so many cockroaches and worms in a bug-eating contest that he vomited, collapsed and died."</div>
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"Florida represents so much that's good, bad and bizarre about the United States, all rolled into one long state."</div>
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"Hemingway's house, where the 20-plus six-toed animals are truly just as much an attraction as the Nobel Prize winner's home itself ..."</div>
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BOOK REVIEW 11 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/books/review/gulf-making-of-an-american-sea-jack-davis.html">CRUDE AWAKENING</a></div>
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"The depth and breadth of the Gulf of Mexico have fluctuated since it began forming 150 million years ago: Its northern tides once lapped shoreline in present-day Illinois."</div>
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"I should confess I began the book skeptical of being entertained and edified by 592 pages about a body of water that has come to be used like a sump for the wastes of industry. My doubts proved unwarranted. [Jack E.] Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea, a lyrical paean to its remaining estuaries and marshes, and a marvelous mash-up of human and environmental history."</div>
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/world/canada/euthanasia-bill-john-shields-death.html?_r=0">THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN SHIELDS</a></div>
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"Two days before he was scheduled to die, John Shields roused in his hospice bed with an unusual idea. He wanted to organize an Irish wake for himself. It would be old-fashioned with music and booze, except for one notable detail -- he would be present."</div>
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"'Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?' -- <b>MARY OLIVER</b>"</div>
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<b style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">This is a fantastic, beautiful piece of journalism. I doubt I am the only one to struggle with this issue. Should not death be the one cosmic task that is God's alone? But why should people suffer horribly?</span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">And the doc has to go on vacation soon.</span></b></div>
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SUNDAY BUSINESS 3 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/business/retirement/retiring-older-women-marijuana-entrepreneurs.html">OLDER WOMEN AND CANNABIS: A GROWTH INDUSTRY</a></div>
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"In 2015, women made up about 36 percent of executives in the legal-marijuana industry, compared with 22 percent in senior roles in other industries."</div>
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"Lyn Kusher, 66, is the founder of <a href="http://makushsnatural.com/">Ma Kush's Natural</a>, which is based in Encinitas, Calif., and sells soaps, lotions, balms and edible cannabis treats."</div>
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SUNDAY BUSINESS 1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/technology/china-us-ai-artificial-intelligence.html">IS CHINA OUTSMARTING AMERICA IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?</a></div>
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"The Chinese technology company Baidu turned an app that started as a visual dictionary into a site that uses facial recognition to find missing people. In one case, it helped a family find a child kidnapped 27 years earlier."</div>
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"Philip K. Dick meets George Orwell. There are plans to use it to predict crimes, lend money, track people on the country's ubiquitous closed-circuit cameras, alleviate traffic jams, create self-guided missiles and censor the internet."</div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />May 28, 2013<br />4 years ago</h2>
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<a href="https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/the-roving-runner-rides-a-bike-3/">THE ROVING RUNNER RIDES A BIKE</a><br />
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<b>The first days of NYC's bike-share program, Citi Bike.</b><br />
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"A few hours before the Yankees and Mets engaged one another on the field the Mets were kind enough to honor Rivera with a few presents to commemorate his career. In a conference room underneath Citi Field, Jeff Wilpon, the Mets chief operating officer, asked Rivera to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.<br />
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Rivera gave up three straight hits and two runs in the ninth inning to blow his first save of the season after 18 straight conversions, and the Mets beat the Yankees, 2-1."<br />
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<b>Hard to believe it was only four years ago.</b>Lewis Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12490917696595100263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415255759482402807.post-670774371708416192017-05-27T07:55:00.000-07:002017-06-03T14:23:25.349-07:0061. 5/27/17<div style="text-align: left;">
A21 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/palestinian-authority-mahmoud-abbas.html?_r=0">THE DEPLORABLE STATE OF PALESTINE</a></div>
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"'And there's hard times again on these streets of our city,' Mr. Walsh read. 'But we don't take defeat and we don't want your pity, because this is a place where we stand strong together, with a smile on our face, Mancunians forever'."</div>
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<b>From 1959, Yasujiro Ozu's great masterpiece, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Good-Morning-Blu-ray-Kuniko-Miyake/dp/B06VW6FJVF/ref=tmm_blu_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">Ohayo</a> ("Good Morning"), playing at the Metrograph this weekend. If you can't make it, Criterion just released this wonderful film on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Good-Morning-Blu-ray-Kuniko-Miyake/dp/B06VW6FJVF/ref=tmm_blu_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">blu-ray</a>.</b></div>
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He said that wasn't true in government. But the president's actions prove otherwise. His budget plan would gut programs ... [like] the Legal Service Corporation, which represents poor tenants fighting to stay in their homes. That would be one less concern for Mr. Kushner's family."</div>
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A26 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/opinion/outrage-over-the-timess-publication-of-the-manchester-bomb-photos.html">OUTRAGE OVER THE MANCHESTER BOMB PHOTOS</a></div>
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A18 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/world/americas/un-trump-budget-cuts.html">TRUMP'S CUTS WOULD MAKE JOB "IMPOSSIBLE," U.N. SAYS</a><br />
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"The United States contributes 22 percent of the United Nations' core operating budget of $5.4 billion. That share is set by an international agreement and is based on the size of the American economy."<br />
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B1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/business/nestle-michigan-water.html">WHERE NESTLÉ GUZZLES WATER</a><br />
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A20 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/politics/dea-honduras-drugs.html">QUESTIONS FOR THE D.E.A. AFTER THREE FATAL SHOOTINGS</a><br />
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"In the late 1980s and 1990s, the D.E.A.'s Operation Snowcap put agents through military training so they could join local forces in places like Peru and Bolivia to target airstrips used for smuggling and to destroy jungle labs."<br />
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A20 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/alabama-inmate-hopes-to-dodge-death-for-an-eighth-time.html">AFTER 7 STAYS SINCE 1983, ALABAMA INMATE HOPES TO STAVE OFF EXECUTION</a><br />
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B5 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/business/entrepreneurship-laundroid-self-folding-laundry-machine.html">TAKE A LOAD OFF. THE ROBOTS THAT FOLD LAUNDRY ARE COMING.</a><br />
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/world/europe/manchester-bomber-salman-abedi.html">HUNT FOR BOMBER'S ACCOMPLICES EXTENDS TO LIBYA</a><br />
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"The police accelerated their hunt Wednesday for co-plotters of the Manchester concert bombing, making at least a half-dozen arrests in Britain, searching for a possible clandestine bomb factory and extending the investigation to Libya, where two of the bomber's relatives were detained."<br />
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"In 2015 ... an imam at the mosque ... delivered a sermon condemning terrorism for political causes. The sermon prompted a heated discussion among congregants and some, including Mr. Abedi, objected to it."<br />
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"About 181,000 migrants, mostly sub-Saharan Africans, risked the treacherous crossing from Libya and Egypt to Sicily last year, dying by the hundreds nearly every week."<br />
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C4 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/movies/grateful-dead-long-strange-trip-movie.html">WHY THAT MUSIC KEEPS TRUCKIN' ON</a><br />
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"The new Sunday law in East Orange, N. J., or, as its enemies have named it, 'the anti-Sabbath observance act,' went into full operation yesterday, and because the delivery of ice cream on the Sabbath is tabooed by the new ordinance, hundreds of persons had to make their own ice cream. The police were on the lookout to catch any one who broke the new blue law, many of them being out on bicycles to watch for offenders."<br />
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"One of the fundamental defects of the Subway ... is 'that it fails to carry sufficient passengers upon a fixed 5-cent fare to justify the large investment which was finally found necessary to produce this splendid means of transportation'."<br />
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Lewis Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12490917696595100263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415255759482402807.post-76937756576041982162017-05-24T10:22:00.002-07:002017-06-03T14:21:25.023-07:0058. 5/24/17A23 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/us/roxcy-bolton-dead-feminist-hurricane-names.html?_r=0">ROXCY BOLTON, 90, FIGHTER FOR EQUALITY, INCLUDING IN NAMING STORMS, IS DEAD</a><br />
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"A study published in 2014 in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that storms named after women have historically killed more people than those named for men."<br />
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<b>An amazing woman. Among other things, "she was instrumental in elevating the prevention and treatment of rape into priorities for law enforcement and health professionals; persuaded National Airlines to grant maternity leave to pregnant flight attendants rather than firing them; and pressured Miami department stores to eliminate the men-only dining sections" ... she did have her negatives: "she split from the national leadership [of N.O.W.] when it embraced a lesbian caucus. (Some liberated women, she said, 'forget their responsibilities to family and children.')"</b><br />
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A22 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/arts/design/rand-castile-who-opened-doors-for-asian-art-dies-at-78.html">RAND CASTILE, 78; OPENED U.S. DOORS FOR ASIAN ART</a><br />
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"The first Grand Sumo Tournament in the United States was held in 1981 at Madison Square Garden."<br />
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"He was an expert fencer in college and later tutored the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima">Yuko Mishima</a> in the art of the épée in exchange for lessons in Japanese calligraphy."<br />
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<b>The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco is one of a kind. In 2009, we saw the <a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/BeyondGoldenClouds/index">Beyond Golden Clouds</a> exhibition of Japanese screens. Breathtaking.</b><br />
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A6 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/asia/japan-anti-terror-conspiracy-abe.html">ANTI-CONSPIRACY BILL ADVANCES IN JAPAN</a><br />
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"An appendix to an anti-conspiracy bill that just passed the Japanese House of Representatives includes unlicensed bike racing and stealing plants from forest preserves, exposing those involved in the planning of such activities to prosecution."<br />
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<b>Bicycle racing is big business in Japan.</b><br />
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A11 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/europe/manchester-bombing-victims.html">AMONG ATTACK'S VICTIMS, GIRLS AS YOUNG AS 8, OFTEN WITH MOTHERS IN TOW</a><br />
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"The traumatizing effects put the attack in the same category as the Beslan school siege in Russia, the Peshawar school massacre in Pakistan and the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria."<br />
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<b>I can't believe the writers didn't include Newton in that catalogue.</b><br />
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<b>Georgina Bethany Callander</b>. "An 18-year-old health and social care student known for her big smile and love of pop music."</div>
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/us/politics/john-brennan-russia-trump-campaign-cia.html">RUSSIA-TRUMP TIE WAS BIG CONCERN OF EX-C.I.A. CHIEF</a><br />
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"John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director, described on Tuesday a nerve-fraying few months last year as American authorities realized that the presidential election was under attack and feared that Donald J. Trump's campaign might be aiding that fight."<br />
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<b>And Trump may have fucked it up for presidents (and European leaders) in the future:</b><br />
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"'Even though the election is over,' [Brennan] said, 'I think Mr. Putin and Russian intelligence services are trying to actively exploit what is going on now in Washington to their benefit and to our detriment'."<br />
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A4 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/asia/chinese-student-fresh-air-yang-shuping.html">CHINESE STUDENT, GRADUATING IN MARYLAND, SETS OFF A FUROR BY PRAISING THE U.S.</a><br />
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"There were 328,547 students from China studying at higher education institutions in the United States during the academic year that ended in 2016, nearly one-third of all international students in the country."<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/OtnKJqDECnE">Yang Shuping video</a><br />
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B7 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/sports/football/nfl-rules-changes-celebrations-overtime.html">N.F.L. EASES CELEBRATION RULES. TWERKERS REJOICE.</a><br />
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"In a nod to the N.F.L.'s crackdown on on-field celebrations last season, Andrew Hawkins of the Cleveland Browns marked one touchdown by stiffly placing the ball on the turf and robotically walking away."<br />
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<b>Watch out for that Elvis Pelvis move, Mr. Brown.</b><br />
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A8 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/europe/saudi-arabia-arms-deal-nato.html">THE WHITE HOUSE IS SPLIT AS COMMANDERS ASK FOR MORE TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN</a><br />
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"The United States spends $3.1 billion a month in Afghanistan."<br />
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"General Nicholson has warned lawmakers that the United States and its NATO allies faced a 'stalemate' in Afghanistan, where the general has said he already faced a shortfall of a 'few thousand' troops. Other commanders and experts on military planning say even that prognosis is too optimistic.<br />
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'The reality is that the Taliban have the initiative,' General Keane said. 'They have the momentum. They attack when they want, where they want, and the outcome is usually successful for them'."<br />
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"Deploying more troops would cost billions of dollars, and there is no guarantee of a clear victory ... yet without a strong American military role, the Taliban and more extreme groups ... would most likely gain ground."<br />
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<b>Sounds like the definition of "stalemate."</b><br />
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/europe/uk-manchester-attack-survivors.html">A JOYFUL NIGHT, THEN A LOUD BANG AND BLOOD "SPLATTERED ALL OVER"</a><br />
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"'How do we go back to normal after this?' [Louise Reid, 48] asked. 'The tragedy shows that this can happen anywhere, at any time'."<br />
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<b>And that is very <u>very</u> scary. How many gullible Americans voted for Trump because of boasts <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-executive-order-isis-defeat-30-days-a7551521.html">like this one</a>, 8 days after his inauguration?</b><br />
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A1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/europe/manchester-arena-attack-ariana-grande.html">BRITAIN ON EDGE AS TERROR ALERT HITS TOP LEVEL</a><br />
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"A senior member of the Muslim community in Manchester, and a law enforcement official who requested anonymity said Mr. Abedi had been barred from the mosque in 2015 for expressing his support for the Islamic State, and he came to the attention of intelligence agencies at the time as 'a person of interest'."<br />
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<b>That's very very disturbing.</b><br />
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B1 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/business/harley-davidson-thailand-factory-manufacturing.html">AN OVERSEAS KICK-START</a><br />
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"'We're proud of you! Made in America, Harley-Davidson,' Mr. Trump said ... but even as he praised Harley-Davidson's all-American credentials, the company was busily building a new plant -- in Thailand."</div>
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"Roughly 180 million Americans have some kind of grill in the yard, on the patio or sitting out on the deck."</div>
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TIME MACHINE<br />May 24, 1863<br />154 years ago</h2>
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"I have heard with great interest the reports of the Congressional Committee, recommending the repeal of the law requiring the mails to be carried on the Sabbath, and I hope that you will feel it a duty, as well as a pleasure, to urge its repeal. I do not see how a nation that arrays itself by such a law against God's holy day can expect to escape his wrath. The punishment of national sins must be confined to this world, as there is no nationality beyond the grave."<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1863/05/24/news/probable-capture-vicksburgh-with-pemberton-s-entire-army-immense-success-gen.html">PROBABLE CAPTURE OF VICKSBURGH</a><br />
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<b>Detailed dispatches about this famous Civil War battle.</b>Lewis Saulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12490917696595100263noreply@blogger.com0