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Books
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.I am not willing to read the slush pile for the Times.
I have no vision of truth.
The essentially negative project of avoiding evil has been enough.
I am working at reading 'http://www.exurbe.com/ '
When distractions allow.
I may get to Ada Palmer's other writing.
I do not want her distracted.
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U.S.
Trump Backers ‘Furious’ That Senator Stood Against Health Care Bill
Dean Heller, the Nevada senator who broke with President Trump on health care, now faces the wrath of Las Vegas’s biggest titans and the Republican rank and file.If it comes to a vote he will not be alone.
Someone had to lead the walkout.
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Food
Eggplant Favorites, Rooted in Sicily
Pasta alla Norma, caponata and eggplant parmigiana: All hail from Sicily, where it’s hard to imagine the cuisine without the humble eggplant.You are welcome to do the shopping and keep the vegetable garden.
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World
A New York Times Company Town Deep in the Ontario Wilderness
In the 1920s, The Times and Kimberly-Clark built an enormous paper mill in Kapuskasing, along with the town to serve it. The mill and town survive.A company town.
The New York Times is not its company.
The paper mill is the town.
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Arts
Ray Romano Still Fears the ‘Funny Police’
The comedian and actor appears in the new film “The Big Sick” and next month will appear in the Epix series “Get Shorty.”If I were dragged there I would probably enjoy it.
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World
Ukraine Cyberattack Was Meant to Paralyze, not Profit, Evidence Shows
Pinpointing the initial targets of the assault — Ukrainian accountants who use a tax preparation software required by the government — was a major clue.Let us get used to "weapons of mass destruction".
There is no effective defense.
Like germs and gases there they are not aimed.
A user of cyberattacks has no friends.
There is now proof that fools are everywhere.
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Arts
What Divided the Cosby Jurors? Words, for One Thing
Two jurors in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial say the panel disagreed about many things, especially the meaning of terms like “unconscious.”Cosby will never again be trusted.
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Real Estate
The Hurricane-Proof Beach House
The Sea Bright, N.J., home was designed to be indestructible."It can't happen here"
The island was not always there.
If the sand goes away the house goes away.
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Opinion
The Blood on a Tax Cut
The toxic Senate bill is the broadest attack on working Americans by a governing political party in our lifetime.Yes, the Republicans are trying to do harm.
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World
A Meeting of Military Might in the Pacific. Also: Tony Abbott Defends Cardinal Pell (Again).
Conversation starters and context, drawn from the day’s news in Australia.China has everyone's attention.
The Roman Hierarchy is back in the news.
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Arts
Vince Staples Prefers to Speak Only for Himself
The California rapper on his experimental new album, “Big Fish Theory,” and the unrealistic expectations of hip-hop.Ok.
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Sports
Venus Williams Faces Wrongful-Death Suit in Crash
Williams has been found at fault in the accident that killed Jerome Barson in Florida.The case rests on a witness report of the state of the traffic light.
It is likely that a black woman in a fancy car will always be guilty in Palm Beach county.
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Times Insider
1964 | A Libel Suit Yields a Vigorous Defense of Free Speech
The New York Times was sued by a commissioner of Montgomery, Ala., for an ad casting serious aspersions — some of them inaccurate — on the police.I agree with David Dunlap.
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World
Athens This Summer: It’s Hot, It’s Broke and Now It’s Full of Trash
At the start of the peak tourist season, a strike has left the Greek capital choked with garbage. For a country desperate for income, the timing couldn’t be worse.Greece has not left the Euro.
It does not have enough problems
to motivate leaving the Euro.
Lets go to the Agean Islands and eat fish and local vegetables.
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Arts
Samantha Bee Says the Health Care Bill Is Worse Than ‘Suicide Squad’
“It turns out, 13 rich white guys alone in a room isn’t how good legislation happens,” Ms. Bee said. “It’s how ‘Suicide Squad’ happens.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Squad_%28film%29
I agree.
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World
Edward Kline, ‘Silent Partner’ in Aiding Soviet Dissidents, Dies at 85
Mr. Kline helped to shepherd Andrei D. Sakharov’s memoirs into worldwide distribution and set up a publishing house in New York to print books that were banned by the Soviet authorities.He was an admirable anticommunist.
I hope he is no longer necessary.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan
This week’s properties are on Sutton Place, in Lenox Hill, and in Downtown Brooklyn.These spaces would be trivial to build in the country.
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Real Estate
New Condo Complaints Heat Up
Homeowners are seeing the same problems that plagued shoddy buildings in the last housing cycle, but a new court ruling may limit their legal options.It is a reason prewar buildings get a premium.
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Your Money
Plan on Growing Old? Then the Medicaid Debate Affects You
Here’s how the various Republican health care bills germinating in Congress might affect Medicaid — and how they could reduce your options in old age.
"There
is one tall tale, however, that ought to inspire a great deal of
skepticism: I will be able to pay for myself in my old age.
In fact, a majority of people cannot and do not. One in three
people who turn 65 end up in a nursing home at some point. Among the
people living in one today, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation,
62 percent cannot pay the bill on their own.
And when that happens, Medicaid pays. The very Medicaid
program that stands to have hundreds of billions of dollars less to
spend if anything like the health care bills on the table in Washington
come to pass."
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U.S.
California Today: Should a Tech Whiz Be in Charge?
Thursday: Chatting with the president of Y Combinator, pondering a Republican candidate for governor, and plans for an aquarium in Fresno.The technology industry should not govern.
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