Saturday, August 19, 2017

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U.S.

Donald and Melania Trump to Skip Kennedy Center Honors

The White House said the president and first lady would not participate this year, “to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction.”

Donald Trump is not the central figure.

2
Your Money

Aging Parents With Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It

How to dispose of a lifetime of memories and keepsakes? These days, it pays to ask a professional, not your heirs.

"Self storage" is a temporary fix.
Ultimately there is good will, garage sales and dumpsters.
Junk is a business as the article points out.

3
Style

Who Needs the Hamptons When You Have the Parker House?

Open since 1878, this seaside manse has become party central for a large group of Snapchatting, shot-chugging 20-somethings. It also serves lunch.

Generation after generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohonk_Mountain_House

4
U.S.

One Officer Is Killed and Another Is Gravely Wounded in Kissimmee, Fla., Shooting

The Kissimmee shooting was among police shootings in three cities on Friday night in which a total of six officers were shot.

I don't know anything.
I have no reason to believe the police reports.

5
World

How to Get Away With Murder in Small-Town India

In her last days in India, the Times bureau chief wrestles with a murder covered up in plain sight, and with what she was leaving behind.

I don't know how to fix India.
The bureaucracy is doing what it can without help from the executive and the voters.

It feels far too familiar.

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Times Insider

‘Let Those Communities Reflect on Why Those Statues Were Erected’

Our top 10 comments of the week: Readers debate the events in Charlottesville and Barcelona, Taylor Swift and long commutes.

Rationality is doing better.

Like the images of Lenin in the former Soviet Union, images of the Confederacy are going from public spaces.


Theater

What’s New in NYC Theater

Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.

There is no hope on the stage.

8
Sports

As Bullpen Stumbles, Yankees Fall to Five Games Back of Red Sox

The Yankees rallied to take a late three-run lead, but the bullpen could not hold it in the opener of a crucial series in Boston.

https://nytimes.stats.com/mlb/scoreboard.asp

https://nytimes.stats.com/mlb/standings.asp

9
Travel

Birders and Naturalists Ponder the Fate of the Greater Sage Grouse

The Interior Secretary recently announced that efforts to protect the handsome bird, known for an amazing mating dance, are being reviewed.

The federal administration is trying to keep its promises to the oil and gas drillers.

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Books

Money, Murder and a Missing Heir in a Thriller Set in Greece

In Christopher Bollen’s new literary thriller, “The Destroyers,” a young playboy vanishes on the Greek island of Patmos.

Morality is a poor foundation for summer reading.

Keep reading reviews.


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1
Your Money

Aging Parents With Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It


"We take as much out of the world as we bring into it."

Other children do want it.

2
Arts

Carmen de Lavallade, a Dance Legend, to Skip a White House Reception

Ms. de Lavallade will be honored by the Kennedy Center, but skip a reception at the White House after “socially divisive and morally caustic” remarks by “our current leadership.”

Trump has a gilded image.

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Arts

What’s on TV Friday: ‘Marvel’s the Defenders’ and White Supremacists

Netflix brings some familiar superheroes together for a singular purpose in its latest Marvel series. And two news programs investigate white supremacists in the United States.

See a movie.

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World

U.S. Faults U.N. Report on Killings of 2 Investigators in Congo

An internal inquiry absolves the United Nations, suggests that the investigators did not take security measures and fails to identify the killers.

The U.N. is political and democratic.

5
Podcasts

‘The Daily’: The End of Trump’s Business Advisory Councils

How the chief executives of the nation’s largest companies moved to cut ties with the president who rose to fame as a businessman.

Trump's supporters are not happy with him.

6
World

A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity

Yu Xiuhua, born with cerebral palsy, lived a quiet village life. She is now a literary sensation whose vivid, erotic poems are “stained with blood.”

Pretentious porn.
The grace of the presentation does not translate.
Sex sells.

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Your Money

Squabbles Over the Family Summer Home? Don’t Hire a Lawyer Just Yet

Transformative mediation, which aims to resolve underlying conflicts, is one alternative to litigation. It’s even used by the United States Postal Service.

The situation is obvious.

8
Opinion

The Terror in Spain

A reader says “it is not enough to utter words of renunciation after every terrorist attack.”

Spain is no longer moorish.
The cost has been enormous.
That cost will never be enough to satisfy the Moors.

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Arts

Maira Kalman and ‘The Principles of Uncertainty’ Head to Jacob’s Pillow

The visual artist and her friend, the choreographer John Heginbotham, have collaborated on an absurd travelogue incorporating dancers and complex sets.

I have not found my way to dance.

10
Opinion

What We’re in Danger of Losing

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump asked black voters: “What the hell do you have to lose” by voting for him. Plenty, as it turns out.

The believers are willfully blind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_religious_conversion

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